Case Study: AstraZeneca achieves nearly $2M in first-year labor savings and 25,000 reclaimed hours with Flexera's App Broker and FlexNet Manager Suite

Prescribing $2 million in savings in one year for a major drug company

AstraZeneca, the global biopharmaceutical manufacturer, needed to modernize how it delivered and governed software after an outdated system slowed research and growth. Employees struggled with a clumsy app store and a 3,700‑application catalog that was hard to search, and the lack of integration with an outsourced SAM program created resource‑intensive manual processes.

As part of a CIO‑led initiative to bring IT in‑house, AstraZeneca implemented Flexera’s App Broker (AppPortal) and FlexNet Manager Suite and relaunched the AZ SoftwareStore. The result was an 89% reduction in the catalog, nearly $2 million in labor savings in year one ($1,968,000), 25,000 hours freed annually, improved license compliance, faster service delivery and much better visibility into software spend.

AstraZeneca

Rachel Ryan

Global Software Asset Management Lead End User Computing