Case Study: Royal Dutch Shell accelerates software development with Microsoft Visual Studio

Top oil & gas firm accelerates software development to fuel global energy production

Royal Dutch Shell, a global leader in the oil and gas industry, faced the challenge of modernizing its software development process to keep up with the growing demand for energy. Its on-premises collaboration tools hindered productivity with external vendors and slowed the delivery of new features for its critical exploration software. To support its global operations and drive innovation, Shell needed a more agile and streamlined development environment and turned to Microsoft for a solution.

Shell implemented Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services on Microsoft Azure, migrating its projects to the cloud. This Microsoft solution provided centralized, cross-platform collaboration tools and used Azure Active Directory to simplify and secure vendor access, cutting onboarding time from months to under a week. The results included significantly shorter development cycles, a major reduction in IT management costs, and a painless transition that had developers back online within 24 hours.

Royal Dutch Shell

Johan Krebbers

IT Chief Technology Officer