Steve Evans has written a great article talking about how Syngenta deployed 1E's  Shopping to not only save the company a huge amount of money ($148,000 per month, which comes to about $1.77m per year), but also how it allows Syngenta's highly skilled administrators to focus on support and strategic projects.  Prior to deploying Shopping, Syngenta's administrators were handling 3,700 requests per month for software installations, costing the company $30-$50 per request.

"The central IT team still has overall control, but now local administrators can decide what applications their teams need and add them to the portal themselves, so there are no longer any delays," says Truitt. "And they can define local sign-off procedures and processes, which better fit their management and users."

Read the full article:

http://enterpriseapplications.cbronline.com/news/sowing-the-seeds-of-success-syngenta-1e-151010

Shopping™ delivers immediate and significant cost reductions. By providing a simple self service software portal users are empowered to locate and automatically install the software they need to do their jobs. All this is achieved without help desk intervention.

Read the complete post at http://www.1e.com/bizblog/post/2010/10/15/1Es-Shopping-Allows-Syngenta-to-Save-24177m-per-year.aspx