State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic signed Microsoft Corporation's Microsoft Enterprise Agreement. Strategic partnership with the corporation and signing of a long-term license agreement in the framework of the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement corporate licensing will help enhance the effectiveness of the State Oil Company's operations, provide the restructuring of the information environment using cutting-edge technologies, facilitate management and demonstrate commitment to the concept of intellectual property protection. It should also be noted that the licensed software project is operated by Softline.

The licensed software supplied under the agreement will cover the software platform for the entire computer framework of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic. This agreement will enable State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic to reduce the overall cost of owning licenses. Contractual payments will be made in yearly installments, which will allow avoiding lump-sum investments in software acquisition.

Microsoft-based standardization leads to significant cost cutdowns in user training and support, while the client is able to fully control software acquisition costs. In effect, the license costs per personal computer remains the same throughout the agreement term. The client also gets an opportunity to use Microsoft's latest product versions (Software Assurance licensing model), and does not need to keep track of upgrades, which leads to reduction of administrative costs and not planned expenses for purchase of new versions of software products.