Fortune 500 Retail Company
Situation:
Background
$50 Billion+ Global Fortune 500 retail company had recently migrated Oracle to AWS. This impacted their Oracle licensing requirements and they needed support to evaluate their new Oracle license position.
Solution Provided
Cloud Migration Assessment & Oracle Contract Negotiations
Primary objective
Phase 1:
Review and analyze Oracle usage and entitlements/contract rights to determine compliance position, identify areas of saving and risk for the organization.
Phase 2:
Provide Oracle negotiation support and on-going Oracle license managed service.
Solution Highlights
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Completed reconciliation of client’s license entitlements and deployments in AWS, identifying savings opportunities and areas with potential compliance exposure
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Developed options to remediate/mitigate any long and short gaps in license coverage.
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Provided optimal Oracle licensing strategy.
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Advised through critical Oracle negotiations.
Results
Cost Avoidance of $5 Million.
Hard dollar savings of over $1 Million, plus a reduction of $500K in annual support.
Negotiated the highest Oracle discounts ever obtained by organization over all geographies.