The client did not have in house SAM team so we analyzed their license deployments using our tools & conducted a detailed contracts review & identified the exposure with license certification & compliance gaps. Since ULA was still in force we created a quick strategy to optimize the license deployments on available infrastructure to compensate for the license shortfall at certification. We analyzed deployments on AWS & created a counter strategy to defend Oracle’s claim by migrating loads to dedicated hosts. We also created a detailed legal strategy to defend Oracle’s audit teams and lead the negotiations with Oracle without giving in to Oracle’s pressure. We reviewed and analyzed all the usage of Database & options programs & helped to reconfigure the settings to avoid unintended use of Options. In the end, we negotiated with Oracle the go-forward contract for the minimum term of 1 Yr ULA without restrictions on certification on cloud & VMs securing the customer a time to cure their non-compliance at a significantly lower value.