Customer Success Story
LEADING PVT INSURANCE COMPANY
ULA RENEWAL SPEND & SECURED CERTIFICATION
Client save $3 Million in ULA renewal spend & secured certification
Case Summary
The client had ULA for Oracle Middleware & Database since 2010 & kept on renewing ULAs every three years without validating their license spend. Their support stream from all these ULA renewals had become around $2.5M & they wanted to design the cost savings strategy for Oracle before the next ULA renewal was due. They engaged Rizen for reviewing their existing contracts & designing the best strategy for cost savings.
What we did?
Rizen reviewed their last 10 years of Oracle license contracts & support spending & also gathered insights into their existing license deployment using their SAM tool data & also using Rizen’s data extraction model. We identified many compliance issues & created a remedial plan to remove those before ULA renewal. We also created a focused group to maximize the license deployments on all the available environments while managing license compliance on virtual environments & server clusters & determined their net certification eligibility at the end of the ULA. Based on the revised deployment plan and certification readiness we negotiated with Oracle an exit of the ULA to avoid forced ULA renewal from Oracle. We have also created cost savings strategies to save on existing support by migrating many environments to alternative technology to Oracle middleware & to move the support on Oracle licenses to third-party support providers at significantly lower costs which are being worked upon by customers currently.
Results
Oracle Middleware ULA renewal was avoided saving $3 Million in costs. Oracle granted certification on massive processor licenses without a formal license audit based on detailed analysis presented by us on license compliance assessment Customer is working on strategies to further migrate environments from Oracle MW & Explore possibilities of third-party support for the rest of the MW environments which can not be migrated.