$3M
Negotiated savings on new ULA
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CLIENT SUCCESS STORY · ORACLE ULA LICENSE ASSESSMENT & NEGOTIATIONS
$22.5M in Combined Savings & Risk Avoidance, Ahead of a 6-Month Oracle ULA Renewal
How Rizen combined a full Oracle ULA license assessment with proactive contract negotiation to save a Fortune 500 multinational $3M on a new ULA and eliminate $19.5M in license compliance risk.
$22.5M
Combined Savings & Risk Avoidance
Delivered ahead of the client's 6-month Oracle ULA renewal deadline, using the license assessment findings as negotiating leverage.
$19.5M
Compliance risk eliminated
SUPPORTING DETAIL
94%
Reduction in license compliance exposure
19 → 4
Unlicensed programs across the estate
5,000+
Spare licenses identified for reuse
6 mos.
To ULA renewal at engagement start
Client Snapshot: A Fortune 500 multinational technology conglomerate operating a large, hybrid Oracle estate — SAP and Non-SAP applications, spanning cloud and VMware infrastructure, licensed under an Oracle Unlimited License Agreement (ULA) and a Named User Plus (NUP) contract, across 180+ database instances and dozens of global subsidiaries — with its Oracle ULA renewal just 6 months away.
The Challenge
With its 5-year Oracle ULA due to expire in just 6 months, the client needed a clear, defensible picture of its Oracle usage before heading into renewal negotiations. Years of infrastructure growth, cloud migration, and subsidiary expansion had pushed its Oracle footprint well beyond contracted entitlements, and software asset management had not kept pace with the spread of the business.
The license assessment uncovered unlicensed usage across both the SAP and Non-SAP environments — including subsidiaries running SAP on Oracle outside the scope of the existing ULA — exposing the organization to as much as $20.8M in potential Oracle license liability. A significant share of production databases were also running unsupported, end-of-life versions, creating an unmanaged security gap alongside the licensing risk.
Our Approach
Full Technical & Contractual Audit
We mapped every Oracle deployment across SAP and Non-SAP, cloud and VMware environments, and reconciled actual usage against ULA and Named User Plus contract entitlements.
Prioritized Remediation, Validated Results
We delivered a roadmap covering license true-ups, infrastructure consolidation, and license harvesting opportunities — then partnered with the client's IT teams through a 10-month implementation before running a full independent re-audit to confirm the outcome.
Turning Findings Into Negotiating Leverage
With the ULA renewal deadline six months out, Rizen used the license assessment findings as leverage to negotiate a proactive new deal covering both SAP and Non-SAP environments — rationalizing growth-driven license demand and designing effective commercial and contractual strategies for the renewal.
Built for What's Next
The renegotiated terms went beyond cost: they secured enhanced contractual rights covering future M&A activity and license usage by affiliates, positioning the client's Oracle estate to scale without renegotiating from scratch.
The Results
$22.5M in combined savings and risk avoidance $3M in negotiated savings on the new Oracle ULA plus $19.5M in license compliance risk eliminated, delivered ahead of a 6-month ULA renewal deadline.
$3M in net savings on the new Oracle ULA Secured by negotiating a proactive deal covering both SAP and Non-SAP environments ahead of the 6-month renewal deadline and rationalizing growth-driven demand.
Renegotiated commercial and contractual terms to secure enhanced rights covering future M&A activity and license usage by affiliates.
License non-compliance cut from $13.9M to $1.1M, with unlicensed programs reduced from 8 to 1.
License non-compliance cut from $6.9M to $200K, with unlicensed programs reduced from 11 to 3.
Identified 200+ unused physical CPU cores and 5,000+ spare licenses that can absorb future growth at zero incremental license spend.
Flagged and prioritized remediation of unsupported, end-of-life database versions running in production.
Gave the client full visibility into actual usage ahead of its ULA renewal, strengthening its negotiating position with Oracle.
Results confirmed through a full post-remediation re-audit — not just a remediation plan on paper.
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