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Learn more →EA renewals, ULA deals, pricing benchmarks, contract language review, and deadline management.
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Learn more →OCI Universal Credits, BYOL compliance, Fusion Cloud pricing, Support Rewards, and cloud TCO.
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Learn more →"Oracle's LMS team arrived with a $12M back-licence claim. Oracle Licensing Experts challenged the Core Factor calculations, the virtualisation assumptions, and the option enablement methodology. We settled at under $800K. The forensic rigour was unlike anything I'd seen from any advisory firm."
— VP Technology, Fortune 500 Financial Services GroupMapped full estate, challenged baseline calculations, renegotiated EA pricing 32% below Oracle's initial proposal across Database EE, Middleware, and support.
Oracle asserted a $15M Java SE back-licence claim under the Employee Metric. We challenged the metric applicability, deployment scope, and counting methodology at every stage.
Identified under-deployed ULA opportunities, maximised deployment before certification, and exited with a favourable licence count exceeding Oracle's initial position.
Technical deep-dives for CIOs, CFOs, ITAM leads, and legal teams who need to understand Oracle's licensing rules in full — not in summary.
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