A consultative call
Pressure-test what Oracle is putting in front of you. No prep deck required. Three decades of pattern recognition and an outside view, applied directly to the deal on the table.
Oracle Cost Recovery. Founder-Led.
Pay Oracle Less. A Lot Less.
Three decades negotiating for and against Oracle. We help Fortune 500 and mid-market enterprises cut Oracle spend without disrupting operations.
What recovery looks like
Three recent examples of savings.
$8.8M
Recovered over five years, same scope
A manufacturer was paying $2.1M a year in Oracle support. We reset it to $470k with no change to what they run or how they run it.
$25.7M
Recovered over four years
We cut a shipping company's $6.4M-a-year Oracle support bill to a fraction. Same Oracle software, zero operational change or interruption.
$2.9M
Recovered every year
A consumer products company reduced its $9.8M in annual Oracle fees by 30%, with no operational changes.
The four traps
What costs you the most is not in the contract you are reading.
The OpEx Roll
Oracle is keen to roll your pre-existing operating expense into a new agreement in exchange for a better headline discount. The discount you celebrate today is a rounding error against what you give up across the life of the new baseline. Treat it as a warning signal, not a benefit.
Perpetual Means Forever
Once a support stream is initiated, you will not reduce it by using less of the software. You will not reduce it by retiring modules. You will not reduce it by moving workloads to a competitor or to the cloud. The stream compounds with inflation, every year, and it follows you.
Support Policies Beat License Terms
Oracle's support policies drive more long-term cost than the license agreement procurement is staring at. Matching service levels. License sets. Repricing on contract events. Reinstatement penalties. They live outside the contract. Most teams never read them.
The Effective Discount Trap
Before you sign anything new, know the effective discount on the support payments you are already making. The annual inflation ratchet does its quiet work, year after year. We treat any portion of an Oracle support portfolio effectively discounted at less than 50% as a target for optimization.
Same scope. Same uptime. Same support. Less money.
You can attack Oracle cost without disrupting a single user. We have done it for hundreds of Oracle negotiations across Fortune 500 and mid-market portfolios.
Next move
Choose the engagement that fits where you are.
Three engagements, scaled to the size of the problem. Pressure-test a single deal in 30 minutes. Quantify the full exposure in two weeks. Recover the spend over a multi-year program.
A quantified savings target
A focused review of your contracts, support stream, and policy exposure. You walk away with a number, the levers behind it, and a clear-eyed view of the work required to capture it.
On the hook for results
A multi-year engagement structured around realized Oracle savings. We design the optimization strategy, run the negotiation, and stay engaged to defend the result against Oracle's aggressive sales playbook. Fees attach to realized savings, not to billable hours.
Independence
What Advizant is not.
- We are not a Software Asset Management tool, although we have one in-house.
- We are not a third-party support provider. Rimini and Spinnaker move you off Oracle support. We advise on whether to leave, prepare you for the move, or negotiate your return to Oracle Support.
- We are not a system integrator. Accenture, Deloitte, and the like are paid to deliver Oracle implementations. We are paid to reduce your Oracle spend and exposure.
- We are not a license reseller. Resellers help Oracle sell you more. We help you spend less regardless.
- We are not Gartner or Green Cabbage. Procurement intelligence firms cover many suppliers. We go deep on one. Oracle.
- We are not primarily an audit defense or license advisory firm. Both are inputs and table stakes to our work, not the work itself.
We are an independent advisory built around one job. Helping enterprise customers cut Oracle cost without losing function.
If Oracle is across from you right now.
Thirty minutes. No sales pitch. A direct read on the deal on the table.
Book a 30-minute consultEric Guyer. Founder, Advizant LLC
eric.guyer@advizant.ai · +1 (630) 881-5085
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