OAC pricing, the OBIEE migration framework, Professional versus Enterprise editions, the OCPU consumption framework, and the buyer side moves to reduce Oracle Analytics spend by thirty to fifty percent.
Oracle Analytics Cloud is the publisher's principal analytics framework, replacing the prior Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition framework. The OAC framework is licensed on the OCPU consumption framework, with the per OCPU rate set against the OAC edition tier and the deployment region. The framework is materially more expensive than the prior OBIEE framework on a like for like basis, with the typical customer facing a fifty to one hundred percent run rate uplift on the OAC migration framework. The buyer side framework reduces the OAC run rate by thirty to fifty percent through the edition tier framework, the OCPU sizing framework, the deployment scope framework, and the alternative analytics framework. This article is the buyer side framework for the Oracle Analytics licensing position. Read the related Oracle advisory practice, the Oracle database licensing optimization playbook, and the Oracle managed service.
Oracle Analytics Cloud is the publisher's cloud native analytics framework, available on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure framework as a managed service. The framework bundles the analytics platform, the data preparation framework, the augmented analytics framework, the natural language query framework, and the broader analytics application framework into a single managed service. The framework is positioned as the successor to the OBIEE framework on the on premises footprint, and the publisher's preferred analytics framework on the OCI framework. The framework targets the customer base that has run OBIEE across the prior decade and the customer base that has standardized the analytics framework on the broader Oracle stack.
The OAC framework has three principal SKU layers. The Professional Edition layer covers the core analytics framework, the data preparation framework, and the augmented analytics framework. The Enterprise Edition layer adds the advanced analytics framework, the data flow framework, the broader application framework, and the broader integration framework. The OAC framework also has the Sandbox Edition layer for the development and test environments, with the Sandbox edition priced at a discount to the Professional and Enterprise editions. The SKU layer framework is the load bearing commercial conversation at every OAC procurement framework, with the typical customer over consuming on the Enterprise edition relative to the actual analytics deployment requirement.
The OAC Professional Edition covers the analytics platform baseline. The framework includes the standard analytics workbook framework, the data visualisation framework, the data preparation framework, the augmented analytics framework, and the natural language query framework. The Professional Edition is sufficient for the vast majority of the customer's analyst population, with the cumulative effect that the Professional Edition is the commercial baseline for the OAC framework deployment. The Professional Edition is priced at a defined per OCPU rate that sits roughly forty percent below the Enterprise Edition rate.
The OAC Enterprise Edition adds the advanced analytics framework, the data flow framework, the broader application framework, and the broader integration framework. The Enterprise Edition is required for the customer's advanced analytics population, with the Enterprise Edition functionality typically deployed across the data engineering population, the data science population, and the broader analytics power user population. The Enterprise Edition is priced at a defined per OCPU rate that sits at the upper end of the OAC SKU framework. The buyer side framework typically deploys the Professional Edition across the broader analyst population and the Enterprise Edition across the targeted advanced analytics population, with the cumulative effect that the OAC framework deployment matches the actual analytics requirement rather than the publisher's preferred Enterprise Edition baseline.
The OAC framework is licensed on the OCPU consumption framework, which prices the OAC framework per OCPU per hour against the OAC SKU framework. The OCPU consumption framework is structured as a metered consumption framework, with the customer consuming the OAC framework against the OCI account and the consumption metered against the OAC SKU rate. The framework is structurally similar to the broader OCI consumption framework, with the OCPU sizing framework anchoring the consumption against the customer's analytics workload. The framework has explicit volume discount thresholds at the upper consumption levels, with the discount tier framework producing material discounts at the enterprise consumption levels.
The OCPU sizing framework is the principal commercial conversation at the OAC framework deployment. The framework requires the customer to size the OCPU consumption against the actual analytics workload, with the cumulative effect that the OCPU sizing framework determines the run rate against the OAC SKU rate. The publisher's preferred OCPU sizing framework typically over delivers on the actual analytics workload, with the cumulative effect that the customer over consumes against the OAC SKU framework. The buyer side framework anchors the OCPU sizing framework to the actual analytics workload, with the framework that the OCPU consumption framework matches the analytics requirement rather than the publisher's preferred sizing framework. The framework typically produces twenty to thirty percent improvements in the OCPU consumption baseline at the enterprise customer scale.
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition is the prior on premises analytics framework that the OAC framework replaces. The OBIEE framework is licensed on the per processor framework, with the OBIEE Plus, OBIEE Foundation, and OBIEE Enterprise edition framework set against the customer's deployment processor count. The OBIEE framework has been in extended support across the past decade, with the publisher pushing the OAC migration framework as the successor to the OBIEE framework. The OBIEE migration framework is the principal commercial event at the OBIEE customer base, with the typical customer facing a fifty to one hundred percent run rate uplift on the OAC migration framework on a like for like basis.
The buyer side response to the OBIEE migration framework has four principal moves. One. The OBIEE extended support framework, which retains the OBIEE framework on the on premises footprint with the explicit support framework against the OBIEE perpetual license. The framework preserves the customer's analytics framework against the OAC migration framework, with the cumulative effect that the customer can defer the OAC migration framework against the actual analytics modernisation requirement. Two. The OAC sizing framework, which sizes the OCPU consumption framework against the actual analytics workload rather than the publisher's preferred OCPU sizing framework. The framework typically produces twenty to thirty percent improvements in the OCPU consumption baseline.
Three. The edition tier framework, which deploys the Professional Edition across the broader analyst population and the Enterprise Edition across the targeted advanced analytics population. The framework typically produces fifteen to twenty five percent improvements in the OAC SKU run rate. Four. The alternative analytics framework, which assesses the alternative analytics frameworks against the OAC framework. The alternative analytics framework includes the cloud native analytics frameworks across the AWS, Azure, and GCP frameworks, the broader analytics platform frameworks, and the embedded analytics frameworks. The alternative analytics framework typically produces fifty to seventy percent improvements in the analytics framework run rate at the enterprise customer scale.
The alternative analytics framework is the strategic buyer side framework for the customer base that has standardized the analytics framework on the broader Oracle stack. The framework assesses the alternative analytics frameworks against the OAC framework on the operational, the commercial, and the strategic dimensions. The principal alternative analytics frameworks are the Microsoft Power BI framework, the AWS QuickSight framework, the Google Looker framework, the Tableau framework, the Qlik framework, and the broader analytics platform framework. The alternative analytics framework is technically interchangeable with the OAC framework for the vast majority of the customer's analytics workloads, with the key consideration being the integration framework against the broader Oracle stack.
The alternative analytics framework migration feasibility varies by workload class. The dashboard and reporting frameworks are typically straightforward migrations to the alternative analytics framework. The data preparation and the data flow frameworks require more careful assessment, with the migration feasibility depending on the integration framework against the broader Oracle stack. The advanced analytics and the data science frameworks are typically straightforward migrations to the alternative analytics framework, with the cumulative effect that the alternative analytics framework can absorb the advanced analytics workload. The buyer side migration plan needs to anchor the workload class assessment, the migration sequence, and the support framework across the migration term.
The OAC procurement framework has four pricing patterns that the buyer side needs to track. One. The OCI commitment pattern, which bundles the OAC framework into the broader OCI commitment framework. The pattern is the publisher's preferred procurement framework, with the OAC framework deployed against the broader OCI commitment baseline. The pattern is structurally similar to the AWS EDP framework, the Azure MACC framework, and the GCP committed use discount framework. The buyer side response is the explicit OAC sizing framework against the broader OCI commitment framework, with the cumulative effect that the OAC framework consumption is sized independently from the broader OCI commitment baseline.
Two. The OBIEE migration credit pattern, which credits the customer's OBIEE perpetual license against the OAC migration framework. The pattern is the publisher's preferred OBIEE migration framework, with the OBIEE perpetual license credited against the OAC consumption framework. The pattern requires careful commercial framing, with the cumulative effect that the OBIEE perpetual license value can be preserved against the OAC migration framework. The buyer side framework anchors the OBIEE perpetual license credit against the actual OAC consumption framework, with the framework that the OBIEE credit framework offsets the OAC migration framework run rate against the actual OAC consumption.
Three. The Enterprise Edition pattern, which positions the Enterprise Edition as the OAC framework baseline rather than the Professional Edition. The pattern is the publisher's preferred OAC SKU framework, with the Enterprise Edition deployed across the broad analyst population. The buyer side response is the tiered analyst framework, with the Professional Edition across the broader analyst population and the Enterprise Edition across the targeted advanced analytics population. Four. The volume discount pattern, which sets the volume discount thresholds at the upper consumption levels. The pattern is the standard OCI consumption framework, with the cumulative effect that the OAC framework benefits from the broader OCI volume discount framework at the enterprise consumption levels.
The buyer side framework for the Oracle Analytics licensing position has eight moves that compound across the OAC procurement framework. One. Anchor the OCPU sizing framework to the actual analytics workload rather than the publisher's preferred OCPU sizing framework. Two. Deploy the tiered edition framework, with the Professional Edition across the broader analyst population and the Enterprise Edition across the targeted advanced analytics population. Three. Anchor the OBIEE migration framework against the explicit OBIEE extended support framework, with the cumulative effect that the OAC migration framework can be deferred against the actual analytics modernisation requirement.
Four. Anchor the OBIEE perpetual license credit framework against the actual OAC consumption, with the framework that the OBIEE credit offsets the OAC migration run rate. Five. Run the alternative analytics framework assessment against the OAC framework, with the alternative analytics framework absorbing the advanced analytics workload. Six. Anchor the OAC framework to the broader OCI commitment framework on the explicit sizing framework, with the cumulative effect that the OAC consumption is sized independently from the broader OCI commitment baseline. Seven. Anchor the volume discount framework against the OAC consumption baseline, with the cumulative effect that the OAC framework benefits from the upper volume discount tier framework. Eight. Run the OAC framework against the broader Oracle vendor management posture, with the OAC framework integrated into the broader Oracle commercial conversation across the renewal cycle.
The eight moves compound across the OAC procurement framework. The cumulative effect at the enterprise customer scale is a thirty to fifty percent improvement in the OAC run rate against the publisher's preferred procurement framework. The framework is set out in detail in our Oracle CIO playbook, the Oracle CIO complete playbook, and the broader Oracle knowledge hub. Read the related Oracle database licensing optimization, the Oracle cost optimization playbook, and the Oracle Cloud at Customer licensing.
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