Oracle licensing for financial services firms whose estates the regulator treats as critical. We defend audits, certify ULAs and negotiate renewals for banks, insurers and asset managers, on your side of the table only.
Redress Compliance provides Oracle licensing advice for financial services: banks, insurers, asset managers and payment firms. We are 100 percent buyer side and led by former Oracle, IBM and SAP staff. We defend Oracle audits, certify ULAs and negotiate renewals, for a fixed fee or 25 percent of negotiated savings, keeping every answer consistent with what you tell your regulator.
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Scope before price: strip the 18 to 32 percent of inactive bundle modules first. Kill the escalator with a 0 to 3 percent cap that survives the term, trade term for protections, refuse the easiest path module bundling, and close on Oracle's May 31 clock.
Usually at one of three moments: an Oracle audit that lands during a regulatory program, a ULA certification across an insurance group, or a trading platform review. Mergers between two financial institutions add a fourth, because the Oracle footprint is often the largest line in the integration model.
Mostly from what is bolted onto the core database license, not the license itself. Across 18 to 24 Oracle Database audits Fredrik Filipsson defended for banks, insurers and payment firms in 2024 and 2025, four exposures drove most of the bill.
Regulation turned your system inventory into a licensing document, and Oracle's price moves arrived through discounts rather than the list.
Our guide to Oracle Database audit defense for banks works through a full example finding, and when to hire an Oracle licensing consultant covers the timing of outside help.
Four phases, and nothing is shared with Oracle until you approve it. A fixed fee engagement typically runs eight to twelve weeks, with the same week start once scope is signed.
Fredrik Filipsson, co founder and Group CEO of Redress Compliance, leads our Oracle practice and has defended Oracle Database audits for banks, insurers and payment firms. Our Oracle licensing consultants run the day to day workstreams.
Fredrik Filipsson co founded Redress Compliance and serves as Group CEO. Before founding the firm he held roles at Oracle, IBM, and SAP, and today he leads our Oracle practice and the most complex multi vendor engagements. He is the author of widely cited Oracle Java and ULA negotiation playbooks.
Read Fredrik Filipsson's profile or meet the wider Redress management team.
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Because every answer you give Oracle is also read against what you have told your supervisor, and your advisor has to protect both. We are 100 percent buyer side: zero vendor affiliations, no reseller agreements and no referral fees.
We work across the whole Oracle estate, so one team handles Oracle audit defense, ULA certification, Java audit defense and contract negotiation without the story changing between them.
Audit defense, license reviews and ULA certification are fixed fee, scoped to your estate and agreed before we start. We never bill by the hour.
Negotiation work can instead run on a success fee (gainshare) of 25 percent of what we save you. You keep 75 percent, and if we save nothing you pay nothing.
Audit defense, license reviews and ULA certification are fixed fee, scoped and agreed before we start. Negotiation work can run on a fixed fee or a success fee of 25 percent of what we save you, so you keep 75 percent. We never bill by the hour.
A fixed fee engagement typically runs eight to twelve weeks. An audit follows Oracle's timeline to close, and ULA certification work should start twelve to eighteen months before the term ends.
Because banks run large, concentrated and heavily virtualized Oracle deployments, so even a small percentage gap becomes a large dollar number. It has nothing to do with suspected wrongdoing.
It adds a second audience to every answer. Your DORA register of information describes the same systems as your audit response, so the two must be reconciled before anything goes to Oracle.
Yes. Raw script output carries hostnames, usernames and topology a bank cannot freely export, and redaction, aggregation and on site review are negotiable. In our banking audits Oracle accepted redacted evidence once the bank stated its regulatory basis in writing.
Usually yes, if it runs Oracle. Oracle's failover allowance covers almost none of the disaster recovery a banking supervisor requires, and under licensed standby nodes are one of the most common gaps we find.
Yes. Redress Compliance is 100 percent buyer side, with zero vendor affiliations, no reseller agreements and no referral fees. We earn nothing from what you buy from Oracle.
Your Oracle agreements and ordering documents, the deployment and virtualization inventory, your disaster recovery design, and where relevant the register of information you keep for your regulator. Nothing goes to Oracle until you approve it.
Audit notice in the inbox, a ULA up for certification, or a merger on the executive agenda. We start where you are.
One letter a month. Negotiation moves, audit signals, and price book shifts.