Credits sized from verified consumption, not Oracle's growth model. We eliminate the waste, settle bring your own license per workload, and structure the next Universal Credit commitment on your terms.
This engagement is built for organizations whose OCI position was born from negotiation pressure rather than workload planning: credits taken to settle an audit, sweeten a ULA exit, or unlock a database discount. The CIO or CTO owns a Universal Credit commitment, finance sees the annual burn, and nobody is certain the two will meet at expiry.
It is equally bought by FinOps and cloud cost teams who can see the waste but need the license dimension settled, and by procurement leads walking into an OCI renewal where Oracle has already proposed the next commitment. If the renewal is inside twelve months, this is the window where the work changes the outcome.
OCI estates accumulate a predictable set of commercial problems, and each one compounds at renewal:
Each of these is measurable, and each has a fix. The engagement establishes your true consumption position, eliminates the waste, optimizes the license interplay, and arrives at the renewal with a commitment structure Oracle has to price against.
The engagement follows the four workstreams of our OCI optimization statement of work. Consumption is analyzed by compartment, service, and workload, waste is quantified into an optimized run rate, the license and Support Rewards interplay is settled, and the next commitment is designed and negotiated from that evidence. All of it lands as written deliverables your team keeps.
| Deliverable | What it contains |
|---|---|
| Consumption baseline and burn report | The verified run rate, expiry projection, expiring credit and shortfall quantification, and the contractual commitment position. |
| Optimization report | A prioritized waste register with quantified savings per action and the optimized run rate the next commitment should be sized against. |
| License and Support Rewards report | Per workload BYOL verdicts, the entitlement compliance check result, and the quantified Support Rewards capture strategy. |
| Commitment sizing and negotiation paper | The target commitment, required structure, benchmark verdict against comparable OCI deals, and the negotiation plan timed to Oracle's May fiscal year end. |
| Written proposal assessments | Every Oracle proposal reviewed in writing through to signature, with preparation support ahead of key meetings. |
A recommendation to shrink an OCI commitment is worth little when the firm making it earns margin on the credits. We hold no reseller agreement with Oracle or any Oracle partner and take no referral fees, so the sizing verdict serves exactly one balance sheet: yours.
OCI is never just a cloud bill. The commitment interacts with your database entitlements, your support base, and any wider Oracle negotiation in flight. Our practice has delivered more than 200 Oracle engagements across ULA certifications, support strategy, and cloud commercial structures, which means the three levers get pulled in the right order instead of against each other.
The commercial terms are deliberately simple: one fixed, all inclusive price for all four workstreams, up to four advisory calls, and email access through the term, with a one week review window and two revisions per deliverable built in. Where it fits your procurement rules, the engagement can also run on contingency, paid only out of delivered savings.
You stay in control throughout. We prepare the analysis, the structure, and every written assessment; your team fronts the vendor conversation and signs when the numbers are right.
Published Oracle engagements, with names and numbers. The full library holds 160 more.
A Singapore media company cut OCI spend 18 percent through consumption analysis and commitment restructuring.
✓ Published case studyAdecco cut Oracle support spend with a hybrid strategy modeled and negotiated over a three year term.
✓ Published case studyTechnip Energies combined a ULA certification with a support strategy reset across the Oracle estate.
✓ Published case studyCox Enterprises selected Redress as its Oracle advisory and negotiation partner across the estate.
Four workstreams under one fixed fee: a consumption baseline with credit burn analysis, waste elimination at the resource and architecture level, license and Support Rewards optimization, and commitment right sizing with negotiation support through to signature.
From your optimized run rate and validated workload plans, never from Oracle's growth projections. Expiring credit pressure is a negotiation tactic, not a sizing input, and a commitment sized on it locks in waste for the whole term.
In idle and oversized compute, unattached block and boot volumes, over provisioned autonomous and base database services, and non production environments consuming at production scale. We quantify each action so the savings are bankable, not theoretical.
It is a per workload decision, not an account level one. We model the economics per database and middleware workload, use your existing entitlements where that is cheaper, and verify coverage so BYOL never creates a compliance gap.
OCI spend earns rewards that reduce the Oracle technology support bill, and most organizations leave part of that reduction unclaimed. We quantify the achievable reduction on your support base and structure spend to capture it.
OCI consumption and cost reporting, the OCI agreement and ordering documents, Oracle license entitlement records for the BYOL analysis, support renewal statements, and any Oracle proposals on the table.
We advise and prepare, and your team keeps the chair. Every Oracle proposal gets a written assessment, the negotiation plan is timed against Oracle's quarter and May fiscal year end, and we prepare your side before every key meeting.
The consumption baseline and burn report typically lands within 10 business days of complete data, and the optimization and Support Rewards reports follow within 10 business days after that. Negotiation support runs on demand through the term.
Credits expiring, burn off plan, renewal inside twelve months. Arrive with your own consumption model and the commitment gets sized your way.
One letter a month. Negotiation moves, audit signals, and price book shifts.