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Oracle Total Cost Optimization: A CIO Playbook

How to compress total Oracle cost across software, support, hardware, and cloud. The TCO levers, the 5 year plan, and the discipline that delivers 30 to 50 percent run rate compression.

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Read Time 20 Minutes
Last Updated May 2026
What you will take away
  • The 7 levers that move Oracle TCO across products
  • How to sequence and stack savings across 5 years
  • Where third party support, ULA exit, and cloud each contribute
  • Right sizing, harvesting, and consolidation discipline
  • How to model the 5 year trajectory before any negotiation
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Written byFredrik FilipssonCo Founder & Group CEO · ex Oracle, IBM, SAP
PublishedNovember 22, 2024
Last updatedNovember 23, 2024
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