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That is eleven briefings, and this one closes the series. We started with what a ULA actually is, then went through what it does not cover, how it is priced, how to benchmark a proposal, the three doors at the end, maximisation, counting, the certification window, renewal, and what life looks like afterwards. I am Tom, Claire is with me, and this last session does two things. It puts the whole series into the shape of a plan you can run, and then it tells you plainly how we can help if you want a second pair of eyes.
If you remember three numbers from twelve sessions, make them these. Roughly four in five customers certify rather than renew, so treat renewal as something to be justified rather than assumed. Structured preparation lifts a certified count by twenty to forty five percent over passive reporting, which is the single largest sum available to you anywhere in the lifecycle. And cloud counting is disputed in around half the engagements we see, which is why the methodology belongs in your contract rather than in an argument at the end.
Each of those is a decision you control, and each one is made a year before it lands.
So here is the plan, on one timeline. Twelve months before term end, name an owner and start a monthly dated inventory. Nine months out, produce a draft certification number and lay your deployment roadmap against the freeze date. Six months out, decide your door provisionally and, if renewal is possible, cost both tracks.
Three months out, complete any deployment you are bringing forward and close the evidence file. Then the window itself is administration rather than negotiation. Nothing on that list is difficult. All of it is difficult to do in the last six weeks, which is exactly when most organisations start.
And the mistakes that cost the most are consistent. Starting late, which removes every lever at once. Assuming the ULA covers products it does not, which session two was about. Leaving non production and disaster recovery out of the count because they feel like they should not count.
Accepting a renewal fee framed against the old fee rather than against what the licences are actually worth. And treating certification as a finance exercise, when it is an inventory and evidence exercise with a finance outcome. None of those require expert help to avoid. They require somebody senior deciding they matter, early.
Now, how we work, briefly, so you know what you would be getting. Redress Compliance is independent and buyer side only. We do not resell Oracle licences, we take no vendor commission, and we have no incentive that points at a larger deal, which is exactly why our advice can point at a smaller one. On a ULA that usually means benchmarking a proposal against comparable agreements, reviewing what your contract actually says about counting and scope, building or challenging a certification number, and sitting alongside your team in the negotiation itself.
What that looks like in practice is short and specific. We start with your agreement and your current deployment position, and we come back with where you stand: what you would certify at today, what the gap is against what you could certify at, and which clauses in your contract are working against you. That first assessment usually takes two to three weeks. What you do with it is entirely your decision, including doing the rest yourself, which several clients have done successfully with the findings in hand.
So here is the close. If your Oracle ULA ends in the next twenty four months and you would like a second opinion on where you stand, go to redresscompliance dot com slash oracle dash u l a dash certification dash service, or use the contact page, and tell us your term end date and roughly what you have deployed. We will come back the same day, we will sign an NDA before you send us anything sensitive, and the first conversation costs you nothing. Whether you bring us in or not, name the owner and start the inventory this quarter.
That is the whole series. Thank you for watching.
Tell us your term end date and roughly what you have deployed, and we will come back the same day with where you stand. We sign an NDA before you send anything sensitive, and the first conversation costs you nothing. Independent, buyer side only, never vendor funded.
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