http://ow.ly/yoVqd. In this difficult economic climate, we are all under pressure to reduce costs and support and maintenance renewals are often getting increasingly scrutinised.

For a number of reasons customers are not addressing this potential issue head on, the four we typically hear are:

If you have had any business change (reduction in headcount, divestment’s, acquisitions, infrastructure refresh etc) then you may be paying for support not being used

Conversely, you may have an IT landscape not aligned to the original license metrics or volumes contracted for – so beware.

We can understand that it can be a moving target and it is the business Madora Consulting are experts in. Feel free to drop us a question via linkedin, twitter or through our contact form. Madora Consulting are keen to assist.

In this tough times most of us are carrying the role of 2-3 people and finding time to focus on an activity to assess your support may be a challenge.

Why not let Madora Consulting take some of the strain? How about contacting us for a no obligation discussion to better understand the complexity of your situation.

It may be that we give you a few pointers to enable you to be self sufficient and on your way, we will be happy to help.

If your situation is more complex then it may be worth investing in a 1-2 day support diagnosis workshop where we work with IT management and Procurement to get a view on the complexity of your firm, spend history, architecture and Oracle portfolio. The outcome of this workshop is to ascertain at a high level whether we believe there is opportunity to reduce the support. The report will also advise on the potential effort required to follow through on a detailed Support Assessment and follow through with Oracle on the execution of any changes required.L

There are lots of mixed messages out there in the Oracle eco-system

Oracle have also become more hard line on Support in the last 5 years, insisting on the termination of licenses rather than shelving

Clearly support revenue is the lifeblood of the Corporation, so they do their best to make it difficult to reduce revenue to them.

The fact is that it is entirely feasible to reduce support revenue BUT there are a lot of what we call ‘Oracle Gotchas’.

Just when you think you have a case to reduce support you get a swerve ball. Most of this is documented but involves some searching.

The other thing to note – as always with Oracle, everything is negotiable, especially if you are spending on net new product. Again we can guide you through this process and it is a process. Unfortunately there is no simple linear check list to work through here. So be prepared for 3 steps forward and 1 step back – a few times.

In this tough times most of us are carrying the role of 2-3 people and finding time to focus on an activity to assess your support may be a challenge. Why not let Madora Consulting take some of the strain? How about contacting us for a no obligation discussion to better understand the complexity of your situation. It may be that we give you a few pointers to enable you to be self sufficient and on your way, we will be happy to help. If your situation is more complex then it may be worth investing in a 1-2 day support diagnosis workshop where we work with IT management and Procurement to get a view on the complexity of your firm, spend history, architecture and Oracle portfolio. The outcome of this workshop is to ascertain at a high level whether we believe there is opportunity to reduce the support. The report will also advise on the potential effort required to follow through on a detailed Support Assessment and follow through with Oracle on the execution of any changes required.