Oracle’s Continuous Innovation release model is a reinvention of Oracle’s support services intended to encourage companies to pay a maintenance stream for updates to existing installed on-premise software, along with the associated costs of hosting, administering, and applying those updates. But, if customers reject this model and decide to move to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model […]
CIOs need to be sophisticated about both saving money and about finding new ways to amplify the value of their investments in software. Third party enterprise software support is changing to meet more of those needs. The world of third party support started as a way to reduce the flow of cash to the original […]
What you don’t know just may cost you money – lots of it – when dealing with Oracle. But just six smart steps, taken early, can help position most companies to get what they want out of their Oracle relationship without breaking the bank. Get Your Oracle Spend Under Control What you don’t know just […]
All over the world, Oracle customers regularly find themselves having to negotiate with Oracle about how to pay for software that they never intended to buy. Most companies find this process quite unpleasant and would prefer to avoid it. This research mission seeks to answer a simple question: How can Oracle customers gain control of […]