The Key steps to Optimizing your Oracle Assets

1. The Key steps to Optimizing your Oracle Assets Recycle – Reuse - Relicense Donnie Hamlett Technology Specialist donnie.hamlett@iquate.com Jim Brull Managing Partner jim.brull@centroid.com

2. iQuate Large Enterprise Organizations Complex networks Founded in 2002 Dublin - Ireland San Francisco - USA Sydney - Australia Paris - France iQSonar MARKETS Purpose built Agentless Discovery, Inventory and Measurement Platform BACKGROUND TECHNOLOGY Deployment Intelligence iQExplore FOCUS BI Visualization

3. Centroid Centroid has been a leader in Managed Services, Consulting and Technology since 1997 Centroid is one of Oracle's Top 25 Strategic Partners. We are a national technology firm focused on Managed Services, Consulting, Cloud Services and Resell that span the entire enterprise. Enterprise Mid Market Emerging Founded in 1997 150+ Professionals NE, MW, Rockies TOLA, West Coast MARKETS BACKGROUND TECHNOLOGY FOCUS Consulting Managed Services Licensing / Resell

4. Agenda • The Challenge • Optimizing your Oracle Position • An accurate picture of your Oracle Estate • A Oracle Optimization Case Study • Summary • Questions and Answers • Next Steps

5. The Challenge Recycle – Reuse - Relicense

6. Challenge • Oracle is good for your business but licensing it is complex • The dynamic nature of IT adds to this complexity • New hardware (Cores) / virtualization • Business units need new applications • What Oracle products are you entitled to use ? • Who keeps track of licensing ? • Howdo you track it all ? • You have to do more with less

7. Walking the tight rope • Over licensing - limits the ability to fund new IT initiatives • Under licensing - is a compliance risk • Achieve balance, while looking at future growth • What if you could make this easy?

8. Optimizing your Oracle Position Recycle – Reuse - Relicense

9. Key steps to optimizing your Oracle Position? • Step 1: Need an accurate picture of your Oracle Estate • Step 2: Review your Oracle Contracts • Step 3: Optimize how Oracle has been deployed in your Estate • Step 4: Repurpose existing licenses, or purchase new licenses

10. An accurate picture of your Oracle estate Recycle – Reuse - Relicense

11. How do you arrive at an accurate picture of your Oracle estate ? • Manual (Scripts) vs Automated (Tool) ? • Selecting the right tool (Verified by Oracle) ?

12. Step 1: Getting an Accurate Picture of your Oracle Estate Cost of Oracle Cost of Oracle Software Configuration Options, Packs, Installed Apps, etc. Installed Software Oracle Database, , etc. Clustering Configuration Active/Active, Active/Passive, etc. Virtual Hardware Physical : Virtual relationships, CPU Affinity, etc. Physical Hardware CPU, Memory, Disk, OS, etc.

13. iQSonar Agentless Scanning UNIX Linux Windows Hyper-V VMware Oracle SQL DB2 ? Enterprise Applications Measurement Clustering Operating System Databases in use Options in use Management Packs CPU Correction Oracle Middleware VM to Host\Cluster Virtualization Secure INVENTORY Hardware NETWORK Discovery IP SCAN

14. Oracle verification & Oracle License The information required to properly identify your Oracle License position Your Discovery & Inventory Solution must accurately deliver ALL this information to support a correct license position .. and analyse the contract Accurately. Discovery Where is all the software? Oracle Verification only covers this information Database Edition, Version, Options, Packs (installed/in use) Core Counts License model based on cores, includes Named User Plus (NUP) Virtual Host \ Virtual Cluster Total number of cores in clusters to be counted

15. iQExplore – Actionable Intelligence

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19. An Oracle optimization case study Recycle – Reuse - Relicense

20. Case Study – Large Financial Services Company Company Global Financial Services company with 1500 + employees and Revenues over $1B Challenges • Future IT projects required additional procurement of software licenses: $3.5M • Infrastructure consisted of mainly EOL systems • Business wanted better SLA’s & Finance wanted Applications upgraded • Procurement managed licenses: Applications, Technology and Infrastructure Solution • IT Asset Assessment performed: Discovery, inventory and measurement of all assets discovered • Hardware Consolidation • Enterprise view all projects and existing IT assets Customer Benefits • Saved over $3.5m in additional software licenses • Reduced Data Center Footprint: 39 Servers down to 9 • Had 100% visibility in their entitlements • Business received better SLA / performance on their systems: 5x in Performance Gains • 100% Visibility into what is deployed, used and entitled to • Saved $3.5m in additional license spend • Increased system response time by 5x • Reduced Data Center Footprint • Re-utilized Infrastructure Resources to other projects • Validated their level of compliance • Gained efficiencies in operations with use of newer technology

21. Summary • Most companies are not realizing the value of their Oracle Investment • Controlling your Oracle spend is complex but it doesn’t have to be • iQSonar provides a detailed and accurate view of your Oracle Estate • Centroid has a proven process to help optimize Oracle deployment and right size your Oracle spend.

22. Questions & Answers Recycle – Reuse - Relicense

23. Next Steps • Call and engage Centroid to Schedule an IT Asset Assessment • Contact: Rebecca Portela • c: 214-538-9301 • e: engage@Centroid.com • Enjoy the benefits of an IT Asset Assessment

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