Miro Consulting marks its 20th anniversary this year and is celebrating by launching a new Managed Services for Oracle Licensing service. Miro is a leading global provider of software asset management services, specializing in license management, audit advisory, negotiation tactics, support management, and cloud services. We help our clients maximize ROI on their software license investments, stay in compliance, and minimize the impact of audits. Miro’s performance guarantee promises that our long-tenured, diverse, and passionate team of expert analysts provides insightful […]
Oracle Software Audits, Microsoft Software Audits and IBM Software Audits can be challenging, time consuming and expensive. Preparation is the key factor. If these items apply to your organization, it’s likely you could soon be audited for non-compliance. 1. Merger, Acquisition or Divestment Software companies like Oracle, Microsoft and IBM know that tracking software assets can be difficult during a merger, acquisition or divestment. When databases get merged and assets combined, licenses are often the last thing on IT staff’s […]
Microsoft Audit Defense Our expert analyst team will provide advisory, negotiation support, and mitigation of Microsoft audits, saving on costs and providing the best possible outcomes. Miro has helped hundreds of Microsoft clients manage their audits over the last 20 years, saving them hundreds of millions of dollars in out-of-compliance costs Microsoft Audit Executive Summary Microsoft is the most common software used by business, education and governmental organizations. Microsoft targets organizations of all sizes, so IT leaders should be prepared [...]
Hidden Costs and Limitations of Commercial Software Solutions Rather than building your own in-house applications, commercial off-the-shelf software such as On-Premise Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), or a cloud-based solution may sound like interesting options, but what is best for your situation, and what are the licensing options and limitations? When considering candidates, considerations should include: Cloud versus On-Premise. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each solution, and how does it affect your applications usages and needs, now and in […]
Managed Oracle License Transactions Our expert analyst team will manage all aspects of negotiations with Oracle for transactions, contracts, quotes, support and compliance issues to ensure the organization gets the best pricing, terms and conditions on any agreement Miro is 100% independent of Oracle while maintaining membership in the Oracle Partner Network, which provides special access to critical intelligence, unpublished pricing, unique terms & conditions, license migration options, and cloud procurements. How we support you: Managing license transactions & negotiations [...]
Oracle Licensing Managed Services Our expert analyst team will manage the organizations Oracle software licensing, deployments, entitlements, usage, contracts and purchasing documents on a long term continuous basis to ensure the organization’s ongoing compliance with Oracle's rules and policies Oracle Licensing Challenges Oracle’s software licensing rules are complex, nuanced, and change frequently due to technological and non-technical developments Conducting infrequent enterprise wide license review projects can be costly in both time and resources Organizations that use Oracle software can expect [...]
The primary driver for licensing DR for IBM is the software title and version. There may be specific licensing rules for the software product, and those will override the general DR licensing rules. Before giving an example of specific software title examples, here are the standby states as IBM defines them: HOT – processing requests. Otherwise, known as Active-Active solution with logical replication. WARM – started but not processing requests. In other words, IDLE or Active-Passive solution like IBM’s PowerHA […]
Pluggable databases were one of the new features of 12c. All Oracle databases before Oracle Database 12c were non-CDBs. Oracle has termed “multi-tenancy” to describe the process of creating a CDB that contains many “tenant” PDB’s. Starting at 12c, this was available as a paid Enterprise Option called Multitenant (NUP $350, Processor $17,500). The multitenant architecture enables an Oracle database to function as a multitenant container database (CDB). A CDB includes zero, one, or many customer-created pluggable databases (PDBs). Multitenant […]
