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Negotiated a multi-year SAP renewal for a Fortune 500 manufacturer, resulting in €12M in cost-out with improved licensing terms and cloud migration credits.
The client faced a major SAP renewal with complex licensing across multiple business units. Existing terms were outdated and did not reflect current usage patterns, leading to significant overspend.
Our team identified redundant licenses, optimized the deployment model, and leveraged competitive intelligence to secure significantly better pricing. We benchmarked the client's commercial position against market data and developed a multi-scenario negotiation strategy.
The client achieved €12M in cost-out over a 5-year term, with improved licensing flexibility and cloud migration credits that support their transition to S/4HANA.
Assessed whether SAP RISE would deliver sufficient business value for a global brewer, leading commercial negotiations across RISE, public cloud and on-premise components.
The client needed to assess whether a move to SAP RISE would deliver sufficient business value, flexibility and commercial competitiveness while also addressing public cloud requirements and legacy on-premise agreements.
Strivesource led the commercial track, reviewed SAP's proposal across RISE, public cloud and on-premise components, challenged pricing and scope, and supported negotiations on both cloud transformation and existing contract optimization.
The client gained a commercially grounded SAP RISE business case, clearer insight into transformation cost and contract implications, and a stronger negotiation position across the full SAP landscape.
Led an end-to-end Enterprise Agreement renewal and Azure optimization for a global brewery, securing double-digit million investment from Microsoft and multi-year price predictability.
An early renewal opportunity for the Enterprise Agreement, based on a significant potential for optimization of its Azure estate, a reshaping of the license scope and an overall restructuring of the Microsoft relationship.
Strivesource was engaged to lead this process end-to-end. Acting as project lead, the team ran independent benchmarking of Microsoft's proposed commercial, provided hands-on negotiation support and built the internal business case.
Improved discount and credit structure across both Azure and Microsoft 365, double-digit million investment secured from Microsoft to offset transition and AI-adoption costs, and multi-year price predictability.
Supported a global brewing company in reshaping a complex, multi-year Oracle Unlimited License Agreement to reflect its evolving legal structure and secure greater flexibility and compliance control.
A leading global brewing company had built up its Oracle Database footprint through a Global Unlimited License Agreement spanning many years, multiple renewals, and a steadily evolving list of legal entities across a worldwide organization. This required a reshaping to ensure the ULA fit the company's scope and complexity.
Strivesource supported the company through this complexity by tracking the ULA mechanisms against the group's legal structure and by working creatively within the contract wording itself, rather than only negotiating commercial terms, to secure amendments that reflected the business as it actually existed.
The result was a renewed, extended ULA with an updated and expanded entity list, the removal of a legacy restriction that no longer served the company's needs and flexibility options that give the organization more control over how and when it formalizes its licensing position. This engagement illustrates why ULA negotiations reward specialized Oracle contracting expertise: the value isn't just in securing a better deal at signing, it's in preserving flexibility and managing compliance exposure across the contract term and beyond.
Identified critical license compliance risks and hidden costs during an acquisition, protecting the buyer from €8M in post-close liabilities.
A private equity firm was acquiring a technology-heavy company and needed to assess the IT estate for hidden risks before closing. Previous due diligence had focused on financials and operations but not software licensing.
Our comprehensive IT due diligence assessed 12 vendors, uncovering non-transferable licenses, audit exposure from under-licensing, and contract termination clauses triggered by change-of-control. We quantified each risk and provided remediation recommendations.
The buyer avoided €8M in post-close liabilities by adjusting the deal valuation and negotiating seller indemnities. The IT risk assessment became a standard part of the PE firm's future acquisition playbook.
Executed a comprehensive software cost reduction program across 12 vendors, delivering €4.5M in annual savings within 6 months.
A major retailer had accumulated software contracts with 12+ vendors over several years without strategic oversight. Many contracts had auto-renewed at unfavorable terms with significant shelfware.
We analyzed the entire software portfolio, identified consolidation opportunities, mapped actual usage against entitlements, and renegotiated contracts with a structured, data-driven approach. Each vendor was benchmarked against market pricing.
The client achieved €4.5M in annual savings across 12 renegotiated vendor contracts, with right-sized licensing, improved terms, and a procurement governance framework to prevent future overspend.
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