AUSTIN, Texas, June 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today
announced a new Oracle Support Rewards program to help customers
speed migrations to the cloud while reducing their software license
support costs. Now, customers making new commitments to buy
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services can earn rewards that
reduce or even eliminate their Oracle on-premises technology
licensing support bills.
With this program, all Oracle technology license support
customers will earn at least 25 cents
of Support Rewards for each dollar of OCI Universal Credits they
purchase and consume. Customers with Oracle Unlimited License
Agreements (ULA) will save even more – earning rewards at a 33
percent rate. This means that a ULA customer with an Oracle
technology license support bill of $500,000 could eliminate that bill entirely by
migrating $1.5M of workloads to
OCI.
"OCI is Oracle's fastest growing business because we built a
unique Generation 2 cloud infrastructure platform capable of
running the most demanding mission-critical workloads faster, more
reliably, and more securely than our on-premises systems," said
Oracle Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer
Larry Ellison. "We want to
enable more customers to take advantage of our Gen 2 Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure. Oracle Support Rewards gives customers an
easy way to simultaneously reduce their software support spend as
they increase the speed of their cloud adoption."
CIOs and IT organizations are pressured to drive innovation,
often without new budget. The Oracle Support Rewards program
creates more value for existing Oracle technology customers, making
adoption of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure even more cost-effective.
Like frequent flyer miles, a customer's Support Rewards are
automatically added in the OCI Console every month, and rewards can
be applied anytime.
Oracle Support Rewards joins the Oracle Universal Credits,
Oracle Bring Your Own License, Oracle Customer to Cloud, and the
recently launched Oracle Cloud Lift programs, which are all aimed
at accelerating customers' digital transformations while offering a
great customer experience. Oracle Cloud Lift coupled with
Oracle Support Rewards and OCI's already competitive pricing, makes
it simple and cost-effective for customers to migrate more
workloads to the cloud.
"Oracle is building differentiation in its cloud infrastructure
services by staying laser focused on the unique needs of its
customers," said Dave McCarthy, vice
president, Cloud and Edge Infrastructure Services, IDC.
"Oracle Support Rewards combined with flexible and
transparent pricing are essential in attracting new business and
accelerating adoption of OCI."
Customers and partners like Allegis Group, Cognizant, and
Experian are already seeing value in this new program. Oracle
partners benefit from added customer incentive to move to the
cloud. In particular, cloud service providers can pass on the
savings from Oracle Support Rewards to their OCI customers.
"Allegis Group is the global leader in talent solutions. Oracle
has helped us design a robust cloud adoption strategy that balances
benefits to our users and our business, with immediate
modernization of core applications like PeopleSoft and adoption of
SaaS over time," said Brian Lindner, Chief Information
Officer, Allegis Group. "The Oracle Support Rewards program
allows us to continue to use existing technology investments,
dramatically lower costs, and invest in the future."
"Cognizant has worked with Oracle as both a partner and customer
for more than 20 years to help our clients modernize their
businesses and technology platforms," said Anil Cheriyan, executive
vice president, Strategy and Technology at Cognizant. "The
new Oracle Support Rewards program further gives Cognizant and our
customers valuable incentives to move critical work to Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure."
"As a leader in data and analytics, providing the best customer
experience is extremely important to Experian. We work with
Oracle for many of our core systems on-premises, from call center
data analysis to financial reporting," said Mervyn
Lally, Global Chief Enterprise Architect, Experian.
"As we continue to adopt cloud-based solutions,
Oracle Support Rewards makes it much easier for us to choose Oracle
Cloud for the future of these systems. We believe
that working with Oracle will allow us to further enhance
our data processing and analytics capabilities in the cloud
and help the millions of consumers and businesses we
serve with our innovative solutions."
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle's approach to cloud
computing is based on the idea that the cloud should be engineered
to support every application, rather than re-engineering
applications to work with the cloud. Oracle's cloud
infrastructure makes it easier to migrate critical enterprise
applications to OCI and run them better than on-premises, and
offers all the services developers need to build and run
cloud-native applications. OCI simplifies management and
security with autonomous services such as the world's only Oracle
Autonomous Database and built-in, always-on security. OCI
offers the most complete support for hybrid cloud strategies,
including VMware environments and even bringing the cloud to a
customers' own data center or to the edge. Customers can use
OCI services in the Oracle public cloud, in their own data center,
or anywhere in between, opening up the benefits of the cloud to
more companies. It also offers technologies to simplify
integration and data movement across multi-cloud organizations.
In addition, OCI offers the best performance at significantly
lower costs.
About Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of
applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle
Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit
us at oracle.com.
Additional Resources
- Watch the Oracle Live with Larry
Ellison
- Read the Oracle Support Rewards blog
- Learn more about Oracle Support Rewards
- Learn more about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
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trademarks of Oracle Corporation.
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