Rational IT empowers clients to make better decisions through vendor-independent expertise.
Our services enable clear-minded buying cycles from needs analysis to proof-of-concept to vendor negotiation. We gather empirical data about your business, existing contracts, organizational competencies, as well as current and projected needs. Then we build technical, financial and contractual models to demonstrate the initial and long-term implications of the various options.
Plainly stated, we put numbers to the technical, contractual and theoretical jargon that complicates large-scale decisions, enabling you to make informed decisions with confidence.
Please contact us with regards to these specific service offerings:
- Asset Discovery
- Entitlement and Gap Analysis
- Compliance Risk Mitigation
- Software Asset Management
- Architecture and Design
- TCO Modeling
- Consolidation and Migration Planning
- Vendor Negotiation
- Training and Workshops
Oracle
Oracle software and hardware fees are among the largest line items within many IT budgets. Managing and reducing these costs is complicated by a labyrinth of contractual terms, software licensing policies, technical concepts, service level agreements and business practices. IT executives inevitably feel powerless to reign in these ever-increasing expenses.
Rational IT facilitates Oracle-specific assessments with the processes, tools and experience necessary to merge best practices from software asset management, procurement and contracts, engineering and operations. The resulting plan presents an actionable strategy that reduces cost while maintaining or improving service levels.
Microsoft
Microsoft's vast range of technology, from desktop OSs and applications, to popular server OSs and server applications, collaboration, real-time communications, virtualization, device and application management, software development, and online services, makes licensing a challenge.
Its volume licensing purchase programs are equally complex, and many organizations feel obligated to sign Microsoft agreements without fully understanding the consequences or what options are available to reduce costs.
Rational IT works with customers to define their IT roadmaps and priorities and then aids them in selecting the licenses they need to achieve those priorities, as well as the purchasing strategies that will deliver those licenses at lowest cost without sacrificing present and future IT opportunities.
IBM
Rational IT is unique in that our advice is based solely on your needs and best interests. We are vendor-independent, with no reseller relationships with the technologies being assessed. Our commitment is that no hidden agenda, sales quota or plan to sell you more products will influence the assessment or final recommendation.
Rational IT brings deep experience of the technology and business practices of enterprise software publishers and hardware manufacturers. If you're considering new or upgraded software, you'll be certain you are buying exactly what you need-no more, no less. If you need to save and scale back costs, we can show you how to deploy what you are already using differently so you will save money and still meet the needs of your business.
Rational IT seeks to help clients navigate complex technology and licensing options, and will provide a specific plan to set you on the path to meet your goals. And if acquiring more technology is necessary, we are battled-hardened in vendor negotiation as well as available to help oversee and implement the best plan.
Posts / Publications
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OOW Was Different This Year
There was something different about Oracle OpenWorld this year. It was palpable even via streaming video. -
Oracle Licensing, Part 1
A recent story in InformationWeek compared managing software licensing to mountain climbing. -
Exalytics Pricing
To understand licensing for the new Oracle Database Appliance requires a quick review of the basics. -
Oracle, The Wireless Co.
Oracle should experience no lost love over the decline of its hardware market share. -
The Fundamentals of Savings
There are fundamentally three concepts to consider when attempting to save money on Oracle. -
How To Achieve Compliance
It's no wonder Oracle doesn't negotiate terms and pushes so hard for reset-button pushing contracts. -
Oracle Licensing, Part 2
The topic of bugs versus features isn't just about how well the software works! -
Oracle on VMware
A three part series from oracleoptimization.com regarding Oracle on VMware.