Our signature Oracle engagements. Each delivered by the best Oracle licensing expert on the planet.
Your very own Oracle licensing advisor. Oracle LMS Audit Defense. A ULA exit backed by a three-year guarantee. A defense that closes Oracle’s Java demands on evidence, not payroll. Or a two-day masterclass that turns your own team into Oracle licensing experts.
Advisor on Call
FORMERLY THE ORACLE LICENSING HOURLY ADVISORY PACKAGEWhat it is
A block of advisory hours with our Managing Partner, Sheshagiri Anegondi — a former Vice-President at Oracle Corporation — reserved for the Oracle questions that arrive without warning and can't wait for a full engagement to be scoped.
Every hour you spend with him is matched by an hour of back-end analysis from our licensing team on your contracts, quotes and deployment data. Half the hours buy the conversation; the other half buy the evidence behind it. You never get an opinion that isn't grounded in your own numbers.
What clients use the hours on
- Licensing policy — clarifications, explanations, compliance status
- Audit letter triage — your first move, before anything is sent to Oracle
- Quote sanity checks — renewals, Java demands, support quotes, OCI proposals
- Negotiation prep — the session before the account team calls
- Board & CIO briefings — your real exposure, explained without jargon
How an engagement runs
Reserve a block
20 or 40 hours, fixed price, scoped in a two-page engagement letter.
Send the question
The quote, letter or contract goes to the analysis team first.
Sit with the advisor
Face-to-face session with prepared positions, not first impressions.
Act on it
Written summary of the position and next moves after every session.
ULA Certification with 3-Year Audit Shield
CERTIFY & EXIT — THEN WE STAND BEHIND IT FOR 3 YEARSWhat it is
ULA certification is the single highest-stakes event in Oracle licensing: one declaration fixes what you own forever, and any gap in it becomes audit exposure for years. Most advisors help you prepare it and leave. We prepare it, defend it — and then guarantee it.
If Oracle challenges the certified position within three years of exit — through an audit or a compliance claim on the certified estate — Rythium defends it at no additional fee. We can offer this for one reason: we do the certification thoroughly enough to put our own name on it.
What the engagement covers
- Deployment maximization — every legitimate deployment counted before the certification clock runs out
- Certification & declaration — prepared to audit standard and managed with Oracle directly
- Clean exit — perpetual rights fixed, support right-sized on the certified estate
- Post-exit baseline — a license position document showing exactly what you own
- 36 months of cover — any challenge to the certified position is ours to answer
Who it's for
Companies with a ULA term coming to an end in 4 to 18 months — especially where deployment growth has flattened and the account team is already framing renewal as the "safe" option. The earlier we start, the more deployments we can legitimately count.
Java Compliance Defense
WHEN ORACLE’S JAVA EMAIL ARRIVES — OR BEFORE IT DOESWhat it is
Oracle’s Java enforcement starts quietly: an email referencing download records, then a quote priced on the employee metric — every person on your payroll, whether or not they have ever touched Java. Most companies negotiate against that number because they don’t know their own. This service makes sure you never have to.
We build the evidence first, then run the defense: measure where Oracle JDK actually runs, move everything that can move to free alternatives, and close the demand on a footprint you can prove — or eliminate the need for a deal entirely.
What the defense covers
- Usage discovery — every Oracle JDK instance, version and application, measured
- Exposure assessment — your real number under the employee metric and legacy metrics
- Migration strategy — OpenJDK and alternative builds for everything that can move
- Negotiation & closure — a scoped resolution for only what genuinely must stay on Oracle Java
- Java governance — a policy that stops the footprint silently growing back
Who it’s for
Companies that have received Oracle’s Java outreach — and, just as importantly, companies that haven’t yet. The defense is strongest when the evidence exists before the email does.
Oracle Licensing Masterclass
2-DAY INTENSIVE TRAINING FOR CORPORATE TEAMSWhat it is
Two intensive days that take your team from utter beginners to confident Oracle licensing practitioners — taught by our Managing Partner, a former Oracle Vice-President, using real contracts, real audit cases and real negotiation transcripts rather than slideware theory.
Some of the biggest companies across the globe have put their SAM, procurement, IT and legal teams through this course. The outcome isn't a certificate on a wall — it's a team that reads an Oracle quote the way we do.
The two days
Foundations
License metrics, agreement types, support rules and the policies Oracle treats as contract.
Your contracts
Working session on your own agreements — entitlements, gaps and traps, live.
The hard topics
ULAs, Java, virtualization, cloud/BYOL and how audits actually unfold.
Negotiation lab
Mock renewal and audit-response exercises against Oracle's real playbook.
Who attends
SAM and asset managers, procurement and vendor-management teams, IT finance, infrastructure leads and in-house counsel. No prior licensing knowledge assumed on day one; none missing by the end of day two.
Get the best Oracle licensing guru on earth on your side of the table.
Tell us what's on your desk — a quote, a letter, a ULA end date. A senior advisor replies within 48 hours.
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