MS SQL Enterprise Edition Remediation

Business requirement

Unnecessary consumption of Microsoft SQL Enterprise Edition leading to significantly increased cost of licences.

CIO watchlist: Yes

Scale: Global

Programme Management: Pipefish

Pipefish were able to deliver an exceptional outcome, resulting is significant ongoing cost savings for the business. They brought skilled resources to this project with minimal notice and tight timeframes to deliver.

VP of IT

What we did

Pipefish were already assisting the customer with an Enterprise Agreement license renewal process
As part of the engage Pipefish assisted in the review and determination of unnecessary consumption of Microsoft SQL Enterprise Edition, instead of other lower cost alternatives such as Express and Standard Edition
Determined if each of the Enterprise installs was actually utilising any of the Enterprise features, or if other entitlements provided an alternative option for the SQL Edition
Located and negotiated with the system owners/DBAs a number of treatment options, many of which involved the process of downgrading the SQL instance to the Standard edition

Scheduled the system downgrade within the organisations change management process
Executed the downgrade (with rollback option if required), across a large number of installations globally
In all cases, the entire fleet of just under 300 remediations were completed without any unplanned business interruption

Delivered outcomes

Approximately $8M cost avoidance associated with removal of unnecessary use of Enterprise Edition over four (4) months at a cost of ~$400K.

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