Playbook
Our database estate is end-of-life and licence costs are climbing
Old Oracle and SQL Server systems are nearing the end of vendor support and the renewal quote is unaffordable. Application teams want different kinds of database for different jobs — traditional, document-style, graph — but the platform team needs governance and a credible plan for each workload.
Trigger — Database end-of-support combined with a licensing cost shock.
Good outcome — The customer has a fully supported Azure database for each application, with predictable costs and the right kind of database for each job. The old licence bill is gone.