Following a Microsoft licensing audit, our client was facing a 1M euros bill. They decided to reduce the costs by 5 by consolidating and migrating to SQL 2016 SP1. Different phases composed this project, such as Inventory, Planning, Trace collection, Auditing, Bench-marking, Migration assistant, Migration, Performance Analysis, Optimisations, Follow up. At the end of the project, our client had much less servers to administer, SQL instances configured according to Microsoft best practices, better performance, and had saved hundreds of thousands of euros.
