Your bundled JDE bill is engineered to grow.Your workload is shrinking.

Partners bundle cloud hosting markup, an insurance-premium support fee, and multi-year escalators into one fixed line. Unbundle them — direct cloud tenancy plus consumption-based JDE support — and the cost follows the workload down. On a $2M run-rate, that typically takes $400K to $1M+ out of the next three years.

Day-one markup elimination, then deflationary compression across 36 months.

01 · The unbundle

Three things hide in the bundle.For each, a specific cut.

Bundled partner path

What you’re paying for

Unbundled Allari path

What gets cut

Your cloud bill, marked up.

JD Edwards runs in your partner’s OCI, AWS, or Azure tenancy. Their per-hour rate has a margin baked in that you can’t see. The line item reads “JDE cloud + support, bundled” — not “cloud cost + reseller markup.” Typical reseller markups: 15–25%. On a $400K/year cloud line, that’s $60K–$100K every year you stay in their tenancy.

Your cloud, billed by your cloud provider.

JD Edwards runs in your own Oracle Cloud, AWS, or Azure account, billed directly to you — at the cloud provider’s price, not a reseller’s. No partner markup. No tenant lock-in. If you ever leave Allari, your JDE environments stay where they are.

Worst-case priced. Best-case retained.

The fixed monthly JDE support fee is priced for worst case — peak ticket months, CNC crises, ESU work, integration emergencies. You pay the premium every month. Quiet month? Partner keeps it. AI accelerates throughput? Partner keeps it. Platform matures and workload falls? Partner keeps it. The bill is structured around their reserve, not your run-rate.

Pay for the work the team actually did.

Consumption-based. Functional, CNC, dev, integrations — each month we walk through the work that happened and queue the next automation. AI retires recurring work? Spend drops. Quiet month? Spend drops. Workload halves over three years? Spend halves with it. Same model your cloud bill works on.

Annual escalators with auto-renew.

Multi-year support contracts compound at 3–5% a year regardless of platform health. Your JDE skill demand may be shrinking, your workload may be falling, your AI investments may be retiring recurring work — your bill still goes up. The escalator is the partner’s revenue assumption written into a contract clause.

Stop when you want. No notice. No fee.

The rate term is annual. The renewal is earned. The only way we keep your work is to compress the JDE run-rate year over year. If we don’t, you leave — no termination fee, no notice period, no clawback. The runbooks and OpenBook® ledger go with you.

02 · The math

Two trajectories. One chart.

Dashed gray: the bundled JDE-partner path — cloud markup baked in, fixed insurance-premium fee, escalators compounding. Red: the unbundled Allari path — direct cloud on day one, deflationary support compressing as JDE workload shrinks.

What this is worth

On a $2M annual JD Edwards run-rate, three-year unbundled compression typically lands between $400K and $1M+. Larger JDE footprints scale linearly — a $5M run-rate sees $1M to $2.5M+ over three years. The compression comes from three places: hosting markup eliminated immediately (typically 15–25% of the cloud line), insurance-premium reserve compressed (no buffer paid for spikes that don’t happen), and escalator drift eliminated (no compounding above baseline).

That capacity goes back to JDE modernization, AI investment, or your team’s runway — not to a partner’s margin reserve.

03 · When unbundling doesn’t pay

Three reasons to stay bundled. Said out loud, before you book.

Your partner discount is volume-based. If your bundled JDE-partner discount is steep because of the cloud volume, the unbundled cloud cost (priced direct, no markup) may not beat the discounted bundled rate. Run the math before you act — we’ll do it with you in the working session.

Your CFO prefers fixed monthly billing. Consumption-based pricing feels different the first two quarters. The variability is real, even when the total is lower. Some finance organizations don’t want it on principle. If predictability matters more than compression, this isn’t your model.

Your JDE roadmap is short. If you’re migrating to Fusion or SAP within 24 months, the transition cost of unbundling may not amortize in time. Stay bundled, finish the migration, then unbundle the successor. We’ll tell you the same thing in the working session.

The working session

See what your JDE run-rate looks like unbundled.

30 minutes. Bring your bundled JDE-partner contract and your last cloud bill. Leave with a baseline measurement, an unbundled-path projection, and the contract structure that would deliver it. No pitch. No deck. No obligation.

At-will contract · Runbooks and ledger yours on exit · No clawbacks

Allari self-funded since 1999 · No private equity · Accountable to clients, not investors