JDE Lift and Shift — Move to your cloud, unbundled

Move JD Edwards to your own Oracle Cloud, AWS, or Azure tenancy with Allari running production on a deflationary contract. No partner markup, no lock-in.

Your JDE contract is engineered to inflate your costs. Ours is engineered to compress them.

Most JDE partners bundle three margin layers into one fixed monthly fee — cloud hosting markup, an insurance-premium service fee, and multi-year escalators with auto-renews. Each layer compounds your TCO year over year. Allari unbundles all three. Direct hosting in your own cloud tenancy. On-demand service that compresses as workload shrinks. Renewals earned, not assumed.

The bundled anti-pattern

Like most JDE partners, every JDE-specialized managed-services partner is structured the same way. They resell your cloud hosting through their own tenancy. They charge a fixed monthly fee sized to cover worst-case workload regardless of what you actually consume. And they sign you to multi-year contracts with annual escalators and auto-renews. Layer 1 — cloud hosting markup: your JDE runs in the partner's cloud tenancy with a margin baked in that you can't see. Industry-typical markups run 15 to 25% above what Oracle Cloud or AWS would charge you direct. Layer 2 — insurance-premium service fee: the fixed monthly service fee is sized to cover worst-case workload. You pay the same fee every month regardless of what actually happens. AI accelerates throughput, platform matures and tickets drop, quiet month — partner keeps it every time. Layer 3 — escalator lock-in: multi-year contracts with annual escalators of 3 to 6% and auto-renews. The partner's revenue per customer compounds whether your platform is healthier or sicker than last year.

The unbundled alternative

Allari runs the opposite playbook. Cut 1 — you own the cloud tenancy, billed directly by Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, or GCP. No reseller markup. No partner-tenant lock-in. Cut 2 — consumption-based pricing. We charge for the work the team actually did each month, not a fixed monthly fee, not a clock against a buffer. Each month we walk the work with you in OpenBook® and queue the next automation or root-cause project together. Workload shrinks, spend shrinks. Cut 3 — at-will, no penalty. Stop us the day you want to stop — no notice period, no penalty, no termination fee. The only way we keep the work is to actually have compressed your run-rate the prior year.

The compression math

Day-one step-down: 15–25% hosting markup eliminated. Year-1 compression: ~8% below baseline. Year-3 compression: ~30% below baseline. Portfolio-illustrative curve across multi-year Allari engagements, 2022–2025; single-customer anchor at a global electronics manufacturer verified 19% Year-1 cost compression across a 36-month longitudinal study. Methodology auditable in OpenBook®.

Why your current partner won't offer you this

Your current JDE partner makes money on three things — the markup baked into your cloud bill, the buffer priced into your monthly service fee, and the escalator clauses in your multi-year contract. Compressing any of those compresses their revenue per customer. They can't volunteer to renegotiate the contract for you. The contract was designed at signing to extract value across the full term. Asking your partner to compress it is asking them to operate against their own incentives. This is not a moral observation. It is a structural feature of how the bundled JDE managed-services category is priced. Allari's contract is structured the other way. Compressing your TCO compresses our revenue per customer year over year, which is fine because compression is how we earn the renewal. Why we can structure the contract this way: Allari has been self-funded since 1999 — no outside investors, no debt, no exit events. A firm with PE owners can't write a contract that compresses revenue per customer year over year; the cap table doesn't allow it.

What changes for you

Self-hosting means your company owns the cloud relationship; Allari runs the JDE support layer including the infrastructure ops on top of the cloud. Today (bundled-partner setup): JDE runs in a cloud tenant owned by your partner; one invoice for everything; your IT team has no direct visibility into cloud spend or support work; leaving the partner means migrating the environment again. After the lift: JDE runs in your company's OCI, AWS, Azure, or GCP account, with the cloud bill direct to your finance team at your enterprise discount tier; Allari runs the JDE support layer including infrastructure ops on top of the cloud, every hour and ticket logged in OpenBook® in 15-minute increments; your security team has direct control over IAM, network, and data residency; if you ever change support vendors the JDE environment stays where it is, no second migration. What stays the same: your JDE itself (same release, configuration, custom mods, business users); Oracle Premier Support transfers cleanly per Oracle's published support matrix; end users see no change after the cutover window closes. Typical timeline: Weeks 1–2 discovery, scope confirmation, cloud account setup in your company's name; Weeks 3–6 parallel environment built and validated, regression tested against production; Week 7 (your choice, typically a planned weekend) cutover with defined rollback criteria; Week 8 onward steady-state under the deflationary support contract. Typical 8–12 weeks discovery to go-live.

The lift execution

We don't do cold cutovers. Every JDE lift is engineered around a parallel environment built and validated before any cutover window opens, defined rollback criteria written into the project plan before work begins, and no-fault exit if the lift fails to land. The lift is a defined-scope, fixed-fee project — separate from the deflationary service contract that follows. After the lift, the AI savings show up on the customer's invoice — not in the vendor's pocket. OpenBook® logs every hour, ticket, and root cause in 15-minute increments; the customer sees what's being done under the covers, and the CFO can audit the math any month. As AI or automation retires recurring work, the spend on that work drops. Bundled-partner contracts trap those gains because the monthly fee doesn't move. The Allari contract moves. Premier Support transfers cleanly because Oracle's licensing is unaffected by where the environment is hosted. See what unbundling would save on your specific contract — a 45-minute working session where you bring your current bundled-partner contract and three months of your cloud bill and leave with a baseline measurement, an unbundled-path projection against your actual numbers, and the contract structure that would deliver it. JDE production support certified for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and AWS per Oracle's published support matrix. Oracle Premier Support for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne committed through 2037. Get your unbundled-path projection at /contact. Or see the deflationary model at /deflationary-model.

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About Allari. Allari holds the run layer of enterprise ERP — JD Edwards, SAP, Oracle Fusion, NetSuite. Founded 1999. 27 years of continuous operation under original ownership. 100+ enterprise customers. Self-funded. No outside capital. We measure every ticket through OpenBook® and bring the support run-rate down quarter by quarter through Build-Run Separation.

What Allari runs

  • Run layer. Production support, environment work, ticket triage, root-cause discipline, integration operations, vendor coordination.
  • What customers keep. Build, governance, modernization roadmaps, and next-platform programs.

Verified outcomes (sourced)

  • HellermannTyton — 20-year partnership, 30-month longitudinal study, 463-ticket sample, 1.84-hour median resolution.
  • W.L. Gore — 14-year operating partnership since 2012, 64,959 lifetime tickets in our PSA, 200,134 hours delivered.
  • BrightView — largest customer in our portfolio by ticket volume.

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