Optimize compliance. Conduct forensic license audits for your clients. Mitigate risks as a Partner, by protecting your clients from Oracle’s claims. Identify unknown risks to implement improvements and identify saving opportunities!
Table of Contents
The extensive Oracle Database compliance report contains all information for each level of expertise – including all of the technical evidence and associated costs.
The many sheets – color coded per each section – can be accessed by hyperlinks to access detailed information.
- High level (management) information (including costs) and creating what-if-scenarios;
- Database Options & Management Packs – for Database Administrators;
- Hardware & Infrastructure – for system administrators and counting Oracle Processors;
- Other: Explanations, data warnings, completeness validation and audit log.
Financial Summary
The number of available licenses can be added manually for each product, allowing to calculate prices based on the most recent Oracle price list. The currency can be chosen in the Financial Summary sheet.
Options & Packs Summary
Provides a summary about the current (and historical) utilizations of Oracle Database Options. The figures represent #instances. In this report, 354 Oracle Enterprise Edition databases were audited, with 5 instances requiring licenses for the current use of Active Data Guard.
Again, inn column G, users can immediately navigate to the individual pages where the technical evidence of premium feature use is detailed.
Compliance Estimation
The compliance report can be manipulated to either include clusters where Oracle databases are installed and/or running, OR include the entire vCenter (including clusters where no Oracle databases are installed and/or running).
The number of available licenses can be added manually for each product, allowing to calculate prices based on the most recent Oracle price list. The currency can be chosen in the Financial Summary sheet.
To create custom scenario, users are able to change the PROC designation to NUP – and all the math will be recalculated as per the contractual NUP minimum requirements. Equally, users can manipulate the number of Processors for any given server, allowing to calculate how a change in Oracle Processor could changes the overall compliance position.
Oracle Audit Simulation
Create an Effective License Position (ELP) yourself, to identify compliance risks and saving opportunities.
Identifying costs
Discover the current and historical utilization of Processors, Oracle Database Options and Management Packs.
Optimizations
Small IT changes can greatly improve your compliance position: Mitigate identified issues with your own IT teams!
Reveal hidden risks and opportunities
You can't manage what you don't know
Oracle database licensing experts are here to help.
Our Oracle database licensing experts are included in the package. After your compliance report is generated, our independent Oracle licensing partners provide guidance and assistance in optimizing the real estate for Oracle database deployments – and your license- and support portfolio.
How it works:
Report, Remediate, Repeat.
Keep your clients safe from financial risks and regulatory scrutiny by implementing a sustainable compliance solution. LicenseAudit provides detailed data logging reports, audit trail evidence, and easy to understand compliance reports for Oracle database software.
Compliance reporting is a critical function for any business, but it is especially Oracle database customers. During audits, Oracle LMS collects copious amounts of data on its users’ license usage. Data that cannot be collected and interpreted by clients themselves. Next, Oracle takes a stern view of anyone who might be – unknowingly – using its products without a valid license. With LicenseAudit, all companies deploying Oracle databases can ensure that the licensing is compliant with all relevant licensing rules. The report can also be used to track support spending on Oracle database products. In the hands of a knowledgeable user, the report is a powerful tool for negotiating the best possible terms for any given purchase.
The key to remediation is to understand the causes of any risk reported by LicenseAudit, al of which are reported in great detail. Once a risk or opportunity is identified, your team can put a change or process in place to ensure that the risk is mitigated. Or, take advantage of the opportunity. For a sustainable solution, you may choose to implement governance controls, software changes or internal guidelines to implement a long-term solution.
Initial housekeeping may be a big task. Next you want to stay in control and have LicenseAudit in place to anticipate for changes in your Oracle database environment. This way you are always ahead of license compliance, and can actively use license provisions to your own benefit.
If your client is currently audited by Oracle, you can use LicenseAudit to understand the outcome of Oracle database audit data before it’s sent to Oracle’s audit team.
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Seize the opportunity to mitigate risks and prevent claims.
Until now, Oracle Database licensing was difficult
Oracle is part of the problem
Oracle provides NO solution to report the current and historical utilisation of Oracle database software, and ‘LMS validated’ tools fail to deliver accurate and user friendly data.
The past haunts you
During an LMS audit, Oracle often alleges that (un-intended) premium database features have been used, and will charge for licenses and backdated support.
How to count ‘Processor’?
Oracle’s Processor licensing table is straight forward. But, technologies including VMware can be implemented in many different ways.
What is a licensed feature?
Oracle identifies features as ‘premium’ without naming them in a meaningful way: DBA’s are always at risk of triggering licensed features – without knowing it.
Where is your OPEX going?
Oracle support comes at a high price. Why and where are costs consumed? Can you pay less or should you pay even more? And how to manage that?
Changing infrastructures
Compliance is a moving target: Small infrastructure changes can significantly change the number of licenses required.