The Oracle Internal License Audit service addresses the scenario where your organisation aims to establish an Effective License Position which simulates the situation where Oracle would come in and audit the environment.

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This Oracle Internal License Audit includes:

• Establishing the size of the financial risk;

• Helping you understand your effective license position (ELP);

• Guiding your team on how to reduce compliance risks.

The Oracle License Audit Defense service addresses the scenario where your organization has received notice of a license review from your Account Manager (soft audit) or a full compliance audit. Usually you will receive an audit notification from Oracle LMS (License Management Services) or a 3^rd party acting on behalf of Oracle.

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The Audit Defense service can start at any stage in the lifecycle of an Oracle Audit. And yet, the earlier we are engaged the simpler, straight forward and predictable the audit will be for your organization. Depending on each situation we may either operate in the background or directly engage with Oracle on your behalf.

This Oracle License Audit Defense includes:

• Quickly establishing the size of the financial risk;
• Helping you understand your effective license position (ELP) before the auditor has
• received any evidence;
• Guiding your teams in mitigating any false-positives;
• Reviewing and sanitizing any information submitted to auditor;
• Advising your teams throughout the audit process until audit closure.

Our service is divided into the following stages:

Each stage is divided into Inputs, Activities and Outputs.

The Oracle LMS Audit Negotiations addresses the scenario where Oracle LMS, or one of their audit partners, conducted a compliance audit within your organization.

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This service can start at any point prior to signing a proposal from Oracle.

The Oracle LMS Audit Negotiations includes:

• 48-hour assessment;
  • Full forensic analysis of data previously provided to Oracle;
  • Review of your internal objectives and concerns about the audit results.
• Statement of Work;
• Reduced Bill of Materials & negotiation value based on:
  • (Re) Positioning of Oracle LMS technical findings;
  • (Re) Positioning of current contracts and definitions to reduce claim values.
• Determining and agreeing to a negotiation strategy;
• Execution support throughout the negotiation;
• Audit closure.

The License Consulting Support Savings addresses the scenario where your organization believes or even knows it is overpaying support for Oracle software licenses but is unable to effectuate a cost reduction.

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In particular the following sections in the Oracle support agreement contain elements which make it difficult for end-users to reduce support:

• Matching Service Levels;
• Pricing following Reduction of Licenses or Support Level;
• License Set.

This service is provided at a no-cure-no-pay model. The service can start at any stage throughout the year, but ideally 8 weeks prior to the next support renewal cycle and/or commencing a compliance review conducted by License Consulting or Oracle LMS.

The Oracle ULA Certification & Renewal Management service addresses the scenario where your organization has engaged into an Oracle Unlimited License Agreement (ULA) and the Unlimited Deployment Period will end within one year.

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This Oracle ULA Certification & Renewal Management includes:

• Helping you understand your effective deployment position on ULA products;
• Helping you understand what opportunities and threats the ULA can bring regard to the ELP and future Oracle deployment needs;
• Advise on most beneficial strategy (certification as contractually required and/or renewal);
• Advising your teams throughout the Certification Process until the ULA has been Certified or Renewed.

The Oracle to VMware compliance service addresses the scenario where your organisation aims to deploy Oracle workloads on VMware whilst ensuring license compliance.

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This service helps organizations make objective decisions about whether or not they can virtualize Oracle on VMware, and assists them in implementing such environment in the most optimal way whilst ensuring license compliance. During the project all contractual, legal and technical considerations of your organization are clarified. Clients who then choose to migrate to VMware are guided, to ensure that the license footprint of Oracle on VMware is limited to a minimum, but implemented in a VMware architecture that meets their operational requirements. As part of the implementation plan, potential VMware architectures are discussed. Oracle workloads subjected to virtualizing are audited comprehensively in order to validate their license requirements in a detailed level.

This service includes:

• Workshops to educate contract, legal- and IT specialists and to discuss and address all concerns with regard to licensing Oracle on VMware;

• Forensic audit of current workloads of the Oracle software deployment;

  • Optimizing the Oracle workloads to further reduce the future license footprint;

• Coordinate workshops to discuss caveats of potential VMware implementation scenario’s;

• For up to 3 potential VMware implementation scenarios:

  • Provide Capex/Opex cost calculations;

  • Document compliance and governance strategies for each scenario to eliminate future compliance risks;

• After implementation: Internal License Audit to ensure the VMware implementation would withstand the scrutiny of an Oracle LMS audit (see service description “Internal License Audit”);

• Providing documented guidelines for handling an Oracle LMS audit.

Upon request we assist clients to discuss their IT changes with Oracle to ensure all risks have been addressed, and no unforeseen compliance claims can arise in the future.