Software licensing can be a complex area to navigate. The best entitlement to choose is not always obvious. We help you make informed decisions and navigate the licensing minefield to secure the best financially viable license options for your business requirements.
Software Asset Management (SAM) is a crucial business practice that involves managing and optimizing software applications within an organization. According to ITIL, SAM encompasses all the infrastructure and processes necessary for the effective management, control, and protection of software assets.
- Reduce IT costs
- Limit business and legal risks, Maximize IT responsiveness
- Cost optimization - identifying unused or underutilized software licenses
Our solutions assist in establishing your applications usage prior to negotiating your forthcoming renewal or true-up for your Oracle Application licenses.
- Consolidate and align contract support dates
- Help to renegotiate new contracts that are more aligned to your business model
- Cancel licenses that are no longer required
- Migrate and upgrade older contracts to newer models with favorable outcomes
Oracle middleware presents complex and challenging environments requiring expert knowledge to understand and present the right options. We can run audit defence exercises to analyze and audit the Oracle past/present usage and map this to entitlements
- Advanced Oracle audit provides the opportunity to fix and remediate issues ahead of contract renewals
- Tech Stack Review – detailed analysis using scripts to verify versioning and usage
- Detailed Database usage checking multiple Oracle Options and Packs for commercial usage
- Full Middleware Stack Review
- Applications Stack review checking contracts and mapping usage to entitlements
- Java Review – Checking systems for support payable versions of Oracle not covered by Restricted Usage Rights
