An Oracle license compliance review maps your entitlements against your deployment so you know your position before Oracle does, and finding and fixing exposure early removes most of the 60 to 80 percent inflation a preliminary audit claim usually carries.
What is an Oracle license compliance review?
An Oracle license compliance review is an independent measurement of your Oracle estate set against what you are actually entitled to use. We reconcile your ordering documents and the Oracle Master Agreement with the database editions, options and packs, Java installations, and virtualization layout you run today. The result is a clear picture of where you are exposed and where you are over licensed, before anyone from Oracle asks.
Why review before an audit?
Reviewing before an audit puts the timing on your side, because preliminary audit findings arrive inflated at list price and a quiet review lets you correct the picture without a clock running. You can disable options that were enabled by accident, fix Named User Plus counts against the minimums, settle the virtualization position on your real architecture, and document the evidence. When a notice does arrive, you respond from a prepared position rather than a standing start.
How does the review run?
The review runs in three stages: gather, reconcile and report. We collect entitlement and deployment data, reconcile it line by line against the contract, and separate genuine exposure from policy claims that the signed agreement does not support. Where Oracle's partitioning policy would argue for cluster wide licensing, we test that against your contract, because the policy document is not the contract and contract language beats policy.
What do you receive?
You receive a written position: a reconciled view of entitlements versus deployment, a ranked list of exposures with the buyer move for each, and a remediation plan you can act on. Every figure is attributed and contract dependent answers are flagged as contract dependent, so your legal and procurement teams can rely on it.
- Reconciled entitlement versus deployment baseline
- Ranked exposure register with the buyer move for each item
- Options and packs evidence test results
- Virtualization position mapped to your contract
- Remediation plan and a defensible position summary
How do you charge for a review?
We charge in one of two ways and never publish a price, because scope drives cost. Fixed Fee is scoped and agreed up front. Gainshare is a share of verified savings or avoided exposure, with zero retainer and no risk to you. Our guarantee applies: we reduce your Oracle exposure or we reimburse our service fee.
Read the Oracle License Compliance Guide, or if a letter has already arrived, see Oracle Audit Defense. You can also contact us to start.