Your company’s Oracle enterprise agreement is about to expire. There’s a new project involving Oracle licenses. You’re in the final negotiation stages with Oracle. Whatever the reason, it’s time to scrutinize your license inventory, analyze usage, evaluate compliance, and plan for the future.

Just thinking about it makes you rub your temples and close your eyes for a moment. How many Oracle licenses does your organization own right now? What software versions are deployed and where? Did the last agreement meet your organization’s needs – did you purchase too many or too few licenses? How many new licenses do you need? Has use of Oracle software in your organization changed significantly since your last agreement? How will it change in the future?

Someone should write a self-help book for this.

An entitlement-centric software license management solution understands the varied license metrics that software publishers have developed to determine entitlement and is capable of interpreting complex business applications (SAP, Oracle), understanding and reporting on the associated complex license models attached to such applications.

Aspera developed a (powerful) pre-processor for Oracle license metrics. The pre-processor prepares the installation data depending on the license metric (NUP/CPU) to clearly identify the data needed to determine compliance. Oracle Pre-Processor outlines the steps the pre-processor uses to manipulate the installation data and calculate the correct amount of licenses required. Similar processes exist for SAP and Microsoft license metrics.

An entitlement-centric software license management solution stands for the absolute requirement for reliable data and the highest data quality. The pivotal point is determining your organization's "real" license need, while still taking the complex license metrics of the software publishers into account. Having reports "in real terms", that consolidate data and expose financial risks as well as valuable points to optimize your product and license portfolios. Here is where the return on investment in SAM is; here is where real cost saving, risk control and confidence during negotiations become reality.

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