Oracle ULA Management - How We Can Help

Assessing current usage to get a baseline.

Calculating and projecting future usage to determine if a ULA is a good choice, and if so, the optimum pricing.

Providing licensing expertise around the ULA contracting process, and ensuring that the terms are favorable to our clients and fully understood.

Providing close support and assistance throughout the ULA term, including management advice and ways to best optimize the ULA. Our intimate knowledge and expertise of Oracle and Oracle’s License Management Services (LMS) means we can provide expert advice on how to extract the maximum value of a ULA while being fully compliant with agreements.

Leveraging the ULA contractual definitions to get the best value out of the ULA.

Performing a detailed value assessment of the ULA and actual usage and identifying ways to course-correct to maximize the value of the ULA investment.

Performing an internal audit to confirm you are not using any products not in your ULA or outside of your ULA terms.

Engaging several months prior to the ULA end date and performing a detailed counting up of actual usage across all environments and products to determine certification numbers to be certified to Oracle at the end of the ULA.

Support with ULA assessment from LMS. In some situations, customers work closely with Oracle for certification of their usage. This assessment process, which includes completion of spreadsheets (“GDRs”), and often times running of scripts as well, can be very time consuming for the customer and has inherent uncertainties involved. The process is essentially a lightweight “friendly audit” that can expose many areas of non-compliance. Our assistance with this process will keep you ahead of the curve, remove uncertainty and keep you in control of the ULA assessment process.

If renewing ULA, we can help calculate future usage, expected value and the overall strategic benefit of going down the ULA route again. We will assist with establishing a negotiation strategy that keeps you in control of the discussion with Oracle and delivers the best value going forward.

If ULA was renewed, we can assist with developing a go-forward plan and timeline to optimize the ULA investment.

Audit defense against an Oracle license audit. Sometimes if things do not go according to Oracle’s plans, Oracle may leverage license audits (or a threat of license audits) to close a favorable ULA deal or renewal. Our Audit Defense service is always available to deal with that outcome as well.