Oracle license management

Optimize your Oracle licensing

Managing Oracle software, hardware and related resources can be complex, and requires a comprehensive solution. Flexera helps you optimize your Oracle investment, ensure compliance, reduce costs and mitigate the risks associated with your Oracle estate.

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Oracle use rights with Flexera One

Manage your Oracle estate with confidence

Achieve an accurate ELP

Stop over paying

Stop paying for more than you need and achieve an accurate effective license position (ELP) with Flexera. We are the only solution that can automatically discover the correct product use rights based on the licensing options that Oracle offers.

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Oracle license summary
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Oracle License Consumption Details and Optimizations

Deep Oracle insights

Trust your data

Flexera's SAM solutions are the only two SAM solutions that are verified for four categories of Oracle solutions including Oracle Database, DatabaseOptions, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Java SE and E-business Suite. Rest easy and trust the data and insights you get from Flexera.

Reduce audit costs

Identify and eliminate non-compliant use

Maintain compliance with regulatory requirements and vendor contractual obligations. Identify potential risks and mitigate them by ensuring assets are being used in accordance with the necessary policies and regulations.

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Trust your data

Get a verified view of your entire Oracle estate

Software asset management hinges on accurate data. Flexera works hard to make sure that the asset management data you receive from us is the most accurate in the industry, and we prove it. Flexera’s SAM tools are the only verified SAM tools across all categories for Oracle products so you know you can rely on your data from Flexera and be protected from software audits. Renew your software with confidence with Flexera.

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Trust your Oracle data

In just a few minutes, we can get an accurate and transparent view of our investment in Oracle databases without complicated and time-consuming work.

Aneta Kozlowska, SAM team manager Agora

Frequently asked questions

  1. Notify and assemble the audit board - Don’t ignore an audit request. Once the notification letter arrives, notify your ITAM team, gather your key stakeholders and communicate the audit process.  
  2. Prepare your documentation and acknowledge the audit letter – Leverage Flexera solutions to gather and review all license entitlements, contracts and agreements associated with the audit. 
  3. Propose a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) and meet with the auditor. 
  4. Gather and submit the data. Only collect data that has been defined and in a form that is agreed to by all parties. 
  5. Carefully review the results and settle/close the audit - Never agree to the findings in the first instance. 

An NDA often represents the only opportunity to put a fence around the scope of a software audit. Many software publishers and their hired auditors may refuse to consider comprehensive pre-audit agreements. However, most typically will agree to negotiate NDAs to control the handling of audit data.  It is a good idea to include appropriate, corresponding protective measures in the NDA to protect all parties involved. It’s advised not to proceed with the audit until this step is complete.

Many vendors pursue an audit strategy that at first looks like an informal request for information. These requests often arrive as a generic, impersonal request for the customer to collect and report data or as an offer for an assessment or review. They are often written in a way that makes it sound like the vendor is offering a free or helpful service. These are still audit requests.

Manual ELP (effective license position) reporting can take months without automated visibility. With automated reporting of application usage from Flexera, you can get near-real-time visibility into how licenses are used to ensure compliance. Our customers have been able to reduce the time to prepare for an audit by up to 90%.

With Flexera’s automated visibility, expert team and value realization services,  we help customers prepare for an audit in less than 90 days. Flexera is also Oracle Verified for Databases, Database Options, Middleware, Oracle Java, and Oracle EBS so you can produce reports for auditors with ease. 

Flexera software asset management solutions help organizations understand their effective license position for thousands of vendors. Our Technology Intelligence recognizes over 900,000 applications. The most common vendors include IBM, SAP, Microsoft and Oracle, including installation details of Oracle Java.