Licence Compliance


Why are software licences complicated to control?

Software represents a significant investment for any organisation, but often controlling and accounting for these assets is ignored. Over time, the intangible, out of sight, out of mind nature of software licences make them almost impossible to maintain or manage in any enterprise. And as time progresses and the technical implementation of the enterprise evolves, your investment in software assets becomes increasingly more complex.

• Prevalence of the Internet and the ability to download and install software easily by technical resources

• Changes in the licensing methodologies and metrics used by software manufacturers

• The evolution of the technical architecture within the enterprise

• Project demands to go live ahead of time and within budget; software is often forgotten...as is post implementation support

Why do you need to control your IT asset management?
IT Governance requires that companies control their investments in software assets – it is simply illegal to be under-licensed and is considered a form software piracy. Organisations, more specifically, the senior management are held responsible for not managing and controlling software assets within the company.

With licenses purchased for different functions and departments throughout the year, it is often quite difficult to keep track of exactly what licenses are held and when indeed they should be renewed.
In most cases, the complexity is producing either waste and redundancy (direct costs) and lack of simplicity in management and maintenance (indirect costs).

Are you UNDER licensed?
  • Your organisation is no longer compliant with their licensing agreement, and could potentially incur legal proceedings if not rectified!
  • You are putting your organisation at risk!
Are you OVER licensed?
  • Your organisation might be paying for support on old licenses you no longer require!
  • Recent versions or modules might provide license fees that you can avoid!
  • You might increase your operational efficiency by restructuring your licences!
What does the service offer?
  • DSP produce a bespoke report detailing a company-wide licence register
  • DSP use systemic scripts to gather your current Oracle utilisation
  • DSP will compare utilisation against actual licenses
  • DSP advise how old metrics can be migrated to current metrics
  • DSP provide a quarterly ongoing service whereby update your Oracle software assets
  • DSP offering will include recommendations on current and future licensing
  • DSP resolve any support lapse or where any licenses have expired on your behalf

DSP provide a commercial and technical review that you can present to Oracle to demonstrate your SAM compliance – we also establish the right licensing solution as your business needs change, we'll not only assess your current needs, we'll consider your former licenses and future requirements.

Why DSP?
  • DSP are independent of the Oracle Corporation but use Oracle Methodologies
  • DSP will make sure your organisation is correctly licensed
  • DSP have a deep understanding of Oracle licensing and support policies
  • DSP have real life experience in providing license upgrades and migrations
  • DSP use proven strategies for attaining the highest possible discount
  • DSP will fulfill any negotiation with Oracle
  • DSP are experienced in license reviews both covering E-business Suite and core technology
  • DSP has real life experience producing Oracle license reviews

  DSP will maintain and manage your software change processes and enable your organisations software policy to be correctly maintained and remain compliant.

For further information please contact DSP to discuss any Licencing issues or questions that you may have.

DSP UTILISE AND UNDERSTAND THE ORACLE LICENCE METRIC AND WORK WITHIN THE LICENSING FRAMEWORK AND LEGAL GUIDELINES SET BY ORACLE CORPORATION