Oracle Audit Defense
Our team will quantify and explain your compliance risks to prepare you for an Oracle LMS audit. You can engage our audit services at any point during the process. It is never too late for us to help mitigate against expensive settlements.
Ready to step in within 24 hours
Our Oracle consultants are ready to partner with your team, joining at any stage during the audit process. Time is money; we are prepared and ready to start 24 hours after your briefing and will ensure that the audit strategy is rapidly aligned with your best interests.
The ITAA due diligence process is designed to identify potential risks before data is sent to Oracle. By taking this approach, you’ll never be surprised by what non-compliance Oracle might find.
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Oracle Audit Defense Services
A five-stage audit defense process from entitlement review through to final negotiation support.
Determine entitlement & deployment
Here we gather all evidence of license entitlement, analysing and delivering your effective entitlement position.
From there, we will identify all available sources of Oracle inventory and deployment information, reconciling the sources, determining what products are deployed on which servers and the hardware specification of those servers.
We’ll conduct a precursory, highly granular audit using Oracle’s scripts, allowing us to determine exactly how compliant you already are.
Effective License Position (ELP) and compliance report
We’ll take a deep dive into your current compliance situation. This may identify both over- and under-licensing, as per Oracle’s anticipated audit approach.
Whilst establishing your position, we will make a series of adjustments to optimize your license assignments based on Oracle licensing rules. The final workbook represents the effective license position (ELP). This will result in a comprehensive report of your current license position.
Remediation & optimization support
Even if you have limited time, your organization can create significant optimizations, helping to mitigate against any potential settlements Oracle may request.
Using our financial models, our clients are able to prioritize work that has the highest financial impacts, ensuring that no new risk is introduced during our optimization activities. This also allows us to provide a final and complete set of evidence to Oracle’s auditor, proving that your optimization efforts have been successful.
Audit coordination
We’ll ensure that you know which information is shared with Oracle, and what the information implies.
Up to this moment we have likely already provided you with key arguments to stall the auditor, providing you with ample time to remediate and optimize as much as you can before any evidence needs to be sent to Oracle, taking the pressure off your organization, aligning your teams and preparing every individual for the audit. From this point, we will help you to determine what information needs to be shared with Oracle, and assist you in providing guidance and motivation as to why you may not act upon every information request made by Oracle.
Audit negotiation
This stage is optional, and only relevant if you need to purchase any additional license assets from Oracle. During this stage we will ensure that you only negotiate for licenses that you actually need, with the best terms, and at the best price point. Any contractual provisions will be optimized to be beneficial to your organization, too.
Key benefits of our audit defense service
Control, speed, and independent expertise, from day one to final settlement.
Flexible, agile approach
We can be injected into an audit project at any stage, meaning that it’s never too late to get expert support on your side. As an agile team, we can be flexible to your needs, ensuring that you’re never left to face an audit alone.
Postpone the audit
We know the LMS audit process like the back of our hand. This allows us to stall the process and buy you precious time to remediate and optimize as much as you can before any evidence needs to be sent to Oracle.
Conduct damage control
You will not only know the outcome of the audit before Oracle does, but you will also be able to influence the outcome in your favor. With our innovative tooling and expertise, we can quickly assess and subsequently minimize the damage of any hidden current and historical product utilization.
Limit risk & financial consequences
Our independent advice ensures that you do not pay too much for your actual usage, and any financial exposure is reduced as much as possible. This helps mitigate the risk of any expensive settlements and increases in OPEX.
Guard against your future
If your organization does need to pay a settlement, we strive to tailor this investment to your future IT environment, by ensuring it fits within your medium-term IT strategy, helping to ensure that your new license solution is future proof.
Expert Oracle support
If you’re facing an imminent Oracle audit, book a call with one of our experts today. Fill out the form and we’ll be in touch within 24 hours.
