Fusion5’s Oracle Software Licence Management (SLM) offering provides real and immediate value to customers by eliminating license duplication and redundancy, and ensuring up to date compliance. It also provides customers with knowledge and confidence to further their Oracle infrastructure and maximise their investments.

In today’s business environment it is more important than ever to maintain control over compliancy through governance. Once Oracle licenses are purchased, businesses are under a contractual obligation to allow Oracle to audit the license usage.

Every customer should know their license baseline; many don’t!

Fusion5’s Software License Management service has been developed to provide customers with a ‘One‐Stop Shop’ to complete a full license health‐check on their Oracle License Portfolio including:

• Oracle Technology Products
• Oracle Applications including JD Edwards, E‐Business, Primavera, Siebel, Hyperion and PeopleSoft
• Oracle Middleware.

Additionally, Fusion5 can advise on non-Oracle products like Microsoft, IBM and third party products, reviewing contracts and compliance.

Fusion5’s SLM team offers a comprehensive software licence review. Key areas that are tackled during an Oracle Software Licence review vary depending on the size and complexity of the target architecture however there are a number of common goals that all organisations wish to achieve:

• Avoid non-compliance and contractual issues
• Reduce costs by streamlining license portfolios
• Reduce the maintenance of license management
• Have flexibility for future growth
• Reduce the risk of budget overspending.

During the review of an organisations existing Oracle Licence agreements Fusion5 perform a thorough software reconciliation, report back on any immediate or longer term licence requirements and recommend how best to achieve compliance. The review process highlights Oracle software that is no longer being used but is still being maintained, sometimes with high support costs. Fusion5 can also look at ways of migrating, upgrading or cancelling software to meet immediate or future requirements, stay within budgets and control support costs.

Fusion5’s SLM team can help organisations avoid punitive measures and be fully aware of contractual obligations as well as ensuring the organisation is operating within them.

Fusion5’s service uses the knowledge and expertise of ex-Oracle auditors who with over 10 years experience can provide a total Software License Management solution.

• Health-checks The License Health-check is a full audit across Technology and Application product sets. The aim is to do a full ‘Gap Analysis’ and provide a set of professional recommendations going forward.
• Help-Desk This is our dedicated Oracle License help-line to provide information on specific issues. Whiteboard sessions, conference calls and email are all available.
• Portal An on-line license portal that enables Fusion5 to administer the license portfolio of the company.
• Boot camps Fusion5’s SLM team offer one day training courses to understand how Oracle licensing has evolved to where it is today, and where it is going tomorrow. These courses offer important information for all Procurement and IT Managers.