Find exactly how much you're overpaying for Oracle licenses.
We reconcile what you're contracted for against what's actually being used — and hand you a line-item plan to recover the difference before your next renewal.
Independent consultancy. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Oracle Corporation.
Oracle overspend is rarely intentional. It's the result of normal business change.
People leave, roles shift, and systems go unused — but the license count doesn't update automatically. By the time renewal arrives, the gap between what you're paying for and what you're using can be significant.
Inactive users still consuming licenses
Users who haven't logged in for months or years continue consuming named-user licenses across their full module footprint. Without a regular access review, this accumulates invisibly.
Terminated employees never de-provisioned
Former employees retain licensed roles after leaving. One self-service role is legitimate — the rest cost money and create access risk. HR and IT rarely see the same list.
Offboarding gaps IT can't see
Some leavers are closed in HR but the de-provisioning workflow never fires. Standard role-based detection misses them entirely — only an HR cross-reference catches them.
Everything needed to recover overspend and walk into renewal with confidence.
License analysis
We work from four standard Oracle reports you export — processed entirely offline. Every user is classified by activity and cross-referenced with HR. Savings are calculated at your actual contract rates, not list-price averages.
- Entitlement vs. usage reconciliation by SKU
- Inactive user identification and removal list
- Terminated-user licensed role audit
- HR cross-reference to catch offboarding gaps
- Per-user savings at your actual contract rates
- Renewal and true-up negotiation support
Four standard Oracle reports
You export these yourself from your Oracle environment — no agents, no credentials shared, no system access required. Everything is processed offline.
- Role-to-privilege audit
- User role membership report
- Inactive users report
- HR termination extract (BI Publisher)
Four stages, read-only throughout.
Extract
You export four standard Oracle reports. No agent, no system access, no production changes — the analysis runs entirely offline.
Map
Every privilege is matched against Oracle's official metric definitions. Each user is classified by activity and cross-referenced with HR termination records.
Model
Recoverable savings are calculated per user at your actual contract rates — not flat averages — across every affected license module.
Report
You receive an executive debrief, a per-user removal list in CSV, and a 90-day remediation roadmap ready to take into a working session with IT and HR.
Where the $3.6M came from.
Every dollar modeled at actual contract rates — not list price. From a real engagement, client anonymized.
License counting inferred from privilege assignments per Oracle's official metric definitions (F41298-49). Results vary by environment size, contract terms, and offboarding maturity. Client name withheld.
What a real license analysis finds.
Figures below are from an actual engagement, fully anonymized. Industry and client name withheld.
386 users with no login in over 365 days
Still holding licensed roles despite years of zero activity. Fix: department-head confirmation then bulk revocation via Oracle Security Console.
7,392 HR-terminated users still in billable roles
One self-service role is legitimate. The other licensed roles were never removed. Stripping them drops license consumption to zero with no HR policy change needed.
629 users terminated in HR, never de-provisioned
These users never received the terminated role — the de-provisioning workflow simply never ran. Caught only by cross-referencing HR records directly.
The 90-day remediation roadmap
Harvest the easy savings
- Confirm inactive list with department heads
- Bulk-revoke 386 inactive accounts
- Strip licensed roles from 7,392 terminated users
Close the gaps
- Verify 629 offboarding-gap users against HR
- De-provision confirmed leavers
- Classify users with no login data
Make it stick
- Automate de-provisioning in termination workflow
- Reconcile with Oracle SaaS Usage Metrics
- Schedule quarterly re-runs before renewal
About license analysis
What does a license analysis include?
Entitlement vs. usage reconciliation by SKU, inactive and terminated user identification, HR cross-reference, per-user savings at your contract rates, and a 90-day remediation roadmap.
How long does it take?
Most engagements run 3–6 weeks depending on environment size and the number of Oracle products in scope.
Will this require production changes?
No. We work from four Oracle reports you export yourself. The analysis runs entirely offline — nothing changes until you review and approve a remediation plan.
Should we do this before or after a role redesign?
Either order works. Many clients run license analysis first since the usage data often helps scope a security role redesign.
Find out what your Oracle licenses are really costing you.
A 30-minute scoping call is all it takes to understand your environment and give you a fixed-price quote.
Read-only data extract — nothing changes until you approve a plan
Fixed-price engagement — no hourly billing surprises
NDA available before any data is shared