FlexNet Manager for Oracle is a software asset management solution that helps organizations ensure license compliance and optimize their investment in Oracle software. It discovers, inventories, and analyzes Oracle deployments to compare usage to license entitlements. It supports common Oracle licensing models like processor-based and named user plus. The solution provides automated license optimization and reporting to help reduce noncompliance risks and software costs.

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FlexNet Manager for Oracle
Ensure license compliance and maximize the return on your Oracle investment
With about 48% of the market, Oracle®
is the
industry’s most popular database by more than a
two and a half to one margin1
. Unfortunately, many
Oracle customers are struggling to track their Oracle
license entitlements, resulting in ‘shelfware’ or
difficulty complying with the terms of their software
license agreements. Oracle software can easily be
installed without IT oversight or approval creating
the risk of unintentionally using more installations
than were purchased. This inevitably results in time-
consuming audits and unexpected bills.
Flexera Software advances the maturity of existing
software asset management (SAM) programs
by delivering an automated, flexible framework
for Oracle license optimization, far beyond the
capabilities of traditional SAM solutions.
With FlexNet Manager for Oracle, businesses
can easily and accurately determine their
license compliance position for critical Oracle
applications, including:
• Database
• E-Business Suite
• Siebel
• WebLogic
• Tuxedo
• And more…
FlexNet Manager for Oracle is part of the FlexNet
Manager Suite for Enterprises offering. FlexNet
Manager Suite helps businesses optimize licenses
and maintain compliance to reduce costs across a
wide range of applications and complex licensing
models for thousands of vendors including the
most popular ones such Microsoft, Adobe, IBM,
Symantec, Oracle, SAP, and more than 20,000
engineering applications.
Oracle Discovery, Inventory and
License Compliance
FlexNet Manager for Oracle discovers and
inventories Oracle deployments across your
enterprise and compares installation and usage data
with your organization’s contract terms, delivering
a comprehensive license compliance summary.
Both agentless and agent-based technologies are
provided by Flexera Software to collect inventory
across Windows, Linux, UNIX, and Mac devices,
making a patchwork quilt of ad hoc inventory
solutions unnecessary.
Oracle uses two primary licensing models to
determine license entitlement for its database
instances and options: Processor-based and Named
User Plus. Both of these license types have a
complex set of rules that define the associated cost
of access. The Processor-based model determines
license cost based on the number of processor
cores in the computer hardware running an
Oracle database instance, with different
multipliers for different vendors’ processors.
These multipliers are specified in Oracle’s
published Core Factor Table.
Named User Plus (NUP) licensing provides license
entitlement based on the number of unique
users and/or non-human devices that access
a database. In other words, each and every user—
human or machine—that ever accesses a
database instance is required to have a license,
even for very rare access. This licensing model is
further complicated by the NUP minimum of either
5 or 25 users per processor. This provision means
that if the number of named users is less than per
processor minimum, then the minimum is enforced.
This complicates the calculation of your Oracle
license position.
Benefits to
Your Organization
• Reduce unplanned
software expenses with
a solution verified by
Oracle
• Automate your
Oracle discovery and
inventory process across
Windows, Linux and
UNIX platforms
• Accurately calculate
Oracle license
consumption even when
utilizing virtualization,
hard partitioning and
clustering technologies
• Employ industry-first
‘What If’ Analysis
to predict impact of
software and hardware
changes on license
position
• Proactively address
license compliance
issues
• Conduct informed
vendor negotiations and
software purchases
• Accurately budget for
future software needs
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2. Without an automated license management solution, Oracle
database administrators must rely on knowledge of both
the systems and the user community to manage license
compliance. Oracle licensing rules require the administrator
to: maintain knowledge of the relationship between number
of system CPUs and users; track the use of database options;
identify the edition of Oracle software; and make sure
that all instances—both test and production—are
properly licensed.
There is often a disconnect between procurement, IT,
and end users, making it is easy to violate contract terms.
By installing items that fall outside of the original contract,
such as options that can double the cost of a database
installation, organizations create financial liabilities that
are not uncovered until the next contract renewal or
software audit.
There are many ways to deviate from contract and
business policies:
• Unaccounted processors running Oracle in development,
test, or disaster recovery environments
• Being licensed for the wrong edition of Oracle
• Violating terms of an embedded Oracle license or a
license bundled with a third party tool
• Providing application access to more users or
devices than intended
Many organizations try to address these issues by manually
gathering the necessary information. This diverts resources
from other essential tasks and can require an unacceptable
amount of time and effort to manually inventory an Oracle
environment and then reconcile the deployment data with
complex licensing entitlements.
Making matters worse, IT organizations will inevitably
experience multiple events that impact their Oracle license
position such as:
• Changes to the corporate structure and workforce size
through recruitment, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures
• Changes to the hardware environment such as additional
servers and/or processors or consolidation of servers
through virtualization
• Deployment of new software products
A manual approach to this complex, constantly changing
problem does not scale or adequately meet the needs of
the business.
FlexNet Manager for Oracle’s discovery and inventory of
Oracle databases includes the collection of information on
options installed and in use for a given database instance.
Flexera Software’s Oracle solution has been verified by Oracle
License Management Services (LMS), which determined that it
provides ‘detailed and accurate’ reports on Oracle database
installations and usage. FlexNet Manager for Oracle reports
will be accepted by Oracle LMS during a software audit.
Customers no longer need to rely solely on Oracle LMS scripts
and ad hoc tools to provide Oracle with software license
compliance information.
FlexNet Manager for Oracle also supports the commonly
used Oracle license models, including Processor and Named
User Plus, and has built-in knowledge of core factors and
per processor NUP minimums to automatically calculate
an accurate license position. In addition, an industry-first
‘What If’ Analysis feature allows organizations to see the
impact of hardware, software and virtual machine changes
on their Oracle Processor license position, before the
changes are actually made. Actions such as modifying
hardware properties, moving virtual machines across hosts
or installations of new software titles can be simulated,
providing a projected license position and financial
impact that reflects these changes. This allows
organizations to proactively maintain license compliance,
reducing software cost and license liability risk in today’s
dynamic IT environments.
Managing Oracle Applications in Virtual Environments
Oracle generally doesn’t provide subcapacity licensing of its
database products in soft partitioning technologies such as
VMware. In this case, the full capacity of the server or cluster
must be licensed (for processor based licensing). For hard
partitioning technologies (e.g. LPAR, vPar, SOLARIS Zones,
etc.), only the partitions allocated to Oracle must be licensed.
Trying to manually keep track of Oracle software running in
virtual environments is very difficult and can result in errors.
FlexNet Manager for Oracle applies Oracle’s hard and soft
partitioning licensing rules right out of the box, enabling
organizations to avoid potentially costly mistakes.
FlexNet Manager for Oracle Product Use Rights Library
The FlexNet Manager for Oracle Product Use Rights Library
makes calculating an accurate Oracle license position a
snap by providing up-to-date information on vendor-specific
license entitlements (product use rights) such as processor core
factors and NUP licensing minimums. These licensing rules are
automatically applied by the FlexNet Manager for Oracle
license optimization engine. This streamlines the process
of maintaining license compliance—reducing the risk of a
software audit, and allows organizations to optimize their
investment in Oracle software.

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Enable a More Effective Procurement Process
With reports provided by FlexNet Manager for Oracle,
organizations gain a complete understanding of their
actual licensing needs and empower procurement with
data to support fact-based contract negotiations, avoid the
excess costs of over-licensing and make informed decisions
regarding support renewals. With greater insight into your
Oracle license position, software usage and usage trends,
you and your team can better plan and budget for future
software purchases.
About Flexera Software
Flexera Software is the leading provider of strategic solutions
for Application Usage Management; solutions delivering
continuous license compliance, optimized usage and
maximized value to application producers and enterprises.
Flexera Software is trusted by more than 80,000 customers
that depend on our comprehensive solutions - from installation
and licensing, entitlement and compliance management to
application readiness and Software License Optimization
- to strategically manage application usage and achieve
breakthrough results realized only through the systems-level
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