Know your position before the vendor tells you theirs
An audit notice isn't the time to start counting. LICENSEWARE reconciles your entitlements against real deployment data to produce a defensible Effective License Position, with virtualization mapped the way each vendor actually counts it.
The problem
Compliance gaps are invisible until someone counts them
Vendor audits reward the side with better data. The exposure is usually buried in the rules each vendor enforces, never reconciled against your entitlements until it's too late.
VMware soft partitioning
Oracle licenses every physical host in the cluster, not the VM. Sub-cluster pinning isn't recognized.
Per-employee Java
Java SE is priced per total employee count, so a single developer's install can trigger a company-wide license.
Found too late
Gaps surface only after the audit letter, with weeks to assemble a position from never-reconciled inventory.
How it works
A defensible position, built from your own data
Baseline what you own. Measure what you run. Reconcile the two into a position every figure can be traced back to.
Upload contracts and entitlements. The recognition engine normalizes product names and metrics into a clean, de-duplicated owned-license baseline.
Vendor-specific apps calculate true license requirements from deployment data, with infrastructure and virtualization mapped to the rules each vendor enforces.
Entitlements are mapped against requirements into an Effective License Position. NEO answers vendor scenarios on the spot so you respond with confidence.
The apps that do the work
Entitlement and deployment, reconciled per vendor
Audit defense needs both sides of the equation. LCM baselines what you own, the deployment managers measure what you run, and the ELP falls out of the match.
License and Contracts Manager
Builds the entitlement baseline for Oracle and Microsoft: Oracle products segregated by metric (Processor, Named User Plus, Application User), the MLS and entitlement statements turned into a structured license inventory, and both reconciled against ODBM, OMWM and MDM usage into the end-to-end Effective License Position.
Oracle Database Manager
Determines Oracle Database usage and license requirements from LMS scripts and deployment data, including options and packs, and supplies the deployment side of the Oracle ELP.
Oracle Middleware Manager
Automates analysis of WebLogic and Fusion Middleware usage, bundling, and license requirements, closing the middleware blind spot that drives surprise findings in Oracle audits.
Oracle Java Deployment Manager
Surfaces every Java version, edition, and component installed, with requirements made explicit, essential under Oracle's per-employee Java SE Universal Subscription model.
Microsoft Deployment Manager
Automates Microsoft license requirement analysis, including the SQL Server and Windows Server core and topology detail that determines a defensible true-up position.
Red Hat Deployment Manager
Assesses RHEL subscription usage and surfaces compliance gaps and unmanaged distributions, quantifying both historical exposure and future risk.
Infrastructure Mapper
Maps virtualization and host topology so cluster-level licensing, the single biggest Oracle-on-VMware exposure, is calculated correctly rather than assumed.
Works alongside
What you get
Ready before the letter arrives
A position you can stand behind, with the evidence trail to back every number.
ELP
Effective License Position
Entitlements reconciled against deployments per vendor, with every number traceable to source data.
40
Procs, not guesses
Oracle-on-VMware cluster licensing and host topology calculated to the rules vendors enforce.
$385K
Exposure quantified
Historical and forward subscription gaps surfaced and risk-ranked, from a sample RHEL report.
Proof
What customers say
The tools are great at ingesting data from many different sources, so no matter where you can get data from, you get actionable results that let you make informed decisions in both audit defence and risk mitigation.
Build your ELP on your own data
Reconcile entitlements against deployments and get an audit-ready position in days. Pay only for what you analyze.
Plans
Pricing that scales
with your estate
Start with one-off analysis, move to a subscription as your needs grow. Pick what you use, pay only for what you need.
PAYG
Pay as you go
From
one-off
- Consumption-based pricing
- Any apps or all apps, on-demand
- Volume discount applicable
Core
For all estates
Minimum 500 devices
per year
- LCM: contract and license management
- SIM: software inventory analysis
- NEO: instant answers to licensing questions
- Collector: API connectors for any data source
Advanced
For complex estates
Minimum 500 devices
Custom
via partner or direct
- Everything from the Core plan
- Advanced analysis for complex vendors
- Extended support by SAM experts
Volume discounts and multi-year terms available — tell us about your estate.
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