Audit Defense Oracle · Microsoft · Red Hat

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.

Reconciliation pipeline

01Baseline

Upload contracts and entitlements. The recognition engine normalizes product names and metrics into a clean, de-duplicated owned-license baseline.

02Measure

Vendor-specific apps calculate true license requirements from deployment data, with infrastructure and virtualization mapped to the rules each vendor enforces.

03Reconcile

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. Entitlement managers baseline what you own, deployment managers measure what you run, and the ELP falls out of the match.

Oracle Entitlement Manager

Builds the Oracle entitlements baseline, segregating database and non-database products by metric (Processor, Named User Plus, Application User) and generating the end-to-end Effective License Position with ODBM and OMWM usage.

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 Entitlement Manager

Converts MLS and entitlement statements into structured license inventories and Effective License Position reports, reducing audit exposure with clear visibility into what you own.

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

License & Contracts Manager

Supported Software Catalog

NEO

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.

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.

Joseph P.

IT Director

Reviewed on G2