Overview
Oracle licensing is a minefield, and the penalties for stepping on one are brutal. The rules change constantly, the interpretations are often contested, and a surprise audit can cost millions of dollars. Even well meaning IT teams routinely fall out of compliance through actions as innocent as spinning up a new virtual machine, installing a diagnostic pack, or moving a workload to new hardware.
Viscosity Technology’s Oracle License Protection service, powered by our partnership with License Fortress, gives you something rare in the Oracle world. Indemnified protection. Not just advice. Not just an optimization report. Actual financial backing if something goes wrong during an audit.
- Full Oracle footprint discovery
- Named user vs processor analysis
- Options and packs audit
- Oracle on VMware compliance review
- Java SE risk review
- Cloud BYOL strategy
The Audit Reality
Oracle License Management Services audits have increased sharply in recent years, and Oracle’s leverage during an audit is enormous. Customers facing a surprise audit often receive a true up bill in the tens of millions, and most have no clear idea how to push back.
The result is panicked negotiation, emergency ULA purchases, and budget explosions that nobody saw coming. License Protection flips the script. We proactively manage your Oracle footprint, document every deployment decision, and put contractual indemnification behind our work.
Your Path Through Protection
License Health Check
Two to four weeks of discovery, gap analysis, and a remediation plan you can act on immediately.
Remediation
Four to eight weeks closing gaps, optimizing the footprint, and recovering value from shelfware.
Continuous Protection
Annual subscription with ongoing monitoring and License Fortress indemnification active at all times.
The License Fortress Advantage
License Fortress is the only service in the Oracle ecosystem that combines proactive license management with contractual indemnification. Viscosity Technology is proud to partner with License Fortress to bring this protection to our customers. When you engage us for License Protection, you get our hands on Oracle technical expertise, the audit defense and indemnification coverage that only License Fortress provides, and a single point of contact on our side who coordinates both worlds so you never have to.
The result is that you stop worrying about Oracle audits, and your finance team stops setting aside contingency budgets for licensing surprises that may or may not happen.
Why Viscosity Technology
As an Oracle strategic partner with decades of deep technical expertise, we know exactly where compliance risks hide in real world Oracle deployments, because we have built those deployments ourselves. Our partnership with License Fortress means we do not just hand you advice and wish you luck. We hand you protection you can put in the bank.
Who This Is For
This service is for any organization with a significant Oracle footprint across database, middleware, Java, or applications. It is especially valuable for companies that have been audited before, or companies that have a strong feeling they might be next. It fits organizations going through cloud migrations, mergers and acquisitions, or infrastructure consolidation where licensing exposure tends to balloon quietly. And it fits finance teams that are simply tired of treating Oracle licensing as an uncontrolled budget risk.