Oracle software underpins critical operations for many enterprises and with that importance comes significant, ongoing, investment. Yet maximising the value of Oracle assets while controlling cost and reducing license risk is notoriously complex. Most organisations need expert support to navigate Oracle licensing effectively.
That’s where KPMG comes in. With decades of hands‑on SAM experience and a global team of Oracle licensing specialists, we’ll help provide options to manage your Oracle estate - bringing clarity to grey areas, reducing financial exposure, and enabling confident, data‑driven decisions.
Why Oracle licensing demands specialist support
Oracle licensing can be complex. Its metrics, rules, and contractual constructs have evolved over many years, and even experienced IT teams can struggle to interpret them consistently. Factors such as core‑based calculations, virtualisation, cloud usage rights, and the activation of additional features all interact in ways that are often difficult to navigate without specialist expertise.
Organisations can be faced with challenges such as:
When these complexities are misunderstood, the impact can be significant - unexpected license exposure, unexpected renewal costs, sub‑optimal cloud decisions, and prolonged audit or internal assurance activity. Even well‑intentioned deployment choices can introduce risk if they’re not assessed with an Oracle‑specific lens.
This isn’t a reflection of poor practice by customers; Oracle’s licensing framework can be intricate. That is why many organisations look for specialist support - to make sure they interpret their rights accurately, manage risk proactively, and make confident decisions.
Our Oracle SAM services
KPMG provides end‑to‑end SAM services for Oracle, designed to protect value, reduce risk, and enable better IT and commercial decisions.
1. Oracle Licensing Baseline & Effective License Position (ELP)
A comprehensive, expert validated, view of your current license position across Oracle Database, Fusion Middleware, and Java product lines, including options/packs. This service can be delivered in conjunction with Oracle VSAM.
2. Ongoing Oracle SAM Managed Services
Continuous delivery of Oracle baselines and reporting through market‑leading, Oracle‑verified third‑party SAM tooling, e.g., Flexera (verified for DB/FMW/Java/EBS) and ServiceNow GLAS data collection patterns (where appropriate).
3. License Risk Mitigation
Specialist support to prepare for and respond to Oracle engagements - ensuring accuracy, control, and commercial protection.
What is Oracle VSAM?
Oracle ‘Verified Software Asset Management’ (VSAM) is a voluntary, advisory program covering Oracle Database, Fusion Middleware, and E‑Business Suite. It enables proactive license governance and provides additional transparency and assurance.
As an Oracle VSAM partner, KPMG maintains continuous certification with Oracle, ensuring our services and professionals operate in line with Oracle’s licensing expectations. This ongoing assurance reinforces our commitment to service excellence, trusted delivery, and consistently high levels of client satisfaction.
Incremental Benefits of VSAM
- Participation in the program is arranged via KPMG, communication to Oracle only occurs once you are ready to notify them of your interest.
- Audit reprieve eligibility, upon approval from Oracle, you can benefit from a rolling 12‑month audit exemption for VSAM‑covered products once your baseline is complete.
- Entitlement transparency, program participants can request a comprehensive, Oracle‑validated, view of all historical license purchases across their organisation.
- Verified expertise and GLAS access, alongside KPMG expertise, we can access Oracle internal solution experts for fast, clear, guidance.
- Advisory, remediation‑friendly program, KPMG services help you focus on both license optimisation and collaborative resolution of license risk.
- Confidence through repeatability, KPMG’s ongoing services maintain an annual baseline giving you durable control, visibility, and a rolling review of any audit reprieve.
Turn insight into action
Our high‑quality, VSAM‑aligned, Oracle baselines and our ongoing license optimisation services, provide trustworthy data to inform decisions and take meaningful action.
- Establish sustainable processes, build repeatable, well‑governed processes, with the right tooling, to track entitlements versus deployment, consistently and accurately.
- Optimise and remediate, identify cost‑saving opportunities, close compliance gaps, and advance licensing strategies – right size, rationalise, and reclaim, including review of virtualised deployments, providing support on soft and hard partitioned environments.
- Plan for cloud, prepare for OCI, multi-cloud, and other transformations with deployment and contract optimisation that reduces risk and improves ROI.
- Strengthen relationships, engage proactively with a verified partner in an advisory capacity — VSAM is a support service, not an audit.
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