Global Licensing and Advisory Services

Global Licensing and Advisory Services work with customers to understand their Oracle licensing investment in new ways, discover insights, and unlock endless possibilities that provide business value. To help us to support customers in making informed decisions we often look to provide customers with insight and visibility into their Oracle software deployments. We do this by using our in-house tools to collect information and by also working with third-party tool vendors to capture information.

GLAS In-House Tools

We continue to develop our own in-house analysis and technical tools which will help identify where products are being deployed and used on a customer's Oracle estate. Depending on the requirements we work with our customers to define the option best-suited to their specific environment, utilizing a range of capabilities and tools that include:

• Standalone queries —product-specific measurement options that provide a simple, nonintrusive way to extract information
• Oracle Collection Tool—detects and collects usage information
• Oracle Server Worksheet—a declaration of Oracle products customers have installed

GLAS Verified Third-Party Tool Vendors

We work with third-party tool vendors to enable them to accurately capture usage information relating to Oracle products.

Tools from the following vendors have been verified to provide accurate deployment information. It's important to note that the scope of the verification process only covers the information collection related to the installation and usage of specific Oracle products.

The verification does not include any other Oracle products or the overall capabilities of the vendor’s solution. Oracle will accept data from any of these tools as an alternative to running the Oracle Collection Tool. Usage information gathered from these tools will need to be analyzed by Oracle to determine deployment, usages and license requirements.