GLAS Tooling
Oracle Global Licensing Advisory Services (GLAS) aims to provide customers with tools that provide insight and visibility into their Oracle software deployments. We do this by ensuring our customers have a variety of options available through our own Oracle tools or through options provided by our partnership with strategic Oracle Verified Tool Vendors.
Powering Your Insights
As part of our strategic commitment to helping each customer understand their deployed Oracle estate, Oracle Global Licensing Advisory Services (GLAS) aims to provide customers with tools that provide insight and visibility into their Oracle software deployments. We do this by ensuring our customers have a variety of options available through our own Oracle tools or through options provided by our partnership with strategic Oracle Verified Tool Vendors. GLAS’ mission is to work with customers to help them understand their Oracle licensing investment in new ways, discover insights, and unlock a variety of possibilities to provide business value. Our goal is simple: to help and support customers in making informed decisions.
Oracle GLAS Tools
The Oracle Collection Tool has been designed and built by GLAS with the capability to provide customers a detailed evaluation of their Oracle software usage. GLAS continues to develop our own in-house analysis and technical tools, which help identify where Oracle products are deployed and in use in a customer's Oracle environment. Depending on the requirements, we work with our customers to determine the options best suited to their specific needs, utilizing a range of capabilities and tools that include:
- Oracle Collection Tool - a series of programs that run in the customer’s Oracle estate and collect Oracle product usage information that can be analyzed to illustrate what Oracle programs are in use by the customer.
- Oracle Global Deployment Matrix – an online form that guides the customer on how to catalog and provide an overview of the Oracle programs in use.
Vendor Tools
Customers often choose to work with Third Party Software Asset Management (SAM) Tool Vendors to support them with their overall software asset management strategies. Third Party Tool Vendors offer customers independence, experience, flexibility, and in-house tooling capabilities that supports the management of an Oracle environment.
GLAS’ partnerships with Third Party Tool Vendors, which includes verification that their tools provide accurate Oracle usage data, provides customers with confidence that any verified tools they are using accurately collect software deployment information relating to Oracle products. It is important to note that the scope of the verification process only covers a tool’s usage data related to specific Oracle products. Once the usage data has been extracted, the customer will work with their Tool Vendor and GLAS contact on creating an analysis. Tools from the following vendors have been verified to provide accurate software usage data for the following products.
See below:
| 3rd Party Tool Vendors | Vendors Verified for Oracle Database and Database Options | Vendors Verified for Oracle Fusion Middleware | Vendors Verified for Java SE | Vendors Verified for E-Business Suite |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Certero | yes |
yes |
yes |
no |
| CloudSphere | yes |
yes |
yes |
no |
| Eracent | yes |
yes |
yes |
no |
| Flexera | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| HCL | yes |
no |
yes |
no |
| Lime Software | yes |
yes |
yes |
no |
| Matrix42 | yes |
yes |
yes |
no |
| OpenText | yes |
no |
no |
no |
| ServiceNow | yes |
yes |
yes |
no |
| SHI | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| Snow Software | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
| USU | yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
If you are working with GLAS and are using any of the tools listed above, please ensure you bring this to the attention of your GLAS representative. This will help your GLAS representative present the tooling options available to you.
For any inquiries about becoming a Third Party Tool Vendor (3PTV) or if you have any questions regarding the Third Party Software Asset Management (SAM) Tools listed above, please contact GLAS-Partner-Global_WW@oracle.com.