An Oracle audit is a commercial exercise dressed as a compliance check. Oracle's LMS/GLAS team uses measurement scripts, contract ambiguity and licensing complexity — options and packs, virtualisation, ULAs, and the Java SE employee metric — to surface large gaps that convert into cloud or licence purchases. Our Oracle audit defense gives you ex-Oracle expertise to control the process and shrink the claim.
Scope and script control, independent measurement, and settlement on your terms — including Java and ULAs.
A formal audit starts with a notification letter under your contract's audit clause (commonly ~45 days' notice). Oracle then requests environment data and asks you to run LMS scripts. Those scripts report technical usage — including options like Partitioning, Diagnostics and Tuning Pack that are often enabled by default — and the raw output, read Oracle's way, almost always overstates your liability.
We manage the audit as a controlled project. We review the contractual basis and scope, validate what data is actually required, run and interpret the measurement ourselves, and challenge Oracle's findings where contracts, licensing rules or virtualisation (soft vs. hard partitioning) support a lower number. We then handle the commercial close — keeping any genuine shortfall out of penalty territory and negotiating it, if needed, into terms that suit you rather than Oracle's quarter-end.
Two areas drive most surprise bills: the Java SE Universal Subscription (priced per employee since 2023) and ULA certification. We assess both before they become audit findings, and defend them if they already are.
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