The Oracle audit you fear was written into the contract you signed.
We are the licensing advisors who used to sit on the other side of the table. Ex-Oracle LMS. Independent. Quiet. We protect your position before it becomes a line item on the board pack.
You did not become CIO to read
ordering documents at midnight.
Four conversations we have, almost weekly, with leaders running enterprise software estates.
An Oracle audit notice just hit your desk.
LMS reviews routinely surface 7- and 8-figure exposure on VMware, named-user metrics, options & packs, and indirect access. The clock starts the moment you respond.
Your ULA is renewing — and you can't read the room.
Unlimited Licence Agreements look elegant on paper and behave brutally at certification. Without an exit plan twelve months out, leverage is gone.
Cloud spend has overtaken the on-prem budget it was meant to replace.
M365 E5 seats handed to every contractor. OCI credits expiring unused. Azure BYOL paid for and then paid for again. AWS Oracle workloads running unauthorised. The story is the same — opaque metrics, shadow IT, and a 25–40% over-spend hiding in the renewal line.
Nobody owns the licence position.
IT, procurement and finance each hold a fragment. The real entitlement picture lives in PDFs, ordering documents and tribal knowledge — until it doesn't.
What we do, narrowly and deeply.
Six engagement modes. Oracle is the home court — software licensing is the discipline.
Oracle Audit Defense
End-to-end LMS / GLAS audit response. Scripts review, data scoping, evidence framing, and negotiation of the final compliance position.
- LMS Collection Tool review
- Findings rebuttal
- Settlement strategy
License Optimisation
Right-size processor counts, partitioning, options & packs and named-user metrics. Recover budget without breaching policy.
- Soft & hard partitioning
- Options usage scan
- Metric conversion
Contract & ULA Negotiation
ULA / PULA / ELA structuring, certification planning and renewal leverage. Get the contract you should have signed the first time.
- ULA entry & exit
- Renewal negotiation
- Custom T&Cs
Compliance Review
Independent Effective Licence Position (ELP) — built the way LMS would build it, before LMS does. Same forensic method across Microsoft, SAP, IBM and VMware. No surprises, no exposure.
- ELP build-out
- Risk heatmap
- Remediation roadmap
Cloud Licensing & BYOL
OCI, AWS, Azure and GCP. Authorised cloud rules, BYOL conversions, and Java SE Universal Subscription strategy.
- BYOL strategy
- Java SE subscription
- OCI credit modelling
Any Software Licensing Challenge
Microsoft, SAP, IBM, VMware and beyond. Wherever the metric is opaque and the exposure is real, we read the contract you signed.
- SAM strategy
- Vendor negotiations
- Pre-acquisition due diligence
Four steps. No theatre.
Discovery
A 45-minute confidential call. You describe the position, the trigger, the deadline. We tell you — directly — whether we can help.
Diagnostic
We build an Effective Licence Position the way Oracle LMS builds it. Numbers, not narratives. Delivered in 10 working days.
Strategy
Audit defense plan, ULA exit plan, optimisation plan — whichever is needed. With named owners, sequenced actions, and target outcomes.
Execution
We sit alongside your team at the negotiation table or in the audit response. Quietly. Until the position is closed.
Every quarter you delay an
ELP review, the exposure compounds.
An Oracle compliance gap caught twelve months early is a budget conversation. Caught at audit, it is a board conversation. The mechanics do not change — the leverage does.
Ex-Oracle LMS.
No agenda but yours.
Most licensing advisors learn the rules from the outside. I wrote scoping documents for a living — inside Oracle's License Management Services. I know exactly which scripts produce which findings, which contract clauses are negotiable, and which are theatre.
Advalora exists because every CIO I meet on the audit side asks the same question, in some form: “Why didn't someone tell us this twelve months ago?”
We are small by design. You will not be handed off to a delivery team. You work with the person who wrote the methodology — and the email gets answered the same day.
Questions we get, weekly.
45 minutes.
Confidential.
No obligation.
Share what's on your desk. We'll tell you — honestly — whether we can move the needle, and how.