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Innovate Software Consulting Inc Ltd., helps the clients/customers get the best price on new software licensing purchases and best value from your existing licensing scenario. Innovate Software Consulting Inc Ltd.'s Software Licensing Services provides a comprehensive overview of Oracle software licensing and pricing practices to help you optimize your Oracle licensing agreements.

Oracle has complex licensing rules which they enforce rigorously. Innovate Software Consulting Inc Ltd presents a number of Oracle license management best practices to help you control software costs, maintain license compliance, and minimize software audit risks. Maximize the return on your Oracle software investment by implementing these best practices.

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Our goal is to help you optimize your software investment by enhancing your understanding of Oracle's licensing and pricing practices. We offer our leadership for corporate best practices by making our pricing and licensing information publicly available.

Types of Oracle Licenses:

Perpetual vs. Term License

Oracle offers both term and perpetual licenses for all its products. A perpetual license is a one-time license fee that allows continued use of the software program for as long as the customer complies with all terms of the license agreement. A term license is for a specific, limited period of time, during which the user is allowed to access and use the software. At the end of the term, the user must stop using the software or extend the term or purchase new licenses through an agreement with the software vendor. Oracle offers annual term licenses for all its

products in 1-year, 2-year, 3-year, 4-year or 5-year terms. Term licenses are a percentage of the perpetual license of a given Oracle product, and the term length (i.e., 1 to 5 years) a customer chooses, determines the percentage amount.

License Metrics

Oracle’s technology products are primarily licensed using two metrics: Named User Plus or Processor. The Named User Plus metric is used in environments where users and/or devices can be easily identified and counted. The Processor metric is used in environments where users cannot be easily identified and counted.

Named User Plus Metric

This metric is used in environments where users can be identified and counted. Named User Plus includes both humans and non-human operated devices. All human users and non-human operated devices that are accessing the program must be licensed. A non-human operated device can be many things, such as, a temperature monitoring device. It is important to note that if the device is operated by a person, then this person must be licensed.

Processor Metric

This metric is mostly used in environments where the software users cannot be easily identified or counted, such as internet-based applications. The Processor metric is also used when it is more cost effective than Named User Plus licenses. All processors where the Oracle programs are installed and/or running must be licensed. The number of required licenses shall be determined by multiplying the total number of cores of the processor by a core processor licensing factor specified on the Oracle Processor Core Factor Table