Certero Datacenter Management

Optimize your Datacenter applications with Certero’s dedicated discovery & license management solutions.

Your Oracle investment doesn’t stop at Databases, neither should your SAM and compliance tools.

Certero for Oracle addresses two major technology governance concerns: it helps you both respond to/defend against and manage Oracle compliance audits and optimize your global Oracle spend across Databases, Middleware and E-Business Suite environments.

Unlike most Oracle license compliance alternatives, Certero for Oracle covers your entire Oracle estate, including software installed on Windows, Linux and Unix devices. It provides coverage of application server Middleware products (WebLogic Server, SOA Suite) and has inbuilt functionality to apply vendor rules and policies automatically.

An Oracle LMS/GLAS Verified Solution

The Certero for Oracle product is verified by Oracle License Management Services to provide information that Oracle will accept whenever accurate measurement data is required. This verified status has been achieved by Certero in three categories:

Being a verified 3rd party toolset means that Oracle’s audit team can accept data from Certero for Oracle during an official audit, as an alternative to installing Oracle License Management measurement tools.

Certero for Oracle gives you constant clarity and understanding over your Oracle estate, enabling proactive management of Oracle license compliance, costs and strategy. It also means you’re fully informed during the audit processes, with full visibility of data being submitted.

Why Certero for Oracle is right for you:

Flexible deployment options

SaaS, On-Premises or hybrid, you choose

Implemented in minutes, not months

Act now, get results now

Covers all Oracle software across all platforms

Server and Cloud in a single solution

Irrefutable Oracle license compliance evidence

Never lose an argument with Oracle auditors!

Part of the Certero Unified Platform for SAM

One UI for all management reports and dashboards

ISO 27001 Certified

Certero embeds security into every solution, ensuring safer, more reliable IT and software management.

Take control of your Oracle licensing across all platforms and locations

Certero for Oracle works independently, giving full visibility of Oracle environments and enabling complete ELP and optimisation support.

Certero for Oracle will help you scope your entire Oracle estate by finding all instances of Database, Middleware and E-Business Suite deployments. Full support for Windows, Sun Solaris, Linux, HP-UX and IBM AIX  

Understanding the full inventory of the Oracle estate is vital to compliance and optimization. Certero for Oracle provides unparalleled inventory for Oracle instances, including:  

  • Full hardware and virtualization configuration  
  • Identifies enabled licensable and non-licensable Options and Management Packs 

Certero for Oracle supports Oracle-specific licensing rules, automatically applying criteria such as core factors and product minimums. It even explains what Oracle license compliance calculations have been applied and why.  

Migrations and product replacements can be tracked over time, providing a rich history to support current Effective License Positions and decision-making around Oracle license optimization.   

  • Supports Oracle Unlimited License Agreements (ULAs)  
  • Automatically calculates processor core factors 
  • Tracks and applies product minimums  
  • Dynamically manages named users  
  • Used by Certero consultants as part of Oracle ELP & Optimization Service 

Certero for Oracle takes the strain out of creating and maintaining Oracle Server Worksheets (OSWs), automatically gathering, processing and presenting all the data into a dynamic OSW that can be viewed or submitted to LMS or an external auditor at any time.

Certero for Oracle will help you manage your Oracle instances in virtual environments, tracking relationships between instances, virtual machines and physical hardware.

Hard and soft partitioning is automatically identified and licensing rules applied correctly.

Changes to the virtual environment are tracked and the Effective License Position is updated automatically.

See what our customers say

IT Asset Manager
“Certero for Oracle was extremely easy and quick to deploy. ELPs can be created in real-time and the easy to use reports mean that management information is readily accessible”
Knowledge Specialist
“The product provides an in-depth deep dive of our licencing data to give the organisation a truly effective licencing position report.”

Certero for SAP

Automating repetitive manual tasks

Certero for SAP Applications takes the complexity out of SAP licensing by making it easy to gather, analyse and present the data you need to understand real usage and ensure your SAP estate is fully optimised. With Certero’s dedicated solution in your corner, you’ll never be unprepared for a licensing conversation with SAP again.

The platform significantly reduces the manual effort required to assess your licensing position by automatically analysing all deployed SAP systems and consolidating the results into a single, easy-to-understand view.

By removing the confusion around SAP licensing, Certero gives you control over a major area of spend—empowering you to optimise usage, reduce costs, and maintain continuous compliance.

ISO 27001 Certified

Certero is committed to assuring your security, which is why Information Security Management is embedded as part of our culture. From the board down, our continually tested processes help customers have safer, more reliable IT hardware, Software, SaaS and Cloud solutions and Services.

Flexible deployment, faster results

Certero for SAP Applications can be provisioned in public or private Cloud, on-premises or any hybrid combination, with full functionality and no compromise. Cloud deployments can be implemented in minutes, not months, helping you meet your objectives quicker and deliver value faster than you can with any rival solutions.

All reporting and analysis is performed outside of SAP, removing any risk of affecting business-critical systems. Certero for SAP Applications works holistically and optimally with all Certero products via the Certero Unified Platform, comprising one single data source, one UI and one UX.

Key features of Certero for SAP Applications

With Certero for SAP Applications helping you manage your SAP investmentsyou can rest easy and safe in the knowledge that there will not be any nasty surprises in your discussions with SAP. You will never be unprepared for a licensing conversation with SAP again. 

No risk to SAP systems

Certero for SAP Applications doesn’t require local installation on your SAP systems, removing any risk of disruption to critical operations. It uses SAP’s standard interfaces to extract data safely, with no impact. Data collection can be scheduled to suit your business needs without affecting performance.

In-depth SAP usage & licensing analysis

Certero uses a rule-driven, data-rich method to assign the right Named User license types. Owners can be linked to risks or actions. Role and authorisation analysis helps uncover conflicts. Rules are simple to create but support complex license definitions based on your SAP contracts.

In-built SAP licensing reporting

Interactive, customisable dashboards give teams flexible access to SAP data and licensing insights. Reports can be tailored by location or organisational structure to support internal cost allocation and planning, helping you visualise SAP use and licensing clearly across your entire business.

Authorisations & risk

Certero enables fast, automated viewing of SAP user authorisations. See detailed role and transaction activity by user, helping uncover risks and conflicts of interest. The system alerts you to any violations, so actions can be taken quickly to maintain control and compliance.

Certero for IBM

Business benefits

Many businesses are required to run IBM’s License Metric Tool (ILMT), but ensuring it’s fully deployed and up to date can be tricky. Certero for IBM helps verify ILMT coverage, uncover gaps, and simplify complex licensing, giving you clarity and control to stay compliant and cut costs. It’s all part of Certero’s unified IT management platform.

Maintain IBM License Compliance

Reduce Management Overheads

Cost-Reducing IBM License Optimizations

Verify ILMT

Certero for IBM offers much more than your average IBM software license management solution

It automatically discovers IBM applications across all platforms, so you can validate whether ILMT is accurately deployed. It generates an accurate IBM Effective License Position (ELP) using approved ILMT inventory data. The IBM ELP allows the identification of infrastructure optimization opportunities to realize true cost savings by reducing overall license consumption.

Organizations with complex data center environments use Certero for IBM because it is:

Visualize your IBM license compliance position

Whether you have an in-house IBM licensing team or if you’d prefer to leverage Certero’s IBM licensing experts to help you to establish your compliance position; generating your Effective License Position (ELP) within Certero for IBM gives you longevity.

Certero for IBM can maintain live visibility of your IBM license compliance position as your estate changes, reducing the overhead of re-generating a compliance position and moving to a more accurate and realistic ‘live’ view of your IBM consumption and compliance – just maintain it as you buy fresh licenses.

Validate ILMT for safer decision making

Certero for IBM makes your verification, auditing and reporting on ILMT much clearer and easier, giving you live validation of the health of your ILMT deployment and that the information you’re seeing is correct, including:

Remove complexity and risk at every step

Reporting on compliance is an essential indicator, but knowledge of what needs to change and being able to act is where business value is attained. Certero for IBM breaks down the barriers between being informed and being able to resolve issues, such as:

Gap Analysis – Certero’s own inventory can find indicators of where IBM may be deployed across your IT estate – highlighting where ILMT should be deployed, not just where it already is deployed.

Required Quantities – If you’re under-licensed, Certero for IBM’s compliance screen enables a drill-down capability into the licenses required including a detailed breakdown of the virtual machines and hosts that make up this position, giving you all the intelligence you need to make optimization decisions.

Product-to-bundle reconciliation

Certero for IBM makes it easier than ever to reconcile IBM software and to map relationships between individual products and commercial bundles. This saves many hours of error-prone manual effort. To assist with this, a hyperlink through to the relevant IBM product License Information (LI) document is included so the user can be sure that any bundling is done correctly per the published IBM documentation.

IBM entitlement clarity

IBM license entitlements can be captured, processed and reconciled against inventoried software usage. Full IBM software license management capabilities include downloading and importing Passport Advantage agreements, automatically calculating start and end date of maintenance agreements, capturing PO and other supplier or procurement information. The result is a fully informed, accurate view of entitlement as well as important information such as PVU values.

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