High-End-Software-Discovery in the Datacenter and Oracle DB Software Metering 2015 nova ratio AG Page 1
The Company Profile Founded 1995 as service provider, developed in 2000 to be a solution provider Shareholders consist of managing board, private investors and the state Rhineland-Palatinate Costumers are comprised of large companies, SMEs, as well as public institutions Customer value Investment protection Integration in existing tool environment Agility Rapid adaption to future requirements Security Comprehensive and reliable information Efficiency High level of automation of IT processes Proactivity Complete data for software licensing audits / IT screening / internal due diligence / documentation / 2015 nova ratio AG Page 2
Management of Information Gathering Our Mission: We ensure in an efficient manner that our customers have up-to-date, comprehensive and reliable information about their IT landscape available at any time. The Expectation of Our Clients Smart IT Information Management 2015 nova ratio AG Page 3
Smart IT Information Management R E Q U E S T E R Tools Processes Ad Hoc High-End Data Collection Correlation & Processing Agent Collector Script SSH SNMP WMI Source Tools Manually 2015 nova ratio AG Page 4
Product Segments The nova ratio AG offers Smart IT Information Management software products in the following segments: Customer products Partner products Customized solutions based on the erunbook platform 2015 nova ratio AG Page 5
Product Portfolio Customer Products Partner Products Customized Installation and operation at the customer s site, optionally as Cloud-Service Out-of-the-Box solutions Product license without eligibility for parameterization Base Products: econfig elicense einventory emetering eassessment Options: eoracle einterface Integration into the partner s portfolio Adaption according to the partner s specifications Flexible billing models for partners Core Products: Config Data Discovery as black box solution License Data Discovery as black box solution Oracle Data Discovery as addition for black box solutions Assessment for Oracle advisors Installation and application at the customer s site Customer-specific solutions based on the erunbook-platform Platform license including the eligibility for parameterization Parameter Library: Configuration Management Software Management Audit & Compliance Security Checks Manual & Documentation 2015 nova ratio AG Page 6
Base Product: elicense elicense Software inventory of the entire IT infrastructure using the Scan Engine Product Features: Cross-platform Scan Engine Automated generated cross-vendor software directory Expandable software-detection-catalogue Change monitoring Management summary 2015 nova ratio AG Page 7
Base Product: emetering emetering Automated Oracle database license measurement using the Scan Engine Product Features: Cross-platform Scan Engine Automated generated Oracle database installation directory Database information including Management Packages and Options CPU, hardware, system and virtualization information Management summary and drill-down-navigation Comprehensive root cause analysis Export-functions: Server-worksheets, LMS-Files 2015 nova ratio AG Page 8
Base Product: eassessment eassessment Project-related Oracle database license measurement using query scripts Product Features: Provision of the erunbook query scripts and import function for the queried data, additional import function for the customer s LMS script data Database information including Management Packages and Options CPU, hardware, system and virtualization information Management summary and drill-down-navigation Comprehensive root cause analysis Export-functions: Server-worksheets, LMS-Files 2015 nova ratio AG Page 9
Option: eoracle eoracle Automated Oracle database license measurement as optional enhancement of the base products elicense and einventory Product Features: Automated import interface from elicense or einventory Database information including Management Packages and Options CPU, hardware, system and virtualization information Management summary and drill-down-navigation Comprehensive root cause analysis Export-functions: Server-worksheets, LMS-Files 2015 nova ratio AG Page 10
Option: einterface einterface Automated data interface to third-party software-tools as optional enhancement of econfig, elicense and einventory Product Features: Automated data preparation Available variants: SAM solutions from: Comparex, Matrix42 and Spider (brainwaregroup) Generic interfaces: econfig, elicense, einventory 2015 nova ratio AG Page 11
Service Portfolio The nova ratio AG offers the following services associated to its products: Installation Training Maintenance Operation support Consulting 2015 nova ratio AG Page 12
Increase in Costs and Complexity The number of available and applied software products in enterprises increases, license agreements and obligation become more and more complex and inexplicable. The number of license audits increased dramatically throughout the last years. The risk of audits cannot be foreseen. Economic and legal reasons enhance the importance to provide the license management with reliable and up-to-date information about the installed and used software. Analysts state that 70% of software license and maintenance costs are produced in the datacenters. In this regard, the vast majority of enterprises has plenty of space for improvements. 2015 nova ratio AG Page 13
Requirements Towards SAM Tools Intensify The current license state shall be immediately available, at least for the essential software vendors. Potential optimizations shall be notified and their realization shall be traceable. The server systems shall be a substantial part of the solution. The high requirements towards the technical detection of installed and actually used software shall be met out-of-the-box. The software detection rate for the TOP provider should exceed >95%. In Oracle database environments particularly the following products shall be detected and presented: Oracle databases and the underlying hardware All options and management packs Virtual servers and clients in relation to their physical host, their cluster and the underlying hardware 2015 nova ratio AG Page 14
Do You Know Your Risk and Your Potentials? Many companies don t know their compliance risk and their saving potentials. Furthermore they have no effectual steering mechanism in place to manage their license inventory and the essential needed demand. $ Audit Cost- and Compliance-Risk Optimization Potentials Purchased Licenses Installed and Used Software Essential Software Rating 2015 nova ratio AG Seite 15
elicense High-End-Software-Discovery The nova ratio solution module elicense is the leading high-enddiscovery-solution for software and license information. The solution delivers out-of-the-box comprehensive information, which usually have to be gathered in resource and time consuming projects (see separate document: object list of discovered software products and vendors ). All necessary data such as software- and system information, CPU, other hardware and virtualization information which are required by the license management for software asset management solutions and software audits can be discovered automatically and daily updated. Interfaces to leading SAM solutions such as Spider License, Matrix42 Compliance, Comparex SAM2GO are established. 2015 nova ratio AG Page 16
Rule-Based Detected Vendors 2015 nova ratio AG Seite 17
eoracle Oracle DB Software Metering The solution module eoracle is based on the Oracle Database Engine of the platform and manages all necessary information for a review of the Oracle databases. The engine prepares all relevant information for an Oracle DB review. The processed information can be viewed and analyzed using the Web-GUI or could be transferred by interface to a SAM solution. The integrated export interface provides the information in the form of Excel or CSV files. Our Oracle Database Engine is verified and released by Oracle as an official third party tool for capturing and measuring Oracle database software. Leading consulting companies utilize our solution as base for their analyses and assessments. 2015 nova ratio AG Page 18
eoracle Optional Solution Modules Option 1. Oracle DB License (automated) The solution module eoracle utilizes the scan-engine of the platform as an high-end discovery tool. Thereby, the automated update and link of data is ensured. The solution supports automated system tracing and offers a customizable software detection appropriate to customer-specific installations. The Oracle Database Engine is integrated in order to administrate the Oracle database information. Option 2. Oracle DB Assessment (script-based) The solution module eoracle utilizes the Oracle Database Engine for the preparation of script data and XLS-sheets. 2015 nova ratio AG Page 19
einterface SAM Solutions The nova ratio solution elicense supports leading SAM-solutions like Spider License and Matrix42 Compliance. The interface provides all users of these solutions with an High-End-Software-Discovery of their entire datacenter, independent from manufacturer. The elicense solution regularly captures all server information within the datacenter, derives a software object list and makes the information available for the supported SAM solutions using a database API. The software information is captured from two sources of the target systems. On the one hand, the package manager of the individual operating system is queried. On the other hand, in case of software products not being administrated by package managers, an additional software detection is performed on the systems. 2015 nova ratio AG Page 20
SAM Tools and Consulting Partners 2015 nova ratio AG Page 21
Customer s Benefit Transparency Comprehensive overview of installed and used Oracle DB software Compliance Avoidance of legal license violations The only German verified solution The acceptance of data during a review/audit is ensured Driver Seat Our solution enables acting instead of purely reacting Economic efficiency Reduction of costly "over-licensing" and maintenance costs 2015 nova ratio AG Page 22
Contact Georg Scherzinger Account Manager Office +49 261 2016581-19 Mobile +49 151 1622 7580 georg.scherzinger@nova-ratio.de 2015 nova ratio AG Page 23
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