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Oracle Licensing Mastery · Module 5 · Session 21 of 40 · 26:18

How Oracle audits work

Module 5 opens, and for the first time the phone rings from their side. The audit is a scheduled revenue motion, not an accusation: GLAS measures, sales settles, and the cycle reaches every meaningful estate every three to five years. This session maps the machine: the actors from LMS to the Java enforcement motion, the triggers your own optimization creates, the one line test that separates a soft audit from a formal one, the five phase process across six to eighteen months, and the anatomy of the audit letter, read line by line until the scariest document in enterprise software looks like what it is, a template.

What you will be able to do after this session

  • 1Name the machine. Know who LMS and GLAS are, what they do, and where sales fits in the audit motion.
  • 2Read the triggers. Know which events on your side reliably invite audit attention, and which are folklore.
  • 3Tell the species apart. Distinguish a soft audit from a formal audit in one reading, because the obligations differ completely.
  • 4Map the process. Walk the formal audit from notice letter to settlement, phase by phase.
  • 5Read the letter. Take an audit letter apart line by line and know what each sentence commits you to.

How the session works

A taught session with three knowledge checks: the CFO's did we just raise our audit risk question answered honestly, the clause free Java email classified with the one line species test, and the $4.2M preliminary finding read as the opening position it is. It closes with one audit letter annotated in six rows, each line paired with its meaning and your first move.

Homework before the next session, about one hour

  • 1Find your audit clauses. Every Oracle agreement in force: locate the audit provision, note the notice period and cooperation language. They differ.
  • 2Name the single voice. Decide today who receives audit correspondence, and write the one paragraph instruction telling everyone else to forward, not answer.
  • 3Score your triggers. The last twenty four months against today's trigger list: support moves, infrastructure change, M&A, Java downloads.
  • 4Find the last audit. When, what scope, how it resolved, and where the file is. Institutional memory is defense material.
  • 5Open the audit file. One folder: contracts, clauses, contact plan, trigger score, baseline audit. Session 25 turns it into an operating model.
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