Software Licensing Risk Assessment
See where your organization stands before the next audit, renewal, or infrastructure change. Get an instant score and the specific drivers behind it.
This score is an indicator, not a compliance position. A defensible position requires reconciling your actual entitlements against actual deployments — which is what a Compliance & Optimization Review produces.
How the Software Licensing Risk Assessment works
Produces a 0–100 licensing risk score from the factors that actually drive vendor claims: which publishers you run, what is changing in your infrastructure, whether workloads sit in cloud, your audit history, how close your next renewal is, M&A activity, Java exposure, and how mature your SAM capability is. It also shows which of your answers contributed the most risk.
Who should use it
- CIOs, IT directors, and IT asset managers who need a defensible view of licensing exposure
- Procurement and finance leaders preparing budget or risk reporting
- Organizations that have just received vendor contact and need to gauge seriousness
- Anyone running Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, VMware, SAP, or Adobe through a period of change
What you need to enter
- Publishers that are material in your estate
- Infrastructure changes under way (virtualization, cloud, containers, consolidation)
- Cloud platforms hosting licensed workloads
- Organization size
- Audit history and whether an audit is live now
- Timing of your next major renewal
- M&A activity in the next 12 months
- Oracle Java usage
- Current SAM maturity
How results are calculated
- 1Each answer carries a weight reflecting how often it appears in real vendor claims — an active audit and unmanaged Oracle Java score far higher than, say, cloud platform count.
- 2Publisher, infrastructure, and cloud selections are summed and capped so a broad estate cannot dominate the score on its own.
- 3The weighted total is normalized to a 0–100 scale and mapped to a Lower, Moderate, High, or Critical tier.
- 4The five highest-scoring factors are surfaced separately so you can see what to address first.
Example output
A 6,000-employee manufacturer runs Oracle and VMware, is migrating workloads to Azure, has an Oracle renewal within 12 months, and tracks licences in spreadsheets.
- Risk score
- 64 / 100
- Tier
- High
- Top driver
- Publisher footprint (Oracle + VMware)
- Second driver
- Cloud migration during a renewal window
What the result means
A high score does not mean you are non-compliant. It means several conditions publishers rely on when building a claim are present at once, and that your current documentation would be tested if an audit arrived. A low score means the exposure is contained today — it does not survive a major infrastructure or contract change without re-assessment.
Recommended next step
Take your top two drivers and address them before your next renewal or migration milestone. If an audit is already live, get an independent licence position before responding further to the vendor.
The score is an indicator based on your answers, not a compliance position. Only reconciling entitlements against actual deployments produces a defensible figure.