By Sheshagiri Anegondi. Removing software is one of the most important steps after you complete an internal audit of the software deployed across your enterprise.
Why software removal matters
- Lower compliance risk: fewer installations mean fewer contracts to manage.
- Better security: fewer installations mean fewer holes to plug in protecting your data.
- Lower costs: no maintenance or license fees, and no maintenance services costs, on removed software.
The steps for software removal
This is a brief summary, not a process map.
- Conduct an internal audit of software deployed on all your systems across the enterprise.
- Conduct a criticality analysis of the deployed software.
- Collate the list of software for removal.
- Get approval for the removal from stakeholders.
- Schedule the removal tasks.
- Carry out the tasks and remove the approved software.
- Run a quick inventory of the software now deployed.
Before you start, read when to do an internal Oracle license audit. For help with the audit step, see our baseline Oracle license review.
Sheshagiri Anegondi
Managing Partner of Rythium Technologies. Seventeen years at Oracle, from 1998 to 2015, in leadership roles including Vice President Sales, after Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation.
Author of “Licensing Oracle: The Reference Manual for Managing Oracle License Compliance & Procuring Oracle Software, Hardware, Cloud & Services” (Notion Press, 2021) (ISBN 10: 1639046887).
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