Supporting technical capability
Review Microsoft licensing costs before your next renewal.
Compare Microsoft 365 and Azure licensing costs with usage and business needs. Finance receives cost estimates and recommendations on what to keep, change or cancel before renewal.
Engagement context
Where this capability applies.
- You suspect the Microsoft bill is too high but cannot prove where the waste is.
- A renewal or true-up is coming and the license mix is unclear.
- Nobody can explain what each license tier is actually delivering.
The agreed outputs
What the engagement provides.
License-Waste and Savings Report
Every license scored assigned versus active, with unused seats and duplicate spend surfaced in dollars.
Right-size recommendation
What to keep, downgrade, consolidate, or buy next, with modeled annual savings.
12-month licensing roadmap
A renewal-ready plan that ties each license dollar to a business or security outcome.
Worked example
License-Waste and Savings Report
An illustration of the record an engagement can produce. Names and figures are constructed for this example.
Illustrative content. The engagement record is developed from the client’s own environment and agreed scope.
Commercial & delivery basis
The scope and conditions of the work.
Delivery window
4 days
Included scope
- License inventory (assigned versus active)
- Unused-license and duplicate-spend register
- Right-size recommendation with modeled annual savings
- 12-month roadmap
Scope assumptions
- One Microsoft tenant
Exclusions
- License purchases or reseller activity
- Implementation of the changes
Required access
- Read-only access to the Microsoft 365 admin center and usage reports
- Current license counts and renewal dates
- A 30-minute kickoff with finance or IT
Acceptance
The agreed completion standard.
The engagement is complete when the License-Waste and Savings Report and the 12-month roadmap are delivered and reviewed.
Discuss the work
Tell us what you need to change.
Share the systems involved, why the change is needed and your deadline. We clarify the work, responsibilities and information needed for a proposal.
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