Diagnostic

Executive Risk & Spend Dashboard

See IT risk, spend, licensing waste, and open work in one Power BI view leadership can actually read.

"I cannot tell what our Microsoft spend is buying, what is still at risk, or what IT is actually working on."

A smaller Compact scope (from $1,500) covers eligible bounded environments, confirmed before you pay.

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What moves the number: tenants, sign-in, how many apps sign in through Microsoft 365, mail, Azure and endpoints. Headcount is only one of them. The scope-fit check tells you where you land →

What you walk away with

What you keep when this is done

You keep a written record of what is broken, what it is costing you, and what it costs to fix, in a form your leadership can act on. It also sets the fixed price of the fix, so nothing after this is open ended.

  • Every Microsoft license you pay for, line by line, used or unused, with the wasted spend in dollars and a keep, downgrade or consolidate call before the next renewal.
  • One Power BI page built for your leadership: which risks are still open, who owns each one, and whether the picture is improving over time.
  • A written definition of the numbers on that page, agreed with you at kickoff, so two people reading the same figure mean the same thing.
  • A review of the Power BI reports you already have, if there are any: which ones run slowly, which numbers nobody can explain, and what to change so they can be trusted again.
  • A short guide to refreshing the dashboard and controlling who can see which numbers, so the view stays current after handover.

How the diagnostic works

01Read-only inspection

Your live environment is inspected directly, read-only. Nothing changes and nothing breaks.

02Findings, scored and priced

You see what is actually risky, what it is costing you, and a fixed quote to fix what matters. Ranked in plain language.

03Your plan, either way

The remediation plan is yours to keep. Take the fix at the quoted price, or hand the plan to your own team or another vendor.

This is for you if

  • You have a real decision or risk on the line: an audit, a renewal, a migration, a board question, or an AI rollout.
  • You want findings at the sample report's level of specificity: named roles, quantified waste, tested assumptions.
  • You want the price fixed in writing before the work starts.

It is not for you if

  • You need a quick checkbox scan rather than findings you plan to act on.
  • You are looking for open-ended staff augmentation with no defined finish line.

After the diagnostic

Remediation is scoped from the evidence

Remediation is quoted as a fixed scope rather than open-ended hours. The diagnostic shows exactly which of these you need, and what it should cost.

Stabilize

Close the urgent gaps the evidence surfaced, on a fixed scope, before they become an incident.

Control

Stand up the controls and operating model the environment was missing, in staged, measurable releases.

Oversee

Fractional Architecture Oversight once the foundation is in place: scheduled senior review on a defined monthly cadence, offered as a follow-on. Implementation is separately scoped.

Delivery, access, and scope boundaries

Typical delivery

15 business days, elapsed. The window begins after the scope is confirmed, the kickoff is complete, required access works, and requested exports and documentation have been provided. Client, licensing, or third-party delays pause the timeline.

Access needed

Read-only licensing, Azure cost, security-posture and operational data, plus access to an agreed Power BI workspace or client-provided exports. Access is time-limited, protected with MFA, and read-only wherever the platform allows. Credentials should never be submitted through the website.

Not included

No production data warehouse, custom connector development, finance audit, ongoing dashboard administration, remediation, or continuous data refresh unless separately scoped.

Every assessment includes one kickoff and one findings review; extra workshops or revision rounds are a change order. Unless the signed statement of work says otherwise, no assessment includes production changes, remediation, implementation, emergency incident response, 24/7 availability, software or licensing costs, legal attestation, or third-party vendor fees. The signed statement of work controls if it differs from this page.

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Executive Risk & Spend Dashboard

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