M365 - License Optimization Center

Best Practices to Reduce the Complexity of Microsoft 365 Licensing

Mastering the art of Microsoft 365 licensing optimization can provide huge cost savings for your organization – but it can also benefit your career.

Microsoft 365 License Management is important, but not always easy

Microsoft 365 is a powerful suite of productivity tools that includes enterprise-level services, such as Exchange Online, SharePoint, and Skype for Business. While Microsoft 365 offers a wide range of benefits to businesses, it also comes with a number of challenges, particularly when it comes to licensing.

When managing your platform, some applications may be a higher risk of leaking data outside your organization and you just don't know it. There have been some very public scenarios of organization leaking data, or having breaches and stolen data. It's like a modern horror movie with the fear of what could happen to a company, or an an individual, if our data ends up in the wrong hands.

The Microsoft 365 platform is a complex beast, and managing it sets many challenges for the IT team or department in an organization.

From the 1st of March this year, there will be price increases across all levels of Microsoft 365 licensing from Business Basic through to E5.

Microsoft recently announced changes to their commercial pricing for Microsoft 365 — the first “substantive pricing update” since launching Office 365 a decade ago.

It is that time a year, and planning and budgeting season for next fiscal year is upon us! Trust us, we cannot believe it either. Right about now many of us are coming off personal holidays and are carving out time on our calendars to start the process. One planning area in particular that can be a challenge for many organizations is Microsoft 365 license management. In the hopes of helping you navigate this hot topic, there are a few important factors you need to keep in mind that will hopefully make 2022 a successful and profitable year for your organization!

Microsoft Office 365 provides numerous ways to substantially boost productivity while considerably lowering hardware and software costs for enterprises. However, according to Gartner, many organizations are wasting enormous amounts of their budget investments on unused licenses.

New to Office 365? Or maybe you just cleaned up your environment and you’re looking to keep it that way?

Mastering Office 365 license management can be a challenging feat for many organizations. There are a multitude of factors that need to be considered and hundreds of ways for things to slip through the cracks unnoticed.