Microsoft 365 License Management

Manage your Microsoft / Office 365 SaaS subscription more effectively: avoid Bill Shock, Sprawl, Shadow IT and Toxic Consumption.

Challenge

In many enterprises, the starters and leavers process is often poorly managed and can cause many issues for IT and other departments. Typically, leavers’ hardware and software assets are not tracked properly and organizations waste a lot of money purchasing extra equipment for new starters, rather than re-harvesting existing assets. The same is true for SaaS solutions like Microsoft 365 (formerly ‘Office 365’).

As organizations migrate to the cloud, many believe the days of license management are behind them. After all, you cannot be non-compliant with SaaS applications, right? However, while enterprises may not have to worry about licensing compliance, SaaS subscriptions still need to be managed. Neglecting this responsibility can lead to spiraling costs that are often difficult to address.

For example, as employees leave and new people join, licenses are often not re-harvested and organizations end up over-allocating subscriptions, along with their costs. Without a robust ‘starters and leavers process’, managing these subscriptions without centralized visibility across the Microsoft 365 estate is almost impossible. Before long, expenditure on unallocated, unused and under-utilized subscriptions grows to 10%, then 20%, then 30% and so on.

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Solution

With out-of-the-box automation, a single source of granular data and advanced analytics, Certero for SaaS Microsoft 365 module gives you single pane of glass visibility of your applications and full control over your use of Microsoft 365 and expenditure, as part of the world’s most advanced and modern SaaS solution.

Certero’s Microsoft 365 license management and optimization module removes all of these problems by giving you greater visibility and control over your estate, so you can achieve real cost savings.

Obtain detailed management reports

Identify unallocated subscriptions

Improve starters and leavers process

Identify dormant mailboxes

Report on mailbox storage limits

Identify dormant users

Optimize subscription levels

Identify products not activated or used

Benefits

Certero for SaaS Microsoft 365 license management and optimization module gives you greater visibility and control to achieve real cost savings through subscription optimization.

Automate the consolidation of user, subscription, activity and storage data into one area
Improve visibility and accountability of starters and leavers processes
Reduce the cost of unused and unallocated subscriptions
Provide management and other decision makers with visibility of Microsoft 365 expenditure
Reduce costs by identifying unused or inactive subscriptions.
Identify active Microsoft 365 subscriptions for users who haven’t logged in recently or are disabled in Active Directory.
Identify and track storage consumption to manage potential cost increases
Manage all cloud applications within Certero for SaaS, on the Certero Platform

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