We're an independent Microsoft licensing consultancy. We review and optimise your Microsoft estate across:On-premises: Windows Server, SQL Server and your Effective Licence Position.Microsoft 365: rightsizing E7, E5, E3, F3 and add-ons against real usage.Azure: aligning usage and licensing (Azure Hybrid Benefit, Reserved Instances, Dev/Test) with actual need.SPLA: for hosting and managed service providers, your own Windows Server, SQL and Subscriber Access Licence (SAL) position.Managed service providers: if you manage Microsoft 365 across multiple customer tenants, we review each estate in turn to cut the underlying cost and protect your margin. Every engagement targets the same outcomes: cutting wasted spend, reducing compliance and audit risk, and a defensible position at renewal. We also run knowledge-transfer workshops and aftercare to make sure the savings land.

Because the incentives are different:Your reseller earns their margin on the licences you buy, so reducing your spend works against their own revenue.A "free" review still costs them time and margin, so there's limited commercial reason to go deep.Reseller and in-house licensing teams are typically salaried and stretched across a heavy workload, and aren't rewarded for maximising your savings. We're independent, and paid to reduce your cost and risk, not to sell you licences. Optimisation is the job, and the better we do it, the more likely you are to come back, so our incentive is your saving, not your spend.If you'd like a quote afterwards we can arrange a comparison through our preferred LSP partners, but only once the optimisation is agreed and only if you ask, so the advice you get is never shaped by a sale.You wouldn't get your homebuyers survey from the estate agent selling you the house.Curious what an independent review turns up? Start with our savings estimate survey.

SAM (Software Asset Management) tools can be valuable, and if you already run one, we work alongside it rather than replace it. Platforms like Flexera, Snow and ServiceNow provide ongoing discovery, entitlement reconciliation, usage reporting and governance.But a tool also needs licensing, implementation, maintenance and people to act on what it finds. Approaching a renewal, a focused in-and-out review is often faster and more cost-effective than buying and standing up another platform.We analyse your actual licence assignments and usage over the last six months: where users can move from E5 to E3 or F3, where paid features aren't being used, and where licences sit on leavers, duplicates, guests or dormant accounts. We turn that into a change plan timed to your renewal, so the saving lands on your invoice, not just a dashboard.Our review is independent and tool-agnostic. We don't sell Microsoft licences or tools directly, and our review fee is tied to the savings we find, so we're paid to cut your spend, not grow it. If you want ongoing monitoring afterwards, that's a separate, optional step, and we can bring in the right specialist partners and help take it forward as far as you'd like.

Yes, and it's one of the areas where we find the most value. After an acquisition or merger, licence assignments, leaver accounts and duplicated identities often persist across the combined estate.We reconcile identities against HR and directory data to find the orphaned and duplicated licences you're still paying for, which cuts cost and reduces your security exposure at the same time.Post-merger and not sure what you're still paying for? Our savings estimate survey gives an indicative figure in minutes.

Yes. Microsoft adjusts pricing periodically, and currency movements can push your renewal up before you've added a single user. We model your exposure ahead of time and advise on timing, agreement structure, eligible promotions and multi-year options such as CSP terms, so you can lock in a predictable position and avoid a surprise at renewal.Our advice always comes first and is based only on what's right for your budget. If you decide you'd like a quote, that only ever follows the optimisation and modelling, never before, and it's entirely optional.

If you're a hosting or managed service provider under a Microsoft Service Provider Licence Agreement (SPLA), Microsoft periodically asks you to self-assess your reported licensing against actual usage.We review your Windows Server, SQL Server and SAL-based position against what's really deployed, so you can:meet a validation request with a defensible, evidence-based position, andsee where workload placement and licensing choices can be optimised.Get in touch to talk through a SPLA review.