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$1.2 million saved in E5

Name: $1.2 million saved in E5
Uploaded: 2024-12-17T18:05:04+00:00
Duration: 29 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Mike Austin describes extracting $1.2 million in savings by analyzing license usage in a ~7,000-person organization. He reports the organization had…

17 Dec 2024 · 0 min

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Mike Austin describes extracting $1.2 million in savings by analyzing license usage in a ~7,000-person organization. He reports the organization had about 1,000 contractors who were all assigned Microsoft E5 licenses and explains the value of inspecting what contractors actually use versus what they are provisioned.

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$1.2 million

About 7,000 people

About 1,000 contractors

Microsoft E5

We just pulled $1.2 million out of about a 7,000 person organization. Because we went in and we went in and started analyzing and I was able to see, hey, because we do tagging and all kinds of fun stuff in. Right? But you know, one of the things I went to them, I said, I see you guys have a thousand contractors. And they're like, yep. I said, how would you like to know what your contractors are using? They said, what do you mean? I said, well, you're giving them all E5s. How would you like to know what they're actually using?