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Cloud Service Provider or Enterprise Agreement: Choosing the Right One for You

Name: Cloud Service Provider or Enterprise Agreement: Choosing the Right One for You
Uploaded: 2024-09-19T05:00:00+00:00
Duration: 48 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Short excerpt from a YouTube talk by Mike Austin explaining that under an Enterprise Agreement (EA) product quantities are fixed at the signed baseline…

19 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube talk by Mike Austin explaining that under an Enterprise Agreement (EA) product quantities are fixed at the signed baseline. He uses an example: if an EA is signed for 1,000 Microsoft 365 E3 licenses, the customer cannot reduce billable quantity to 800 after workforce reductions and must continue paying for the original 1,000.

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So the other thing is, from a reduction perspective, you can only reduce EA products to what you signed up for when you signed up for the ea. So let's just take a simple example. I sign an enterprise agreement for 1000 Microsoft 365E3. So I get a thousand employees. I buy 1000 Microsoft 365E3s. Okay? So if I wanted to reduce that, you know, Covid hit ads, unfortunately, let go 200 people. We're now down to 800. The EA is set at that baseline of a thousand. I can't go down to 800. I'm stuck at 800 users. Or, sorry, 1,000 users. So I have to pay for them, right?