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How to Cut Office 365 Costs | Episode 1 | Welding your data

Name: How to Cut Office 365 Costs | Episode 1 | Welding your data
Uploaded: 2023-07-11T11:00:16+00:00
Duration: 52 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: A short YouTube talk by Mike Austin about how organizations can collect and consolidate the specific IT-asset and licensing data needed to compete with…

11 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube talk by Mike Austin about how organizations can collect and consolidate the specific IT-asset and licensing data needed to compete with Microsoft on Office 365/M365 cost and usage. The speaker highlights practical challenges—discovering SQL servers, auditing O365/M365 bundles, and aligning teams—and gives an illustrative story about an IT director (“Marty”) who successfully gathered enough decentralized data across a large global organization.

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How do I collect the data that you require to be more prepared than Microsoft? And so a lot of the times when I talk to people about this is a lot of it. People will say I don't understand the data that I need to beat Microsoft at their own game, you know, because how do I go and collect it? What? You know, have you ever tried to do inventory and figure out what SQL servers are out there? Have you ever looked at like an O365 or an M365 licensing bundle to try and figure out what you're actually using in there? You know, so they struggle with how do they get the data and how do they collect that data, how they get their teams get to get on the same page to bring that together. And you know, I always want to bring back to remember Marty, right? Marty was a lone single IT director in a large global organization. It was a decentralized organization that had 200 divisions that he was able to go out and collect enough information to beat us on.