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How to Cut Office 365 Costs | Episode 2 | Welding your data

Name: How to Cut Office 365 Costs | Episode 2 | Welding your data
Uploaded: 2023-07-18T11:00:14+00:00
Duration: 54 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: A short YouTube video by Mike Austin presenting a case study about cutting Office 365 costs for an electronics manufacturer. The firm had about 2,500…

18 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video by Mike Austin presenting a case study about cutting Office 365 costs for an electronics manufacturer. The firm had about 2,500 staff but was buying more than 3,365 Office 365 subscriptions. Austin’s analysis showed many E5 license features were unused, enabling migration back to E3 for many users, cleanup of blocked/unused seats, and identification of approximately $700,000 in vendor duplication—yielding urgent cost savings during COVID-related supply-chain and cash-flow pressures.

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2,500 users

Over 3,365 subscriptions

$700,000

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Here's a case study of how this works. We had a electronics manufacturer with 2500 users this was a few months ago. They were having issues with COVID and the supply chain and cash flow and they needed to find, you know, cost savings no matter what. They suspected they were over licensed but they didn't know where. This was one of the ones where I think if I remember correctly they were over 3,000 licenses when we got 2,500 staff. Why are we buying over 3,365 subscriptions? And so what we were able to do was analyze the use to show show them which parts of the E5 they weren't using. We move them back to the E3 they were able to show Microsoft they weren't using it. And you know we also were able to reduce the number of licenses they had because they had a bunch of licenses sitting in those blocked statuses and things like that. And the other key thing is we identified that they had $700,000 in vendor duplication that they didn't really realize.