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How to Cut Office 365 Costs | Episode 4 | Welding your data

Name: How to Cut Office 365 Costs | Episode 4 | Welding your data
Uploaded: 2023-08-01T11:00:06+00:00
Duration: 49 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Mike Austin (speaker) presents a case study of an Office 365 cost-reduction engagement. He describes work with a large government organization (about…

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Mike Austin (speaker) presents a case study of an Office 365 cost-reduction engagement. He describes work with a large government organization (about 200,000 staff across 18 agencies) where audits of O365 usage uncovered roughly $125M in potential savings, $85M in vendor duplication, and $110M in over-licensing cost reductions, yielding about a 50x ROI for the consulting engagement. He notes the approach applies equally to much smaller organizations.

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Approximately 200,000 staff.

18 agencies.

About $125 million in savings.

About $85 million (vendor duplication).

About $110 million (over-licensing).

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And so here's an example. This was a 200,000 staff company as a government government. And they had some budget deficits. And you know, we're basically looking at 18 agencies that they were configuring and managing differently, and they had no real visibility into what each of them were doing. And so we went through our blueprint with them and did the surveys and looked at their O365 usage and basically went out and found $125 million in savings, 85 million in vendor dup, and basically 110 million in cost savings from being over licensed. I got like 50x ROI on what they paid us. But this was, you know, again, you don't have to be 200,000. The same could be for a 2,000 seat organization or 200.