Get More Value From Your Microsoft Investment
Microsoft investment management has changed
Managing Microsoft investment is no longer just about licensing.
Azure consumption, AI adoption, security products, and evolving commercial models are changing how organizations plan, manage, and negotiate their Microsoft estate.
Without a clear view of current usage, future demand, and contractual position, costs can increase while value becomes harder to measure.
Livingstone helps organizations understand their Microsoft investment, identify optimization opportunities, and prepare for future commercial decisions.
Make more informed investment decisions What you'll achieve
- Reduce unnecessary Microsoft spend
- Gain complete visibility across your Microsoft estate
- Strengthen your commercial position
- Prepare for future renewals with confidence
- Build a future-ready Microsoft investment strategy
Managing your Microsoft investment has become increasingly complex. Licensing, Azure, AI, and commercial agreements are all connected. Livingstone helps you make more informed investment decisions by reducing waste, improving visibility, and identifying opportunities to optimize your Microsoft estate.
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Services How we help
- Contract negotiation
- Full management and optimization of licensing and Cloud
- Improvement in the adoption and use of technology
- Minimizing contract waste
- Support cloud migration and modernization
- Innovative business solutions
- Ensured readiness for AI
- Govern the proliferation of technology
- Improved security posture
- Rationalize technology
Centralized management A simplified approach to your Microsoft investment
With a complex range of solutions available, managing your Microsoft estate is rarely straightforward. That is why we created MIMS, which simplifies your management structure and helps you get the most out of your Microsoft investment.
Livingstone provides visibility across your entire Microsoft investment in a single location, supported by industry-leading licensing, Cloud, and solution experts.
We also help you improve your Microsoft technology usage by teaching you innovative ways to use your tech more efficiently and get more for your money. This could be through better use of technology, on-prem optimization, and in-cloud optimization.
Microsoft Investment Assessment (MIA) Know where you stand with your Microsoft estate
Your Microsoft requirements are unique, which makes it tricky to identify potential opportunities and the value of adopting MIMS. For this reason, Livingstone has created a crystal-clear customer journey that gives you the confidence to invest in MIMS.
The Microsoft Investment Assessment collects key data points and engages with stakeholders to assess maturity, quantify commercial outcomes, and define a customer scope that matches your investment level and ambition.
We provide a free-of-charge assessment to measure your entire MSFT investment, pinpoint cost-saving opportunities across your key investment categories, ensure your environment is secure and your data is protected, and assess your readiness for new, innovative MSFT technology.
We will then provide clear direction for your cloud strategy and ambitions and deliver an executive summary of your current state, with recommendations on how to meet your MSFT objectives.
PRISM AI solution AI-powered insights
PRISM is an AI-powered Microsoft technology platform that fully supports our MIMS solution.
The platform provides a single location to view and manage your Microsoft investment while surfacing value-based insights to support our customers’ MSFT strategic objectives.
Why is Microsoft unique? Benefit from the flexibility of Microsoft contracts
Nothing’s worse than getting weighed down by onerous contracts. This is why Microsoft’s unique approach to contract structure is so useful.
It provides a great opportunity to drive value-based outcomes throughout the term of your agreement. After all, Microsoft is the only vendor that lets you fully renegotiate your bill of materials, pricing, and contractual terms, with each anniversary offering an opportunity to improve cost efficiency and adjust the agreement to meet your evolving business needs.
For Public Sector Know Your Microsoft Renewal Is Right
The Livingstone Verified BoM is a free-of-charge license inquiry with one of our Commercial Licensing experts. It is designed for UK public sector organizations with a Microsoft renewal on the horizon, and its purpose is simple: to give you expert confidence that the renewal you are about to sign is right.
FAQ
How can enterprises reduce their total Microsoft licensing costs?
Enterprises can reduce Microsoft costs by analyzing license allocation and usage across Microsoft 365, Azure, and other Microsoft services, identifying underused functionality, and aligning future purchases with actual requirements. Consider Microsoft licensing, cloud, AI, and renewal decisions together because changes in one area can affect costs elsewhere.
What is Microsoft license optimization?
Microsoft license optimization matches Microsoft licenses, subscriptions, and service levels to actual user and business requirements. It can identify unused licenses, inappropriate license tiers, overlapping functionality, and opportunities to improve the commercial structure of future Microsoft agreements.
How can we optimize Microsoft 365 licenses?
Microsoft 365 licenses can be optimized by comparing assigned license types with actual application and feature usage. Users who do not require higher-tier functionality may be candidates for different license profiles, while inactive licenses may potentially be reclaimed.
How should we manage Microsoft Copilot licensing costs?
Microsoft Copilot costs should be managed by aligning licenses with clearly defined use cases, adoption, and measurable business value rather than deploying licenses indiscriminately. Organizations should monitor utilization and outcomes so that future Copilot investments reflect genuine demand and value.
What should we review before a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement renewal?
Before renewing an Enterprise Agreement, organizations should review current Microsoft license consumption, feature utilization, Azure requirements, planned AI investments, future workforce demand, and their technology roadmap. These inputs can then be used to create an optimized Bill of Materials and negotiation strategy.
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