One thing we always hear from our customers is that their software and cloud costs are rising, and they are looking for ways to reduce these costs over time. In this article we have a quick and easy way organisations of any size can reduce their license costs by up to 50%.
Microsoft Business Licenses
Microsoft has a range of business licenses targeted at SMEs with 300 or less users. There is a basic, standard and premium version of these licenses available. M365 Business Premium is the equivalent of Microsoft E3 and is a strong option for most small and mid-sized businesses looking for Microsoft Office applications, emails, cloud-file management and file sharing, with strong enterprise analytics and compliance controls. The service provides all the basic enterprise controls that most small businesses require, at an affordable price. What many larger organisations don’t always know is that they can still utlise the business licenses.
Moving from M365 E3 to M365 Business Premium
When looking at Office workers we generally find the majority of these types of users are on a M365 E3 license as it offers the full range of capability with some good enterprise and compliance controls. Now let’s assume your organisation has over 300 office workers and they are all on M365 E3.
If we use the 300 SME business licenses that we are allowed to use, we can move 300 employees from M365 E3 to M365 Business Premium. This offers the same level of capability but at a heavy discount. When comparing the price of the 2, M365 E3 is priced at £32 per user per month and M365 Business Premium at £16 per user per month. That is a saving of 50% on the license costs and if you move all 300 users you can save over £50,000 a year.
As you can see you can achieve significant savings for no change in experience or services and with rising costs, the opportunity to save £50,000 a year is certainly an attractive benefit.
Bridgeall is a Microsoft CSP and licensing expert, able to not only get you discounts on RRP but also provide you with advice and guidance on what licenses are best for you to help you identify even more savings. Contact us and get a quote today.
