Microsoft & Azure License Support
Nusa Advisory’s Microsoft License Support brings together licensing guidance, contract milestone management and cost optimization through five interconnected components. Each component can be used independently, with the greatest value achieved through an integrated approach to analysis and recommendations.
Microsoft License Support
This component provides the foundation for ongoing support from Nusa Advisory, giving your organization access to licensing expertise, recurring analyses and guidance at key contract milestones.
Scope of Support
Nusa Advisory provides licensing expertise for day-to-day questions and decision-making, supported by monthly or quarterly update meetings and semi-annual reviews of actual license usage. The service also includes preparation for the annual True-up or license count under an Enterprise Agreement, as well as CSP license renewals.
Key Benefits
We provide an up-to-date overview of relevant licensing questions and areas requiring attention, along with regular insights into how assigned licenses align with actual usage. These insights establish a well-supported baseline for True-up and CSP renewals, while enabling timely identification of optimization opportunities and required changes.
Renewal Support
Renewal Support focuses on the substantive, financial and contractual preparation of a Microsoft or CSP renewal. The approach brings together business requirements, user profiles, the license mix and the negotiation position and consists of 6 steps.
Benchmark
Nusa Advisory’s benchmarking service helps your organization evaluate contract terms, compare pricing and assess potential suppliers across CSP, MPSA and EA agreements.
Scope of the Benchmark
Nusa Advisory reviews contract terms and pricing across CSP, MPSA and Enterprise Agreements to help your organization assess commercial competitiveness and alignment with business needs. We compare contracting and delivery options, evaluate supplier proposals and highlight differences in pricing, flexibility, service levels and renewal conditions. This provides a clear basis for identifying potential savings, understanding trade-offs and selecting a licensing partner that meets your operational and commercial requirements.
Intended Outcome
Nusa Advisory provides greater transparency into licensing costs and contract terms, supported by a structured comparison of available options. This helps your organization understand commercial trade-offs, identify potential savings and assess supplier suitability. The result is a stronger basis for negotiations and informed contract and supplier selection, with greater clarity on flexibility, renewal conditions and alignment with your business needs.
Azure Cost Management
Nusa Advisory’s Azure Cost Management service helps your organization understand spending trends, identify discount opportunities and strengthen ongoing cost control. Through monthly monitoring, targeted alerts and practical recommendations, we provide clear insights to support informed decisions and more predictable Azure spending.
Month-on-month invoice analysis
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The analysis shows which resources or consumption components have increased or decreased.
Reservations and Savings Plans
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Each month, Nusa Advisory reviews additional discount opportunities alongside existing reservations and Savings Plans, considering resource eligibility, potential savings and expected lifespan.
Waste resources
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Nusa Advisory reviews resources monthly to flag potential waste, such as disks left behind after virtual machines are deleted, so your organization can decide on the appropriate action.
Budget alerts and follow-up
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Nusa Advisory configures budget alerts with your organization, investigates potential overruns using daily resource data and shares findings to help determine whether action is needed.
Tagging
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Nusa Advisory identifies missing tags monthly to improve cost allocation and accountability.
Daily resource consumption patterns
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Nusa Advisory analyzes daily usage by meter category to identify unusual peaks and potential shutdown opportunities, improving visibility and control without assuming immediate savings.
Chargeback and showback
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Nusa Advisory’s chargeback and showback reports clarify reservation and Savings Plan coverage and savings, supporting transparent internal cost allocation.
Frequency and output overview
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Nusa Advisory combines monthly Azure cost, savings, waste and tagging reviews with seven-day reservation utilization checks once alerts are activated, triggered budget investigations and periodic usage and chargeback/showback reporting to explain spending, identify optimization opportunities and guide action.
Microsoft License Analysis
Nusa Advisory’s License Analysis uses Microsoft 365 Admin Center reports to evaluate license assignments and actual usage, supporting adoption and cost optimization. The findings help your organization identify underused licenses, address adoption gaps and align licensing with business needs.
Scope of the Analysis
​Nusa Advisory analyzes Microsoft 365 usage to identify adoption gaps, overlicensing, opportunities for more suitable license types and potentially unnecessary usage linked to legacy accounts, shared accounts and shared mailboxes. These insights help your organization prioritize adoption initiatives, refine license assignments and reduce avoidable costs.
Reporting Outcomes
Nusa Advisory’s reporting highlights actual usage, adoption gaps, potential overlicensing and legacy or shared accounts and mailboxes requiring attention. These findings guide decisions on adoption initiatives, license adjustments and whether accounts or mailboxes should be retained, modified or removed.
Collaboration and Responsibilities
Effective delivery depends on timely access to accurate information, clearly defined responsibilities and informed decision-making. The allocation below provides a practical framework for coordinating activities between Nusa Advisory and your organization, clarifying who provides input, reviews recommendations and approves follow-up actions. This shared understanding helps keep work on schedule, resolve outstanding questions and translate findings into agreed next steps.
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Nusa Advisory conducts the agreed analyses, presents findings and recommendations, purchases reservations following your approval, and configures and monitors agreed alerts while highlighting issues requiring attention.
Your organization provides the necessary reports and access, shares operational plans, validates findings and makes decisions on licenses, resources, contracts and optimization measures.
Together, we establish clear points of contact, agree reporting formats, set priorities and define actions and decision milestones.
Required Input and Assumptions
Effective service delivery relies on accurate, up-to-date and usable data. At the start of the engagement, Nusa Advisory works with your organization to agree the required data sources, access arrangements and key contacts, alongside responsibilities for providing and maintaining information. This establishes a clear foundation for reliable analysis, timely reporting and informed recommendations throughout the engagement.
Required Input
To support the agreed analyses, Nusa Advisory requires relevant contract, pricing and licensing information, Microsoft 365 Admin Center reports, and Azure invoice and consumption data. Your organization also provides details of planned resource changes, retirements or expansion, along with designated contacts for alerts, validation and decision-making.
Assumptions
Nusa Advisory’s analyses and recommendations are based on the data available for the relevant period, while your organization retains responsibility for decisions on contracts, licenses and technical changes. New Azure reservations are purchased only with your approval, and the delivery schedule and reporting calendar are aligned with your contract milestones and agreed services.
Summary of the Deliverables
Nusa Advisory provides integrated support across five areas: ongoing licensing guidance and renewal preparation; contract renewal analysis, negotiation and review; pricing and supplier benchmarking; Azure cost monitoring and optimization; and Microsoft 365 usage analysis to identify adoption gaps, overlicensing and accounts requiring attention.
License Support
Day-to-day licensing support; semi-annual usage analysis; True-up/annual count preparation; CSP renewal preparation.
Renewal Support
Functional analysis; personas/profiles; bill of materials; negotiation strategy; negotiation support; contract review.
Benchmark
Pricing and terms review for CSP/MPSA/EA; support with partner selection.
Azure Management Cost
Invoice variance analysis; discount advice; utilization alerts; waste overview; budget alerts; tagging overview; consumption patterns; chargeback/showback.
License Analysis
Analysis of actual M365 usage; adoption gaps; overlicensing; legacy and shared accounts/mailboxes.
Proposed Delivery Model
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