Services

Gidense is here to help with any Microsoft licensing question or concern. Please feel free to contact us for:

  • Free phone consultation on literally any licensing question.
  • A flexible single engagement to support on a single matter, such as support on your obligated (annual) reporting to Microsoft
  • Full engagements for the optimal shopping list (Bill of Material) for adopting new technology or preparing for a new contract
  • Continuous license support throughout your Microsoft contract, including guidance on the annual reporting and important licensing updates, with our customized license support subscription (LSS).
  • Audit support to minimize audit impact and verify vendor statements.
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Gidense believes in sharing knowledge by actively involving all stakeholders and provide them with relevant insights and mindset for accomplishing and maintaining the lowest possible spend.

Regardless of the type and size of engagement, you will receive a simple management summary of your usage, requirements, spend, and delta. If applicable, Gidense will provide input for your communication with Microsoft. Besides, Gidense will advise on how to effectively manage and optimize your software usage and spend moving forward.

Services

Analysis

Gidense looks for the answers to crucial questions at play in your organization. What usage rights do you have and what is the value? How high is your spend? And what is the optimal licensing solution? More information

Training

Gidense provides interactive sessions and training on the modern workplace, datacenter technology & (hybrid) Cloud options, Development, Test and Acceptance (DTA) and custom licensing training. More information

Support

With the license support subscription, Gidense provides support for your annual contract cycle, periodic reporting, and creates spend and/or trend analysis. More information

Analysis:

  • Entitlement analysis - What use rights do you have, what value do they hold?
  • Spend analysis - What are you currently spending? What was the initially contracted spend? And what is the projected future spend?
  • Datacenter analytics - What is currently being used? What is the optimal licensing solution? Is hybrid usage possible? What versions are deployed? What (legacy) entitlements can be assigned? What can be improved? what are future threats?
  • Extended Security Update (ESU) analysis - What do you need to purchase for your final year of ESU? Or what needs to be prepared for ESU for version 2012 (R2)?
  • Any other usage analysis - Office Apps, Developer Tools, Enterprise Desktop - What is currently being used? What is the optimal licensing solution? Is hybrid usage possible? What versions are deployed? What (legacy) entitlements can be assigned? What can be improved? What are future threats?

Interactive sessions and training:

  • Modern workplace - What is in your contract? What is included in your O365 subscription? What is on the roadmap? What are the options moving forward, customized to your situation – Cloud, On-prem or hybrid?
  • Datacenter - What technology is currently used? Licensing explained. What are your Cloud options? What is on the roadmap? What are future threats?
  • DTA (Development, Test, and Acceptance) - What is your current strategy for your non-production environment? How are you applying developer licenses? How can you optimize non-production license spend – Cloud and On-premise?

Custom licensing training:

  • Tailored license training for your Product Specialists;
  • Tailored license training for your SAM experts;
  • Tailored license training for your Contract Managers.

License support subscription

  • Support on your annual contract lifecycle;
  • Support on your recurring reporting, spend analysis, trend analysis;
  • Possible combination of all customized services.

How can we help?

We support you by providing full control of your license costs. Not only by proven methods analyzing all paperwork and data, but also by ensuring the involvement and guidance of your employees.

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