We validate your usage, contracts and entitlements so you negotiate your EA, Azure and Copilot decisions from your data, not Microsoft's.
Your Microsoft decision is not one contract. A change in one area creates cost or leverage somewhere else, so enter the renewal with a clear baseline, realistic scenarios and a coordinated plan.
Finance needs the cost reduced. IT needs the environment to keep running. Procurement needs credible leverage. The publisher's proposal is one view of the decision. Yours must reflect much more.
The publisher understands its side of the decision. We help you understand yours.
Your SAM data should help you decide, not leave you reconciling conflicting reports when a deadline arrives. We connect usage data, licensing rules, contracts, architecture, finances and timing into one clear position. Then we answer three questions.
Establish requirements, test the agreement structure, model alternatives and build leverage before the deadline takes over.
Renewal support →Validate the scope, evidence, licensing position and calculations before deciding how to respond.
Audit defense →Separate safe savings from cuts that create operational risk.
Cloud cost optimization →Turn SAM and FinOps data into better renewal, audit, governance and cost decisions.
Managed SAM and governance →Found by testing the licensing position and renewal options, without creating a larger compliance risk.
More client results →We avoided $2M annually in increased cost and are back to roughly what a 2023 deal would have looked like with Microsoft.
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Whether the decision involves Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Adobe or another provider, you still need to determine what is true, required, negotiable and defensible.
MetrixData 360 is an independent software licensing and cloud cost advisory firm serving enterprises across the USA and Canada. We work for the buyer, not the software publisher or reseller.
Before founding MetrixData 360 in 2013, Mike Austin was a senior Microsoft enterprise sales executive. He saw how renewals are built from the vendor's side, and how often customers walked in without validated data, relying on the vendor to interpret their own licensing position.
He built MetrixData 360 to change that dynamic: help buyers move away from inflated baselines, avoidable compliance exposure and missed negotiation leverage, and negotiate from their own data.
A Microsoft licensing consultant helps you understand what you own, what you use and what you need before you sign with Microsoft. MetrixData 360 validates your license position, models renewal options and supports the negotiation for EA, Microsoft 365, Copilot and Azure commitments.
Yes. We are not a Microsoft partner or reseller, and we are not paid based on what you buy. We work only for the customer.
Earlier than most teams do. Start well before the anniversary date so there is time to validate usage, test alternatives and set the negotiation plan before Microsoft's proposal frames the conversation.
Yes. We validate the scope, evidence and calculations before you respond, so you defend your real position rather than the vendor's estimate.
Yes. We align Microsoft 365 and Copilot licenses with actual use and help size Azure consumption commitments (MACC) so you do not over-commit.
A fixed-scope Microsoft review that shows where your license position, usage data and renewal risk stand today. It is the fastest way to know whether you are ready for your next renewal or audit.
We will help you determine what is known, what must be challenged and what other moves may still be available.
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