Last week I sat in on a renewal review with a procurement team. A Microsoft proposal was open on the screen. In the corner sat an expiry date, a few days out. The room had already shifted around that date. Every…
CIO Chronicles: Challenging Our Microsoft Renewal
“I wish we had internal data to challenge Microsoft’s numbers instead of relying on their narrative.” That thought echoed in my mind as I stared at the EA renewal proposal sitting on my desk. More accurately, lurking like a wolf in…
Microsoft 365 Copilot New Pricing Options
On November 12, 2024 Microsoft announced its new commercial and licensing updates, specifically “new monthly billing plan for Microsoft 365 Copilot annual term subscriptions, and standardized billing structure for all monthly billed products on annual term subscriptions” (full details here). What…