Microsoft Licensing That Actually Saves You Money
Stop paying for Microsoft 365 licenses you don’t use. Our Auto Scale technology automatically adjusts your licensing based on actual usage, provides monthly optimisation reports, and includes quarterly Azure reviews — all completely free when you choose Next2IT as your Microsoft CSP partner.
Discover Your SavingsIntelligent Microsoft Licensing Management
As a Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP), we don’t just resell licenses — we actively manage, optimise, and right-size your Microsoft estate to eliminate waste and maximise value. Our Auto Scale technology and quarterly reviews ensure you’re always running the most cost-effective licensing configuration.
Auto Scale Technology
Our proprietary Auto Scale technology monitors your Microsoft 365 license usage continuously and automatically adjusts subscriptions based on actual consumption. No more paying for licenses sat unused on departed employees or idle accounts. Auto Scale adds licenses when you need them and removes them when you don’t — ensuring perfect alignment between what you pay for and what you actually use.
Monthly Optimisation Reports
Every month, we provide detailed reports highlighting licenses that aren’t being used or are underutilised. These reports identify opportunities to downgrade to lower-cost SKUs, consolidate licenses, or remove unnecessary subscriptions entirely. We include actionable recommendations with cost impact analysis, making it simple to optimise your licensing spend continuously.
Quarterly Azure Optimisation
Bundled with your CSP service, we conduct quarterly Azure optimisation reviews ensuring your cloud infrastructure is right-sized, cost-efficient, and securely configured. We analyse VM sizing, identify idle resources, review Reserved Instance opportunities, assess security posture, and provide costed recommendations. These reviews typically uncover 20-40% cost savings whilst improving performance and security.
Microsoft 365 Licensing
We provide the complete Microsoft 365 portfolio including Business Basic, Business Standard, Business Premium, E3, E5, F1/F3 frontline, Exchange Online, Teams, and specialist add-ons. Our licensing consultants ensure you select the right SKUs for each user role, avoiding both over-licensing (paying for features you don’t need) and under-licensing (lacking capabilities your users require).
Azure Consumption Management
We manage your Azure consumption billing, providing detailed spend analysis, budget alerts, and cost allocation across departments or projects. Our Azure specialists help you understand your consumption patterns, implement cost controls, leverage Reserved Instances and Azure Hybrid Benefit, and ensure you’re only paying for resources you actually use. We transform Azure billing from a black box into a transparent, manageable expense.
Software & Windows Licensing
Beyond Microsoft 365 and Azure, we provide Windows licensing (Professional, Enterprise, VDA), Office perpetual licenses, SQL Server, Windows Server CALs, Remote Desktop Services licenses, and other Microsoft software products. We ensure compliance, advise on volume licensing options, and manage Software Assurance to keep your organisation properly licensed whilst minimising cost and complexity.
How Auto Scale Technology Works
Our Auto Scale platform continuously monitors your Microsoft 365 environment and automatically adjusts licensing based on real usage patterns. This eliminates the traditional licensing pain points — paying for departed employees, unused subscriptions, and over-provisioned SKUs.
Auto Scale integrates with your Microsoft 365 tenant via secure API connections, monitoring license assignments, sign-in activity, and feature usage continuously. The platform tracks which licenses are assigned, which users are actively using their subscriptions, which features within each license are being utilised, and which accounts haven’t signed in for extended periods. This comprehensive monitoring provides complete visibility into your licensing consumption patterns.
Our platform applies intelligent algorithms to identify optimisation opportunities. It detects inactive accounts (users who haven’t signed in for 30+ days), identifies underutilised licenses (users assigned E5 but only using E3 features), spots duplicate assignments (users with multiple overlapping licenses), and recognises licensing inefficiencies (paying for features that aren’t being used). The system learns your organisation’s usage patterns and provides increasingly accurate recommendations over time.
Based on usage analysis, Auto Scale automatically adjusts your subscriptions. When users leave, their licenses are automatically reclaimed and removed from your billing. When new users join, licenses are provisioned automatically. When usage patterns suggest a user could downgrade to a lower-cost SKU, the system flags this opportunity. The platform operates within your defined parameters and approval thresholds, ensuring you maintain control whilst eliminating manual license management overhead.
Each month, you receive a comprehensive report detailing current license assignments, usage patterns and trends, optimisation actions taken automatically, manual optimisation recommendations, cost savings achieved, and projected future requirements. These reports provide complete transparency into your Microsoft licensing, highlighting exactly where your money goes and where savings opportunities exist. The reports are actionable — we don’t just identify problems, we provide specific recommendations with cost impact analysis.
When our reports identify optimisation opportunities, you can implement them with single-click approval. Want to remove licenses from five inactive accounts? Click approve. Need to downgrade ten users from E5 to E3? Click approve. The platform handles the technical implementation, ensuring changes are applied correctly without service disruption. You maintain complete control and visibility whilst eliminating the administrative overhead of manual license management.
What’s Included Free with Next2IT CSP
This is what being a proper Cloud Solution Provider means — adding genuine value beyond simply reselling licenses. When you choose Next2IT as your Microsoft CSP partner, all of these services are included at no additional cost.
Auto Scale Technology — FREE
Our proprietary Auto Scale platform continuously monitors and automatically adjusts your Microsoft 365 licensing. No additional fees, no per-user charges, no setup costs — included free as part of your CSP service. Most organisations see 15-30% savings in the first quarter alone.
Monthly Optimisation Reports — FREE
Detailed monthly reports highlighting unused licenses, underutilised subscriptions, and optimisation opportunities — complete with cost impact analysis and one-click implementation. These reports typically identify £2,000-£10,000+ annual savings depending on your organisation size.
Quarterly Azure Optimisation — FREE
Comprehensive quarterly reviews of your Azure environment ensuring right-sizing, cost efficiency, and security compliance. Our Azure specialists analyse your entire estate, identify savings opportunities, and provide costed recommendations. These reviews typically uncover 20-40% cost savings.
Licensing Consultancy — FREE
Direct access to our Microsoft licensing specialists for advice on SKU selection, compliance questions, migration planning, and optimisation strategies. No consulting fees, no hourly rates — expert licensing guidance included as part of your CSP relationship.
Billing Management — FREE
Clear, itemised billing with detailed breakdowns of Microsoft 365, Azure, and software costs. We provide department-level cost allocation, budget alerts, trend analysis, and spend forecasting — transforming Microsoft billing from confusion into clarity.
Migration Support — FREE
We handle the complete migration from your existing CSP provider including tenant assessment, license mapping, subscription transfer, user communication, and post-migration validation. Most migrations complete within 2-4 weeks with zero user disruption.
All of This at No Additional Cost
You pay Microsoft’s standard CSP pricing for your licenses — nothing more. There are no platform fees, no per-user charges, no consulting fees for optimisation, and no hidden costs. This is what being a proper Cloud Solution Provider means: adding genuine value beyond simply reselling licenses. We succeed when you save money, which is why our interests are perfectly aligned with yours.
Why Choose Next2IT as Your Microsoft CSP?
Most CSPs simply resell Microsoft licenses at margin — you could buy directly from Microsoft and get the same service. At Next2IT, we’ve built technology and processes that actively reduce your costs, optimise your licensing, and ensure you’re only paying for what you actually use.
Our Auto Scale technology, monthly optimisation reports, and quarterly Azure reviews typically save organisations 15-40% on their Microsoft spend in the first year alone. We’re not just a CSP — we’re your licensing optimisation partner, and we succeed when you save money.
Proprietary Auto Scale
Our intelligent platform continuously monitors and automatically adjusts your licensing to match actual usage — eliminating waste.
Proven Savings
Our clients typically achieve 15-40% cost reduction in year one through license optimisation and Azure right-sizing.
Microsoft Expertise
Our team holds Microsoft certifications and deep licensing expertise across M365, Azure, and enterprise agreements.
Complete Transparency
Monthly reports provide complete visibility into usage, costs, and savings — no hidden fees or surprise charges.
Seamless Migration
We handle the entire CSP migration process with zero user disruption — most migrations complete within 2-4 weeks.
Strategic Partner
We’re not just a billing relationship — we become your strategic partner for Microsoft licensing and Azure optimisation.
Microsoft Licensing Questions Answered
Common questions about Microsoft licensing, Auto Scale technology, CSP migration, and cost optimisation.
Auto Scale integrates with your Microsoft 365 tenant via secure API connections and continuously monitors license assignments, user sign-in activity, and feature usage. When the platform detects unused licenses (users who haven’t signed in for 30+ days, departed employees, or duplicate assignments), it flags them for removal. When it identifies users paying for features they don’t use (E5 users only utilizing E3 capabilities), it recommends downgrading to lower-cost SKUs. You maintain complete control through approval workflows, and the platform handles the technical implementation automatically. Most organisations see their first savings within the first billing cycle.
Savings vary based on your current licensing efficiency, but most organisations achieve 15-30% reduction in Microsoft 365 costs in the first year through license optimisation alone. When combined with our quarterly Azure optimisation reviews (which typically identify 20-40% Azure savings), total Microsoft spend reduction often reaches 25-40% annually. For a typical organisation spending £50,000/year on Microsoft 365 and £30,000/year on Azure, this represents £12,500-£32,000 annual savings. We provide a free licensing assessment that projects your specific savings opportunity based on your current usage patterns.
No, CSP migrations are completely transparent to end users. Your Microsoft 365 services (Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive) continue operating without interruption throughout the migration. Users don’t need to change passwords, re-authenticate, or reconfigure anything. From a technical perspective, we’re simply transferring the billing relationship from your current CSP to Next2IT — your tenant, data, and configurations remain unchanged. Most migrations complete within 2-4 weeks, and the only thing your users will notice is improved licensing efficiency and potential cost savings on your side. We handle all coordination with Microsoft and your current CSP to ensure seamless transition.
It’s completely free. There are no platform fees, no per-user charges, no setup costs, and no consulting fees for our Auto Scale technology, monthly optimisation reports, or quarterly Azure reviews. You pay Microsoft’s standard CSP pricing for your licenses — exactly the same pricing you’d pay through any other CSP or direct from Microsoft. We don’t mark up licensing; we make our margin the same way every CSP does. The difference is we’ve invested in technology and processes that actively reduce your costs rather than simply reselling licenses. Our business model is aligned with yours — we succeed when you save money, which is why we’ve built these optimisation tools.
Our Azure specialists conduct comprehensive reviews covering VM right-sizing (identifying oversized VMs and recommending appropriate SKUs), idle resource identification (VMs, disks, NICs that aren’t being used), Reserved Instance analysis (calculating ROI for 1-year and 3-year commitments), Azure Hybrid Benefit opportunities, storage optimisation (moving infrequently accessed data to cheaper tiers), security posture assessment (reviewing NSGs, Key Vaults, identity configurations), and cost allocation recommendations. Each review produces a detailed report with costed recommendations prioritised by impact and implementation effort. Most organisations implement the quick wins immediately and plan larger optimisations over subsequent quarters. These reviews are included free with your CSP service.
Yes, absolutely. Moving to Next2IT as your CSP doesn’t affect your existing Enterprise Agreements, Microsoft Customer Agreements, or other Microsoft relationships. CSP is simply the billing mechanism for cloud services (Microsoft 365, Azure consumption) — your enterprise agreements for on-premises licensing, volume licensing commitments, and other contracts remain completely separate. In fact, we often work alongside existing Enterprise Agreements, managing your cloud consumption through CSP whilst your EA covers on-premises Windows, Office, SQL Server, and other traditional licenses. We coordinate with your Microsoft account team to ensure everything works together properly and you’re maximising value across your entire Microsoft estate.
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Get Your Free Licensing AssessmentOur Proven 3- Step Process
Our goal is simple: to make IT work for you — securely, strategically, and without the complexity. From everyday support to long-term transformation, we’ve got you covered.
Consult & Assess
Understanding your IT Goals
We take time to understand your current systems, pain points, and objectives. Through strategic consultation and in-depth assessments, we identify opportunities to improve performance, reduce risk, and align IT with your business goals.
There’s no one-size-fits-all — only what’s right for you.
Implement & Optimise
Smart Solutions, Seamlessly Delivered
Once we’ve defined the right strategy, our team delivers secure, scalable solutions that improve efficiency and enable growth. From new infrastructure to upgraded services, we ensure everything runs smoothly with minimal disruption.
Smart, secure, and scalable IT – built for the future.
Monitor & Support
Ongoing Protection, Guidance, and Peace of Mind
We don’t just set things up and walk away — we stay with you. Our team provides continuous monitoring, regular maintenance, and rapid support to keep your systems secure, optimised, and running smoothly. You’ll always have expert help when you need it.
Dependable IT, backed by people who care.
Stop Paying for Licenses You Don’t Use
With Auto Scale technology, monthly optimisation reports, and quarterly Azure reviews — all completely free — let’s unlock the savings hiding in your Microsoft licensing. You might be surprised how much you could save.
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