Area 18 · Software and skills

Software and licences

Subscriptions are where IT spending leaks without anyone noticing. Contracts roll over automatically, a warehouse operative holds a top-tier Microsoft 365 plan while only ever reading email, and some accounts belong to people who left long ago. We help you decide what is genuinely needed, buy it from the vendor or a reseller of your choosing, and configure it properly. We are not a distributor and sell no hardware, so we earn nothing by persuading you to buy more.

2
services under this heading
Independent
we do not resell licences
1 register
of every subscription and renewal date
Remote
set-up and tuning of every tool

Where the money slips away

Reviewing licences is one of the quicker savings an IT budget can offer, and no system needs changing to get it. These are five typical patterns.

Leavers

A fixed offboarding checklist. Without one, a seat can keep billing for months after the farewell cake.

Oversized plans

Right-sized editions. Premium tiers assigned to people whose day consists of email and a browser tab with Teams.

Scattered subscriptions

A single register for all of it. Canva on the marketing card, Zoom on the director's card, and no one knows the total.

Silent renewals

Renewal dates in a shared diary, flagged early. Tools nobody remembers keep billing annually, and the cancellation window can be short.

Unlicensed installs

Legalise it or swap it out. Being audited by the publisher can cost more than buying honestly in the first place.

Seat management is a money question rather than admin. For example, a first count at a firm of around fifty staff may reveal several paid accounts nobody logs into. You do the review once and pocket the difference every month.

How the clean-up works

Users notice nothing. All changes happen online in Microsoft's admin portal and each vendor's dashboard, using access rights you control.

01

Count

We list each paid product: seat numbers, real usage, renewal dates and whose card each charge lands on.

02

Recommend

We suggest plans that fit the way each group works and spell out what a downgrade would cost you in features, Intune or mail archiving for example.

03

Buy and switch

You purchase straight from the vendor or through a partner you pick, using an exact shopping list from us. The changeover is timed to the renewal date, which avoids any double charge.

04

Keep it tidy

New starters and departures are handled by our helpdesk, and at intervals agreed in the contract you receive a short summary: how many seats, what they cost, what changed.

Questions and answers

No. We are not a distributor and we do not promise special partner pricing. You buy from the vendor or any reseller you like. Our part is telling you what to buy, how many and in which edition, then setting it all up correctly. That keeps our advice free of any margin.

It hinges on the vendor and on how often your team size changes. Vendors, Microsoft included, offer different commitment terms, and the term affects both the price and when you can reduce seats. Terms change, so we check the current ones and put both options side by side as a yearly figure so you can weigh them properly.

That is a typical starting point. We set actual installations and usage against invoices and propose specific actions: fill the gaps, downgrade, cancel, or move to a no-cost alternative where it fits, such as LibreOffice on machines that only ever open documents.

We neither sell nor deliver hardware. You order it from your own supplier, and we can draft a spec sheet ensuring the laptops match your Windows licensing and enrol automatically in Intune. Someone on your side switches each one on for the first time, and we configure the rest remotely.

Let us go through your licences

Send a list of the software you use, or simply describe the situation. We will match the right plans, cost them up and point out spending you can drop.

Hours
Mon-Fri 8:00-18:00 CET, reply within one working day
Meetings
Online via Teams or Google Meet

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