Gartner Report: Act Now to Minimize the Impacts of Microsoft’s March 2022 Price Increases

On March 1st, 2022 Microsoft is raising prices on Microsoft 365 licenses. With many enterprises already leveraging extensive licenses for their Office 365 and Microsoft 365 suites now is the time to optimize your licenses.

In this report, Gartner recommends utilizing a Microsoft software asset management system to help minimize the impacts of the price increase that can discover: 

• Over and undersized licenses (maybe you don’t need all those E5 licenses, or you need more)
• Licensed accounts that are disabled or haven’t used their licenses for 30/60/90 days
• Unused licenses (many enterprises don’t even know how many unused licenses they have)
• Users with duplicate licenses

Download this complimentary Gartner report to get the full lay of the land around the implications and recommendations to mitigate these pricing increases.

Act Now to Minimize the Impacts of Microsoft’s March 2022 Price Increases By Analyst: Yoann Bianic Published on 2 September 2021

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