A comprehensive Microsoft review that paid for itself in 90 days.
$535K/yr
Direct annual savings
$210K
Microsoft credit recovered
90 days
From introduction to realized savings
The situation
A global water treatment company engaged Resourcive in 2024 for a comprehensive review of its Microsoft environment, license allocation, SKU alignment, Azure spend, and a compliance posture nobody had recently validated against actual usage.
Why this was hard without help
Microsoft licensing accumulates complexity through headcount changes, bundled upsells, and SKUs nobody remembers choosing. Without a rationalized view of what was purchased, assigned, and actually used, the company had no way to know whether its licensing spend matched its real footprint, or where a misapplied credit might be sitting unclaimed.
What Resourcive brought
A full environment review covering license reductions, SKU corrections, and a misapplied "email" SKU credit that had gone unclaimed. Azure was restructured alongside a compliance baseline, and a 2025 roadmap was built covering quarterly and semi-annual reviews, license reclamation, and renewal preparation as an ongoing managed service rather than a one-time exercise.
Results
Documented outcomes
- $535K in direct annual savings.
- $210K Microsoft credit recovered from a misapplied SKU.
- $142K in initial M365 reductions, part of the direct savings total.
- Savings realized within 90 days of the initial introduction.
- An ongoing roadmap of quarterly reviews and renewal prep, not a one-time fix.
