CRAYON GROUP HOLDING ASA 2021/01/29 16:11In Software & Cloud Economics, Consulting Services, Managed & Subscription Services, Thought Leadership
Welcome to another volume of our License Desk Newsletter, here to bring you the latest news and updates on all things licensing, agreements, and software management.
Microsoft - Current PromotionsPromotion | Applies to | Details |
Power Apps | EA, EAS, and CSP Customers | EA/EAS or CSP customers can acquire Power Apps per App licenses for a discounted price of $3/user/app/month* (from $10/mon*) with a minimum purchase of 200 licenses. EA/EAS customers can acquire Power Apps per User licenses for a discounted price of $12/user/month* (from $40/mon*) with a minimum purchase of 5,000 licenses. Offer expires June 30, 2021. *Pricing based on MSRP For more details - https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/ |
Free Audio Conferencing | CSP and Web Direct Customers | CSP Customers can get free Audio-Conferencing licenses for 12 months through their admin portal or Crayon Cloud-iQ. This is available for any new Audio-Conferencing seats being added as of October 1, 2020. Customer must have a paid subscription that includes Teams to be eligible (does not include the Teams via trial offer). Offer expires March 31, 2021. For more details - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/09/08/3-deals-meeting-calling-experiences-microsoft-teams/ |
Publisher | Applies to | Details |
Microsoft | Cloud Economics for Azure | For customers looking to move from on-premise to Azure or for customers looking to optimize their cloud spend, Microsoft may have funding available for assessments. Microsoft can fund Cloud Economics assessments through Crayon for approved customers. |
Amazon Web Services (AWS) | AWS OLA | For customers looking to move from on-premise to AWS or for customers looking to leverage optimize their cloud spend, AWS may have funding available. AWS can fund Optimization & License Assessments (OLA) through Crayon for approved customers. |
Microsoft 365 enables you to harness the knowledge and expertise of your organization, empowering everyone to make more informed decisions and take action faster. In 2019 Microsoft announced ProjectCortex, a Microsoft 365 initiative, that applies advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to empower people with knowledge and expertise in the apps they use every day. Based on customer feedback during private preview, Microsoft is redelivering these capabilities as a set of unique products and services.
SharePoint Syntex became available in October 2020 as per user-based add-on for all Microsoft 365 commercial customers.
SharePoint Syntex uses advanced AI and machine teaching to amplify human expertise, automate content processing, and transform content into knowledge. Machine teaching accelerates the creation of AI models by acquiring knowledge from people rather than from large datasets alone. Any information processing skill, that an expert can teach a human, should be easily taught to a machine. SharePoint Syntex mainstreams machine teaching, enabling your experts to capture their knowledge about content in AI models they can build with no code. Your experts train SharePoint Syntex to understand content like they do, to recognize key information, and to tag content automatically. For example, a contract processing expert can teach SharePoint Syntex to extract the contract's value, along with the expiration date and key terms and conditions.
SharePoint Syntex then uses your models to automate the capture, ingestion, and categorization of content, extracting valuable information as metadata. Metadata is critical to managing content, and seamless integration with Microsoft Search, Power Automate, and Microsoft Information Protection enables you to improve knowledge discovery and reuse, accelerate processes, and dynamically apply information protection and compliance policies.
More information on Sharepoint Syntex can be found here and information on Project Cortex can be found here.
Is IBM currently presenting you with an audit?Things to think about in an upcoming or current IBM audit:
- IBM's licensing is by version for every product and is constantly changing due to product bundles, name changes, metric conversions, and acquisitions and divestitures.
- There are sub-capacity reporting requirements by deploying IBM products in a virtualized environment such as VMware.
- What IBM products are licensed and what terms and conditions govern their use.
- ILMT is installed but is it configured with appropriate licensing rules?
Crayon has an IBM SAM approach, and because of this IBM will not audit those under our IBM SAM service if they choose to report through the IASP program. In the past, we identified over $80M in IBM optimization for a single customer due to sub-capacity reporting.
Crayon Services Spotlight: Office 365 RightsizeA Crayon Office 365 Rightsize engagement looks at more than the current state of software that has been purchased and deployed, it provides an overview of ownership, assigned licenses, and actual usage and consumption of the various services addressing costs savings associated and optimization opportunities.
The Crayon Office 365 Rightsize engagement is the fastest way to immediate savings.
Office 365 Rightsize Process OverviewFor more information: https://www.crayon.com/en-US/our-services/software-and-cloud-analytics/office-365-analysis/ or contact your Crayon representative.
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