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$69,549
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Median: $69,549
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Microsoft Overview
Microsoft is a multinational corporation and technology company, best-known for its software products and line of operating systems.
Microsoft's 149 Products
Design and build enterprise-grade conversational AI bots.
Extract information quickly, accurately, and tailored to specific contents, without heavy manual intervention or extensive data science expertise.
Azure AI Speech provides a wide range of speech recognition and generation capabilities including speech transcription, text-to-speech and speech translation.
10 hours of free indexing for website users, and up to 40 hours of free indexing for API users.
For larger scale indexing, create a new Video Indexer account connected to a paid Microsoft Azure subscription.
An App Service Environment is an Azure App Service feature that provides a fully isolated and dedicated environment for running App Service apps securely at high scale
The Basic service plan is designed to run workloads that have low traffic requirements, and do not require advanced auto-scale and traffic management features.
The free plan is intended for trials, experimentation, and learning the service.
A high performance, high reliability, and highly scalable service that offers the latest Azure platform capabilities and innovations as a multi-tenant managed service.
Save money across select compute services globally by committing to spend a fixed hourly amount for 1 or 3 years, unlocking lower prices until reaching the hourly commitment
Pay for compute capacity by the second, with no long-term commitments or upfront payments.
Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances provide significant cost reduction, compared to pay-as-you-go rates, when committing to one-year or three-year terms.
Buy unused Azure compute capacity at deep discounts to run interruptible workloads.
Scale the service within the enterprise by enrolling a larger number of users and enabling asset-level authorization restricting visibility as needed
Massively scalable and secure data lake for your high-performance analytics workloads.
Includes interactive workloads to analyze data collaboratively with notebooks
Automated workloads to run fast and robust jobs via API or UI
Automated workloads to run robust jobs via API or UI
Includes interactive workloads to analyze data collaboratively with notebooks
Automated workloads to run fast and robust jobs via API or UI
Automated workloads to operate robust jobs via API or UI
Effortlessly process huge amounts of data and get all the benefits of the broad open-source project ecosystem with the global scale of Azure.
Run popular open-source frameworks including Apache Flink, Spark, and Trino using Azure HDInsight on AKS, a customizable, enterprise-grade service for open-source analytics.
Empower developers and data scientists with a wide range of productive experiences for building, training, and deploying machine learning models faster.
Gen2 is Azure Maps newest pricing tier that allows users access to all map features with volume-based discounts
Use Spot Virtual Machines to purchase unused compute capacity at substantial cost savings.
The Basic plan provides entry level hosting support for Spring applications on Azure and is designed for individual development and test purposes
Provides managed VMware Tanzu components and addresses enterprise requirements around configuration management, integration, portability, and flexibility
The Standard plan is designed for general purpose production workloads
The Standard consumption plan is hosted in Azure Container Apps environments and will interact with other apps running in the same environment with simplified networking and unified observability.
Included for all Azure customers
Trial and non-production environments
Business-critical dependence
Production workload environments
Azure Synapse Analytics is an enterprise analytics service that accelerates time to insight across data warehouses and big data systems
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service offering a secure, future-ready solution that can be used on-premises, in a hybrid environment, or in a multi-cloud setting.
Microsoft Copilot for Security empowers security and IT teams to protect organizations at the speed and scale of AI.
Complement other EDR solutions with comprehensive vulnerability management.
Strengthen security with AI-powered device protection.
Help protect multicloud and hybrid environments with comprehensive security across the full lifecycle, from development to runtime.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint P1 offers a foundational set of capabilities, including industry-leading antimalware, cyberattack surface reduction, and device-based conditional access.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint P2 offers all the capabilities in P1, plus endpoint detection and response, automated investigation and incident response, and cyberthreat and vulnerability management.
Includes up to 1,000 devices per site
Includes up to 500 devices per site
Includes up to 250 devices per site
Includes up to 5,000 devices per site
Includes up to 100 devices per site.
50 GB mailbox and messages up to 150 MB Outlook on the web provides a premium browser-based experience Focused Inbox makes it easy to track email that matters most Automatically move old messages to an In-Place Archive
Everything in Exchange Online (Plan 1), plus: 100 GB mailbox and messages up to 150 MB Built-in data loss prevention (DLP) Cloud Voicemail services with call answering, dial-in UI, and automated attendant
Microsoft Purview delivers data security, data governance, and data compliance solutions.
See and stop cyberthreats across the entire enterprise with intelligent security analytics.
Microsoft Unified Enterprise is an advanced support solution that combines personalized guidance, rapid incident response, and flexible service options to help organizations optimize their use of Microsoft technologies. With dedicated account management and extensive training resources, it empowers businesses to maintain operational continuity and drive growth while adapting to their unique IT needs.
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| Supplier | Microsoft | AWS |
|---|---|---|
| Median Contract Value | $69,549 | $2,000,000 |
| Avg Savings | 9.77% | 9.84% |
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Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"We decided to renew our Microsoft subscription with a reseller because we were able to reduce our price by 5%. "Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"Was able to leverage Trusted Tech, Crayon, US Wired for best discounted options for moving from monthly to annual. "Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"Leveraged economies of scale and budget constraints to negotiate the renewal uplift down from 9% to 5%."Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Microsoft pricing is based largely on volume. We leveraged reseller competition to ensure the lowest price."Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to increase the Azure commitment discount from 3% to 5% by leveraging a 3 year deal."Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Was able to leverage 2 resellers for best price option for a 12 month renewal versus going direct through Microsoft. Crayon was able to provide a $47,000 discount opportunity to earn more of the future business with their self service tool which is easy to manage."Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"After receiving the renewal proposal, advised engineers to look into suggested proactive services listed for renewal. After review team was able to change current proactive services to align to upcoming projects and needs moving forward in which lowered total annual cost year over year on a 36 month renewal. Total savings over $25,000 "Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Microsoft have had some large increases since our previous renewal, our reseller advised that they had not added any mark up to their offer helping keep our costs down as much as possible."Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Microsoft had a large increase since our previous renewal. We managed to get a small discount by leveraging reseller pricing, our incumbent was able to provide the best offer. "Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"During our renewal, we made the strategic decision to opt for the Microsoft CSP model instead of committing to the EA 3-year agreement. The Microsoft CSP model operates exclusively on a month-to-month basis. We secured our purchase through a reseller, ensuring the confirmation of the most favorable pricing options."Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to secure a 5% discount on a flat renewal after detailing budget constraints. "Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to secure $35K in savings, 13% discount after utilizing competition for the single year renewal. "Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"we were able to reduce our TCV purchasing our Microsoft apps for business licenses through a reseller"Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to secure negotiated pricing from the original contract and no renewal lift by citing set budget and continued partnership. "Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to negotiate an 8% discount on a descoped renewal by remaining with a reseller and citing budget concerns. "Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to secure a flat rate by facilitating a mid-term upgrade as opposed to waiting for the renewal date which would be subject to increased pricing"Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Purchased through reseller - Dell - and Dell was able to keep pricing completely flat. Dell stated there would be no uplift as long as Microsoft doesn't increase their pricing. If their pricing increases, that is the time they will increase the pricing on their side. Most contracts automatically renew with Dell. "Company with more than 1000 employeesA while ago
"We renewed via our reseller SHI without any uplifts involved."Company with more than 1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to get better discounts going direct to Microsoft than via our existing reseller."Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
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