Accelerate M365 value for your clients.
Transform complex licensing into clear roadmaps. Give your clients the most out of their Microsoft investment while you leverage automated insights and partner programs to scale.
Licensing Intelligence for Microsoft Partners.
Transform Microsoft Complexity into Competitive Advantage
For Microsoft partners, the challenge isn't expertise — it's visibility. The data to advise clients exists, but it's buried across portals, websites, and spreadsheets.
The features exist. The visibility doesn't.
01 — Manual processes can't keep up
Mapping features to suites, tracking entitlements, and building upgrade recommendations still happens in spreadsheets. With new features changing every month, manual work doesn't scale — by the time the analysis is done, it's already out of date.
02 — Licensing ≠ value
Licences get assigned, but the investment goes unvalidated. Without visibility into which features are actually available, partners can’t prove the value of what’s already owned, or justify the next upgrade.
03 — The Microsoft stack changes faster than partners can keep up
Microsoft updates licensing, features, and product structure constantly. New SKUs launch, capabilities move between suites, and features get renamed, re‑bundled, or deprecated. Without a platform to track what changed, partner roadmaps drift and pre‑sales recommendations lose accuracy.
300+ features. One coherent model.
At the heart of softspend is a maintained intelligence model that understands how Microsoft 365 actually works.
Workflow
- Connect — Securely connect tenants via Microsoft Graph API.
- Assess — Automatically assess 300+ features against client licences.
- Map — Map client roadmap and optimum licensing path.
- Deliver — Generate executive reports, scorecards, and decision packages.
- Track — Track licensing and feature availability changes across assessment cycles.
- Automatically map 300+ features to your client's tenant in "1 click"
- Track Microsoft roadmap changes, and align customer environments to upcoming features and licensing updates
- Framework led client upgrade paths (Copilot Blueprint, Zero Trust)
- Identify Microsoft Commerce Incentives (MCI) funding automatically
No spreadsheets. No guesswork. No manual interpretation.
Market Context
- $661B — Addressable market: Microsoft 365 commercial ecosystem opportunity
- $8.45 — Revenue multiplier: Average partner services revenue per licence dollar
- $1M — CSP threshold: Annual billing to qualify for direct CSP partnership
Intelligence that supports real Microsoft outcomes
Feature Mapping
Map 300+ features to licence SKUs, surface optimum licensing paths, and generate upgrade recommendations that inform your deployment roadmap.
Client Roadmap
Model client scenarios and user technology profiles and confirm future state roadmap.
Copilot Readiness
Evaluate licensing coverage and feature readiness across every tenant to build a phased roadmap for Copilot.
Identify Microsoft Funding
Surface Microsoft Commerce Incentives and ECIF funding opportunities automatically.
Microsoft Roadmap
Track Microsoft roadmap changes and align customer environments to upcoming features.
Licensing intelligence for Microsoft partners
Microsoft Partners (MSP / CSP)
Design the right Microsoft stack with tenant‑level clarity.
See exactly what each tenant is licensed for, what features are available, and where upgrade opportunities exist. Replace manual spreadsheet analysis with automated insights across your customer base.
Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs)
Accelerate deal cycles with evidence‑backed recommendations.
Turn entitlement and readiness gaps into clear licensing decisions aligned to Microsoft Commerce Incentives. Move faster from assessment to proposal with confidence in what each tenant can support.
Microsoft Consultants
Baseline Microsoft 365 environments in hours, not weeks.
Rapidly establish a defensible licensing and capability baseline across tenants. Build structured roadmaps, identify optimisation opportunities, and support renewal and upgrade conversations with clear, data‑driven insight.
Not another dashboard. A licensing intelligence layer
- Feature-level insights — Not SKUs
- Licence-aware guidance — Not guesswork
- Automated intelligence — Not spreadsheets
softspend doesn't replace Microsoft tools. It connects and interprets them.
Proof of value in 30 days
Day 1 — 1 Click
- Connect tenant via Microsoft Graph
- Run "1 Click" Licensing Assessment
Day 5 — $10-15K
- Unlock ~$10-15K Microsoft funding per tenant
- Map licensing gaps to upgrade opportunities
- Deliver executive-ready decision package
Day 30 — $300K
20 tenants. 30 days. Repeatable revenue.
- Focus on your top 20 accounts
- Establish licensing baseline across priority customers and identify licensing upgrades
- Surface Microsoft 365 funding opportunities per tenant
Join the Next Wave of Microsoft 365 Intelligence
The partners who move first will set the standard.