OPTICUS for Microsoft 365
Maximise the value of your Microsoft 365 investment
Opticus is the cloud optimisation tool built to help our customers to make the most of their Microsoft 365 investment by optimising licenses, improving productivity, securing identities, and getting a firmer grasp on usage and adoption.
Smart Cloud Optimisation
Leverage actionable optimisation, security, and governance insights to transform your approach to Microsoft 365.
- Optimise costs, adoption, and productivity
- Secure identities, identify risks, and curb access sprawl
- Control the Microsoft investment with governance, alerts, and Smart Tags
- Read-only and always-on Ask your Cloud AI Assistant for smart recommendations and insights
- Actionable cost, adoption, and usage optimisation insights, powered by EREN – our Expert Recommendations Engine
OptimiSe, secure, and control the Microsoft 365 estate
When it comes to maximising the impact of their Microsoft investment, many organisations find themselves limited by manual processes, limited native reporting, and complex requirements. Surveil has been built to dive deeper, faster to uncover more impactful analytics ready to be leveraged to optimise, secure, and control the M365 estate.
Surveil supports FinOps activity by making it possible to see, understand, and more accurately plan licensing costs. By aligning IT billing to business categories and resources to business context, it’s easier than ever to get a handle on cloud spend.
- Forecast licensing costs and prepare for negotiation
- Consolidate licensing complexities and highlight opportunities to convert waste into value
- Optimise license and resource costs
- Manage, improve, and contextualise spend
Leverage usage and adoption trends to drive M365 change programs. View licensed application and specific feature adoption across the M365 suite to better drive adoption and maximise ROI.
- Highlight shadow IT and third-party functionality
- Consolidate duplicated features and reduce risk
- Understand how teams are using existing M365 solutions
- Reinvest optimised spend in the functionality and licenses teams need
Reduce the cost and risks associated with leavers, while right-sizing access for existing identities to secure the user experience for all employees.
- Identify high-risk leavers and inactive licenses ripe for reallocation
- Evaluate multi-factor authentication (MFA) adoption and capability
- Highlight over-subscription of admin access
- De-risk the onboarding and off-boarding processes
- Measure risk through Secure Score metrics
Shape the Copilot adoption journey, leveraging Surveil’s insights to evaluate your organisation’s readiness, optimise the Copilot investment, and maximise the value of AI.
- Measure readiness against Microsoft metrics, including licensing and security
- Recognise which candidate users would make the most impact with a Copilot license
- Demonstrate ongoing proof of value with usage statistics
Make operational improvements, swapping manual analysis for automation – saving time and speeding up data discovery – while measuring and leveraging employee insights to spread positive trends and offer productivity support.
- Understand the impact of change on employees.
- Support new ways of working through hybrid working insights across devices, collaboration, and telephony analytics
Visualize Your Entire Microsoft World
Opticus channel partners can access insights into both Azure and Microsoft 365 from one platform to rapidly uncover revenue opportunities across their entire client-base
