Software Licensing in 2024 with Mary Jo Foley
Is there a strategy for buying software licenses? Richard talks with Mary Jo Foley about her new role at Directions on Microsoft, including her experiences around the multi-day workshops on effectively buying software licenses today. Mary Jo talks about understanding the entire landscape of software licenses your organization needs, how they are used, and how you can build a strategy to negotiate a better licensing cost for your organization. You already do much of the work for this, but bringing everything together is a challenge - but worth it!
RunAs Radio · Richard Campbell, Mary Jo Foley
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Is there a strategy for buying software licenses? Richard talks with Mary Jo Foley about her new role at Directions on Microsoft, including her experiences around the multi-day workshops on effectively buying software licenses today. Mary Jo talks about understanding the entire landscape of software licenses your organization needs, how they are used, and how you can build a strategy to negotiate a better licensing cost for your organization. You already do much of the work for this, but bringing everything together is a challenge - but worth it!
Links:
- Directions on Microsoft
- Dynamics 365
- Copilot for Microsoft 365
- Microsoft Purview
- Microsoft Priva
- Microsoft Security Copilot
- Licensing Boot Camp
Recorded December 14, 2023