Every Microsoft licence, every workload, one renewal date. CSP and Enterprise Agreement folded into one intelligent agreement. SA-grounded commercial governance, modelled before you commit.
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Braintree is one of nine Microsoft Managed Partners in South Africa. A licensing broker sells you the paper and leaves. Braintree models the agreement, then deploys and supports the workloads underneath it. One Microsoft Customer Agreement. One SA team. The licence and the outcome it buys, owned by the same people.
The commercial wrapper. CSP and Enterprise Agreement terms folded into one evergreen agreement, one renewal date, one paper trail.
Productivity and Copilot seats. E3 against E5 right-sized per seat by actual need, not a blanket plan.
Consumption and commitment. Azure Hybrid Benefit and Reservations, the levers most SA firms never claim.
Business application licensing. Sales, Customer Service, Business Central and Finance, sized to the users who run them.
Defender, Purview, Entra and the E5 security stack. Licensed to the tier you use, audited against what you deployed.
From tenant audit to a renewal date the CFO can forecast, the licensing estate is organised by lifecycle stage. We model the case before any commitment. Not by default.
Every Microsoft subscription, SKU and seat across Microsoft 365, Azure, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform. The licences you pay for and the ones nobody uses.
Duplicate entitlements, unassigned seats, mismatched plans. The audit names them before a single renewal decision is made.
Per workload, per renewal date. CSP monthly flex against EA commitment, side by side. The true cost of each path, modelled before you commit.
The levers most SA firms never claim. Windows Server and SQL Server licences re-used in Azure. Reserved capacity on steady workloads.
M365, Azure, Dynamics 365 and security folded under one commercial wrapper. One renewal date. One paper trail.
E3 against E5, per seat, by actual need. Pay for the security tier you use, not the one a reseller upsold.
Assignments tracked against the agreement. Growth modelled ahead of the true-up, never discovered at it.
Locked terms on the workloads that matter. The 1 July increases planned for, not absorbed blind.
Every workload on one date. Predictable spend the CFO can forecast. No staggered renewals across the year.
Annual benchmark against your usage. What to drop, what to add, what the next agreement should carry.
Not an opinion, a model. CSP against Enterprise Agreement, every workload, every renewal date, the rand figures named. Built on your real usage and your real growth curve. POPIA-aligned. The number you can take to the board, before you sign anything.
Four stages. The commercial case first. The full TCO modelled. Committed only where the case proves out.
Audit the tenant, the current agreements and the renewal calendar. Map shelfware, overlap and the gap where consolidation carries the strongest TCO case.
Full three-year cost model. CSP against EA, per workload, with the rand savings named. Presented to the CFO. Sign-off before any commercial change.
CFO sign-off gateConsolidate onto one Microsoft Customer Agreement. Right-size plans, claim the Azure benefits, set the single renewal date.
A continuous entitlement view and an annual commercial review. The true-up modelled ahead, the next agreement shaped by real usage.
Braintree doesn't sell you a licence and leave. We model the spend, then own the outcome it buys.
Different organisations need different commercial models. Read the column that applies.
Best fit. Most South African mid-market organisations. Growing headcount, changing needs, cash flow that prefers monthly to a lump commitment.
Best fit. Large organisations, typically 500 seats and up, that value a three-year price lock and a single annual true-up over monthly flexibility.
How the commercial model changes when Microsoft 365, Azure, Dynamics 365 and security run on one Microsoft agreement.
Microsoft is a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant across the workloads the agreement covers. Behind the commercial model: 220+ SA businesses grown, 100+ Microsoft-certified professionals, 10+ years on the Microsoft estate, and a tenant audit that routinely surfaces unclaimed Azure Hybrid Benefit and reclaimable shelfware before the first renewal decision. The savings are named in rands, in the model, before you sign.
One Microsoft Customer AgreementWe match you to the right specialist when you book the licensing review. Names land in your calendar invite, not on a page you scrolled past.
8 questions, mapped against benchmarks from 220+ SA clients. You get a tier. Above median, At median, Below median fixable in 90 days, Below median fixable in 12 months. Plus the levers to close the gap.
Current agreements, reseller footprint, renewal dates and rough seat counts across M365, Azure and Dynamics 365. Five to ten minutes on your side.
Braintree returns a three-year cost model. CSP against EA, the consolidation plan, the Azure levers and the rand savings named. Inside five business days.
CSP, Enterprise Agreement or a blend. Discuss the single renewal date and the South African data residency answer. No sales pitch.
The honest rule of thumb. CSP (Cloud Solution Provider) suits most South African mid-market organisations. Monthly billing, scale up or down per seat, no minimum commitment, change cadence that matches a growing business. Enterprise Agreement suits large organisations, typically 500 seats and up, that want a three-year price lock and a single annual true-up. Both sit under the Microsoft Customer Agreement. We model both against your actual usage and renewal dates before recommending one. The model is the deliverable, not the opinion.
A true-up reconciles what you have actually deployed against what you have licensed, usually once a year. The surprise happens when growth, new hires or a workload expansion goes untracked until the reconciliation lands. Braintree keeps a continuous entitlement view against your agreement, so headcount and workload growth are modelled ahead of the true-up, not discovered at it. You see the number coming a quarter out, with time to plan it.
Three levers. One. Overlap and shelfware. A tenant audit routinely finds unassigned seats and duplicate entitlements that were never reclaimed. Two. Right-sizing. E5 where E5 earns its keep, E3 where it does not, measured per seat against actual use rather than a blanket plan. Three. Azure Hybrid Benefit and Reservations. Existing Windows Server and SQL Server licences re-used in Azure, and reserved capacity on steady workloads. The savings are real and specific. We name the rand figure in the model before you sign anything.
Partly, and honestly. Enterprise Agreement terms can lock pricing for the agreement period on committed workloads. CSP gives flexibility but follows list price changes. The practical answer is to model the increase into the three-year plan, lock what is worth locking, and keep the flexible workloads where flexibility is worth more than the lock. We show you which workloads belong on which side of that line. Nobody can stop Microsoft raising a price. We can stop it surprising your budget.
Your Microsoft tenant, identity and workload data sit on Microsoft Azure South Africa North in Johannesburg or Microsoft Azure South Africa West in Cape Town, POPIA-aligned by default. Braintree manages the commercial agreement from SA-resident workstations under POPIA-compliant access controls. The Information Regulator has moved from reactive complaints to proactive industry sweeps, so documented data residency is no longer a nice-to-have. A licensing reseller working off an offshore portal cannot give you the same residency answer.
No. A change of CSP partner, or a move from a legacy agreement onto the Microsoft Customer Agreement, is a commercial transfer, not a migration. Nothing technical changes in your tenant. We map your current entitlements, model the consolidated agreement, and the transfer happens at your next renewal point with no service interruption. You keep every licence and every setting. Only the paper and the accountability change.
Both, and that is the point. Braintree licenses the Microsoft stack and runs it. Modern Workplace, Azure, Dynamics 365, security and support all sit under the same One Intelligent Agreement and the same SA team. A pure licensing broker sells you the paper then leaves. When a workload needs design, deployment or support, the licensing partner who also runs the estate is the one who answers. One contract, one team, one accountable line.
Three answers. Credentials. Braintree is one of nine Microsoft Managed Partners in South Africa. 220+ SA clients. 100+ Microsoft-certified professionals. 10+ years on the Microsoft estate. Commercial depth. CSP, Enterprise Agreement and the Microsoft Customer Agreement modelled against your real usage, not a quota. Continuity. The partner who licenses the stack also deploys and supports it, under one agreement. Most brokers sell the licence and disappear. Braintree owns the outcome the licence is meant to buy.
Azure Hybrid Benefit and Reservations are where the licensing model and the cloud bill meet. The same agreement, the same team, the savings modelled before you commit.
Visit Azure CloudMicrosoft 365 and Copilot licensing is only the start. The Modern Workplace practice deploys, governs and drives adoption on the seats the agreement pays for.
Visit Modern WorkplaceLicensing and managed support sit under the same Microsoft Customer Agreement. One renewal, one escalation lane, one team that owns both the paper and the estate.
Visit Support30-minute licensing review. We audit your agreements, model CSP against Enterprise Agreement, name the rand savings, and tell you whether consolidating onto one Microsoft Customer Agreement is the right move. No pitch deck.
