Every workload on one cycle. The CFO can forecast it.
Growth seen a quarter out, never discovered at reconciliation.
Tenant data on Azure South Africa. Documented.
The commercial wrapper. CSP and Enterprise Agreement terms folded into one evergreen agreement, one renewal date, one paper trail.
CSP flexibility or EA price-lock, modelled against real usage
One renewal cycle the CFO can forecast
SA-resident commercial governance, POPIA-aligned
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. Licenced to the tier you use, audited against what you deployed.
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.
Built by Braintree
Audit the tenant, the current agreements and the renewal calendar. Map shelfware, overlap and the gap where consolidation carries the strongest TCO case.
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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.
R CFO sign-off gate
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Consolidate onto one Microsoft Customer Agreement. Right-size plans, claim the Azure benefits, set the single renewal date.
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A continuous entitlement view and an annual commercial review. The true-up modelled ahead, the next agreement shaped by real usage.
Different organisations need different commercial models. Read the column that applies.
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.
Both commercial paths costed against your real usage before a recommendation.
Every workload on one cycle. Predictable spend the CFO can forecast.
| What matters | Fragmented licensing | One Microsoft Customer Agreement |
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| Renewals | Multiple dates across the year. Each one its own scramble |
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One renewal date. One cycle the CFO forecasts
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| Spend visibility | No single entitlement view. Shelfware renews unnoticed |
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Continuous entitlement view. Overlap and shelfware named and reclaimed
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| True-up | Discovered at reconciliation. A surprise on the invoice |
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Modelled a quarter ahead. Seen coming, planned for
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| Azure levers | Hybrid Benefit and Reservations rarely claimed |
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Both levers modelled and claimed. Savings named in rands
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| Data residency | Managed off an offshore reseller portal |
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SA-resident commercial governance on Azure South Africa. POPIA-aligned
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| Flexibility | Swap any reseller at any renewal. Easy to pivot | Committed to Microsoft plus Braintree for the agreement term |
| 5 to 1 in Braintree's favour. Fragmented wins on flexibility. Honest. | ||
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CSP, Enterprise Agreement & the Customer Agreement
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Azure cost, Hybrid Benefit & Reservations
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The whole estate on one agreement
Current agreements, reseller footprint, renewal dates and rough seat counts across Microsoft 365, Azure and Dynamics 365. Five to ten minutes on your side.
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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.
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CSP, Enterprise Agreement or a blend. Discuss the single renewal date and the South African data residency answer. No sales pitch.
Yes. The consolidation runs in three stages. Stage 01 Discover maps every existing Microsoft licence, the reseller, the renewal date and the consumption tier. Stage 02 Evaluate models the Microsoft Customer Agreement structure that consolidates everything onto one contract. The model presents savings, term, true-up logic and renewal timing. Stage 03 Deploy signs the MCA and migrates licences as their current agreements lapse. Migration is non-disruptive. Your existing reseller relationships are formally exited per their notice terms. Typical consolidation runs 3 to 9 months.
Microsoft 365 customer data and Azure customer data resident in South Africa requires an Azure South Africa region on your subscription — South Africa North (Johannesburg) or South Africa West (Cape Town). The Microsoft Customer Agreement does not impose residency. Residency is set at the subscription and tenant level during provisioning. POPIA compliance requires customer data resident in SA for SA-resident data subjects. The Information Regulator’s 2026/27 enforcement priorities shifted from reactive complaints to proactive industry sweeps. Braintree provisions SA-resident tenants and subscriptions by default for SA clients.
The biggest licensing lever you own. 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.
The seats you licence, deployed and adopted. Microsoft 365 and Copilot licensing is only the start. The Modern Workplace practice deploys, governs and drives adoption on the seats the agreement pays for.
One agreement, one accountable team. Licensing 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.
