Modern Workplace · Microsoft 365 & Copilot

Licensed in a day. Run for years.

Microsoft Teams, Outlook, PowerPoint and Copilot, deployed, adopted, secured and run as one managed environment. Under one agreement with your Azure and Dynamics 365.

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South African businesses grown
96%
Secure Score reached at Efficient Group
70%+
Secure Score before a Copilot rollout
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Azure regions in South Africa
The wedge most partners skip

Most partners ship licence keys. Braintree runs the environment.

Licensing is a one-day transaction. The reseller emails the keys and steps away. Braintree deploys the tenant, sequences Copilot adoption, hardens Secure Score and runs Microsoft 365 every day after. One agreement with your Azure and Dynamics 365.

The stack you run

The Microsoft 365 stack you'll run. Five products. One managed environment.

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Microsoft 365 Copilot

The assistant inside Outlook, Teams, Word and Excel. Deployed by role, where it earns the licence.

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Microsoft Teams

Meetings, calls, channels and external-collaboration policy. The collaboration layer, run.

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Microsoft Intune

Device enrolment, compliance policy and app protection. Every device accounted for.

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Microsoft Entra ID

Identity, MFA and conditional access. The first line of defence, maintained.

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Microsoft Purview

Sensitivity labels, retention and audit logging. The data governance Copilot reads from.

A day with Modern Workplace

One environment. One workflow. Every hour of the day.

Microsoft 365 between 07:30 and 17:00 when it is deployed, adopted and managed as one environment. The work the person sees, and the managed layer they do not.

07:30Morning triagems outlook | BraintreeOutlook · Copilot
What you see

Copilot summarises the overnight inbox and surfaces the three replies that matter before 09:00.

Running underneath

Intune confirms the laptop is compliant. Conditional access and MFA clear the sign-in. The mailbox opens on a managed device.

09:30Team standupms teams | BraintreeTeams · Copilot
What you see

The standup runs in Teams. Copilot captures decisions and actions. The recap lands in the channel before the next call.

Running underneath

Channel governance and external-sharing policy hold. The recording retains to the Purview policy. Nothing leaks.

11:00Proposal draftms word | BraintreeWord · Copilot
What you see

Copilot drafts a first version from the meeting notes and last quarter's proposal. The team edits. It does not start from blank.

Running underneath

Copilot reads only what the sensitivity labels allow. The client file stays inside its labelled boundary.

14:30Forecast reviewms | BraintreeExcel · Copilot
What you see

Copilot highlights the three variances that moved this month and writes the commentary line for the board pack.

Running underneath

The workbook lives in a managed SharePoint site. Version history and audit logging on. Secure Score holds.

17:00The day closesms teams | BraintreeTeams · Outlook
What you see

Files synced. Tomorrow's mail set to send at 07:30. Teams status to offline. The day closes clean.

Running underneath

Overnight, Braintree monitors tenant health, reviews the licence count and tracks adoption. You get a monthly summary, not a ticket.

The workday is 07:30 to 17:00. The environment runs every hour of every day. Braintree monitors tenant health, maintains Secure Score, optimises the licence count and reports monthly. One SLA. One team.
How we deploy

Deploy, Adopt, Secure, Run.

Four stages. The first three get the tenant clean, adopted and hardened. The fourth is where the relationship begins.

01

Deploy

Tenant provisioned or remediated. Identity, Exchange, SharePoint, Teams and Intune configured to the Braintree baseline from day one.

02

Adopt

Role-based training and a champions network. Copilot rollout is gated on the readiness check: data classified, Secure Score cleared, governance written.

Copilot readiness gate
03

Secure

Conditional access, MFA, sensitivity labels and retention enforced. Microsoft Secure Score baselined and reported every month.

04

Run

Round-the-clock tenant health, licence optimisation and adoption tracking. Quarterly reviews. One SLA, under the one agreement.

Licensing is a one-day transaction. Deploy, Adopt, Secure and Run is the work that lasts for years.

Two paths. One managed environment.

The fork is where you start, not where you land.

A new deployment and a takeover of an existing tenant move differently. Both arrive at the same place: a deployed, adopted, secured and managed environment.

New Microsoft 365 deployment

Best when you're standing up Microsoft 365 fresh, or moving off a basic email and file setup.

  • Tenant built to the Braintree baseline. Identity, Exchange, SharePoint, Teams and Intune from day one.
  • Compliance-aligned configuration applied as the default, not an opt-in.
  • Copilot enabled by role at go-live, once the readiness gate clears.

Take over an existing tenant

Best when you already run Microsoft 365 but nobody owns tenant health, Secure Score or Copilot.

  • Most tenants taken over with no user-visible change on day one.
  • Current state baselined and documented. A risk register you sign off before any change.
  • Licence drift reclaimed, Secure Score lifted, Copilot rollout sequenced.
Timeline: 8 to 16 weeks, against the risk register.
One environment. The commercial case.

One Microsoft Partner. One Intelligent Agreement. One Unified, Secure Solution.

Most organisations buy Microsoft 365 from one reseller, Azure from another and Dynamics 365 from a third. Three relationships, three renewal cycles, three support queues for one Microsoft estate. Braintree replaces all of it with a single agreement and a single team.

A vendor for every workload, and the admin that comes with each.

Before. A partner per workload.

  • A separate Azure infrastructure partner
  • Three renewal cycles and three support queues to manage
  • No single partner accountable when an issue crosses two of them
One Braintree agreement. One SLA. One roadmap.

After. One Intelligent Agreement.

  • One Microsoft Customer Agreement across Microsoft 365, Azure and Dynamics 365
  • One quarterly review and one roadmap across the whole estate
  • Compliance-aligned by default. Data on the South African Azure regions
A hybrid Microsoft Teams meeting in a Braintree-run boardroom
A hybrid standup on Microsoft Teams. The workplace we run, in the room and on the call.
Proof, not promises
96%
Microsoft Secure Score reached at Efficient Group, international best practice.
We are building platforms that will make us a pioneer, based on future proof infrastructure.
Heiko Weidhase, CEO of Efficient Group. A 500-staff financial services firm, onboarded to managed Microsoft 365 with Braintree.
The honest comparison

Self-managed Microsoft 365, Braintree-managed, and the practical winner.

The work
Self-managed
Braintree-managed
Deployment
A pilot that stalls without an adoption plan
Deploy, Adopt, Secure and Run begins
Secure Score
Decays between projects
Baselined, maintained, reported every month
Copilot
Switched on without a readiness gate
Role-based, readiness-gated, adoption measured
Licences
Drift, no audit
Monthly audit against use. Leavers reclaimed
Accountability
Internal IT fire-fights between priorities
One SLA, one team, one agreement
Upfront invoice
No managed-service line on the invoice
A managed-service fee, priced to the outcome
5 to 1 in Braintree's favour. Self-managed wins on the upfront invoice line. Honest.
Talk to a specialist

Three specialists. One direct line. Plus the 8-minute benchmark.

We match you to the right specialist when you book the workplace review. Names land in your calendar invite, not on a page you scrolled past.

MW

Modern Workplace lead

Microsoft 365 deployment & adoption
Microsoft Certified · Microsoft 365
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Copilot specialist

Readiness, governance & rollout
Microsoft Certified · Microsoft 365 Copilot
ID

Identity & device lead

Intune, Entra ID & Secure Score
Microsoft Certified · Intune and Entra ID
8-minute benchmark

How does your Microsoft 365 estate compare to the SA enterprise median?

8 questions, mapped against benchmarks from 220+ South African clients. You get a tier, and the actions to close the gap. No sales call required to see your number.

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How it works

From workplace review to managed Microsoft 365 in three steps.

1

Tell us the shape

Your seat count, current Microsoft 365 licensing mix, and your top priority. Five to ten minutes on your side.

2

Get the assessment

Braintree returns a written Modern Workplace assessment. Cost, Secure Score posture and Copilot readiness. Inside five business days.

3

Review with a specialist

Review the findings, choose the path, discuss Copilot readiness and the data residency answer. No sales pitch.

FAQ

What CIOs ask before they book.

Braintree owns the outcome of your Microsoft 365 environment, not just the licence transaction. That covers tenant health, Secure Score, licence optimisation, adoption, Copilot rollout, Intune and conditional access. Your in-house team keeps strategic control. Braintree runs the day to day.

It depends on the role. For knowledge workers who live in Outlook, Word, Excel and Teams, the productivity lift is measurable. Braintree scopes Copilot by role, not by org chart, so the spend lands where the return is real. The readiness gate runs first: data classified, Secure Score cleared, governance written.

No. Most SA organisations Braintree runs are on a mix of E3, E5 and Business Premium. E5 adds Defender and Purview value that matters for regulated industries. For everyone else, Business Premium with targeted E5 add-ons is often the right balance. Braintree audits and recommends. It does not push tier upgrades.

Monthly audits against actual use. Leavers reclaimed inside 30 days. Dormant accounts flagged. Over-licensed users right-sized. Copilot allocations reviewed against adoption data. You see a monthly licence report with the savings line called out.

Yes. Most tenants are taken over with no user-visible change on day one. Braintree baselines the environment, documents the current state, then sequences hardening and optimisation against a risk register you sign off. Users feel nothing. The admin surface starts working properly.

One Braintree agreement covers your full Microsoft estate: Microsoft 365, Azure, Dynamics 365, security and devices. One invoice, one SLA, one contact. That is the One Intelligent Agreement model. You stop managing three vendor relationships and start managing one outcome.

Hand your CIO a workplace that runs itself

Let's grow.

Book the 30-minute workplace review. We will show you the Secure Score posture, the Copilot readiness picture and the data residency answer. On one agreement, with one team accountable.

Specialists in Business Applications, Modern Workplace and Azure.