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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Secure Score reached at Efficient Group

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Secure Score before a Copilot rollout

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Azure regions in South Africa

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

Microsoft 365 Copilot

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

Draft the Q3 board summary from Friday's notes

Microsoft Teams

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

Microsoft Intune

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

Microsoft Entra ID

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

Microsoft Purview

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

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.

07:30

Morning triage

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.

09:30

Team standup

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.

11:00

Proposal draft

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.

14:30

Forecast review

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.

17:00

The day closes

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.

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.

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.
POPIA-aligned configuration applied as the default, not an opt-in.
Copilot enabled by role at go-live, once the readiness gate clears.
Timeline: 6 to 10 weeks.

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

Before. A partner per workload.

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.

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.

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

Microsoft Certified · Microsoft 365

CP

Microsoft Certified · Microsoft 365 Copilot

ID

Microsoft Certified · Intune and Entra ID

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.

From workplace review to managed Microsoft 365 in three steps.

01

Tell us the shape

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

02

Get the assessment

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

03

Review with a specialist

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

What CIOs ask before they book.

What does managed Microsoft 365 actually mean?

It means 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.

Is Copilot worth the licence cost?

It depends on the role. For knowledge workers who live in Outlook, Word, Excel and Teams, the productivity lift is measurable. For functions that rely on specialised line-of-business apps, the picture is more mixed. 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.

Do we need to be on Microsoft 365 E5 to get value?

No. Most SA organisations Braintree runs are on a mix of Microsoft 365 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.

How do you handle licence optimisation across a large workforce?

Monthly audits against actual use. Leavers reclaimed inside 30 days. Dormant accounts flagged. Over-licensed users right-sized. Copilot allocations reviewed against adoption data, not wishful thinking. You see a monthly licence report with the savings line called out.

What does a typical Modern Workplace engagement look like?

It starts with the 5-day scoped assessment. From there, a typical engagement covers tenant remediation, identity and Secure Score work, Intune device enrolment, and a role-based Copilot rollout plan. Delivery runs over 8 to 16 weeks depending on seat count and current state. The Run phase begins the day the delivery work closes.

Can Braintree take over an existing Microsoft 365 tenant without disruption?

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.

How does managed Microsoft 365 fit alongside our Azure and Dynamics 365 agreements?

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.

What happens to our existing Microsoft reseller relationship?

You can transfer the licensing relationship to Braintree at the end of your current term, or run a split model where Braintree manages the tenant and the original reseller holds the licence contract. Both work. Braintree optimises whichever model you pick. The tenant health and Copilot outcomes do not depend on where the licences are billed.

Insights for CIOs and IT leaders running Microsoft 365.

Copilot

How to roll out Microsoft Copilot without leaking sensitive data.

Copilot inherits your permissions and sensitivity labels. The three controls to get right before a rollout scales past the pilot.

POPIA and Microsoft 365. What SA organisations need to evidence.

Compliance

Data residency, retention and audit logging. The technical controls behind a POPIA posture, documented for your records.

Cost

The real cost of running Microsoft 365 in-house.

Licence drift, Secure Score decay and tenant sprawl. The hidden line items behind a self-managed tenant, in a South African context.

Modern Workplace is one surface of the Microsoft estate.

Azure Cloud

The infrastructure layer underneath. Migration and managed cloud, hosted on the South African Azure regions. Under the same agreement.

Security

The security layer that wraps it. Microsoft Defender, Sentinel and Purview. Managed detection, and a posture you can prove.

AI Jumpstart

The entry point for AI. The 30-day, business-case-led AI deployment programme. Copilot adoption beyond the productivity apps.

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.