Floris has a strong technical background and a wealth of experience in Microsoft licensing and negotiation. Floris helps LicenseQ's clients actively expand their licensing knowledge, improve their license position, mitigate possible exposure, negotiate with Microsoft and helps to reduce or optimize their Microsoft spend. Floris has worked in software licensing since 2011 and was employed at Microsoft during their transformation from a software vendor to a cloud solutions vendor. If you are in need of support or an extra pair of expert eyes on your Microsoft related licensing queries, please reach out to Floris via LinkedIn so we can set up a meeting to discuss possibilities.
Microsoft Ignite – a guide to all the updates
Microsoft Ignite – A Roundup of All the Announced Updates Microsoft Ignite took place last week on November 14-17, 2023 in Seattle, US and online. It is one of Microsoft’s major annual conferences for developers and IT professionals. Unsurprisingly, AI and Microsoft Copilot were the big themes of this year’s edition. Copilot is Microsoft’s latest […]
Microsoft Licensing Update November 2023
In our monthly licensing updates, licensing expert Floris Klaver talks you through that month’s changes to the Microsoft Product Terms.
This month he covers the latest licensing updates November to the M365 Copilot documentation, which launched on Nov 1st for enterprises. Other updates incl. Azure, GitHub and MS Office Pro Plus & M365 Services.
Microsoft 365 Copilot – Everything You Need to Know
Microsoft just announced the launch of Microsoft 365 Copilot. In this blog we have collated everything we know so far.
What is M365 Copilot? How much will it cost and when will it be available? What are the benefits? As licensing experts we obviously also dive into how to license M365 Copilot.
Microsoft Licensing Update October 2023
In our monthly licensing updates, licensing expert Floris Klaver talks you through that month’s changes to the Microsoft Product Terms.
This month there is a lot to cover with Microsoft announcing a new partnership with Oracle, updates & further roll out of Copilot, changes to Azure Reservations and more.
Microsoft & Oracle – Oracle Database @Azure
Microsoft & Oracle back together Topics in this blog: Quick fact sheet Oracle Database @Azure Microsoft & Oracle in the past New partnership: Oracle Database @Azure Benefits of Oracle Databse @Azure Who is Oracle Database @Azure for? How to license Oracle Database @Azure as a Microsoft customer? 1. Quick fact sheet Oracle Database @Azure Deployment: […]
D365 Customer Insights – How does it work?
In this new blog we highlight one of the recent Microsoft changes to Dynamics 365.
As of September 2023, Microsoft has updated its D365 Customer Insights offer. Read this blog for a comprehensive overview of what Customer Insights is, what’s new and important points such as pricing, availability and capacity.
Microsoft Licensing Update September 2023
In our monthly licensing updates, licensing expert Floris Klaver talks you through that month’s changes to the Microsoft Product Terms.
This month Microsoft announced big changes to the pricing for M365 Teams in Europe, a new Multi-tenant model & several other updates to the Product Terms incl changes to Dynamics 365 Customer Insights. Happy reading!
Microsoft Licensing Update August 2023
In our monthly licensing updates, licensing expert Floris Klaver talks you through that month’s changes to the Microsoft Product Terms.
This month there were many changes in Power Platform and updates to the Azure Customer Solution Clause, M365 & Dynamics 365 ERP.
Microsoft Inspire 2023 – LicenseQ’s thoughts
Our notes from Inspire 2023 which have licensing and/or pricing relevance. E.g. Bing Chat Enterprise, Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing and more…
Microsoft Sales Cycle – What’s behind the mistakes?
In this blog licensing expert Floris Klaver explains the Microsoft Sales Cycle and where he sees Microsoft making mistakes.
What is behind the mistakes at Microsoft? Bureaucracy, too many hands on deck….or is there more going on? Read our blog to find out more.