If today you have 100 licenses, and tomorrow, you have 50, you have already paid for one year's license. With any other software vendor, you buy licenses for one year, and you have to stick with that. If I have 100 users today, and tomorrow, I have 90 users, I can release my 10 licenses next month. I had to spend on nine extra licenses because I can't get a single license, whereas when we go for Microsoft, we can get as many licenses as we want. To add one more license, I had to buy a pack with a minimum of 10 licenses. ![]() We used to spend approximately $2,700 for those many licenses, and they came in packs. When we used to buy Symantec, we used to spend on 100 licenses. ![]() There are costs in addition to the standard licensing fees. "Licenses depend upon what you are looking for and what kind of security do you want to implement.You don't have to configure them on day one, but you have access to so many different tools that will protect your data, security, endpoints, and identities that you could build out a security strategy 18 months long, and slowly work your way through it, based on what you have available to you through your license." You get Azure Active Directory Premium P2, which gives you so many good things that you can configure and deploy. ![]() You get the cloud access security broker as well. You get the Defender for Endpoint and Defender for Identity. You get all your security and identity protection. You get your entire productivity suite through Microsoft 365 apps. This is in the sense that the E5 stack just gives you so many benefits. "Even if you are not registered as a not-for-profit, the offering that they have is definitely worth consideration. ![]() Go figure out how much it costs you per product, per user, and then come back and tell me how things add up financially." They think "Oh, it's expensive," and I'll ask, "Compared to what?" If you don't have it you will have to buy licenses for multiple products to fill the same security space that you would have gotten with the Microsoft product.
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