What are you paying for in Azure and Microsoft 365?
just cost optimizer shows you. With evidence.

We change nothing in Azure or Microsoft 365. What gets created is access: reader roles for Azure and, for the licenses, an app with read permissions and a read-only account for us. Your administrator approves the app once. If just cost optimizer runs in your Azure environment, the app's resources are added in a resource group of their own. For the license analysis your administrator makes the names in the usage reports visible and hides them again afterwards. Your team carries out any changes.

Read permissions only. For the Azure analysis, Reader and Cost Management Reader. The app's managed identity gets Cost Management Reader on the Tenant Root Group and read access for the people search. For the licenses, a read-only account (Global Reader) and an app that reads usage reports and the mailbox type. Technically that permission also allows reading automatic replies and inbox rules. We only query the type.

First, grant the read permissions. For Azure that takes about 20 minutes. For the licenses your administrator creates an app once. We do the analysis. For the budgets in the app, every subscription or resource group needs a label (tag) with the budget name, and we help with setting them. After that the owners approve monthly, and your team implements what they decided.

The first analysis shows that: for Azure in euros per month for each finding, for licenses without euro amounts for now. At just experts, implemented findings removed about €4,000 of monthly costs between the first analysis on 8 October and 17 October 2026, over a quarter of the Azure costs at list price. Our environment has many test and development resources, so this figure does not transfer to yours. If there is little to gain in your environment, the analysis says so.

In that case Azure shows list prices without your partner's discounts, and reservations appear at €0. Your invoice may differ. The app marks the price basis for each subscription, and savings are indicative figures at list price. For Azure to show you the costs at all, your partner has to enable the cost view for you. We clarify this before we start.

We build on them. The costs come from Microsoft Cost Management, and Azure Advisor serves as a cross-check. Advisor mainly recommends reservations and smaller machines, and Microsoft itself points out that the savings it shows can be higher than what is achievable. We check every cost driver for usage. For licenses we combine the usage reports per account with sign-ins and what each license includes.

For the budgets, yes, a single one. It sits on the subscription or resource group and names the budget. The app sets no tags. Someone on your side with permission to set tags does that, and we help with the tagging round. Anything without a valid tag is listed with its cause under “Unassigned”. The app does not evaluate existing tags such as “Owner”.

A few weeks before your Microsoft 365 contracts next renew. Under Microsoft's new commerce model, licenses can only be canceled within the first seven days after purchase or at renewal. The higher prices also apply from the first renewal after 1 July 2026. You need the weeks before for data protection and the decision on each account.

The analysis processes personal data because it needs the names in the Microsoft 365 usage reports. We agree on the purpose, who has access and the deletion period with you beforehand, with the works council where needed. For the run your administrator makes the names visible and hides them again afterwards. Only the people we agreed on receive the results list, and we delete it when the agreed period ends. We sign a data processing agreement beforehand.

In the Azure analysis, yes. We work with AI tools there: one reviewer judges based on the measured values, and a second tries to refute every verdict. Among other things the tools see costs, measured values, resource names and logs, which can also contain names of people. They see no content. We decide with you beforehand which tools are used. We are responsible for the findings. The license analysis follows fixed rules, and the app does not call any AI.

We do the first analysis with read access to your environment. After that the app runs as a dedicated instance, either in your Azure environment or operated by just experts. Every month the new analysis arrives in the app, where the owners decide and approve. The app does not send emails or Teams messages. At just experts it has been running since July 2026.

For mid-sized companies using Azure and Microsoft 365, from about 50 employees up to a few thousand. At just experts the app runs with just over 40 subscriptions, and the license analysis has run at customers with about 600 to 1,800 accounts.

That depends on the size of your Azure environment, the number of licensed accounts and who operates the app. We work it out with you in a call.