Know what your cloud is really costing you, and where it is quietly exposed.
A structured review of your cloud estate across cost, licensing, resilience, access and governance, turned into a clear picture of where money is leaking, where risk sits and what to fix first.
A clear view of your cloud, before you spend more on it.
Most organisations do not have a cloud problem so much as a visibility problem. Spend creeps up, environments sprawl, recovery is assumed rather than tested, and no one has a single, current picture of whether the estate is delivering value.
The Cloud Review gives you that picture. We examine usage and spend, Microsoft 365 and Azure licensing, backup and recovery readiness, security and access, and the way the environment is governed day to day.
The aim is to identify where money is being wasted, where exposure sits, what is already working, and what deserves attention first.
It is independent and commercially grounded. The output is not a generic cloud checklist, it is a practical decision view for leaders who need control before more cloud spend.
Spend and licensing
Usage, licences, dormant accounts, duplicated services and avoidable cost signals.
Resilience and recovery
Backup coverage, restore confidence, continuity assumptions and recovery priorities.
Security and access
Privileged access, user lifecycle, cloud permissions and control visibility.
Governance and ownership
Decision ownership, environment structure, reporting clarity and action accountability.
Built for organisations whose cloud has grown faster than their control of it.
This is for teams that need clarity before renewal, leadership scrutiny, budget approval, recovery planning or wider cloud investment.
Your cloud bill keeps climbing
Costs have crept up month after month, and no one can fully explain what you are paying for or whether you still need all of it.
You inherited a messy estate
Licences, tenants, services and access were set up by different people over time, and the whole thing now needs a clear, current view.
A renewal or board question is coming
A contract renewal, audit or leadership question about cloud cost means you need to know where you stand before someone else asks.
How the review works.
The review is structured, low-disruption and focused on decisions. The goal is to show where cost, risk and ownership need attention first.
Map the estate
We review your cloud platforms, usage, spend, access and recovery setup across Microsoft 365, Azure and connected services. You get one current picture instead of fragments.
Assess cost, risk and resilience
We identify waste, exposure, weak recovery and access gaps, then rank them by real business impact. You see what matters, not just what is technically wrong.
Deliver the Cloud Control Snapshot
You receive a prioritised action plan showing where to cut cost, where to strengthen resilience, who owns each decision and the practical next steps.
A Cloud Control Snapshot, not a cloud bill you still cannot explain.
The review produces a single, clear deliverable that turns technical and commercial findings into decisions: spend reviewed against value, recovery confidence assessed, access and security flagged, and a practical action plan with owners and next steps.
Cloud Control Snapshot
First priority
Next cycle
First priority
Focus next on licence waste, recovery evidence and privileged access before expanding services or committing to a migration.
Cloud costs grouped by value, waste signals and practical reduction opportunities.
Backup, restore confidence and continuity assumptions reviewed clearly.
Fixed scope. Clear price. No open-ended engagement.
The Cloud Review is designed to give you a clear starting point without committing to a migration, remediation project or larger cloud programme before you know what matters.
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Suitable for most organisations up to around 50 users or a single-tenant estate. Larger, multi-tenant or multi-platform environments are scoped after a short conversation.
We examine spend, licensing, backup, recovery, access and governance across the current cloud estate.
You receive a Cloud Control Snapshot with cost signals, priority findings and practical next steps.
The walkthrough translates cloud findings into plain English so leadership can see what to cut, strengthen or review first.
Cloud consumption, third-party licences, remediation and migration work are quoted separately where needed.
Questions buyers ask before a cloud review.
The review is intended to be clear before it starts: what happens, what access is needed, and what you receive at the end.
The fixed-scope review covers most estates up to around 50 users or a single tenant. Larger or multi-tenant environments are scoped after a short conversation, with a clear price before any work starts.
No. The review runs alongside normal operations using appropriate read-only access wherever possible. Nothing is changed or reconfigured without your agreement.
Most reviews are completed within two to three weeks of starting, depending on the size and complexity of the estate and how quickly access and information can be provided.
You decide. The action plan is yours to act on however you choose: internally, with SoftExponent, or with another provider. There is no obligation to continue.
Start with a clear picture, not a bigger invoice.
Before you renew a contract, add more licences or commit to a migration, get an independent, senior-led picture of what your cloud actually costs and where it is exposed.
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