M365 licenses and Fabric capacity: separate bills, shared blindness

M365 licenses per person, Fabric capacity per consumption. Both tracked separately, both invisible together.

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CloudNuro helped us save 18% on our Microsoft 365 costs. Their detailed user-level reporting made it easy to identify where we were overspending.

Key Benefits

Visibility Into License Consumption

Track how every license is being used, broken down by users, departments and groups.

Right-Sizing Licenses to Save Costs

Downgrade underutilized licenses to more cost-effective options without impacting daily operations.

Usage-Based Renewal Recommendations

Make smarter renewal decisions with data-driven recommendations based on actual license usage.

Chargeback Reporting

Get department-wise breakdowns of license spending for accurate chargebacks and financial transparency.

Governance & Policy Enforcement

Implement governance policies to ensure continuous oversight and prevent license sprawl.

Security Posture & Risk Reduction

Identify unauthorized users and dormant accounts to reduce risk and improve security.

Through 2027, organizations that fail to attain centralized visibility and coordinate SaaS life cycles will overspend on SaaS by at least 25% due to unused entitlements and unnecessary overlapping tools

Why Organizations Overspend on Microsoft 365

One-size-fits-all Approach

Assigning high-tier licenses (E3/E5) to users who don’t need them.

Underutilized Commitments

Paying for licenses that are not fully utilized.

License Duplication

Paying for multiple services that overlap with M365 suite capabilities.

Lack of Visibility

Without clear usage data, it's hard to optimize costs and plan renewals.

Provisioning Complexity

High costs from inefficient processes for adding/removing licenses.

App Redundancy

Paying for additional tools that are already included in their M365 licenses.

Current challenges with Power BI on Microsoft Fabric

Organizations have transitioned to consumption-based capacity models without equivalent advancement in visibility and governance. The result is consumption without accountability, growth without forecasting, and spend without attribution.

No comprehensive understanding of Power BI usage

Why it's hard Usage is distributed across workspaces with no consolidated view of who consumes what.

Unmanaged usage growth with no long-term trend analysis

Why it's hard Adoption grows but cannot be governed.

Transition to the consumption model without cost control

Why it's hard Capacity billing replaces a predictable per-user line item with one that tracks compute consumption.

No forward cost forecasting for budgeting

Why it's hard Finance cannot project future growth costs with confidence, which stalls approvals and creates year-end variance.

Capacity right-sizing and runaway consumption risk

Why it's hard Over-provisioned capacity wastes spend. Under-provisioned capacity throttles reports and degrades the business experience.

No chargeback or cost allocation to departments

Why it's hard Consumption is centrally absorbed, so business units carry no incentive to control what they consume and central IT absorbs the waste.

Visibility is the parent problem. Growth, cost control and forecasting all inherit from it, which is why fixing them in the other order rarely holds.

Close the gap between what you spend and what caused it

The same view you already use for license waste, extended to the consumption side of your Microsoft estate.

Capacity and consumption trends

Current, average and peak utilization over time, plus which workspaces consume the largest share of your capacity.

Refresh and model cost drivers

Refresh duration and frequency by dataset, your largest semantic models, and their month-over-month growth, so you know what is moving the bill.

Usage against what you pay for

Provisioned users versus active users, access counts by report and dashboard, and content with no activity in 90 days.

Retained history and forecasting

Usage and consumption kept beyond Microsoft's retention windows, so you get multi-quarter trends and a capacity forecast Finance can defend.

Workspace and access inventory

Per workspace: who has access, what exists, and who owns it. And the reverse view, everything a single user can reach.

Governance and hygiene

Workspaces with no owner, datasets missing sensitivity labels, row-level security coverage, external shares past expiry, and overprivileged accounts.

Frequently Asked Questions

CIO, Government Agency

The visibility into our M365 usage allowed us to streamline license management and better plan for renewals. The ongoing governance is a game changer for security!

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