Once again, our Smarter SaaS for Microsoft 365 has made it’s way to being a finalist for an award! We have worked tirelessly on developing Smarter SaaS over the past few years and are happy to share we have been nominated for Best DevOp Cloud Product of 2022 by Computing’s DevOps Excellence awards.
About the Smarter SaaS for Microsoft 365 Nomination:
Though Smarter SaaS launched in May of 2020, we have made improvements to incorporate businesses needs, especially keeping in mind the shift to remote work due to the pandemic. The Smarter SaaS tool was launched with the ability to track, monitor, and managing over 40+ SaaS applications, replacing manual Software Asset Management (SAM) tasks with full automation capabilities. However, the changes to the product focus heavily on Microsoft 365 management. Smarter SaaS for Microsoft 365 is now considered a Microsoft best practice and is in the Partner Center best practice library. In the case of businesses not having a SAM Manager, or time for their IT dept. to dedicate to SAM strategies, this is an all-in-one solution that provides accurate and actionable data that aligns with business goals. Whether that is increase ROI, improve usage, reharvest licenses, etc. Smarter SaaS can look over the past 180 days of software activity, all through the cloud, to determine what needs to be done to improve business strategies.
With Microsoft 365, one major concern we have found in our research is that 43% of users do not use Microsoft Teams as part of their Microsoft 365 licenses. We determined the main reason Teams is not used is due to lack of training! Smarter SaaS can pick up on individual apps of Microsoft 365 to see who is using it vs not using it in order to determine who needs training. We have successfully launched and addition to our Smarter SaaS tool which is Bigger Brains, an eLearning platform that can be directly integrated into Microsoft Teams. The set-up process is simple and quick though the cloud, we only need the organization tenant ID and we can assign the courses! We also offer a free trial with our Smarter SaaS to showcase the product alongside the Microsoft 365 training courses.
Over 1000 short, powerful video lessons on Office 365 related topics are available throughout all Bigger Brains courses. All our Microsoft 365 eLearning courses are searchable, so you can jump straight to the lesson or refresher training you need, right when you need it.
Our available courses include:
- Mastering Office 365 (2019)
- Mastering Microsoft Teams (2019) (also Teams Essentials 2019)
- Power BI Essentials
- SharePoint for Site Owners (plus 3 other SharePoint courses)
- Office 365 Essentials (2020)
- Office 365 Groups Essentials
- Office 365 Planner Essentials
- Outlook Online Essentials (2019)
- OneDrive Essentials
- Mastering Skype for Business
- Microsoft Sway Essentials
- Get It Done: Sharing Calendars
- Get It Done: Email Management
- Plus our award-winning courses on Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access!
Microsoft encourages their licenses holders to be at 95% efficiency or above. With Smarter SaaS, we can help get businesses using 95% of their licenses in a quick, efficient, and cost effective way.
We have also launched a Smarter SaaS Health Check, which is for for Microsoft 365 as well. We offer a free Smarter SaaS Health Check where we analyze current Microsoft 365 licensing management and provide a benchmark. After you are tested and scored, we will provide free advice on how to improve the benchmark.
We are happy to help you with our free trial version of Smarter SaaS for M365, the quick, easy, and cost-effective way of managing your M365 SaaS subscriptions. This is a zero-cost free trial and we do not ask for credit card information.
Our goal is to help your business achieve efficiency through intelligent, web-based software. Our easy-to-use Smarter SaaS provides detailed software usage reports and analysis on your Microsoft 365 license subscriptions. Other features include:
- Fully automatic reporting and analysis
- Viewing individual software usage to date
- Cost savings opportunities
- Optimization opportunities
- Training opportunities
- Reharvesting options
- Compliance reassurance
What really separates Bigger Brains from other Office 365 classes are two things: our “Uniquely Engaging” Teacher/Learner video format, and our top quality instructors.
Teacher/Learner format: All Bigger Brains Excel courses are structured in bite-sized video lessons that feature two people on camera – the “teacher” and the “learner”. Rather than a boring lecture, Bigger Brains eLearning replicates the conversational nature of a real classroom with dialogue, humor, and interrogation, which not only makes our video lessons easier to watch – it makes them more effective as well!
About Computing and the DevOps Excellence Awards 2022:
Winners will be announced: Wednesday 23 March in London.
Computing’s DevOps Excellence Awards showcase outstanding achievements from organisations, personalities and solutions that have successfully applied DevOps methodologies.
The DevOps Excellence Awards recognise and celebrate the best of every organisation, team, individual, product and tool. With a range of categories covering every stage of progress across the industry, there has been space for ever yone to enter and have the opportunity to celebrate their success.
More info: https://event.computing.co.uk/computingdevopsawards2022/en/page/home
To view the other nominees, please visit: https://event.computing.co.uk/computingdevopsawards2022/en/page/2022-finalists
To learn more about our past awards, please visit:
DevOps Excellence awards 2021: https://tbsc.cloud/devops-excellence-awards-2021-tbsc-finalists/
Rising Star Awards 2020: https://tbsc.cloud/finalists-rising-star-2020-awards/
SDC Awards 2020: https://tbsc.cloud/tbsc-finalist-sdc-awards-2020/
Cloud Excellence Awards 2020: https://tbsc.cloud/cloud-excellence-awards-2020-finalist-tbsc-smarter-saas-microsoft-365/
