New in 2025: Customer-Driven Updates to OfficeBoard and PowerBoard
Customer-Driven Updates to OfficeBoard and PowerBoard: Listening closely to administrators, FinOps leads, and security teams, Loves Cloud has expanded its product backlog around the feedback that matters most: actionable cost-savings, lower administrative effort, and clearer governance. The 2025 release wave is full of practical enhancements to OfficeBoard (our Microsoft 365 management platform) and PowerBoard (our...
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Optimize Microsoft 365 Licensing Costs in Large Enterprise
Microsoft 365 has become the backbone of enterprise productivity. However, with over 56% of enterprise Office 365/M365 licenses sitting inactive, underutilized, or unassigned, large enterprises are haemorrhaging millions in unnecessary licensing costs. This comprehensive guide explores proven strategies to optimize Microsoft 365 licensing costs and your investment while highlighting how OfficeBoard by Loves Cloud can...
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How to Reduce Azure Cloud Costs by 40% Using Automated FinOps Tools
Cloud spending has become one of the largest IT budget items for organizations, with Gartner predicting worldwide public cloud spending to reach $679 billion in 2024. For many businesses using Microsoft Azure, uncontrolled cloud costs can quickly spiral out of control, eating into profits and limiting innovation budgets. The good news? Organizations implementing automated FinOps...
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How Cloud Management Platforms Empower FinOps for Cloud Computing
In today’s cloud-first world, where cloud spending frequently outpaces cloud budgets and 30% of cloud resources are underutilized (Flexera 2023), Financial Operations (FinOps) teams face mounting pressure to balance innovation with fiscal responsibility. Enter Cloud Management Platforms (CMPs): the orchestration engines turning cloud chaos into actionable insights.. The FinOps Revolution: Why CMPs Matter As organizations...
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The Power of AI in Cloud Cost Management
In today’s digital-first business landscape, enterprises increasingly rely on cloud platforms like Azure and Microsoft 365 to enhance agility, scalability, and collaboration. However, this reliance comes with a critical challenge—managing and optimizing cloud expenditures. With complex pricing models, evolving infrastructure, and the sheer volume of data involved, manual management of cloud spending becomes impractical and...
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Why You Should Do Microsoft 365 Tenant Analysis Periodically?
A periodic Microsoft 365 tenant analysis is essential for maintaining operational efficiency, cost control, and security. For example, you can detect license waste and optimize licensing cost, improve security posture of your apps, users and devices etc. Result of this analysis should be shared with all the stakeholders in your organization, with actionable. OfficeBoard, our...
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Azure Cost Management with PowerBoard
Azure cost management is essential for organizations using cloud computing, to maintain their competitive edge, along with cost visibility, cost control and cost optimization. PowerBoard, our Azure cloud management platform is turning Azure Cost Management into its “Hero” feature. ➡️ Current cost and forecast along with monthly cost trends ➡️ Potential monthly costs savings based...
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Microsoft 365 Licenses Cost Optimization
Working with organizations of all sizes for the past 3 years, we recommend following 6 Best Practices for Microsoft 365 License Cost Optimization & Management. 1️⃣ Regular License Audits ⭐ Conduct monthly reviews to identify inactive, never-logged-in, and disabled users. ⭐ Reclaim licenses from employees who have left the organization. 2️⃣ Use Automated License Assignment...
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