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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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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Empowering Business Applications with OpenAI API Integration
In today’s technology-driven world, integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into web applications is no longer a luxury—it’s essential for operational excellence and strategic advantage. At the forefront of this transformation is the OpenAI API, a powerful tool that enables businesses to make smarter, faster decisions while streamlining operations and enhancing security. This blog explores a real-world...
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Managing High Severity Security Alerts in Microsoft 365 with OfficeBoard
Organizations relying heavily on Microsoft 365 often face an ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats. Dealing efficiently with high severity security alerts can often be challenging and resource-intensive. This blog explores the common security challenges organizations encounter and illustrates how OfficeBoard, a cloud management platform for Microsoft 365, helps effectively manage these critical alerts, enhancing overall...
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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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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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Loves Cloud’s Products – Year in Review – 2024
2024 turned out to be a fruitful year for our products. Driven by our customers and partners feedback, we continue to save time and money for managing Azure and Microsoft365. Key Releases Per Quarter for Each Product PowerBoard (Azure Management Platform): Q1 (JFM): Inventory Module introduced to track resources. Q2 (AMJ): Link All Data with...
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