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What is NCE?
Microsoft is driving towards greater standardization across their terms with a simplified and streamlined purchasing experience through a single MCA that scales to your organization’s business needs. This continued effort by Microsoft will create a better experience for customers by building common technology infrastructure.
With NCE, customers can accelerate their cloud journey with:
- Optimizing their cloud spend with predictable invoicing.
- Faster adoption of new products and solutions to maximize value
- Improved subscription management capabilities with additional benefits being available
Benefits of subscription licensing
Microsoft Volume Licensing for Office 365® makes it easier and more affordable to run software and cloud applications on multiple computers within your organization.
New commerce CSP
Term options
- Monthly term — Month-to-month flexibility with no long-term commitment required
- Annual — Long-term price protection and discounted pricing compared to monthly
- Multi-year — Available for select Microsoft 365 products
Billing options
- Monthly, upfront, or annual (dependent upon term)
Cancellation or license reduction policy
- Ability to cancel or modify license count within 7 days following subscription purchase or renewal with proration applied.
Enjoy additional benefits through New Commerce such as
- Telco consumption-based billing
- Hybrid use benefit for Microsoft 365
- Home use program for Microsoft 365
- Multi geo add-ons for Microsoft 365
- Coterminosity — Ability to align end dates of new subscriptions with existing Insight NCE subscriptions for ease of management
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Opportunity / Value Statement
Consistent Value Proposition across all customer opportunities:
- Net New Clients
- Existing Volume Licensing Clients
- Clients currently with competing CSP providers
- Customers purchasing direct from Microsoft
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Seat-based offers
Previously referred to as Modern Commerce, this multi-phased initiative was initially introduced in 2019 with the updated Microsoft Customer Agreement and launch of Azure Plan. Microsoft has expanded this cloud portfolio with seat-based offers such as Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Windows 365.
NCE provides flexibility in how you manage software subscriptions with a single Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) that scales to your business needs and drives greater efficiency.
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Managing your licenses through NCE is even easier with our Insight Cloud Care included in your subscription.
Your organization has access to locally based, certified Microsoft® resources; tools to monitor and optimize your subscriptions, and a platform to better enable your growth in the cloud and align it to your business objectives.