Same Price.More Value.

Prescriptive offers a wide range of monitoring, management and advanced services and solutions. For customers who partner with us for their Microsoft 365 subscriptions, we provide a number of value-added benefits at no extra cost.

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Advanced Reporting

Access advanced dashboards that go beyond the standard options for your monthly and quarterly reports.
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Expert insights & reports
We provide our clients with dashboards, monthly and quarterly reports that go beyond what comes standard from Microsoft. Our experts review the quarterly reports with [our clients], and provide guidance on usage, spending, security and answer any questions [you] may have about how to get the most out of your Microsoft investment.
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Standard reports
Standard reports that come with your Microsoft subcription.

Expert Guidance

A team of experts that can help you navigate the many options available and find the best fit for your organization.
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Navigating the array of Microsoft Services and Subscriptions can be challenging. Our team of experts is there to talk you through the options and make sure you make the right choice for your organization. This is available not just when you sign up but whenever you need it.
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Tech Agnostic

We work not only with Microsoft, but with other leading industry solutions to find the right fit for you.
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We’re big fans of Microsoft technologies, that’s why we have invested in a partnership with them and recommend their solutions to our clients. Sometimes a Microsoft option isn’t the best fit and we work with many other industry leading solutions.
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Provisioning Options

Provision your own subscription, or let Prescriptive’s experts take care of it for you. The choice is yours.
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Our approach gives our clients the option of provisioning their own subscriptions and services or having our team do it for them. Some clients do a little bit of both and we’re good with that.
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Premiere Support

Get fast and responsive support from our team that’s often faster than Microsoft's direct support.
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As a Microsoft Cloud Services partner we take first call support requests for our clients, and we have Premier support from Microsoft. Premier support is an additional cost option when you buy direct. Our team is also generally easier to get in touch with responds more quickly and is able to provide assistance faster than Microsoft direct. This is by design, Microsoft prefers most customers work through partners.
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Additional cost
An additional cost when you buy direct.

White Glove Onboarding

Maximize your investment in Microsoft with our help optimizing your M365 environment for the best experience.
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As part of our onboarding process, we will perform an assessment of your M365 environment. This is not a sales tactic, it is to establish a good baseline of your environment and how it is configured. Microsoft frequently recommends certain settings be applied as standard best practice and as much as possible we want to adhere to those best practices.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Do we have access to the same subscriptions, services and contract types?

  • Yes. The subscriptions available through a partner are the same as from Microsoft direct. You can buy month to month subscriptions with no commitment, commit to a year and pay up front, monthly or use some combination.

Does it cost more to buy through a partner like Prescriptive than direct from Microsoft?

  • No, the price is the same.

Can I still add services and subscriptions myself?

  • Yes. You can provision Microsoft Subscriptions and services yourself or opt to have our team do it for you.

How does support work?

  • As a Microsoft Certified Cloud Provider, we take first call and escalate to Microsoft if necessary. We actually think this is better, because we’re generally easier to get in touch with, respond more quickly and know more about your environment than a level 1 Microsoft support representative. In addition, we have access to Premier Microsoft Support, something that costs extra if you buy direct.

Do we have access to the same subscriptions, services and contract types?

  • Yes. The subscriptions available through a partner are the same as from Microsoft direct. You can buy month to month subscriptions with no commitment, commit to a year and pay up front, monthly or use some combination.

We’ve always had an Enterprise Agreement (EA) with Microsoft, why should we buy from PDS instead?

  • Microsoft has raised the minimum requirements for EAs to 2,400 users or devices. Organizations that used EAs in the past may no longer qualify.
  • Subscriptions purchased through PDS include Premier Support. Premier Support is an additional cost item on an EA.
  • EAs can be complicated to manage. You must define what services and solutions will be included and in what amounts for the next three years. You can true up additions but never scale down.
  • Buying through PDS provides the greatest flexibility because you can choose your commitment:
    • Consume licenses as you go with no commitment, or
    • commit to an annual amount, or
    • leverage a combination of the prior two options.

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