Understanding software licensing and purchasing the correct licences for your needs can be confusing. We’ll recommend the best solution for you depending on what you need the software for, how many people will be using it and how many computers you have, and guide you through cloud-based delivery, global coverage, monthly or consumption-based billing and web-based configuration.
Microsoft provides tools enabling businesses to be productive and communicate effectively regardless of location. The software range offers several volume licensing programmes, each tailored to the needs of different sizes of businesses and types of organisations. This software is now moving to a new subscription model. We can help you maintain and migrate these legacy Open licenses to the new Cloud Solution Provider (Cloud CSP) programme.
If you have one of the options below, call to discuss how to move forward and protect your investment in your key Microsoft software.
Open licence: This allows a flexible approach to purchasing Microsoft products. With an upfront cost and the option of software assurance, this model is best if you’d prefer a one-off fee.
Open value licence: This is the recommended programme if you’re an SME with five or more desktop PCs and you want to simplify licence management, manage software costs and have more control over your investment. You can spread the cost over multiple years and own the product outright at the end of the term. It also includes software assurance, giving you access to valuable benefits such as software upgrades.
Open value subscription: This provides the lowest up-front costs of the open programme options with the flexibility to reduce the total licensing costs in years when the desktop PC count declines. This option gives you the right to run the software throughout your organisation only during the agreement term.
Adobe offer a wide range of business software solutions, from image editing, designing through to portable document formatting and electronic delivery and signing. Creative Cloud solutions offer a wide array of programmes as a service for monthly subscription fee, which varies depending on how many apps you use.
Exclaimer makes managing corporate email signatures quick and easy. The signature management software works alongside Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Microsoft Exchange and from wherever the sender is in the world. The software is designed to be used across all devices, so all email is guaranteed to get a dynamic and professional email signature. It also allows for easy management of other elements such as social media icons, promotional banners and legal disclaimers from one intuitive web portal.
Sophos offers products and solutions to cover all aspects of cybersecurity. From firewalls to endpoint and everywhere in between, Sophos secures your systems with solutions that are designed to work even better together. The Core components outlined below are all designed to work together and can be managed from the Sophos Central portal. MDI can manage this for you or work with an existing IT team to deploy and maintain the solution with you.
Sophos Intercept X is an ideal fit for businesses of any size looking to secure their workstations, laptops, servers and mobile devices and protects Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. Endpoint security solutions, sometimes referred to simply as antivirus solutions, may include a variety of foundational (traditional) and modern (next-gen) approaches to preventing endpoint threats. When evaluating solutions, it is important to look for solutions that have a comprehensive set of techniques to stop a wide range of threats. It also is important to understand the threats you are trying to prevent.
Sophos Firewall offers powerful protection and performance, the best visibility and management, and unmatched networking flexibility. It integrates with Sophos Intercept X endpoints to enable Synchronized Security threat detection and response.
Intercept X and Sophos Firewall are designed to work together and will share data to automatically isolate compromised devices whilst a clean-up is performed, then return network access to the device when the threat is neutralized.
Sophos Mobile is suitable for businesses of all sizes looking to protect and secure business data on personal or company-owned mobile devices including Apple iOS, Android, Chrome OS, Windows 10, and macOS. Sophos Mobile delivers extensive device management and protection for mobile devices.
To make sure that business data is safe and personal information is private, Sophos Mobile supports (BYOD) personal devices through the Android Enterprise Work Profile and iOS User Enrolment modes of management. Deploy corporate email and apps to a device and feel safe in the knowledge these remain separate from a user’s personal data, enabling productivity without compromising security. Admins retain control over corporate content without intruding on the users’ privacy.
Central Device Encryption offers full disk encryption for businesses of all sizes. It’s is ideal for customers who are concerned about lost, stolen, or misplaced laptops and require a crucial first line of defence. Sophos Central Device Encryption delivers full disk encryption for Windows and macOS. It leverages Windows BitLocker and macOS FileVault technology to secure devices and data.
Sophos Managed Threat Response (MTR) provides 24/7 threat hunting, detection, and response capabilities delivered by Sophos. Going beyond simply notifying you of attacks or suspicious behaviours, the Sophos MTR team initiates targeted actions on your behalf to neutralize even the most sophisticated and complex threats.
If you are looking to secure your systems and are adopting Cyber Essentials as a standard, the Sophos suite of products is an ideal solution to achieve both.