Microsoft spend is the easiest six figures on the table after a deal - and the hardest thing to untangle by hand. Chronom connects to both tenants, read-only, and puts them side by side in 48 hours: what's duplicated, what's orphaned, what's over-tiered, and what it's costing you every month you wait.
A second agreement on a different anniversary. A licensing standard somebody else chose for reasons nobody documented. Admin accounts whose owners left before the deal closed.
The acquired team is already nervous. Removing a tool in month two - even a duplicated one - costs more in goodwill than it saves, so everything stays switched on by default.
The honest answer is “we're still mapping it.” That answer has a shelf life of about one board meeting, and IT integration is where everyone expects the easy wins to be.
You don't need the tenants merged, the identities consolidated or the agreements aligned first. Chronom reads each tenant as it is today and reconciles them for you.
Graph API consent per tenant, read-only. Nothing installed, nothing migrated, no dependency on the identity workstream finishing first.
Entitlements, add-ons, mailboxes, storage and real feature usage across both tenants, normalised into one view with the overlaps and orphans called out.
Start with what carries no risk - disabled accounts, duplicate add-ons, unlicensed-by-design mailboxes - then work through the judgement calls with the acquired team's input.
Post-deal, the last thing anyone needs is another dashboard to interpret. Every line names the tenant, the users, the change and the money - so it goes straight into the plan.
Sign-in blocked, zero service activity since the deal. Mail and OneDrive content is preserved or reassigned before anything is released.
The same capabilities are already entitled under the parent tenant's standard. Nothing is switched off - the duplicate line item stops.
No Purview, eDiscovery or Entra P2 usage in 12 months. Desktop Office, Teams and calling stay exactly as they are.
No interactive sign-in and under the shared-mailbox storage threshold - these never needed a paid seat.
Every line in a Chronom report is a decision with an owner, a SKU and a dollar figure. Nothing is left for you to go and find out.
“Low Teams usage detected” - a fact you now have to interpret
An alert queue that grows faster than you can triage it
A dashboard that hands the analysis back to you
M&A is the one scenario where the fastest saving and the highest political risk sit on the same line item. Chronom runs in one of two modes so you decide which pressure wins.
Pull the number as low as the usage evidence allows. Chronom ranks every opportunity by dollar value and shows you the full ceiling before anything is decided.
Every downgrade the usage data supports is put on the table
Add-ons and overlapping SKUs are consolidated to the cheapest entitlement that still covers real usage
Premium tiers are recommended only for the people whose telemetry actually justifies them
Keep every security and compliance control exactly where it is, and optimize within those boundaries. Savings are smaller - and nobody has to defend a weakened posture.
Your security baseline is a hard boundary: Defender, Entra P1/P2, Purview, DLP and retention stay where policy requires
Compliance-scoped users, admins and privileged accounts are excluded from downgrade entirely
Savings come only from seats and add-ons that sit outside the guardrails
During integration, seats move weekly: migrations, re-licensing, new starters, TSA users falling away. A one-off snapshot is stale in a fortnight.
Every scan covers each tenant until consolidation is done, so double-licensing during migration windows gets caught in days rather than at the next invoice.
Before anyone buys seats, storage or add-ons for the acquired org, you can see whether the entitlement already exists on the other side of the deal.
Two agreements means two clocks. Chronom keeps a defensible seat count against each one, so neither renewal or true-up lands on a number nobody prepared for.
If you acquire again, the process is already in place: connect the new tenant, get the combined picture in 48 hours, repeat.
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