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Our commitment is to accelerate your transformation by unlocking the power of people and technology. It’s in our DNA. This isn't just a tagline; it’s the driving force behind every solution we architect and every challenge we solve. As a leading Solutions Integrator, we’re dedicated to diving deep into your most complex technology puzzles, expertly combining the right hardware, software, and – crucially – the strategic services that bring it all to life. Our laser focus? Ensuring you achieve a maximum Return on Investment (ROI) from your complete Microsoft Technology environment. Choosing to deepen your partnership with Insight means engaging a team that’s not only technically astute but is also passionately invested in your economic success and strategic ambitions. We guide you on a clear, illuminated path, ensuring your Microsoft technologies become a powerful, reliable engine for sustained business growth.
Unlock Microsoft's True Potential
It’s In Our DNA to Accelerate Your Transformation
From Strength to Strength
Charting the Course Beyond the Horizon
Before a single licence is renewed or a new service considered, we start with your vision. It’s paramount to align your IT investments with your strategic business objectives. Think of us as your strategic cartographers; we help you define precisely which Microsoft capabilities your business needs to not just navigate the current landscape, but to conquer new territories.
We’ve structured our approach to build upon our existing relationship, supporting you at every stage of your Microsoft journey and helping you get further, faster.
You’re likely familiar with procuring Microsoft technology through us, whether via an Enterprise Agreement (EA) or the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) programme. Our long-standing relationship and profound expertise mean we’re perfectly positioned to ensure your current arrangement is not just functional, but optimal for your evolving strategic ambitions.
Optimising Your Licensing Agreement
Acquiring licences is just the launchpad. True value ignites when technology is effectively deployed, wholeheartedly adopted, and consistently utilised by your team. We know that underutilised technology is a common pitfall, silently eroding your planned ROI. We’re here to bridge that gap, transforming potential energy into kinetic business results. This is where Insight truly demonstrates its evolution from a procurement expert to your end-to-end Solutions Integrator.
Igniting Potential, Delivering Impact
Maximise Every Investment: We ensure you extract every ounce of value from your Microsoft estate through strategic procurement, relentless optimisation, and ensuring technology is truly used. You’ve already seen how we manage your licences; now imagine that same diligence applied to optimising your cloud spend and project delivery. Innovate Without Limits, Faster: We help you break today's boundaries. By offloading operational burdens and providing access to cutting-edge expertise in areas like AI and Data Analytics, we free your teams to focus on what’s next, accelerating your transformation journey. Many of our clients find that by partnering with Insight for Managed Cloud Services, their IT teams regain an average of 20 hours a week to focus on innovation projects. Achieve Your Ambitious Goals with Confidence: From intricate cloud migrations to deploying sophisticated cybersecurity measures, we simplify the complex. Our end-to-end capabilities and deep Microsoft knowledge mean you gain peace of mind, knowing your critical systems are managed, secure, and optimised by experts who understand your business.
Realising Tangible Business Outcomes, Together
Partnering more deeply with Insight means gaining more than just technology; you gain a strategic ally, a proven Solutions Integrator, utterly dedicated to your success. For you, our valued client, this evolution in our partnership translates to:
Start with a complimentary Microsoft review. Visit uk.insight.com or contact your Account Manager today.
You’ve experienced the power of our procurement expertise—now discover how Insight can help you: ⦁ Reduce Azure costs by up to 30% ⦁ Accelerate deployment of new Microsoft capabilities ⦁ Drive higher adoption and ROI from day one
Ready to Amplify Your Microsoft Journey?
Our Purpose
Your Microsoft Journey, Amplified by Insight
The Insight Difference
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Expert Guidance from Your Dedicated Cloud Strategists: Our Cloud Advisory experts aren't just consultants; they become an extension of your team. They work with you to build and refine a strategic roadmap that ensures your Microsoft investments are always perfectly synchronised with your overarching goals, driving that all-important ROI. This is how we help you see and surpass what’s possible today.
We helped a retail client achieve Cyber Essentials, securing their business with Microsoft Defender and Purview through our expertly managed, funded programmes.
How we help you:
Cloud Solution Provider (CSP): CSP offers superb flexibility. When you partner with Insight, you’re already benefiting from simplified management and billing. Your inclusive Insight Cloud Care service provides essential onboarding, intuitive usage and billing portals, and foundational support. We continuously monitor your Azure consumption, offering proactive cost optimisation guidance. Think of it as having a financial co-pilot for your cloud spend, always looking for efficiencies. Clients often see an average saving of 20-30% in Azure spend through Insight’s services.
We secured a global engineering client multi-million dollar savings on their five-year EA renewal, optimising their discount model and obtaining $150,000 in Microsoft investment funding.
Navigating Procurement & Renewal Optimising Your Engine Room
Ensuring Maximum ROI Igniting Potential, Delivering Impact
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Insight is not just a supplier, we are the world’s leading Solutions Integrator. 30,000+ Microsoft clients worldwide 30+ years of experience 1,000+ certified Microsoft professionals All available Gold competencies 22 Advanced specialisations
You already know Insight. You’ve trusted us for your Microsoft technology procurement and licensing, and we value that partnership immensely. But what if that foundation could support something even more ambitious? What if the partner who expertly navigates your licensing could also be the catalyst for unlocking unprecedented value and innovation from your entire Microsoft estate? Microsoft technology is fundamental to your business success today. It boosts productivity, fuels innovation, and secures your critical data. Yet, with Microsoft releasing thousands of new features each year, their technologies are constantly evolving. For many organisations, keeping pace with these rapid advancements and turning them into tangible business breakthroughs is a significant challenge. That’s where your journey with Insight evolves. We’re not just a supplier; we are the leading Solutions Integrator. We’re here to transform your Microsoft investment from a cost centre into a strategic powerhouse, propelling your business further, faster.
Understanding Your Ambition Charting the Course Beyond the Horizon
Typical licensing options:
For more licensing options contact your Insight account manager
The Power of Consolidation – Why More Insight Means More Value: When you consolidate your Microsoft lifecycle with Insight – from licensing and procurement through to strategic advice, deployment, and managed services – you unlock powerful synergies. Imagine a single, accountable partner who understands your entire Microsoft ecosystem. This means streamlined management, perfectly integrated solutions, enhanced security posture, and often, significant cost efficiencies.
Achieve Microsoft outcomes your way: Your team enabled by us, or our experts deliver for you.
We accelerated a legal client’s AI transformation, leveraging funding to cut costs by 30%, revolutionise productivity and halve task times.
Microsoft Funded Engagements – Experience the Difference: We actively leverage Microsoft funded programmes to offer you cost-effective ways to discover and deploy new capabilities, often with significant financial support. It’s the perfect, low-friction way to experience Insight’s broader strategic expertise firsthand.
Elevate your cloud strategy with Insight Cloud Care: Free your team for strategic innovation with Insight Cloud Care. Our experts proactively manage and optimise your Azure & Microsoft 365 environments 24/7 – from incident resolution to continuous cost optimisation – accelerating your cloud’s performance and value.
Accelerated Time-to-Value & Driving Adoption: Our specialist services provide the skills and capacity that can be hard to build internally, dramatically shortening your time-to-value. Our Adoption & Change Management services ensure your teams don’t just have the tools, but that they love using them, boosting productivity and ROI from your existing investments.
Understanding Your Ambition
Navigating Procurement & Renewal
Ensuring Maximum ROI
Continuous Expert Support & Strategic Execution: Our Cloud Advisory experts remain by your side, but now they’re flanked by a comprehensive portfolio of execution capabilities. Whether it’s a complex Cloud Migration, establishing robust FinOps practices, harnessing Data & AI, modernising your Digital Workplace, fortifying Security, or developing new Applications & Integrations – we have the deep expertise you need.
Enterprise Agreement (EA) Optimisation: Ideal for larger organisations, EAs offer stability and value but managing them can be a tightrope walk of true-ups and compliance. Our Volume Licensing (VL) Care service is your safety net and strategic lever. We de-risk EA management, expertly navigating usage reviews, compliance, and pricing to turn potential headaches into strategic advantages.
Insightful Workshops, Tailored for You: As an existing client, you have priority access to our comprehensive workshops. Many of these can even be funded through Microsoft investments (subject to eligibility), offering a low-risk way to explore how services like Azure AI or advanced security postures can revolutionise your operations.
Our commitment is to accelerate your transformation by unlocking the power of people and technology. It’s in our DNA. This isn't just a tagline; it’s the driving force behind every solution we architect and every challenge we solve. As a leading Solutions Integrator, we’re dedicated to diving deep into your most complex technology puzzles, expertly combining the right hardware, software, and – crucially – the strategic services that bring it all to life. Our laser focus? Ensuring you achieve a maximum Return on Investment (ROI) from your complete Microsoft Technology environment.. Choosing to deepen your partnership with Insight means engaging a team that’s not only technically astute but is also passionately invested in your economic success and strategic ambitions. We guide you on a clear, illuminated path, ensuring your Microsoft technologies become a powerful, reliable engine for sustained business growth.
You’re likely familiar with procuring Microsoft technology through us, whether via an Enterprise Agreement (EA) or the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) programme. Our longstanding relationship and profound expertise mean we’re perfectly positioned to ensure your current arrangement is not just functional, but optimal for your evolving strategic ambitions.
Start with a complimentary Cloud Strategy Review. Visit uk.insight.com or contact your Account Manager today.
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Insightful Workshops, Tailored for You: As an existing client, you have priority access to our comprehensive workshops. Many of these can even be funded through Microsoft investments (subject to eligibility), offering a low-risk way to explore how services like Azure AI or advanced security postures can revolutionise your operations. “For clients like [Client Sector/Name Anonymised], our [Workshop Name] dentified opportunities to save [Metric] by optimising their existing M365 licences for features they weren’t yet using.”
Cloud Solution Provider (CSP): CSP offers superb flexibility. When you partner with Insight, you’re already benefiting from simplified management and billing. Your inclusive Insight Cloud Care service provides essential onboarding, intuitive usage and billing portals, and foundational support. We continuously monitor your Azure consumption, offering proactive cost optimisation guidance. Think of it as having a financial co-pilot for your cloud spend, always looking for efficiencies. Clients often see an average saving of 20-30% in Azure spend through Insight’s services
Enterprise Agreement (EA) Optimisation: Ideal for larger organisations, EAs offer stability and value but managing them can be a tightrope walk of true-ups and compliance. Our Volume Licensing (VL) Care service is your safety net and strategic lever. We de-risk EA management, expertly navigating usage reviews, compliance, and pricing to turn potential headaches into strategic advantages. “Our VL Care service helped [Client Name/ Sector] identify [£X] in potential savings during their last EA true-up.”
Insight is not just a supplier, we are the world’s leading Solutions Integrator. 30,000+ clients worldwide 30+ years of experience 1,000+ certified Microsoft professionals All available Gold competencies 22 Advanced specialisations
You already know Insight. You’ve trusted us for your Microsoft technology procurement and licensing, and we value that partnership immensely. But what if that foundation could support something even more ambitious? What if the partner who expertly navigates your licensing could also be the catalyst for unlocking unprecedented value and innovation from your entire Microsoft estate? In today's ever-evolving business landscape, Microsoft technology is more than just a suite of tools; it's the engine room for productivity, the launchpad for innovation, and the fortress for your data. But keeping pace with Microsoft’s relentless innovation – thousands of new features yearly – and translating that into tangible business breakthroughs can feel like trying to catch lightning in a bottle. That’s where your journey with Insight evolves. We’re not just a supplier; we are the leading Solutions Integrator. We’re here to transform your Microsoft investment from a cost centre into a strategic powerhouse, propelling your business further, faster.
For more licensing options contact you Insight account manager
Continuous Expert Support & Strategic Execution: Our Cloud Advisory experts remain by your side, but now they’re flanked by a comprehensive portfolio of execution capabilities. Whether it’s a complex Cloud Migration, establishing robust FinOps practices, harnessing Data & AI, modernising your Digital Workplace, fortifying Security, or developing new Applications & Integrations – we have the deep expertise you need. Illustrative Scenario: Many of our clients who start with EA Optimisation discover they have the budget to explore an Azure Data & AI Proof of Concept, seamlessly managed by the same Insight team that understands their commercial landscape.
Elevate your cloud strategy with Insight Cloud Care: Free your team for strategic innovation with Insight Cloud Care. Our experts proactively manage and optimise your Azure & Microsoft 365 environments 24/7 – from incident resolution to continuous cost optimisation – accelerating your cloud’s performance and value
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Introduction Quantum Computing 101: The Era of Exponential Possibilities. Forecasting the Quantum Impact The Double-Edged Sword of Quantum Security. - The Looming Encryption Crisis. - Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC): The Solution Starts Now.. - Opportunities in Securing a Quantum Future. What Business Leaders Must Do Now. When Will Quantum Deliver? A Use Case Timeline Today – already in use. - Quantum Random Number Generation (QRNG) - Quantum Annealing for optimisation problems. At 50 Logical Qubits. - Small Molecule Simulation (Drug Discovery) At 100 Logical Qubits. -New Materials Design. - Financial Portfolio Optimisation. At 100-200 Logical Qubits. - Logistics Routing (e.g., Smart Traffic Management) - Quantum AI / Machine Learning. At 4000 Logical Qubits. - Cryptography (Q-day) Glossary.
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Continuous Expert Support & Strategic Execution: Your Cloud Advisory experts remain by your side, but now they’re flanked by a comprehensive portfolio of execution capabilities. Whether it's a complex Cloud Migration, establishing robust FinOps practices, harnessing Data & AI, modernising your Digital Workplace, fortifying Security, or developing new Applications & Integrations – we have the deep expertise you need. o Illustrative Scenario: Many of our clients who start with EA Optimisation discover they have the budget to explore an Azure Data & AI Proof of Concept, seamlessly managed by the same Insight team that understands their commercial landscape. Insight Cloud Care – Your Proactive Cloud Operations Partner: Elevate your cloud management with Insight Cloud Care. This is our premier managed service, offering expert-driven 24/7 monitoring, proactive management, hands-on incident resolution, and continuous cost optimisation for your Azure and Microsoft 365 environments. It’s about freeing your internal teams from the daily operational grind, allowing them to focus on strategic innovation. o What makes Cloud Care different? It's the synergistic value. Because we understand your licensing and your operational needs, we provide a uniquely holistic service. You gain cost transparency, budget alerts, and optimised consumption, all managed by experts who see the bigger picture. Accelerated Time-to-Value & Driving Adoption: Our specialist services provide the skills and capacity that can be hard to build internally, dramatically shortening your time-to-value. Our Adoption & Change Management services ensure your teams don’t just have the tools, but that they love using them, boosting productivity and ROI from your existing investments. o “With Insight’s help, [Client Company] rolled out Microsoft Teams to [Number] users in just [Timeframe], achieving a [Z%] active usage rate within [] weeks.”
Insight Cloud Care – Your Proactive Cloud Operations Partner: Elevate your cloud management with Insight Cloud Care. This is our premier managed service, offering expert-driven 24/7 monitoring, proactive management, hands-on incident resolution, and continuous cost optimisation for your Azure and Microsoft 365 environments. It’s about freeing your internal teams from the daily operational grind, allowing them to focus on strategic innovation. o What makes Cloud Care different? It's the synergistic value. Because we understand your licensing and your operational needs, we provide a uniquely holistic service. You gain cost transparency, budget alerts, and optimised consumption, all managed by experts who see the bigger picture. Accelerated Time-to-Value & Driving Adoption: Our specialist services provide the skills and capacity that can be hard to build internally, dramatically shortening your time-to-value. Our Adoption & Change Management services ensure your teams don’t just have the tools, but that they love using them, boosting productivity and ROI from your existing investments. o “With Insight’s help, [Client Company] rolled out Microsoft Teams to [Number] users in just [Timeframe], achieving a [Z%] active usage rate within [] weeks.”
Continuous Expert Support & Strategic Execution: Your Cloud Advisory experts remain by your side, but now they’re flanked by a comprehensive portfolio of execution capabilities. Whether it's a complex Cloud Migration, establishing robust FinOps practices, harnessing Data & AI, modernising your Digital Workplace, fortifying Security, or developing new Applications & Integrations – we have the deep expertise you need. o Illustrative Scenario: Many of our clients who start with EA Optimisation discover they have the budget to explore an Azure Data & AI Proof of Concept, seamlessly managed by the same Insight team that understands their commercial landscape.
The Power of Consolidation – Why More Insight Means More Value: When you consolidate your Microsoft lifecycle with Insight – from licensing and procurement through to strategic advice, deployment, and managed services – you unlock powerful synergies. Imagine a single, accountable partner who understands your entire Microsoft ecosystem. This means streamlined management, perfectly integrated solutions, enhanced security posture, and often, significant cost efficiencies. Microsoft Funded Engagements – Experience the Difference: We actively leverage Microsoft funded programmes to offer you cost-effective ways to discover and deploy new capabilities, often with significant financial support. It’s the perfect, low-friction way to experience Insight’s broader strategic expertise firsthand.
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Enterprise Agreement (EA) Optimisation: Ideal for larger organisations, EAs offer stability and value but managing them can be a tightrope walk of true-ups and compliance. Our Volume Licensing (VL) Care service is your safety net and strategic lever. We de-risk EA management, expertly navigating usage reviews, compliance, and pricing to turn potential headaches into strategic advantages. o “Our VL Care service helped [Client Name/ Sector] identify [£X] in potential savings during their last EA true-up.”
Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) – Enhanced Value Through Insight: CSP offers superb flexibility. When you partner with Insight for CSP, you’re already benefiting from simplified management and billing. Your inclusive Insight Cloud Care service provides essential onboarding, intuitive usage and billing portals, and foundational support. o The Insight Advantage for CSP Clients: We continuously monitor your Azure consumption, offering proactive cost optimisation guidance. Think of it as having a financial co-pilot for your cloud spend, always looking for efficiencies. “Clients using our Cloud Core optimisation often see an average of [Insert Client Stat: Y% reduction in Azure spend] within the first six months.”
Insightful Workshops, Tailored for You: As an existing client, you have priority access to our comprehensive workshops. Many of these can even be funded through Microsoft investments (subject to eligibility), offering a low-risk way to explore how services like Azure AI or advanced security postures can revolutionise your operations. o “For clients like [Client Sector/Name Anonymised], our [Workshop Name] identified opportunities to save [Metric] by optimising their existing M365 licences for features they weren’t yet using.”
