An IT Services Plan for Savings, Execution, and Progress
Fast, affordable attention where your IT estate needs it.
SoftwareOne Momentum is a menu of lightweight Spot Check services for organizations in the United States and Canada, run by SoftwareOne experts when you say and using only a few hours of your team's time. Your team is too busy to keep a close eye on your licensing, cloud spend, security, and AI costs, and Momentum gives each area the attention it needs.
Your team already has a full calendar
While you’re handling urgent and strategic work, license bloat grows, idle cloud resources keep running, security settings drift away from your baseline, and AI spend grows faster than anyone tracks it.
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98%
Of FinOps teams now manage AI spend, up from 31% two years earlier. |
$4.99M
Is the average cost of a data breach. |
29%
Of cloud spend is wasted. |
Which areas could use some attention?
Choose from a variety of lightweight Spot Check services. Start with one or two areas and a modest commitment, and see how the findings help you avoid waste, optimize spend, and get more from your IT and AI investments
SPOT CHECK
Microsoft 365 Spend
Purchased licenses, assignments, usage, and overlapping entitlements across E5, E3, F3, and add-ons.
Reclaim the seats nobody uses.
You receive a per-user worksheet, priced line by line.
SPOT CHECK
Microsoft 365 Security
Conditional access, endpoint policies, and data protection settings, checked against your baseline.
Find every account missing MFA.
You receive findings ranked by what to fix first.
SPOT CHECK
Azure Spend
Idle resources, virtual machine (VM) rightsizing candidates, and reservation and savings plan recommendations.
Stop paying for VMs you left running.
You receive the idle resources to retire and the Azure Reservations and savings plans worth buying.
SPOT CHECK
AWS Spend
Idle resources, EC2 instance rightsizing candidates, and Reserved Instance and Savings Plans recommendations.
Right-size instances and commit for less.
You receive the idle resources to retire and the Reserved Instances and Savings Plans worth buying, across EC2, Fargate, Lambda, and RDS.
SPOT CHECK
Google Cloud Spend
Idle resources, Compute Engine VM rightsizing candidates, and committed use discount (CUD) recommendations.
Trade idle capacity for committed discounts.
You receive the idle resources to retire and the resource-based and spend-based committed use discounts worth buying, beyond automatic sustained use discounts.
SPOT CHECK
FinOps for AI Maturity
A scored look at how well your organization tracks, allocates, and governs AI spend, based on evidence from your own environment.
See where AI spend outruns AI value.
You receive a score for each AI cost management capability, a gap summary, and an action plan prioritized in 30, 60, and 90 day steps.
SPOT CHECK
Technology Intelligence Assessment
Your inventory, endpoint-management, CMDB data, and consumption, normalized, deduplicated, and enriched with Flexera IT Visibility.
Know what you run, consume, and where to act.
You receive a trusted technology baseline with each finding marked to retain, remediate, consolidate, modernize, or evaluate for retirement, plus a 12-month action plan and a three-year roadmap.
What to expect
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We ExamineThe area you choose, using read-only access or data your team provides. |
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You ReceiveAn executive readout, a findings summary, and detailed recommendations. |
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You DecideWhat to act on first, and where a closer investigation is worth booking. |
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WHAT WE NEED
Read-only access, a short script, or responses from your team. |
YOUR TIME
Typically 1–3 hours per assessment, including onboarding. |
SCOPE
Assessment and recommendations only. Implementation can be scoped separately. |
TIMELINE
Typically 2–3 weeks from purchase to findings, or 30 to 45 days for the Technology Intelligence Assessment. |
Findings your team can act on.
Example findings from full SoftwareOne assessment engagements. Spot Checks cover a narrower scope in less time, so your findings will reflect that.
IT leaders from insurance, manufacturing, restaurant, and nonprofit organizations helped shape Momentum through customer feedback sessions.
Estimates reflect findings at the time of review. Savings depend on the recommendations the client puts in place.
Waste builds back up over a year: people join and leave, licenses get assigned and forgotten, and new cloud resources get spun up and left running. The first review clears the backlog, and each later one catches what has piled up since.
Frequently asked questions
SoftwareOne Momentum is a menu of lightweight Spot Check and assessment services that give IT teams fast, affordable expert attention to the areas of their IT estate that need it, such as Microsoft 365 licensing and security, cloud spend, AI costs, and technology inventory. You choose the services and the timing, and SoftwareOne returns with prioritized findings.
Most Momentum services run two to three weeks from purchase through onboarding to findings. The Technology Intelligence Assessment runs 30 to 45 days from completed scoping to the executive readout, because it brings together data from several inventory and discovery sources.
Most services include an executive readout and a findings summary, plus detailed recommendations such as a per-user license worksheet, a priced action list ranked by effort, maturity scoring against best practices, or a 12-month action plan and three-year roadmap.
Momentum services are assessments and advisory work. Your team can act on the findings independently, or SoftwareOne can handle the changes as a separately quoted project.
Yes. Start with a single service or build a Momentum plan and add more services as your priorities change.
Momentum runs on a 12-month agreement that renews annually, so you can use your services at any point in the year and pick new areas each time it renews. Scheduling them early in the term makes sure each one gets used.
Free assessments are a useful first look. Momentum adds a SoftwareOne expert who reviews your own tenant and cloud data, explains every recommendation, and flags what your team should confirm before making a change, across licensing, cloud, security, and AI in one plan.
Most services take about one to three hours of your team's time, including the onboarding call.
Most services need read-only access to the Microsoft 365 tenant or cloud accounts in scope. Others use a script your team runs or a questionnaire and working sessions. For the Technology Intelligence Assessment, your team provides read-only access or extracts from your inventory and CMDB tools, plus a technical contact and the owner of each source. Plan for sessions to validate selected findings, and an executive sponsor at the readout, across 30 to 45 days.
SoftwareOne can take it further through its full services, such as Microsoft Advisory Services for licensing, managed FinOps for cloud spend, and security services, scoped and quoted separately.
Momentum is available to commercial and nonprofit organizations in the United States and Canada. Microsoft Government Community Cloud (GCC) tenants cannot use the Microsoft 365 or Azure services, because Microsoft blocks the API access the tooling requires. Education institutions qualify for the Azure service, and large universities are outside the scope of the Microsoft 365 Spend service.
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Tell your SoftwareOne representative which Spot Checks you want and when you want them.