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Clarity and control for your cloud licenses

Managing cloud licenses like Microsoft 365 doesn’t need to be manual, complex or costly. Simplify the complex. Reclaim wasted spend. Manage smarter, together.

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Lens gives clear, actionable insights into your cloud licences: see exactly where contracted licences go unused.

We will help you uncover overspend: inactive and disabled users, overprovisioning, and shadow growth across your estate.

Take control with a scalable, consultative-led service that works in partnership with your teams to deliver true optimisation and remediation.

Why choose Lens Consulting?

Built for clarity. Designed for real impact.

Born from Tiger Communications, Lens Consulting brings 40+ years trusted data analytics. The Lens platform was built to turn complex and disparate data into practical insights. It replaces slow, manual assessment and management processes with faster, smarter, service-backed outcomes – all delivered with a safety-first, compliance-led approach, underpinned by our ISO 27001:2022 certification.

Lens consulting will help you:

  • Identify inefficiencies with confidence. Our experts highlight licence waste and help you act on it, quickly and confidently.
  • Optimise based on real usage. No guesswork, just tailored guidance to rightsize your estate.
  • Deliver consistent insight. Regular service reviews and reporting keep licence management focused and effective.
  • Implement changes with support. Action recommendations with hands-on help from our experts, ideal for time-pressed teams and complex estates.

Your cloud licenses could be working harder

From Microsoft 365, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform to Amazon Web Services, Lens Consulting will help you control the platforms that power your business. Discover what’s underused, what’s not needed, and where you can reinvest for better results, all as part of a repeatable, data-led service model that scales with you.

Get insights that drive data-driven action

Delivered licence insight We identify inactive, unassigned, or duplicate licences for you; no spreadsheets, no guesswork. Just instant clarity on costs that can be cut.

Smarter licence alignment We analyse usage to make sure the right people have the right licence types. You’ll see exactly where to adjust; quickly, clearly, and without the digging.

Operational efficiency Regular reviews help you stay in control of changes tied to joiners, movers, and leavers. Less friction, catching costly oversights, and smoother operations.

Ongoing impact Our experts stay with you (if you’d like), providing continues insight and support to keep your licence strategy sharp, efficient, and future-ready.

Informed decisions You’ll get clear, actionable recommendations to help you respond fast and stay strategic, whether you manage 50 licences or 5,000.

Scalable savings We help you reduce overspend and maintain efficiency with an approach that grows with your organisation.

Beyond licensing:

Laying the groundwork for smarter cloud spend

Many organisations move to the cloud expecting cost flexibility, but without clear ownership, tagging, or tracking, costs grow faster than value.

We often see:

  • No tagging or chargeback by department
  • Dev teams spinning up unchecked resources
  • Spend misaligned with actual business usage

Lens helps surface these behaviours and give you the insights needed to mature your governance and cost optimisation approach over time..

You don’t need a full FinOps team to start seeing value. Just visibility and a partner who knows what to look for.

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Do more with less. Find the hidden value in your IT spend

Most organisations have moved to the cloud without fully optimising how they licence, provision, and use their services. Costs rise, unused capacity grows, and renewal cycles creep up unnoticed.

Lens Consulting makes optimisation simple, sustainable, and independent. 
Built on proven FinOps principlesour services help organisations reduce waste, free budget, and make smarter, data-driven decisions across Microsoft 365, and broader cloud environments.

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How Lens works

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Connect

Secure, simple, and fast.

Lens connects to your environment using customer-controlled access methods, for example, Microsoft Graph API for M365 FinOps, enabling us to collect the data needed for accurate and meaningful optimisation analysis across your cloud and licensing estate. 

Using your data, we establish a reliable foundation for identifying optimisation opportunities and preparing for deeper assessment.

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Diagnose

Turning data into clarity.

We analyse live tenant data and deliver a clear report highlighting: 

  • Unused or unassigned licences 
  • Disabled accounts still consuming licences 
  • Inactive users with full allocations 
  • Rightsizing opportunities across departments 
  • Estimated savings from optimised usage 

Reliable, thorough, and insight-driven, the ideal starting point to uncover hidden value, reduce risk, and make smarter licensing decisions. 

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Optimise & Sustain

Insight becomes action.

Our Optimisation + Subscription service provides: 

  • Deep-dive analysis with rightsizing recommendations 
  • Bespoke licensing strategy aligned to user needs 
  • Detailed user-level licence breakdown for procurement 
  • Executive-ready reporting for internal planning 
  • Ongoing subscription with scheduled re-analysis 

Designed for organisations seeking expert knowledge and factual insight to support their decision making, leading to maximum savings. 

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Remediate

We make the changes for you.

Lens Consulting provides full implementation support, ensuring recommendations are actioned, efficiencies and savings are realised, and risk is reduced quickly. 

Ideal for organisations without the time or internal capacity, the fastest route to achieving savings and compliance without burdening your existing teams’ resources.  

Why Lens

Built for clarity. Designed for real impact.
  • Independent & vendor-agnostic: We work alongside your existing providers or help you challenge them with no bias, only better outcomes.
  • Accurate, data-driven analysis Automated data ingestion removes manual errors and gives you a precise view of usage, cost, and optimisation potential.
  • Continuous optimisation: Prevent renewal wastemaintain licence hygiene, and keep spend under control as your organisation evolves. 
  • Trusted by finance and transformation leaders: Proven across enterprises, not-for-profits, and the public sector. 

“Lens quickly revealed savings opportunities we’d never seen before and gave Finance clear visibility into IT costs.”

Head of Transformation, public sector customer 

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FinOps principles in practice

FinOps isn’t just for technologists. It’s a business-first operational framework that maximises the value of cloud and technology investments. 

Lens puts FinOps into action:
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Visibility: Unified view of cloud and licensing costs across your estate

Accountability: Link spend to business owners and cost centres 

Optimisation: Continuous improvement, not a one-off review 

Outcome: Clear insight, shared accountability, and smarter spend decisions 

Who we work with

For organisations
  • Finance & procurement leaders: Regain control, reduce waste, and reinvest savings into higher-value tools such as enhanced security or AI capabilities.
  • Transformation & change leaders: Free up budget by optimising what you already own, enabling smarter investment in digital and AI-driven initiatives. 
  • Licensing & software asset owners: Navigate an increasingly complex licensing landscape with confidence. Tap into niche expertise that complement yours, strengthens your optimisation opportunities and helps you deliver greater strategic impact.
  • CFOs & Not-for-Profits: Make every pound count by improving efficiency while enabling the services and tools your organisation truly needs.
For partners
  • Consultancies & MSPs: Add optimisation and FinOps capability to your service portfolio, helping clients control cost and modernise their toolsets.
  • Resellers: Strengthen customer trust with transparent insights, smarter licensing, and opportunities to reinvest savings into modernisation, security, and AI adoption.

Measured results. Meaningful impact.

Reduce overspend by 13-20%* 

Eliminate unused licences that pose security risks 

Align IT spend with business strategy

Free up internal teams to focus on innovation, not admin 

* Typical outcomes include savings of 13 – 20%+, though results vary by environment. 

“Lens helped us uncover 30% savings across 12,000 seats, visibility we never had before.”

CIO, London-based Financial Services

Ready to uncover savings?

Let’s explore how much budget you could free up with smarter licence management and clearer cloud insight.

Let’s talk. Benchmark your current licence landscape and discover new opportunities.

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