Control Tower for Microsoft cloud

See your Microsoft cloud the way your CFO needs to see it.

Datafitters Control Tower plugs into your M365, Dynamics 365 and Azure tenants and turns license entitlements and cloud spend into a continuously updated dashboard, with a daily list of seats to drop, downgrade, or never renew.

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€3Mreturned to clients / year
20 minsetup
600%avg first-year ROI
Trusted by Internationalmid-market and enterprise customers
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Live · Datafitters Control Tower

The same dashboard your team will use,
summarised across our entire client base.

Every Datafitters customer sees these five numbers daily. The only difference: in your Control Tower they're scoped to your tenant. Here they're aggregated across our entire client base.

FY26
monthly spend (all clients)
€2.46M
€29.5M / year combined
FY26
monthly consumption
€2.37M
€28.4M / year combined
ADVISED
advised consumption
€2.24M
€26.9M / year if applied
FOUND
potential savings
€216K
€2.6M / year still on the table
LIVE
realized savings
€250K
€3.00M / year already returned
Aggregate, anonymised across production Control Tower clients. Get this view for your tenant →
The product

Two modules. One Control Tower.

Most cost-optimisation tools deliver a PDF and disappear. Control Tower runs continuously, drilling from the CFO's headline number all the way to the single user who hasn't opened Teams in ninety days, and turning every finding into an action your IT team can execute in minutes.

Control Tower · M365 + D365

Find the seats nobody is sitting in.

Cross-references Microsoft license entitlements with real per-user activity across Teams, OneDrive, Outlook, Dynamics, Power Platform and Copilot. Daily. Drill from CFO total all the way down to the individual user.

  • Drill: CFO total → department → user → app
  • Auto-flags inactive, oversized and pre-renewal candidates
  • One-click export to your Microsoft Admin Center workflow
  • Copilot adoption + ROI per business unit
12,481
unused licenses surfaced
across our client base
Control Tower · Azure

Turn cloud bills into line items you can defend.

Maps every euro of Azure spend to its resource, owner, environment and business outcome, and tells you exactly what to delete, resize or move to reservations. Anomaly alerts hit before the next invoice does.

  • Right-sizing for VMs, SQL and Storage
  • Idle & orphaned resource auto-detection
  • Reservation & savings plan recommendations with break-even dates
  • Anomaly alerts before they hit the next invoice
€418K
monthly Azure waste
identified to date
Advantages

Built to hand back,
not to keep you on a retainer.

Datafitters Control Tower is specifically designed to support organisations in automating license management and realising savings in their Microsoft cloud environment. No long projects, no hidden fees, no vendor lock-in.

Plug & play in 20 minutes

One read-only consent in Entra ID. We mirror your data into a separate landing zone, dedicated to your tenant.

Data-driven decisions

Every recommendation is tied to concrete usage data. The dashboard shows exactly where adjustments will have the most impact.

Real-time results

Savings update on the dashboard the moment a change is applied in Microsoft. No monthly reports, no waiting.

Optimal configuration

Control Tower recommends the ideal license configuration based on actual usage. You only pay for what you truly need.

Sign in with your own account

Single sign-on through Entra ID. Your team uses their existing company accounts. Control Tower runs in our hardened Azure environment, built to the highest standards of privacy and compliance.

Backed by license experts

Walk into your next true-up armed. Our license desk has negotiated >€100M of Microsoft contracts on behalf of clients.

Our results

Every realized saving is tracked end-to-end.

From the Control Tower recommendation, to the moment the change is applied in Microsoft Admin, to the line item that drops off the invoice.

Annual savings returned to clients
€3M

Annualised run-rate, verified in production across Control Tower clients.

Average first-year ROI
600%

Across our active accounts. Includes Control Tower platform fees.

Monthly Azure waste identified
€418K

Live across our Azure Control Tower clients. Every euro mapped to its resource and owner.

Years in licensing
17+

Ex-Microsoft and ex-LSP combined founding team. We've been on both sides of the contract.

How it works

From no access to first savings,
in roughly four conversations.

No procurement marathon. No twelve-week scoping study. We connect to your tenant in a single working session and show you cash on the next call.

1 Onboard

Connect the tenant.

One read-only consent in Entra ID. We adjust client-specific configuration and kickstart the optimisations.

~ 20 minutes
2 Analyse

Find the low-hanging fruit.

Together we sweep entitlements vs. usage and flag oversized SKUs. Day-one report ships within 72 hours.

~ 3 days
3 Optimise

Daily list, not yearly study.

Real-time insights result in daily opportunities. Free up unused licenses so you never buy unnecessarily.

Continuous
4 Renew

Walk into true-up armed.

We have extensive experience with true-ups and renewals, and can assist you all the way through the contract.

At true-up
1,840
M365 licenses recovered, year one
€312K
Annualised savings
4 weeks
From first connect to first action
“
We thought our M365 estate was already optimised. Datafitters found 1,840 unused seats in the first month, and an ongoing process to keep it that way without adding headcount.
JK
IT Director Dutch industrial group · 3,400 M365 users · 12 months on Control Tower
About us

The team behind Control Tower.

Datafitters is a small, focused Dutch team combining deep Microsoft licensing expertise with hands-on data engineering. We built Control Tower because we kept watching organisations leave money on the table at every renewal cycle.

Derek van Leeuwen
Derek van Leeuwen
Data Wizzard

Derek combines deep data expertise with innovative technology to uncover hidden license waste. As our chief architect, he brings our vision to life and ensures every recommendation is spot on.

Chief architectData & engineeringPlatform
LinkedIn →
Patrick van der Meer
Patrick van der Meer
Microsoft License Expert

Patrick brings 15+ years of contract negotiation expertise, helping organisations secure better licensing terms. He combines deep licensing knowledge with proven negotiation strategies.

15+ yrLicensingNegotiation
LinkedIn →
Bart van Leeuwen
Bart van Leeuwen
Partner Manager

Bart manages our strategic partnerships and white-label solution. He ensures our network of advisors is delivering real value to our clients. Message him if you'd like to know more about our partner programme.

PartnershipsWhite-labelAdvisor network
LinkedIn →

Run the tower for 30 days.
If we don't show you 3× our fee in savings, we walk.

No procurement gauntlet. We'll be in your tenant within a week and show you the first findings on call two. Pricing is flat, monthly, and based on user count, never on savings.

Book a 30-minute demo → Read a customer case Avg. response time: 4 business hours