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of Your Cloud.
At The IT Strategists, we simplify licensing, contracts, cloud cost management, and FinOps—helping businesses maximize value, optimize costs, and grow sustainably. With 30+ years of expertise, we cut through complexity to deliver clear, cost-effective strategies that eliminate waste and drive success.
Our Services Help Empower:

Simplifying Cloud Strategies
By simplifying complexity and delivering clear, cost-effective solutions, we empower our clients to navigate the evolving landscape of technology licensing and achieve success with smarter strategies.

Customers
We are your guide to smarter licensing, negotiation, and cloud strategies—using analytics to eliminate overspend and unlock long-term efficiency and value.

IT Service Providers
We are your compass for accelerating licensing, cloud services, and strategic cloud partnerships—guiding you toward growth, profitability, and long-term success.
Latest Blog Posts
Our latest blog posts dive into the evolving landscape of licensing, cloud cost management, and FinOps.
Part 1: Microsoft Ends EA Discounts – Here’s What That Means for Your IT Budget
Starting November 1, 2025, Microsoft is overhauling its pricing model for Online Services under Enterprise Agreements (EA)—and calling it...
Slash Your Cloud Spend with Commitment-Based Discounts
Cloud spending doesn’t have to feel like a guessing game. One of the smartest—and often overlooked—ways to take charge of your cloud costs is by...
How to Launch a Profitable Microsoft CSP Practice
Launching a Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) practice is a smart move for IT service providers looking to grow recurring revenue, deepen...
Part 1: Microsoft Ends EA Discounts – Here’s What That Means for Your IT Budget
Starting November 1, 2025, Microsoft is overhauling its pricing model for Online Services under Enterprise Agreements (EA)—and calling it...
Slash Your Cloud Spend with Commitment-Based Discounts
Cloud spending doesn’t have to feel like a guessing game. One of the smartest—and often overlooked—ways to take charge of your cloud costs is by...
Our Accreditations

FinOps Practitioner
Knowledge of the Principles, Capabilities and Fundamentals of FinOps, a prescriptive model of actions, best practices and culture enabling business, IT and Finance.

FinOps FOCUS Analyst
Knowledge to use FOCUS-compliant datasets and convert non-compliant data into the FOCUS format, and leverage the FOCUS Use Case Library.

Google Advanced Data Analytics
Knowledge in exploring large datasets, applying data analysis techniques, building models to extract insights, machine learning, predictive modeling, and statistics.

Software Asset Manager
Knowledge of software asset management from issues concerning software piracy and compliance to legislative changes and internal organizational complexities.

Optimizing Software Asset Management (SAM)
Knowledge of planning, evaluating, and improving how a company manages its Microsoft software licenses across its entire IT infrastructure.
Your Success,
Optimized & Loaded
We believe that no one should pay for tools they don’t need or commit to plans that don’t fit. All it takes is the right strategy to succeed.
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