Procurement & Licensing

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  Licensing Reference Viva Connections An app within Teams that provides personalized news, conversations, and other resources within a Teams...more   Licensing Reference Viva Insights An app within Teams, Outlook, and on the Web that provides insights about individual and...more   Licensing Reference Viva Learning An app within Teams that provides access to custom training content; licensed in two levels,...more   Licensing Reference Viva Engage A social app that gives Teams users access to communities and conversations within their organization;...more   Licensing Reference Viva Glint A Web-based app that combines employee engagement surveys, comment analytics, and benchmarks to help management...more   Licensing Reference Viva Pulse A feedback tool that allows managers to send poll requests to team members and review...more   Licensing Reference Viva Amplify An app that provides easier creation, analysis, and management of one-to-many employee-facing campaigns through SharePoint...more   Licensing Reference Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) is a method of purchasing Microsoft cloud services where the customer does not...more   Licensing Reference Azure Plan Azure plan is a billing construct for customers that purchase Azure through Cloud Solution Providers...more   Licensing Reference Dynamics 365 CRM Label given to the subset of Dynamics 365 Services-branded core business applications that provide sales,...more   Licensing Reference Dynamics 365 Operations Label given to the subset of Dynamics 365 Services-branded core business applications that provide finance,...more   Licensing Reference Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management An online service that provides warehousing, inventory, logistics, procurement, and shipping functionality; One of several...more   Licensing Reference Dynamics 365 Commerce An online service that provides physical store management, customer management, online store creation and management,...more   Licensing Reference Dynamics 365 Project Operations An online service that provides integrated project management and resource management for service projects, project...more   Licensing Reference Azure Savings Plans Azure savings plans allow organizations to specify the amount of VM compute resources that will...more   Licensing Reference Azure Prepayment Azure Prepayment (formerly Azure Monetary Commitment), like Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC), is an agreement...more

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