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Business Support

Strategic Support for High-Performance Teams

The licence bill creeps up, release waves land untested, and the enhancement list never shrinks because everyone is busy keeping the lights on. Business Support puts a named Microsoft-certified team around your estate: incidents fixed against SLAs, licensing reviewed, funding claimed, and small improvements delivered every month.

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Microsoft Solutions Partner Microsoft Cloud Partner

Managed Microsoft Support

Support that makes the estate better every month

Most support contracts are designed around tickets: something breaks, someone logs it, a stranger fixes it, the meter runs. Nothing about that model makes your Microsoft estate better next month than it was last month. Synapx Business Support was designed against that grain: a named team that knows your environment, measured on improvement rather than ticket throughput.

The service covers the estate you actually run: Power Platform apps and flows, Power BI reporting, SharePoint, Dataverse and the Azure services around them. Day to day, that means incidents handled against SLAs, monitoring that catches problems before your users report them, and the steady stream of small enhancements that never quite justify a project but add up to how the business feels about its technology.

Three disciplines sit alongside the run work, and they are usually where the money is found. Training moves your people from basic competency to genuine capability, so fewer tickets get raised in the first place. Licensing optimisation strips out the waste that accumulates in any Microsoft agreement: unused licences, mismatched plans, duplicated solutions. And funding capture tracks the Microsoft incentive programmes most organisations never hear about, then claims them on your behalf.

The governance work has a track record worth naming. The Fidelis Partnership saved over £60,000 a year in data licensing costs through our governance and Centre of Excellence engagement, alongside a 30% increase in reporting capacity.

Support also comes with a seat at the table: monthly roadmap reviews, regular alignment with your Microsoft account team, and honest advice on what to build, buy or retire next. It is the difference between a supplier who keeps the lights on and a partner invested in where the estate goes.

Common Challenges We Solve

01

Teams Not Using Tools to Their Full Potential

Staff only scratching the surface of Microsoft 365, Azure, or Power Platform capabilities because they lack proper training and ongoing skill development.

02

Overpaying for Unused or Incorrectly Assigned Licences

Thousands wasted annually on licences that sit unused, duplicated subscriptions, or users assigned plans that don't match their actual needs.

03

Missing Out on Available Microsoft Funding

Unaware of Azure credits, migration incentives, and funding programs that could significantly offset your cloud adoption and transformation costs.

04

No Strategic Governance or Ongoing Optimisation

Operating without clear policies, cost controls, or regular reviews leading to compliance gaps, security risks, and inefficient resource usage.

05

Lack of Internal Capacity for Platform Management

IT teams stretched too thin to proactively monitor, optimise, and evolve your Microsoft environment as business needs change.

Our Business Support Ecosystem

  1. Training built around your team's real work, moving people from basic competency to genuine capability across the Microsoft ecosystem.

    • Microsoft XIAD framework alignment for high-impact role prioritisation
    • Bespoke training sessions tailored to real-world scenarios and team schedules
    • Specific certification training for Microsoft 365, Azure, and Power Platform
    • Webinars and workshop events
  2. We find the unused licences, duplicated subscriptions and mismatched plans in your agreement, then stop them creeping back.

    • Cost reduction: eliminate unused or redundant licences to reclaim budget
    • Right-sized subscriptions matched to actual user roles for improved ROI
    • Continuous governance and expert guidance to navigate complex models
    • Azure optimisation: managed migration and platform tailoring
  3. We track the Microsoft incentive programmes most organisations never hear about, then capture them to cut your cloud spend.

    • Maximise credits for Azure adoption, migration, and innovation projects
    • Budget relief: accelerate digital transformation without increasing pressure
    • Expert management of Microsoft programs and incentives with full compliance

Synapx as a Service

Supporting your organisation

Apps & Automate

Custom applications and automation solutions to streamline workflows.

Data & AI

Advanced data analytics, AI tools, and insights to drive smarter decisions.

Modern Work

Collaboration, productivity, and modern workplace solutions.

Microsoft Alliance

Access to certified expertise through Microsoft MVPs and official partner designations.

Business Support

Training, licensing optimisation, and funding management to ensure solutions are operationally efficient.

Why Synapx as a Service?

Predictable monthly Opex with no upfront mobilisation costs
Complete flexibility over contract duration for utilisation of hours
Faster time to value through reserved capacity
Reduced delivery risk with built-in support and service warranty
Continuous automation improvement instead of one-off projects
A long-term automation partner focused on measurable business outcomes

Ongoing Roadmap Alignment & Funding Optimisation

As part of our managed agreement, we proactively work with you each month to review your technology roadmap and identify funding opportunities that support your quarterly business goals.

  • Continuous optimisation of Microsoft 365 and Azure licensing to reduce waste and control spend
  • Regular assessment of eligible Microsoft-funded workshops and enablement programs
  • Identification and management of End Customer Investment (ECI) and Azure funding opportunities
  • Ongoing review of new Microsoft initiatives, incentives, and programs applicable to you

We maintain regular touchpoints with your Microsoft account team to ensure alignment across strategy, funding, and delivery, so your roadmap, Microsoft investment, and business outcomes remain fully connected. The result: faster progress, reduced delivery cost, and maximum return on your Microsoft partnership, without additional overhead for your team.

Support Models

Break-fix support or Business Support?

The word "support" covers two very different services, and the gap between them only shows up after six months. This is the comparison we encourage every prospective client to make before signing anything, with us or anyone else.

Break-fix support or Business Support?
Criteria Typical break-fix contract Synapx Business Support
Operating model Ticket in, fix out; value measured in response timesNamed team with SLAs, plus a monthly improvement rhythm
Who you deal with Whoever picks up the ticketEngineers who know your environment and its history
Microsoft updates Reacted to after something breaksRelease waves tracked and tested before they land
Licensing & funding Out of scopeLicensing reviews and Microsoft funding capture built in
Small enhancements A quote and a queueDelivered from retained hours, prioritised with you monthly
The estate over time Static at best; entropy usually winsDocumented, monitored and measurably better each quarter

If all you need is someone to restart what falls over, cheaper options exist and we will say so. Business Support is for organisations that want the estate improving while it is being kept alive, with the licensing and funding work typically covering a healthy share of the fee. The monthly review is where you hold us to that: work delivered, hours used, savings found, next month agreed.

Client Voices

From clients we support

"Our go-to data partner. We recommend them to every one of our clients."

"We work with Synapx as our go-to and trusted partner for anything Power BI, or data in general, so much so we recommend them to all our clients! The team at Synapx work with us in a way that makes it feel like they are part of our business, our 'data team'; projects and on-going support are executed easily and effortlessly."

Lanware

Chief Technology Officer, Lanware

Business Support FAQ

Common questions about scope, handover, licensing and how the service runs.

What does Business Support actually cover?

The Microsoft estate you already run: Power Platform apps and flows, Power BI, Dataverse, SharePoint and the surrounding Azure services. Incidents and requests, proactive monitoring, release and update management, licensing optimisation and small enhancements, delivered by Microsoft-certified engineers who learn your environment properly.

How is this different from Microsoft support?

Microsoft supports its platform; we support your solutions built on it. When something breaks, the question is rarely "is Azure up" and usually "why does this app, flow or report misbehave", which needs people who know your customisations. Where an issue genuinely is a platform fault, our Solutions Partner status gives us a direct escalation route into Microsoft.

Do you support solutions that other partners built?

Yes, frequently. We start with a short assessment of the estate, document what exists, stabilise anything fragile, then take on the run responsibility. No blame culture about the previous builder; we would rather fix than critique.

Can you optimise our licensing as part of support?

Yes, licensing reviews are part of the service: plan mix, capacity, and rationalising duplicate solutions. The Fidelis Partnership saved over £60,000 a year in licensing costs through our governance and licensing work.

How do we hand over to you?

A structured onboarding: access and security setup, estate documentation, monitoring configuration and a stabilisation period, typically two to four weeks depending on estate size. After that you get a steady operating rhythm with monthly service reporting.

What SLAs do you offer on Business Support?

Response and resolution targets are agreed per severity level and per client, because a broken expense app and a broken trading report do not deserve the same clock. Performance against them is part of the monthly service review.

Is there a minimum contract length?

After onboarding, agreements roll monthly. The onboarding period exists because documenting and stabilising an estate properly takes a few weeks; after that, we would rather keep you through service than through terms.

Our Clients

Trusted by

Glassmoon
Lanware
Micheldever Tyre Services
Midwich
Mount Anvil
Nuevo Partners
Pro Global
Seras Energy
Skanska
Ocean Conservation Trust
WA Comms
Glassmoon
Lanware
Micheldever Tyre Services
Midwich
Mount Anvil
Nuevo Partners
Pro Global
Seras Energy
Skanska
Ocean Conservation Trust
WA Comms

Find out what your estate is really costing you

Book a support and licensing review: we'll go through your incident history, licence allocation and funding eligibility, and show you where the hours and money are going.

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