Octopus Cloud Consultants are all former Microsoft auditors or employees, each bringing a minimum of 7 years of experience in SPLA compliance and licensing. They work daily with international clients on audit-related matters, providing deep expertise and real-world insight.

Their experience significantly reduces the risk of surprises during an audit and ensures you’re guided by professionals who know exactly how Microsoft auditors think and operate.

Because Octopus Cloud continuously tracks your infrastructure and licensing data through Data Collector and OC View, you walk into any audit with accurate, defensible usage records already in hand rather than scrambling to reconstruct them. Our team reviews Microsoft's audit requests, verifies every figure against your real deployment data before it's shared, and helps you pushing back on discrepancies that don't reflect your actual usage. That combination of accurate underlying data and experienced support is what limits your exposure to unexpected penalties, or extended audit timelines.

A full reconciliation of your reported usage data against your actual infrastructure using Octopus Cloud's Data Collector, identification and correction of any reporting gaps before they become findings, and hands-on support preparing and submitting the documentation Microsoft requires. We also flag optimization opportunities along the way, so the audit becomes a chance to tighten your licensing position rather than just survive it.