Cogmotive: Detailed Reporting and Analysis of Your Office 365 Environment

To keep up with the evolving technological landscape and mobile mentality, businesses are making a rapid shift to cloud computing. Assisting them in this transition is Cogmotive Reports—a product that provides simplified and automated cloud reporting. “Though cloud-based computing services offer clients the convenience of accessing files and email services remotely, this can pose challenges to IT departments and cause hiccups to existing systems that are designed to monitor organizational productivity,” says Alan Byrne, Cofounder, Cogmotive. “We have created an online reporting application, which helps customers understand how these services are consumed and whether they are receiving a return on investment,” he explains.

Cogmotive is not a traditional Microsoft partner and they don’t currently provide consulting or hardware services. Instead Cogmotive provides a bespoke web-based reporting application to Office 365 customers on a subscription model. This application gives customers much-needed visibility of whether the bill that they receive from Microsoft actually reflects employee usage. Cogmotive offers tools to help customers to understand usage trends and logon statistics, save money by identifying unused licences, monitor compliance and security, manage mobile devices and understand employee engagement.

All of these tools help businesses to more efficiently procure software licenses and ensure that employees have access to the functions and services required for them to do business. In addition customers can access long-term trends to help them perform capacity analysis for their future licensing needs. Many customers performing migrations from an on-premise solution into a cloud solution use Cogmotive to help them track migration milestones.