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How Microsoft 365 plans line up against the workflows of a typical Canadian SMB, what they cost in Canadian dollars, and the licence mistakes most small businesses make.
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Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Business Standard, and Business Premium cover almost every small business under 300 seats. The differences that actually matter day-to-day are: whether you get the desktop Office apps, whether you get the security and device-management features in Premium, and whether anyone on the team will ever notice.
The most common waste we see in Canadian SMB tenants:
Walk through whether MFA, conditional access, Intune, and Defender for Business actually matter for your team. For most Canadian SMBs that handle any client data, the answer is yes — and at that point Premium pays for itself.
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Copilot is real, useful, and — at roughly $40 CAD/user/month on top of M365 — easy to overspend on. A practical look at where it earns its keep and where you should hold off.
What Microsoft 365 actually costs a 10-person Canadian business — Business Basic, Standard, and Premium pricing in CAD, plus the hidden costs and licence-mix savings most owners never get walked through.
How a North American SaaS startup migrated from Trello, scattered Gmail, and a Dropbox-plus-Drive document jumble to a properly architected Microsoft 365 tenant — in six weeks, with no downtime, in time for a Series A diligence pass.
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Right-sized Microsoft 365 plans, set up properly and supported pay-as-you-go. Built for Canadian small businesses that want productivity tools without surprises on the next licensing bill.
On-prem to Azure, Google Workspace to Microsoft 365, file shares to SharePoint. Planned moves with no surprises at cutover — and no scope creep on the invoice.
Pay-as-you-go IT support for Canadian small businesses. A small monthly minimum, billable hours when you need us, and someone who actually picks up the phone.
