Microsoft cloud, made Visible. Actionable. Optimised.
EtherInsights, EtherAssist, and EtherApps Forge: Microsoft 365 cost optimisation, secure AI, and application packaging across your Microsoft 365, Azure, and Windows 365 estate.
Recognised by Microsoft. Certified to the standards your procurement team will ask for.
- Windows 365 partnerListed by Microsoft on its official Windows 365 partners page
- Microsoft MarketplaceEtherInsights, EtherAssist, and EtherApps Forge are all listed
- ISO 27001, 9001, 42001Certified for information security, quality, and AI management
The portfolio
Three products. One Microsoft estate.
Microsoft 365 licence management, secure AI, and application modernisation. Each works on its own and shares the same brand, security posture, and operating model.
Most Microsoft 365 and Azure bills carry unused licences; EfficientEther's EtherInsights first scans typically find 15-30% inactive or downgradeable and show where spend and risk leak. EtherAssist gives support teams governed AI that keeps tenant context private, and EtherApps Forge repackages legacy apps for Intune and Windows 365. Pricing from £0.79 / $1 / €1 per active user per month, free trial on every product.
Microsoft-estate visibility
For teams who cannot see where spend, policy drift, Cloud PC demand, and tenant risk are building up until the review meeting is already underway.
- Surface Microsoft 365 cost optimisation and Azure waste before budget noise builds
- Spot tenant drift, security gaps, and ownerless actions
- Plan, deploy, and operate Windows 365 with clearer evidence
- Turn Intune reporting, device, user, and offboarding questions into evidence
Agentic AI for day-two IT
For IT and compliance teams who need AI help, but cannot let sensitive tenant context disappear into generic prompts and untracked answers.
- Answer operational questions with a secure AI assistant for IT teams
- Keep run history, redaction, and oversight in the workflow
- Document fixes so the same issue does not restart next week
- Support teams in UK, EU, or US hosting patterns
MSIX packaging and modern delivery
For migration and packaging teams stuck with legacy apps, missing installers, thin MSIX skills, and Windows 11 or AVD timelines that will not wait.
- Capture from running systems when installer media is gone
- Move MSI and App-V workloads through MSIX app packaging with signing support
- Prepare AppAttach-ready output for Azure Virtual Desktop
- Produce IntuneWin and MSIX routes for modern endpoint delivery
Built for
For the teams that actually run the estate.
If you run the Microsoft estate for a 50 to 600 user organisation, or for thirty of them as an MSP, one week can bring a licensing question from finance, an Entra or Intune escalation, a security review, and a budget defence. Each needs evidence you do not have time to assemble by hand from portals and spreadsheets. The roles below are the people we build for, and the outcome is the same for each: an answer with the numbers behind it, ready to forward to a director, an auditor, or a customer before the meeting starts.
Microsoft admin
Needs fast answers when Entra, Intune, Windows 365, and licensing questions all arrive in the same week.
MSP operator
Needs a repeatable way to spot risk, prove value, and explain the next action across many tenants.
IT leader
Needs defensible evidence when cost, governance, security, and delivery risk compete for the same budget.
Security lead
Needs tenant baseline, drift, backup, and Copilot readiness evidence before change becomes exposure.
Why one portfolio
One portfolio forthe Microsoft estate prioritiesyour team already owns.
Buying one tool for licence cost, another for AI-assisted support, and a third for application packaging means three vendors, three security reviews, and three renewals to defend. One portfolio removes that overhead: procurement reviews one UK supplier and IT keeps one operating model. Start with the pressure costing most today and add the next product when the evidence justifies it.
Finance and IT leaders see where Microsoft 365, Azure, and Cloud PC spend is leaking before the next budget review. That work starts with Microsoft 365 cost optimisation.
MSPs and support teams get governed AI help for repeat incidents, documentation, and compliance work without losing control of customer context. That is Agentic Operations.
Migration teams move legacy Windows applications toward Intune, Windows 365, and Azure Virtual Desktop even when installer media is missing. That route runs through MSIX packaging and deployment.
IT admins and Cloud PC operators run the estate day to day: Intune compliance and device troubleshooting, configuration drift and backup, Cloud PC sizing and lifecycle, licence actions with named owners. That console is Intune reporting and troubleshooting.
Blog
Latest from EfficientEther.
Most of the questions customers bring us start as a search: what an unused Microsoft 365 licence really costs, whether Windows 365 or Azure Virtual Desktop is cheaper for a given team, what Microsoft's App-V changes mean for your packages, or which MSIX packaging steps fail most often. The blog answers them in full, with the Microsoft documentation cited, so you can settle an internal debate or brief a director without booking a call first.
Which PSF Fix-up Do I Need? A Symptom-Led Guide
Your app packages cleanly as MSIX then misbehaves. Match the symptom to the right Package Support Framework fix-up, and know when PSF is the wrong answer.
What Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 Actually Gained in July 2026
Microsoft repriced Microsoft 365 on 1 July 2026 and moved what sits inside E3 and E5. Check whether you are still paying for an add-on you now already own.
Build and Sign MSIX in CI/CD Without the Windows SDK
How to package, sign and validate MSIX on a build agent with no Windows SDK installed, using makeappx-compatible verbs and the Windows packaging engine.
Windows 365 Turns Five: What Comes Next for Cloud PC Management
Windows 365 marks five years and a fourth straight Gartner Leader ranking. What that maturity means for planning, cost, and day-two Cloud PC management.
About EfficientEther
EfficientEther is a UK software company that helps IT teams and MSPs run their Microsoft estate: Microsoft 365, Azure, Windows 365, and Intune. Its three products each solve a distinct estate pressure. EtherInsights manages Microsoft 365 and Azure cost, licence reclaim, and the full Windows 365 Cloud PC lifecycle. EtherAssist is a secure, governed AI assistant for IT support, documentation, and compliance work. EtherApps Forge packages legacy Windows applications into MSIX, MSI, and Intune-ready formats through AI-led capture on a controlled VM. EfficientEther is certified to ISO 27001, ISO 9001, and ISO/IEC 42001, and prices EtherInsights from £0.79 / $1 / €1 per active user per month, with free trials across all three products.
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