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From the first tenant to a Copilot roll-out: structured Microsoft 365 advisory for the mid-market and associations — with license hygiene, security baseline, and adoption programs.
Insights
Not a marketing newsroom — an editorial trail of our work. What we learn in projects, we write down: on Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Copilot, licensing, NIS2, and Independent Engineering. When something doesn't work, we say that too.
Four areas
Four clearly separated areas — advisory offerings, editorial knowledge, the company itself, and real project experiences. So you know immediately whether a page is a concrete offering, a knowledge deep-dive, a company page, or an actual case discussion.
Advisory packages and service landings: Microsoft 365 advisory, Microsoft Dynamics 365 advisory, compliance & NIS2, AI governance, Microsoft for education providers and non-profits — with day rates and starter packages.
View topics Editorial knowledgeShort, dated posts on Microsoft releases, license changes, Copilot updates, EU regulation, and engineering practice. No offering — pure knowledge. Reading time: 3–8 minutes.
Go to blog About arades GmbHTeam, careers, positioning, references, partner program, and the arades consulting group. Who stands behind the editorial line and how we work with the mid-market.
View company External casesReal project experiences — from Microsoft references to universities and research institutes. No gloss, but lessons learned, hour ranges, pitfalls, ROI observations.
View case studiesFeatured topics
A selection of our service pages — from Microsoft platform advisory through compliance to AI governance.
From the first tenant to a Copilot roll-out: structured Microsoft 365 advisory for the mid-market and associations — with license hygiene, security baseline, and adoption programs.
CE focus with honest F&O delineation: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales, Customer Service, Field Service, Project Operations — from selection through introduction to Application Care.
Since December 2025, around 29,500 companies are NIS2-affected for the first time. We deliver a pragmatic Microsoft baseline — Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Entra ID, Defender — without buzzword bingo.
EU AI Act obligations, risk classes, documented prompt practice, and Microsoft Copilot boundaries — structured for organizations that want to use Copilot and LLMs in production.
Featured blog
Short, dated posts — three from the licensing series and a classic on Copilot adoption.
The latest license wave: what changed in SKU structures, minimum quantities, and promo conditions. Practical consequences for running contracts and renewal planning.
When is an attach license enough, when do you need a base — and why the wrong choice becomes a back-payment at audit. With examples from real CSP setups.
Pay-as-you-go credits versus dedicated Microsoft Copilot licenses: which SKU is cheaper for which usage pattern — with calculation examples for mid-market companies.
Buying Copilot licenses is the easy half. The hard half: adoption. What we're learning in live roll-outs — from prompt coaching to security-boundary questions.
Featured company
Who stands behind the editorial line — team, positioning, career opportunities, and the arades consulting group.
Who we are, who will accompany you in projects. Management, consultants, engineering — no account-manager layer between you and the delivery team.
Dual-pillar strategy, Independent Engineering idea, and editorial line instead of marketing speak. Where we draw the line between ourselves and the classic system integrator.
Trainee positions, experienced consultants, engineering roles — Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Independent Engineering. With real delivery responsibility instead of pre-sales.
Our platform for freelance Microsoft consultants and engineering specialists — with transparent day-rate logic, a dedicated brand area, and a shared project pipeline.
Case studies
arades does not publish a logo-wall case-study showcase. External cases — Microsoft engagements, universities, research institutes — appear in the Insights area as lessons-learned write-ups with hour ranges, pitfalls and ROI observations as soon as the respective client approvals are in place. Until then, you'll find our references, anonymized setups and delivery examples directly on the Engineering and Solutions pages.
Three topic focus areas
Our editorial line follows our practice priorities. Three red threads run through almost every post.
Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Copilot, Microsoft 365. We write about release waves, undocumented behavior, license-matrix changes, and adoption hurdles — from 20+ years of lived practice.
What to do when Microsoft doesn't fit? Custom software, AI integrations beyond Copilot, architectures with GDPR and EU AI Act reserves. Sovereign cloud, on-prem options, open-source alternatives.
Microsoft licenses have become their own research field — Team Member, F&O apps, Copilot SKUs, Agent 365, EU AI Act obligations. We operate the European License Cost Calculator and write from that practice.
Editorial principle
Every post grows out of ongoing projects, out of questions our clients ask us, out of Microsoft updates that we try in real implementations. No SEO filler, no ChatGPT rehashes, no affiliate listicles.
That limits frequency — but if you read something here, someone at our firm was responsible for making it work in a real client setup.
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