Alira helps Unilabs unlock greater value from Microsoft 365 licensing

When Unilabs partnered with Kocho, licence management was non negotiable. At global scale, it underpins cost control, audit confidence, and access to critical systems.

The challenge was to keep that control as the organisation evolved, without turning licensing into a bottleneck.

How Alira was deployed

During the transition to Kocho, Unilabs recognised its existing licence management capability needed replacing and used the opportunity to reset the approach.

The aim was a modern model that would be dependable, transparent, and easier to operate across regions with fewer manual steps and safer delegation.

Kocho delivered that by deploying Alira’s licence management capabilities, extending Microsoft Entra with clearer visibility, safer delegation, and practical control over Microsoft 365 licences.

As one of the first organisations to adopt the tool in a live enterprise environment, Unilabs focused on outcomes that would be felt operationally, helping them:

• Run licence management at scale
• Shift routine work away from central teams
• Trust the data behind usage and spend

The deployment was delivered in close collaboration with Unilabs. Rather than forcing a one-size-fits-all governance model, Alira was configured around existing ways of working. Making it easy to run day to day, while staying secure and audit ready.

Improving visibility and delegated control

Alira gave Unilabs a single, reliable view of Microsoft 365 licence usage across the organisation, combined with clear ways to act on that insight.

Key capabilities included:

Rather than replacing Microsoft Entra controls, Alira sat alongside them, extending what was already in place and making licence governance easier to operate at scale.

What Unilabs gained as a result

With Alira Licence Manager in place, Unilabs gained immediate visibility into licence usage across the organisation. This surfaced substantial opportunities to reuse existing licences, significantly reducing the need for additional purchases and creating a clear path to rightsizing licence renewals.

By identifying and addressing licence bleed early, Unilabs strengthened cost control without disrupting operations. Reporting and clean‑up features enabled ongoing optimisation, helping ensure licence spend remained aligned to real usage as the organisation evolved.

The takeaway

This engagement demonstrates the value of Alira when licence management is treated as part of a wider access experience, not just an administrative process.

By extending Unilabs’ existing Microsoft Entra environment, Alira delivered clearer visibility, safer delegation, and actionable insight into licence usage and reuse. This enabled more informed decisions around renewals, reduced long‑term waste, and strengthened commercial control without adding complexity for central IT or regional teams.

The result was a modern licence management approach that combined operational simplicity with measurable optimisation, and scaled confidently across a complex, global organisation.