What is Microsoft Marketplace?

Microsoft Marketplace is Microsoft’s compliant, enterprise-grade procurement platform that enables both public and private sector organisations to purchase certified Microsoft solutions and services through a secure, governed digital environment. It allows customers to acquire trusted cloud solutions, professional services, and managed offerings that meet Microsoft’s technical, security, and compliance standards — all while streamlining procurement, consolidating billing, and aligning purchases to existing Microsoft agreements. By transacting through Microsoft Marketplace, organisations benefit from simplified commercial processes, reduced procurement risk, and confidence that every solution is validated within the Microsoft ecosystem.

When you procure through Microsoft Marketplace, your purchase can be billed against your existing Microsoft Enterprise Agreement or Azure Consumption Commitment. This allows you to ‘burn down’ the budget already committed to Microsoft, ensuring optimal usage of your contracted cloud spend without requiring a new procurement process or supplier onboarding.

Turn Microsoft Investments Into Measurable Business Value

Microsoft Marketplace Mondays

An executive level series focused on how organisations operationalise AI, Data, Security, Compliance, Cloud, Cost and Resilience — and procure trusted solutions intelligently through Microsoft Marketplace.

Designed for leaders accountable for technology outcomes, financial governance, risk, and enterprise transformation.

Turning Microsoft capability into business outcomes is still a challenge

Most organisations have already made significant investments across the Microsoft ecosystem.

Yet despite this, executive teams continue to see:

• Strong capabilities that remain underutilised
• Initiatives that progress in silos rather than as an operating model
• Increasing complexity across security, compliance, cloud, and cost
• Difficulty translating investment into consistent, measurable outcomes

The challenge is not access to technology.

The challenge is how these capabilities are operationalised, governed, and procured in a way that supports speed, control, and accountability across the enterprise.

“Move from AI curiosity to real business value — fast.”

AI Enablement & Copilot Adoption

Solved Pain Points:

Bought Copilot but adoption is low

No ROI visibility

No AI governance

Staff fear AI replacing their jobs

Microsoft AI now spans Copilots, intelligent automation, AI agents, and Azure AI services.
The challenge for most organisations is no longer access — it is how these capabilities are enabled, governed, and scaled to deliver real business value.

This theme explores how leaders move up the AI Value Ladder — from experimentation to structured adoption — using proven enablement and scaling frameworks to unlock measurable productivity, automation, and return on investment.

  • Scaled adoption across roles and functions
  • Embedded automation within business processes
  • Responsible use of AI agents aligned to governance and risk

The emphasis is on measurable capacity uplift, not experimentation.

Copilot Chat: Adoption Roadmap & Success Strategy

Unlock the free Copilot Chat capability already included in most Microsoft 365 licences and empower every employee to work smarter—without extra licensing costs.

Copilot at Scale: Building an AI-Enabled Workforce with Copilot M365

Empower your entire organization with Copilot at Scale, a Gijima-led program designed to deploy Microsoft’s AI-powered Copilot across your business.

Build an Agent in a Day: AI Automation workshop

Accelerate your AI journey with Copilot in a Day, Gijima’s focused enablement workshop that helps organisations unlock productivity through Microsoft Copilot across Microsoft 365.

Copilot in a Day – Free Workshop

Unlock the power of AI with Gijima’s Agent-in-a-Day workshop for Copilot for Microsoft 365. This hands-on session equips your employees to harness Microsoft Copilot, boosting collaboration, efficiency, and innovation across the workplace.

Process in a Day: AI-Powered Automation Workshop

Accelerate business-led automation in just three high-impact days with Gijima’s Process in a Day workshop. This immersive program equips business and IT users to identify, design, and automate real-world processes using Microsoft Copilot Studio, SharePoint, and integrated connectors—all with low-code AI tools.
“From scattered data to real-time insight.”

Data & Analytics Transformation

Solved Pain Points:

No single source of truth

Manual reporting

Leadership blind spots

Slow decision-making

Data exists across the enterprise — insight does not.

Most organisations continue to struggle with fragmented analytics, manual reporting, and inconsistent views of performance. The issue is not data availability, but how data platforms are structured, governed, and aligned to decision-making.

This theme explores how leaders establish decision grade visibility by modernising analytics platforms, reducing reporting friction, and aligning data capabilities to operating and governance models — so data becomes a trusted, consistent input for executive decision-making, not an operational burden.

  • Reduce manual reporting and fragmented analytics
  • Establish decision grade visibility across the business
  • Align modern analytics platforms to operating and governance models

The focus is on turning data into consistent, trusted input for executive decision-making.

Transform Your Data with Microsoft Fabric

Transform your data into real-time insights that drive measurable business impact. Gijima’s Activate Microsoft Fabric solution helps organisations unlock Customer 360 and Contract & Financial Commitment Intelligence—delivering unified, actionable analytics across your enterprise in just 2½ months.

Dashboard in a Day – Power BI Analytics Workshop

Unlock the power of your data with Gijima’s Dashboard in a Day—a practical, three-day Microsoft Power BI workshop. Whether you’re aiming to foster a data-driven culture or boost operational visibility, this workshop equips your employees with the skills to turn raw data into actionable intelligence.
“We don’t just sell security — we continuously improve it.”

Security Posture & Zero Trust Readiness

Solved Pain Points:

Breach anxiety

No visibility of risk

Tool sprawl

No internal skills

Security environments often expand faster than organisational clarity.

The challenge is not a shortage of tools — it is establishing a cohesive security posture that is governed, measurable, and aligned to enterprise risk.

This theme explores how leaders strengthen security maturity through practical Zero Trust, improved visibility, and operating model alignment — so security becomes a predictable capability that supports the business, rather than a reactive response function.

  • Strengthen security maturity without increasing operational complexity
  • Apply Zero Trust principles in a pragmatic, enterprise ready way
  • Align security investments to governance, accountability, and risk tolerance

The outcome is resilience with visibility, not reactive control.

Microsoft 365 Secure Score

Strengthen your Microsoft 365 environment with Gijima’s Microsoft Secure Score Management Services. With Gijima, you gain ongoing visibility and proactive management of your Microsoft 365 security, enabling your business to reduce risks and operate with confidence.

Azure Secure Score

Take control of your Microsoft Azure security posture with Gijima’s Azure Secure Score – Managed Posture & Governance service. At Gijima we operationalize Azure Secure Score in Microsoft Defender for Cloud to help you measure, improve, and maintain cloud security across your entire tenant.

Identity & Access Hardening: Protect the keys to your organisation

Protect your organization with Gijima’s AD and Entrap ID Security Hardening workshop. This hands-on session equips your employees to secure digital identities, enforce strong access policies, and protect against evolving cyber threats — a critical step in building a resilient, secure workplace.

24 x 7 Microsoft Sentinel SOC

Stay ahead of cyber threats with Gijima’s Sentinel SOC solution, powered by Microsoft Sentinel. Gijima gives organisations access to next-generation cybersecurity technologies via a Cyber Defence Centre.
“Stay compliant without slowing down your business.”

Compliance, Data Governance & Risk

Solved Pain Points:

POPIA/GDPR anxiety

Data leaks

No retention or governance

Shadow IT

Compliance requirements continue to expand — often without a unified model.

Many organisations manage compliance reactively, with controls that are fragmented across systems and teams. This theme focuses on how leaders establish structured, enterprise wide governance that brings clarity, consistency, and confidence.

  • Structuring data governance and classification
  • Improving audit readiness and regulatory confidence
  • Aligning compliance controls with business operations

The goal is to move compliance from a constraint to a predictable, managed capability that supports the business.

Intelligent Data Governance & Compliance with Microsoft Purview and the DGI Framework

Ensure your organization meets global and local compliance standards with Gijima’s Information Data Governance & Compliance solution.

Designed for CIOs, CDOs, and Compliance Officers, this service equips your business with the tools to protect sensitive information, maintain compliance, and drive trust across your digital ecosystem.

Intune - Device management data protection

Simplify and secure your device ecosystem with Gijima’s Microsoft Intune Endpoint Management Services. With Gijima, organizations gain centralized control, improved endpoint security, and flexible management to support hybrid workforces.
“We don’t just migrate you — we future-proof your cloud.”

Cloud Foundation, Migration & Modernisation

Solved Pain Points:

Legacy systems

Cost increases

Scalability issues

Lack of landing zone

Cloud adoption without structure increases instability.

For many organisations, the challenge is no longer whether to move to the cloud — but how to modernise safely while maintaining control. This theme examines how leaders establish well governed cloud foundations that enable modernisation without compromising resilience or architectural discipline.

  • Modernising legacy environments safely
  • Establishing scalable, well governed cloud foundations
  • Balancing speed, resilience, and architectural integrity
  • The emphasis is on modernisation that supports the business — not just migration.

Migration and Modernisation Services for Azure: Organisation transformation

Accelerate your cloud journey with confidence. Gijima’s Azure Migration & Modernisation service enables organisations to move to Microsoft Azure with a secure, compliant, and scalable landing zone. With Gijima, your business unlocks operational efficiency, agility, and resilience in the cloud.

Secure Azure Cloud Foundation

Moving to the cloud is more than just “lift and shift.” Start your Azure journey with a secure, well-governed foundation.

Gijima’s Secure Cloud Foundation provides a robust Azure landing zone designed around Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well-Architected principles.

From day one, we ensure governance, compliance, and security controls are in place—whether your workloads run entirely in Azure or in a hybrid model connected to on-premises datacentres.

“Stop wasting money on technology.”

Cost & Licensing Optimisation

Solved Pain Points:

Shelfware

Overlicensing

Telecom spend

No visibility

Overspend is rarely intentional — it is usually structural.

Without visibility and governance, licensing and cloud consumption drift, and value becomes difficult to prove.

This theme focuses on how leaders establish cost transparency, align licensing and consumption to real usage, and introduce financial governance that supports execution — so Microsoft investment delivers measurable return without slowing the organisation down.

  • Gain visibility into Microsoft licensing and consumption
  • Align spend to actual business usage and value
  • Introduce financial governance without slowing execution

The outcome is cost control with agility, not constraint.

Microsoft Licensing Procurement and Optimisation

Simplify Microsoft licensing with Gijima’s Licensing Optimization & Procurement solution, delivered through our CSP partnership with Westcon.

As a trusted Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider, Gijima ensures you receive the right-fit licenses based on usage, compliance, and business growth requirements — helping you reduce costs while staying secure and compliant.

Microsoft Teams Calling

Turn Microsoft Teams into a fully featured business phone system with Gijima’s Teams Voice Enablement solution. With Gijima, organizations can unify collaboration and telephony into a single Microsoft-powered platform, improving communication and driving cost efficiency.
“If something breaks — how fast can you recover?”

Business Continuity, Backup & Resilience

Solved Pain Points:

Ransomware fears

Accidental deletion

Downtime

Compliance gaps

Resilience is no longer optional — but confidence is often misplaced.

Many organisations rely on continuity plans that look complete on paper but fail under real-world pressure. This theme focuses on how leaders build practical, business aligned resilience that protects operations when disruption occurs.

  • Protecting critical operations against disruption and ransomware
  • Aligning backup and recovery strategies to business priorities
  • Ensuring continuity planning is actionable, not theoretical

The objective is operational confidence under pressure.

Commvault Backup & Recovery

Gijima’s Commvault Backup & Recovery solution, powered by Metallic, delivers secure, automated, and policy-driven protection for Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Azure VMs, and hybrid workloads.

Designed for resilience and simplicity, the solution ensures your organisation’s critical data is always protected, recoverable, and compliant.

As a trusted Commvault partner, Gijima provides full lifecycle service—including implementation, configuration, monitoring, and compliance reporting—so your teams can focus on business outcomes, not backup administration.

Ready to Turn Microsoft Investment Into Measurable Outcomes?

Marketplace Mondays brings leaders together around the seven imperatives shaping Microsoft environments in 2026 — AI, Data, Security, Compliance, Cloud, Cost and Resilience.

If you are accountable for outcomes across technology, risk, or financial governance, this is a structured, practical way to align priorities and move from intention to execution.