Aiyoda was built by Blackhill SAM: independent Microsoft licensing practitioners – advising enterprise clients on compliance and cost for over 14 years. Aiyoda is a specialised Software Asset Management (SAM) solution that enables organisations to manage complex Microsoft environments, without the overhead of traditional tools. It offers agentless, on-premises deployment and M365 API integration.
Aiyoda is purpose-built for organisations with complex Microsoft licensing requirements. It integrates directly with the existing organisational infrastructure, delivering a current state view of the Microsoft deployment position to support license compliance remediation, budgeting and contract renewals.
Constructs and maintains the Effective Microsoft Deployment Position across all licensable software titles, SQL Server instances, and virtualised environments.
Pinpoints inactive subscriptions, over-provisioned accounts, and consolidation opportunities across hybrid environments.
Supports contract renewals and audits with reliable data, enabling informed decisions and a defensible deployment position.
Hybrid SAM
Inventra provides ongoing software discovery and data reconciliation across hybrid environments, delivering the visibility required to support informed investment decisions and compliance risk management.
Delivers visualisations spanning the full technology estate, from consolidated management level overviews to granular licensing detail.
M365 Optimisation
Microsoft 365 represents a significant and ongoing component of IT spend, with costs continually changing as tenant usage evolves. Spectrum equips IT teams with reliable usage insight to maintain an accurate view of subscription consumption, identify optimisation opportunities, and approach each renewal cycle with current, validated data.
Visualisations across the full Microsoft 365 stack, from license allocation through to usage and adoption.
Cloud Intelligence
Horizon is the Azure module of the Aiyoda platform. It provides an end-to-end view of your Azure estate, including cost, resources, reservations, tag compliance and Azure Advisor recommendations, updated daily. All data is quantified and clearly linked to the relevant resources.
Live, filterable dashboards built on data collected directly from Azure, from the executive overview through to the Advisor triage workspace.
Each recommendation is classified by severity and category, with the affected asset count and the estimated impact, so commercial and technical teams can act with shared context.
Recommendations are classified by severity - Critical, High, Medium, and Low, highlighting the affected asset count and savings category for each item. This approach supports structured prioritisation based primarily on compliance risk and operational impact across the subscription and licensing estate.
Spectrum identifies licence and security recommendations organised by category: Licences, Users, Devices, and Security. Each item displays the affected account set, the nature of the compliance or cost issue, and an estimated monthly financial impact. This enables prioritisation based on cost efficiencies and risk exposure.
Horizon ingests every active Azure Advisor recommendation and structures it into a working triage flow. Each finding is quantified in monthly and annual dollars, classified across Azure Advisor's five areas - Cost, Security, Reliability, Performance and Operations - and routed to the resource it concerns, ready to mark as Implemented, Flagged or Dismissed with a full session audit log.
The Aiyoda console is configured on a designated server or workstation. Data sources are connected using existing administrative credentials. No endpoint agents are required.
Aiyoda's lightweight scanning capability collects rich hardware and software data across the environment and integrates with multiple enterprise systems to construct a complete view of the Microsoft deployment estate.
Interactive dashboards present the Effective Deployment Position, licence waste analysis, and cost optimisation intelligence derived from Aiyoda's embedded Microsoft licensing engine.
No software is deployed to user devices or endpoints. Aiyoda operates by querying the existing Microsoft infrastructure directly, removing the deployment overhead and long-term maintenance costs associated with agent-based SAM platforms.
Discovery, reconciliation, and analytics are processed within a controlled, secure environment. This ensures sensitive licensing and infrastructure data remains protected across high-security environments and regulated organisations.
The absence of endpoint agents eliminates the primary deployment bottleneck of traditional SAM implementations. Aiyoda is typically operational within minutes of installation, with deployment visibility available almost immediately.
Aiyoda collects and reconciles multiple data sources to construct a complete and accurate view of the Microsoft deployment estate.
Both modules included. Cost per seat decreases as your estate grows.
| Estate size | Per seat / year | Total annual | Effective monthly |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 seats | $5.76 | $2,880 | $240 |
| 1,000 seats | $4.48 | $4,480 | $373 |
| 2,500 seats | $3.71 | $9,280 | $773 |
| 5,000 seats | $2.34 | $11,680 | $973 |
Book a personalised demonstration and we will walk you through how Aiyoda identifies unused licences, eliminates redundant subscriptions and closes compliance gaps across the entire estate .
