Cost

In the application cost report we want you to add a cost and quantity purchased of each application, giving you the chance to leverage cost control for all your SaaS apps with single-sign-on (SSO) through Entra ID. We recommend you to run Bsure for at least 30 days to have enough data to consider whether you have a potential saving on an application. To input your cost and quantity purchased for the different applications click this link: Configure application cost report.

User sign-ins will start from the day you install Bsure Insights or from the time Bsure patch your instance and keep information for the period you entered when installing Bsure Insights Azure Marketplace app. Contact [e-mail] to change this setting if needed.

Filter alternatives

• User Purpose: Filter on the type of Exchange Online mailbox connected to the user.

  • User - A user account with a mailbox.

  • Guest - The user purpose for guest users is set to Guest.

  • Shared - A shared mailbox user.

  • Room - A user with a mailbox that represents a conference room.

  • Equipment - A user with a mailbox that represents a piece of equipment.

  • Others - A mailbox was found but the user purpose is not specified.

  • Unknown - User has no Exchange Online mailbox, or we were not able to read it.

• Last used period: Helps you filter on the time period you want to look into for application usage

• Sign-in Type: Select to view Interactive or Non-interactive sign-ins - or both.

• Microsoft app: Gives you the opportunity to filter between Microsoft apps and third party apps. Read more on Microsoft first-party applications

• Application filter: This filter includes all available apps, so you can choose a single app to filter on

• Resource filter: Filter on the resources consumed

• User principal name: Free search for user principal names

Focus table - Application cost

• In this table you will see all applications where you have configured cost and quantities purchased, and how many unique users have authenticated themselves towards since Bsure was installed. By entering cost and quantities purchased you can do cost control on all your SaaS applications with single-sign-on towards your Entra ID.

• We recommend Bsure to be installed for at least 30 days before making decisions on whether to remove licenses or not

• This table consists the different applications and the number of times they have been accessed

Breakdown table - additional filter available for different user properties

• This table shows the distribution of logins for the chosen user property in the breakdown filter

• Breakdown filter: Choose the preferred property you want to filter by, by using the breakdown filter on the right side. We have also included Extension attributes as this is often used by companies

User details table - Cost

• In this table you can drill down on the specific users and which applications they have been authenticated towards since Bsure was installed, and which cost that application has

• The column selector on the right hand side gives you the opportunity to choose which information is the most interesting to see.

You can show all applications that have a default price of 0 and a bought quantity of 0 by removing the tick "Apps with Cost = TRUE" in the filter section

Configure application cost report:

Go to the Azure portal, and locate the Storage Account you set up as one of the prerequisites when you installed the Azure Managed Application. It is the Storage Account you used when you connected the Power Bi App to your data.

An easy way to locate it, is to use the top search bar in the Azure portal:

Select Storage Browser in the menu.

Select Tables.

Select TblAppCostUnit.

Double click the application you want to add cost, units bought and a comment

Modify the highlighted sections

At next report refresh your report will show you usage, cost and potential savings per application