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Announcing new pricing and capabilities in Compliance Manager premium templates

Daniel_Hidalgo's avatar
Dec 07, 2022

In the modern era, organizations need to comply with several international, federal, or local regulatory obligations. Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager contains a library of 350+ regulations designed to help you reduce the time it takes to get compliant, stay compliant, and scale your company’s compliance. Today, we are excited to announce the following changes to your premium templates:

 

What you need to know:

  1. Pricing is dropping to $6,000 per unit, per year
  2. Regulations under the same family will count as a single template
  3. Microsoft 365 E5 customers will be able to use their first 3 premium templates for free

Reduced pricing

Research suggests that organizations need to comply with 5-10 regulations on average. At Microsoft, we strive to empower every organization to achieve more, and that means giving you access to the greatest number of templates at the most affordable price. Starting today, customers across all segments can purchase our premium templates at an all-time low price of $6,000 per year or just $500 per month!

 

Figure 1: New price for Compliance Manager Add-On

 

Grouped regulations

Some regulations have different maturity levels. Starting today, regulations under this category are considered part of the same “family” and will count as a single premium template. The examples below showcase what is and what is not grouped together as part of this change.

Grouped: Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) versions 3 and 4 are all part of the same standard and will count as a single template.

Not Grouped: NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171 are different standards, and therefore count as different templates

 

Figure 2: Example of grouped templates (ie: Australia - ASD Essential 😎

 

Benefits for E5 customers

Previously, you were entitled to the following regulations: ISO27001, NIST 800-53, and GDPR as part of your E5 services. Starting today, we are no longer prescribing these three regulations. You can now choose up to 3 premium templates from the content library and select the ones that best suit your organization. 

 

Figure 3: E5 customers can choose their first 3 premium templates for free

 

*Note: Customers on E1, E3, and other license types will have to purchase these at $6,000 per unit.

 

Get started today!

We are committed to helping organizations do more with less by delivering capabilities that make the end-to-end compliance experience more efficient and affordable. Get started with Compliance Manager through the Microsoft Purview portal today!

 

Have any questions? Visit our Technical Documentation for the latest information.

Updated Dec 07, 2022
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  • Since no one answered the question, I've been able to change the 3 Premium templates on my M365 E5 subscription anytime I want.  If you just go into the Compliance Manager interface, you can see that it has a "counter" for the number of Premium templates available for use at no cost. 

    • It shows "3" initially however if you deploy a Premium template, it decrements this to "2... and so forth.  
    • If you remove the template from your tenant's Compliance Manager configuration, it increments the counter back up to "3".

    I've done this with HIPAA Hitech, IRS 1075, CJIS, and swapped them out for other templates no problem.

  • Lou_The_First's avatar
    Lou_The_First
    Copper Contributor

    Is it possible to change the three Premium templates over the course of a subscription?

  • ThanhHK's avatar
    ThanhHK
    Copper Contributor

    Daniel_Hidalgo My customer has E5 licenses. They want to know if they can change the 3 premium templates over time of their subscription as long as they use 3. Thank you

  • Chris_Vella's avatar
    Chris_Vella
    Brass Contributor

    Thank you! I have been trying to push Purview Compliance Manager for a while, but under the previous pricing model it was never going to be viable. This change will make it a practical solution for a lot more organisations. 

  • Love the business model changes that make it friction free for E5 customers to leverage any 3 premium templates of their choice instead of the specific templates that were offered earlier. The price drop also lowers the bar for entry for customers to try and leverage several premium templates.  Excited to hear back from customers on the new pricing/capabilities introduced in this update!