SMART STACK 3.0
ROI Calculator
Quantify the value of AI-ready data transformation with our comprehensive ROI assessment framework.
Calculate Your Data Transformation Savings
The financial impact of the Smart Stack 3.0 is transformative. While reducing storage footprint delivers meaningful savings, the most significant cost benefit comes from suppressing runaway compute consumption. Security scans, compliance searches, analytics workloads, and AI queries operating on bloated datasets are now among the most significant drivers of CIO budgets.
Storage Cost Reduction
Up to 60% of enterprise data is ROT — Redundant, Obsolete, and Trivial data. By identifying and eliminating ROT before it reaches your AI and analytics platforms, Smart Stack dramatically reduces storage costs. Compression and deduplication in our Trusted Data Archive further decrease an organization's licensing and storage costs.
Compute Cost Optimization
Compute costs are now typically 25% of a CIO's budget. By ensuring that only policy-approved Trusted Data is mirrored into OneLake and active AI environments, Zantaz dramatically reduces query volume, processing time, and unnecessary AI cycles. This upstream filtering lowers costs across the Microsoft stack while improving performance.
License Optimization
By handling the heavy lifting of compliance archiving, Smart Stack allows organizations to reduce their dependency on expensive Microsoft 365 E5 licenses, which are often purchased solely for their advanced compliance features. This can represent significant annual savings for large organizations.
Productivity Gains
When Copilot is fed with Zantaz-organized AI-Ready Trusted Data, its behavior changes noticeably. Responses become more accurate and relevant, hallucinations decrease, and user trust increases. This translates directly to productivity gains as employees spend less time verifying AI outputs and more time acting on reliable intelligence.
Key Benefits
- 60%+ Storage Reduction: Eliminate ROT data before it consumes storage resources.
- 25% Compute Savings: Reduce AI and analytics compute costs through upstream filtering.
- E5 License Optimization: Reduce dependency on expensive Microsoft compliance licenses.
- Productivity Multiplier: More accurate AI outputs drive faster, better decisions.
Conclusion
Combined with Zantaz's all-inclusive enterprise licensing model, organizations gain predictable economics and the freedom to scale Copilot and Microsoft AI without financial throttles or repeated procurement cycles.
Interactive Tool
ROT Storage Savings Calculator
Set your data volume, storage price, and ROT percentage to quantify what defensibly eliminating Redundant, Obsolete, and Trivial data returns over five years.
Total unstructured data across SharePoint, File Shares, and OneDrive
Fully loaded annual cost to store one terabyte in primary storage
Redundant, Obsolete, or Trivial data that can be safely removed
Five Year Storage Cost Savings
$4.4M
$4,375,000 recovered
EstimatedAnnual Savings
$875.0K
Total ROTEliminated
250 TB
Trusted DataRetained
750 TB
How This Is Calculated
ROT TB = Total TB x ROT % Annual savings = ROT TB x Cost per TB 5 Year savings = Annual savings x 5
This models storage cost only. Compute reduction, license optimization, and productivity gains are additional.
Ready to Calculate Your Savings?
Zantaz's Microsoft Companion Smart Stack 3.0 is delivered under an all-inclusive $1 million annual enterprise license. No additional user fees, usage penalties, or activation licenses.