About Portalliz

Built in Germany. Built from experience.

Portalliz is a Microsoft 365 license governance platform built for multinational IT teams managing a single global tenant across multiple countries, subsidiaries, or cost centers.

It started in Germany — with one IT professional who lived the problem every day and decided to fix it. Today it's built by a team that has shipped successful products together before, and decided to do it again.

Why Portalliz exists

Microsoft 365 is built for global scale. Regional accountability is a different problem — and it requires a different layer.

In a multinational organization sharing a single tenant, licenses are a global pool. Any region can consume what another region needed. Assignments happen outside your process. Redundant licenses go undetected for months. The financial waste is measurable. The operational friction is daily.

Portalliz closes that gap — with country-level quota management, monthly reservation cycles, out-of-band detection, and an inconsistency engine that surfaces what your Admin Center never flags.

Built by IT, for IT

The idea behind Portalliz goes back to 1995 — to a FoxPro calibration system that nobody asked for, built because the pain was visible and that was permission enough. The product you see today is the work of a team that turned that instinct into a platform.

Together, the team has managed Microsoft 365 infrastructure across multinational environments — multiple sites, hundreds of users, and single tenants spanning several countries. They know the exact problem Portalliz solves from the inside.

Portalliz is not a side project. It is the product that should have existed already.

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Portalliz in numbers

30 years

Of IT and software development experience

Multi-country

The kind of tenant Portalliz was designed to govern

Hundreds of users

The scale of environment Portalliz is built for

3 models

SaaS (EU-hosted), self-hosted, and desktop

Who's behind Portalliz

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Michel Martins de Araujo

Founder & Developer · Portalliz

Stuttgart, Germany Originally from Brazil

I've been building software solutions since 1995 — starting with a FoxPro system that nobody asked for, because the pain was visible and that was permission enough.

I've spent my career managing Microsoft 365 infrastructure across multinational environments. I know the problem Portalliz solves from the inside.

Portalliz is not my first product. It is my most mature one — built with 30 years of technical instinct, operational experience, and zero patience for problems that should have been solved already.

A small, senior team. Direct accountability.

Portalliz isn't built in layers. It's built by a small team of senior people who have shipped products together before — and know exactly how to do it again.

The vision is one founder's. Everything else — architecture, engineering, go-to-market, operations — is a shared effort.

Every support request reaches someone who knows the product end to end, and every decision is made by people who live the problem. No bureaucracy between you and the people building it.

The full story

Portalliz didn't start with a business plan. It started with a problem — and 30 years of building things before anyone asked.

The story is documented in full, chapter by chapter, at michelmart.life — from a disassembled radio at age five to the decision to build Portalliz in 2026.

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Portalliz didn't start with a business plan. It started with a problem — and the team came together around it because they'd solved hard problems together before. Small, senior, and fully accountable.

Legal

Portalliz is operated by its founding team and is currently in the process of incorporation as a Dutch B.V. Portalliz is not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft Corporation.