Governance Insights
Expert analysis on Microsoft 365 governance, Copilot deployment, compliance, and the economics of enterprise IT.
Power Platform Backup: The Market Gap That Only 3 Vendors Address
Microsoft provides 7-day backups for non-production Dataverse environments. Zero backup for standalone Power Apps or Power Automate flows. And only three vendors in the entire market offer an alternative.
Why Your Copilot Deployment is a Data Breach Waiting to Happen
40% of IT leaders delayed Copilot rollouts due to data security concerns. The EchoLeak vulnerability proved those concerns were justified. Here's what you need to fix before enabling Copilot.
AvePoint vs. One-Time Governance: A 3-Year TCO Comparison for Mid-Market Organizations
AvePoint's Confidence Platform starts at $3–7 per user per month. For a 500-user organization, that's $18,000–$42,000 annually. Here's what a one-time deployment model looks like in comparison.
The 180-Day Cliff: Why Microsoft Deletes Your Analytics and What To Do About It
Microsoft's Graph API enforces a hard 180-day ceiling on SharePoint and Teams usage data. For organizations under HIPAA, SOX, or PCI DSS, this creates a compliance gap that grows every day.