Posts by Matthias Einig
- AI Governance
The watermark problem AI providers can't solve for you.
Same pattern, different provider: a major AI company makes a technical decision to comply with a regulation, and it takes the rest of the market weeks to notice what that decision actually asks of…
- Collaboration Governance
What ByteDance and Alibaba's overnight AI agent shutdown means for every enterprise
On 15 July, 345 million people lost access to their AI agents overnight. ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen had built personalised AI agents used across China at enormous scale. New rules from the…
- AI Governance
What Is Agent 365? The M365 AI Governance Gap, Explained
Here is the good news: Microsoft has built powerful AI agent capabilities directly into Microsoft 365. Copilot Studio, SharePoint Agents, and declarative agents give your teams tools that automate…
- Collaboration Governance
Governance at Scale: What Our Webinar Audience Really Wanted to Know
Last week's webinar, "The COE Is Dead. Who's Governing Your Power Platform Now?" , generated a lot of questions from attendees across financial services, professional services, government, and…
- AI Governance
Agent 365 and the Governance Challenge Ahead
Many organizations underestimate the depth of the shift that agent-based work will introduce. The narrative often remains focused on Copilot, SharePoint agents, flows, and the early wave of Copilot…
- AI Governance
AI governance for Microsoft 365: From Copilot risks to EU AI Act readiness
Agents are already running inside your tenant, created by people who never filed a ticket: Microsoft 365 Copilot, Power Automate flows, and Microsoft Loop workspaces acting on your most critical…
- AI Governance
How to Control Agent Sprawl in Microsoft 365 - Rencore
As organizations embrace AI-driven tools like Microsoft Copilot and custom agents , a new governance challenge has emerged: agent sprawl. This blog explores the implications of decentralized agent…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Top 10 Microsoft 365 Governance Automations: Transforming Chaos into Control
For today’s IT leaders, Microsoft 365 is both a blessing and a challenge. Its flexibility and power have made it the backbone of modern collaboration, but with that power comes a daunting level of…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
AI Monitoring in Microsoft 365: Why It’s Non-Negotiable
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming how we work, innovate, and interact, particularly within collaborative environments like Microsoft 365. From automating tasks to generating…
- AI Governance
What is agentic AI and what it means for Microsoft 365 governance
Agentic AI is opening a bold new frontier in artificial intelligence. One that promises to redefine productivity, automate complexity, and unlock unprecedented business value. Unlike its…
- AI Governance
Turn Governance from a Reason Not to Do AI into the Way to Enable It
AI investment is accelerating across every industry. From chatbots and copilots to autonomous agents and low-code workflows, organizations are embedding AI into daily work at a pace never seen…
- AI Governance
Business Success with AI Governance: Your Competitive Advantage
Governance Is No Longer Just Risk Mitigation AI is now a strategic lever. Across industries, organizations are adopting generative AI to drive efficiency, improve customer service, accelerate…
- AI Governance
The Urgency of AI Governance: Leading the Way in Responsible Innovation
Microsoft Copilot is an astonishing innovation. In mere months, it has reshaped how people interact with the Microsoft 365 ecosystem - automating emails, summarizing meetings, drafting reports, and…
- AI Governance
Governing the Age of AI: Introducing Copilot & Agent Governance and Power Platform Governance
Your employees are already building AI agents inside Microsoft 365, and most IT teams cannot say how many exist, who owns them, or what data they reach. Two new modules, now in preview as part of…
- AI Governance
Data Diet for Better AI, How to Reduce ROT Before Copilot Roll-Out
Bloated Content Makes Bad AI Decisions When enterprises talk about AI readiness, many start by focusing on licensing and training. However, the most overlooked issue is the one AI cannot fix on its…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
AI Risk Management in Practice: From Security to Trust
Your people are already using AI on your data. The question your board will ask is not whether the tools work, it is whether you can prove what they touched, who authorized it, and what happened…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
The Hidden Challenge: Ensuring IT Oversight of SharePoint Agents
Over the past 18 months, Microsoft 365 Copilot has rolled out across enterprise environments with cautious optimism. Many organizations are still exploring it via pilot programs or phased rollouts.…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Mastering M365 AI Governance in 2025
It seems like Microsoft are reaching new heights with Microsoft Copilot capabilities each month and it is hard to keep up. From Copilot chat to Copilot for M365, Copilot Studio and beyond, both…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Building Copilot Agents and Controlling them with Rencore Governance
Anyone in your organization can now build an AI agent that reads your SharePoint, connects to your systems, and acts on their behalf, without writing code and without asking IT first. Gartner expects…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Get the best out of your Microsoft Secure Score: A checklist
We are delighted to announce that we have published a new checklist on how to boost Secure Score.
- Collaboration Governance
How to save a fortune on M365 storage
Microsoft 365 storage is a bill that grows on its own: your people create content every day, nobody deletes it, and the overage charge arrives whether or not anyone can say what is in it or who owns…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Copilot for Microsoft 365 Risk Assessment QuickStart Guide Explained
A few weeks ago, Microsoft released an important guide to its Copilot users, a document that helps organizations carry out a risk assessment of Copilot for Microsoft 365 .
- Cloud Management & Strategy
What does Microsoft 365 governance for enterprises look like?
Are governance frameworks universal? Can organizations of all sizes rely on one single governance framework?
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Rarely Asked Questions (RAQs) about Microsoft 365 governance
Microsoft 365 governance is a critical aspect of ensuring the security, compliance, and efficient management of an organization's digital workspace. But in reality, how easy is it to pull this off?
- Cloud Management & Strategy
How AI is shaping a new era of modern work
At the very beginning of 2024, I wrote a blog article sharing my impressions about the future of cloud collaboration and what the year is expected to bring about in terms of new innovations and…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Webinar Q&A: AI meets low-code development: A deep dive into Copilot Studio
Recently, we conducted a live webinar on Copilot Studio that garnered a lot of interest from our audience. During the well-attended webinar, our expert speaker Idlir Islamaj - Senior Power Platform…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Free whitepaper! Regulating your AI companion: Best practices for Microsoft Copilot governance
We are delighted to announce that we have published the free guide “Regulating your AI companion: Best practices for Microsoft Copilot governance”. This whitepaper explores the adoption of AI tools…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
From AI assistant to AI co-worker: What is Team Copilot?
Copilot has been a game-changer not only for its users but also for the tech giant Microsoft. It has now announced an expansion of Copilot for Microsoft 365 with the new Team Copilot. This…
- Collaboration Governance
Debunking Common Myths About Microsoft 365 Governance
The Information Technology (IT) industry has undergone tremendous changes in the past decade, with cloud collaboration finding accelerated adoption in recent years.
- Security & Risk Management
Enhance your Microsoft 365 security: A checklist
Organizations that use Microsoft 365 face a myriad of security risks and challenges, ranging from data breaches to cyberattacks and more.
- Company News & Events
Rencore adds more renowned business advisors into the fold
Only months after closing an USD 8 million funding round led by renowned German investor UVC Partners, we’re delighted to announce that Rencore is bringing aboard six prominent industry experts and…
- Collaboration Governance
Webinar Q&A: Spring Clean your Microsoft 365
How does one Spring Clean a Microsoft 365 tenant? We’re glad you asked! One of the initiatives of our Spring Clean month at Rencore is a special webinar, where we help you with tips and resources to…
- Security & Risk Management
Understanding EU GDPR from an Office 365 Perspective
GDPR turns personal data into a board-level liability: it applies directly in every EU Member State, it reaches any business anywhere that handles the data of people living in the EU, and it puts a…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Tidy-up your Microsoft 365 and stay in control: A checklist
Nothing sparks more joy than a clean and tidy Microsoft 365 tenant, does it not? If you've been following us for a while, you know that March is the Spring Cleaning month at Rencore. Like in the…
- Collaboration Governance
Scaling new heights: A big thank you to all of you
I still cannot believe it was only 16 months ago when I had the immense pleasure of communicating one of the biggest milestones in Rencore history. Today, all of your help and support put us on a…
- Security & Risk Management
Secure user offboarding in M365: Best practices and considerations
User offboarding is a crucial step in user lifecycle management. It is perhaps even the most important one from a legal and compliance perspective. The goal of user offboarding is to safeguard…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
How to future-proof your business by prioritizing ESG metrics
Attribute it to the rapid digital acceleration in a post pandemic world or changing perspectives towards a sustainable life and future, sustainability has already found its way into the core values…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Towards a greener Microsoft environment: Why sustainable IT is a step in the right direction
At a time when Information Technology (IT) and digitization have become the driving forces for organizations worldwide to better collaborate and get business done, the topic of sustainability,…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Join in the BIG Microsoft 365 Spring Cleaning! #SpringCleanM365
Operating a secure, performant, and cost-efficient cloud collaboration environment is the desired state for organizations of all shapes and sizes. However, not everyone knows how to achieve it.
- Cloud Management & Strategy
The importance of implementing cloud collaboration governance solutions in your organization
One prevalent theme of the 2020s seems to be this: many organizations are facing pressures to cut costs , while continuing to expand their business operations. Cloud collaboration governance can help…
- Collaboration Governance
Free whitepaper! SharePoint governance best practices
We are delighted to announce that we have published the free guide “SharePoint governance best practices”. The whitepaper explores the vital role SharePoint plays in the Microsoft cloud collaboration…
- Cost Optimization & Licensing
10 easy and essential Microsoft 365 cost-saving tips
Incorporating cloud collaboration technology must go beyond the obvious operational benefits. It must also add additional value to other business areas and stand up to the procurement test.
- Collaboration Governance
Free whitepaper! Microsoft Teams governance best practices
We are delighted to announce that we have published the free guide “Microsoft Teams governance best practices”. The whitepaper explores the vital aspects of a comprehensive governance strategy that…
- Collaboration Governance
8 SharePoint best practices and common questions
Rencore celebrates its 10-year birthday next year, and it all began here with SharePoint. To kick off the countdown, we will give you the 8 SharePoint best practices, and common questions as a way of…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Prepare for Enforced SharePoint Site Limits: Key Actions to Take Now
Microsoft has communicated that they will enforce the previously recommended threshold of 2000 lists and libraries per site and 2000 subsites per site. You need to prepare for these SharePoint Site…
- Company News & Events
Rencore Governance now available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace!
We are thrilled to announce that Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now have the option to purchase Rencore Governance via the trusted Azure Marketplace. By adding this option, we further simplify…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Free whitepaper! Complete visibility across Microsoft 365
We are delighted to announce that we have published the free guide “Complete visibility across Microsoft 365”, which explores why visibility is crucial for governance, cost reduction, and security.…
- Company News & Events
Big news and an even bigger thank you from Rencore
We just closed a 4 million US$ funding round to accelerate our cloud collaboration governance expansion. The last two years have been some journey for all of us. Like most start-ups and…
- No-code/low-code governance
Free whitepaper! Microsoft Power Platform governance best practices
We are delighted to announce that we have published the free guide “Microsoft Power Platform governance best practices”. The whitepaper explores all facets of Microsoft’s low-code self-service…
- Cost Optimization & Licensing
How much does Microsoft 365 really cost?
Over a million companies use Microsoft 365 worldwide. Its success is partially down to a pay-as-you-go-payment plan, intuitive interface, familiar Office apps, customizable features, and add-ins to…
- Cost Optimization & Licensing
Free whitepaper! Optimize Microsoft 365 costs best practices
We are delighted to announce that we have published the free guide “Optimizing your Microsoft 365 costs”. The whitepaper discusses how to efficiently manage the operational expenses of Microsoft 365…
- Security & Risk Management
Free whitepaper! Microsoft 365 Data Access and Sharing Best Practices
We are delighted to announce that we have published the Microsoft 365 collaboration whitepaper: A guide to Microsoft 365 data access and sharing. The free whitepaper identifies the pitfalls…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Free Microsoft 365 governance strategy whitepaper! Build vs. Buy, what’s the right path for you?
We are delighted to announce that we have published the Microsoft 365 governance strategy whitepaper: Build vs. Buy, what’s the right path for you? The free whitepaper outlines the challenges of…
- Security & Risk Management
How to prevent the next Microsoft Power Apps data leak from happening
The seemingly age-old debate of online versus on-premises was a contentious topic throughout the last decade. And that discussion is still ongoing today.
- Collaboration Governance
Free Microsoft 365 whitepaper! Essential Cloud Governance Planning: Keep Microsoft 365 Decluttered
We are delighted to announce the publication of the first whitepaper in our Essential Cloud Governance Planning series: "Declutter Microsoft 365." The free whitepaper addresses an important cloud…
- Collaboration Governance
Microsoft 365 collaboration governance: How to share Teams with external users
Inviting external users to your Microsoft Teams environment is necessary for collaboration, but it is also risky if you do not control their user permissions correctly.
- Collaboration Governance
How to uncomplicate Microsoft 365 governance and save time
Governance is a broad, sometimes daunting topic with many stakeholders. Traditionally, a corporate governance structure keeps the status quo between the “terms and conditions” and those “contracted”…
- Collaboration Governance
The rise of Power Automate: Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in the digital ecosystem
Since the renaming of Flow to Power Automate, there has always been something more on the horizon than just the classic flows and connectors that the rebranded service is renowned for. On April 2nd,…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
What is a power user in Microsoft 365
It’s fair to say that standard business users are more empowered to solve digital business problems today than they were at the turn of the century. Digital collaboration is far more advanced. Using…
- Collaboration Governance
Microsoft Teams governance best practices: Definitive list
Every team someone creates is a container of data, permissions, and guests that somebody has to answer for later, and in most large organizations nobody does. Here is a structured set of Microsoft…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
Microsoft 365 advanced data governance: what you need to know
Nothing focuses attention on who can reach what quite like a sudden change in how people work. The rapid global adoption of Microsoft Teams did exactly that: remote working arrived out of necessity…
- Cloud Management & Strategy
What is Power Automate: Go with the Flow!
What is Power Automate? Power Automate is Microsoft’s process automation platform that taps into both the low-code, no-code and automation movements, facilitating the custom automation of business…
