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The Powerful Flexibility of Rencore Governance: Built-in Best Practices and Customization

Written by Lee Sellen | Aug 7, 2024 1:00:00 PM

In today's fast-paced digital world, we have the tools to collaborate in real-time and refine how we get business done in the most efficient ways possible. We are truly in a golden age of digital transformation and adoption.  



Microsoft is at the front of the cue for enterprises, offering unparalleled efficiency and collaboration capabilities with a stream of constant updates being pushed across all apps and services. Maintaining control of your Microsoft 365 Tenant can be a daunting task but rigidly locking down your collaboration environment is prehistoric. Today, organizations need a governance solution that keeps pace with the rapid changes that enable organizations to get business done today and tomorrow. 
Rencore Governance, a powerful cloud collaboration tool, will help you navigate the ever-changing landscape of cloud collaboration with ease and precision. 

Quick Start Governance: Up and Running in No Time 

One of the standout features of Rencore Governance is its ability to get your automated governance lifecycle up and running in next to no time. With over 500 pre-built compliance policies, automations, dashboards, reports, and other template libraries, you can quickly set up your governance plan with minimal effort. 


This quick start capability allows you to gain immediate visibility and control over your Microsoft 365 environment, allowing you to delegate the mundane operational governance tasks to the predefined governance best practices and automation capabilities of Rencore governance. 

Flexibility Through Customization 

Once you have initiated your automated governance lifecycle, you won't have to worry about manually gathering and crunching data or fixing violations. Instead, you can focus on fine-tuning your governance strategy using the customization features in Rencore Governance. Feel free to dive into any of the compliance, automations, reports, provisioning, access, or dashboard template libraries and use the corresponding builder to tweak the pre-set governance best practices.

Dynamic Reporting and Insights

Starting at the preconfigured dashboard overview, you can drag and drop elements from Inventory, Compliance, Automation, and Reports by going into the tile library and selecting what you think you need to be informed on. In the same breath, you can tweak these individual tiles using the tile builder, making sure they are relevant for you and your stakeholders. You will have a unified view of essential information. 

Robust Policy Builder 

The ability to map any data object or relation across multiple services further enhances the effectiveness of policy management and Rencore Governance is the only solution that covers the breadth of Microsoft 365 services in a deep and interconnected way. Maybe you see the necessity to add another layer to your governance policy that considers another set of objects. For example, making sure a Team has two owners might not be enough. You may need to make sure that owners are not external collaborators. 

Clear and Comprehensive Reports

Customizing the pre-built templates means you can build even richer reports around cost, security, adoption, and decluttering topics, just to name a few. To transform the look and feel of your report, you can use various visual elements such as charts, graphs, matrices, KPIs, and simple lists. Next, enhance the report's value by adjusting the Data Values and Aggregate By fields. No other solution offers such dynamic and rich reports as Rencore Governance. Automatic reporting allows the scheduling of reports daily, weekly, or monthly, keeping stakeholders informed about the latest governance trends. 

Intelligent Automation Builder 

The Intelligent Automation Builder allows you to create and customize multi-step automation workflows that can address any policy violation automatically. Using existing templates or creating your own from scratch, use the easy-to-configure interface to assign actions, contacts, and triggers that automatically solve your policy violations. Let's use disable inactive users as an example.

Here you can add a trigger that fires when an inactive disabled user has been inactive for a specific set of time, and you can add action that automatically resolves the violation. If you would like a deeper dive into building out more granular workflows, please view this product update blog.

Intuitive Provisioning Builder 

Automating content asset provisioning is a key component of your governance lifecycle process, ensuring that all new content adheres to your governance standards, maintaining consistency and compliance across your organization. Like all other areas in Rencore Governance you can customize any provisioning request template using the 3-step Provisioning Template Builder. Adjust content and visibility settings. Quickly proceed to Provisioning Settings and Approvals to set up approvers, deadlines, and triggers for communication actions. 

Customizing Access Reviews 

Having an automated Access Review feature in your governance lifecycle is crucial for maintaining control over who has access to your tenant. Similar to the provisioning builder, you can easily adjust the Access Review process by choosing between manual, one-time, or periodically scheduled Access Review triggers. You can also leverage your inventory and select from the wide range of objects you collected during the initial data discovery.

Additionally, you can tweak review deadlines, set approval functions, and configure email details for communication. 

Tenant Segmentation for Enhanced Control 

Rencore Governance offers a robust tenant segmentation feature that allows you to split a standard Rencore Governance environment into multiple, smaller segments. This is ideal for companies operating from multiple geo-locations, managing several subsidiaries, or having multiple administrators managing individual services.

You can give segmented data to specific people who only need access to that specific information. By navigating to the workspace settings and selecting "Environments," administrators can create virtual environments by choosing specific objects and setting permissions so that only designated administrators have access. This level of customization ensures that each segment is managed efficiently and securely, enhancing overall control and operational effectiveness. 

Over to you 

Rencore Governance is more than just a governance tool—it's a comprehensive solution designed to empower organizations in the digital age. With its quick start capabilities, flexible policy management, advanced automation, dynamic reporting, and robust tenant segmentation, Rencore Governance provides everything you need to maintain control, security, and efficiency in your cloud environment.

Investing in Rencore Governance means investing in a solution that will help your organization thrive amidst the complexities of modern cloud collaboration. Experience the ease and effectiveness of Rencore Governance today.