2025 has been a transformative year for cloud governance. Organizations worldwide faced new challenges as Microsoft accelerated innovation, delivering waves of new features, deeper integrations, and a clear message: Copilot and Agents are the present and future of the modern workplace.
At Rencore, we focused on one mission: helping you stay in control while unlocking productivity. From robust risk mitigation, stronger security, and cost optimization to smarter automation and a fresh user experience, here’s a look back at the innovations we delivered to make governance simpler, faster, and more valuable for you.
Security, Compliance, and Cost: One step ahead of Risk and staying in Control
As AI adoption surged and collaboration tools expanded, security and compliance remained top priorities. Our goal was to cover all aspects of Microsoft’s cloud offering from the start. In Q1 and Q2, we aligned Rencore Governance with Microsoft’s rapidly evolving roadmap.
The result? A restructured product offering into dedicated modules:
This modular approach ensures robust governance across all major services and workloads, old and new.
Launching Copilot & Agent Governance
We introduced Copilot & Agent Governance in preview, giving you the tools to manage AI responsibly. You can now control agent sprawl, track Copilot usage, and prevent sensitive data exposure, all while maintaining information accuracy and cost control.
Fig 1: Copilot and Agent Sprawl Dashboard
How Copilot & Agent Governance helps you stay in control
- Automatically manage agent lifecycles to prevent uncontrolled growth and shadow IT
- Monitor Copilot usage trends to guide adoption and keep costs predictable
- Safeguard information accuracy by tracking data sources for trustworthy AI insights
- Surface and mitigate risks where sensitive data may be exposed through Copilot or agents
You can watch a complete walk-through of our Copilot & Agent Governance solution here.
Enhancing our Power Platform Governance Module with Power BI
To strengthen our Power Platform module, we added Power BI, delivering a more complete governance solution. Power Platform Governance gives you full control of apps, flows, reports, workspaces, and dashboards, helping you discover broken automations, track ownership, manage licensing and connector costs, and prevent data oversharing.
Fig 2: Power BI inventory deep dive
How Power BI Governance helps you stay in control
- Identify externally shared workspaces, reports, and dashboards to protect sensitive data
- Control costs by monitoring usage patterns, optimizing license assignments, and connector usage
- Stay compliant with recurring access reviews so only the right people retain access
New Service Inventory: Planner
We also added a new service to our Microsoft 365 module: Microsoft Planner. It has become a cornerstone of collaboration in 2025, and we ensured that you have the foundations to govern it effectively.
Fig 3: Planner inventory deep dive
Uncover plans and strengthen collaboration governance
- Discover all plans across your tenant for complete governance coverage
- Visualize relationships between tasks, resources, and groups to understand dependencies
- Gain a holistic view of collaboration to improve security and streamline management
Access Reviews for Viva Engage
Staying on the topic of security and risk management, we released access reviews for Viva Engage due to popular demand and increased Viva Engage adoption across our customer base. You can now enable community owners to automate member reviews and ensure compliance without manual effort. These updates help you safeguard your environment while keeping collaboration seamless.
Fig 4: Access review Viva Engage
Automation & Productivity: Governance That Works for You
Enterprise Automations
Automations are the backbone of efficient governance. We enhanced our automation engine with priority-based execution, threshold flexibility, and scheduled vs. policy-driven automations, giving you full control over remediation workflows. These improvements mean faster response times, optimized resource allocation, and greater reliability. You can learn how to master automations in Microsoft 365 in our on-demand webinar.
Fig 5: Enterprise automations walk-through
Progressive Scans
To complement this, we optimized our scanning approach, delivering progressive results and parallel file scanning for SharePoint and OneDrive. This ensures insights arrive faster, automations trigger more frequently, and compliance stays on track even in large, complex environments.
Fig 6: Scan job deep-dive
A Fresh UI to Enhance Your Governance Experience
Complex environments demand clarity. That’s why we introduced a fresh UI designed for speed and simplicity. From compliance scores and relational graphs to action-oriented insights, every screen now helps you make decisions faster. Whether you’re doing a quick check or a deep dive, the interface adapts to your needs because governance should empower, not overwhelm.
Fig 7: New Inventory UI
Extensive Customizability for Mail Templates
And it wasn’t just our UI that got new look and feel! Our customizable mail templates let you deliver clear, branded, and engaging communications. Strengthen trust with consistent design, reflect your organization’s identity in every message, and boost engagement through personalized content.
Fig 8: Custom email walk-through
Milestones That Matter
This year, we shipped over 8 major updates, including new integrations that deliver optimal performance in discovery and remediation, introduced AI governance capabilities in line with industry trends and ahead of market players, and made the refinements that make our solution even more user-friendly. Our team delivered innovation that drives real value for IT teams and business leaders alike.
Looking Ahead to 2026
The pace of change isn’t slowing down, and neither are we. Expect even more automation intelligence, deeper AI governance, expanded integrations and a major development in self-service governance. We recommend checking out our empowering end-users webinar on-demand to learn more.
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