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Your platform is growing. Your controls need to keep up.
Power Platform adoption starts fast. Teams build apps, automate processes, and deploy agents. That speed is the point. But without governance, speed produces risk: apps that access data they should not touch, flows that run without anyone knowing, connectors that push sensitive data to third-party services, and environments that multiply with no oversight.
Power Platform governance gives your organization the policies, controls, and visibility to keep building fast without losing control.
Who can create environments, what types exist (developer, sandbox, production), how they are named, who has access, and when they are decommissioned. Without this, environments multiply and nobody knows what runs where.
DLP policies control which connectors can be used together. They prevent apps and flows from combining business-critical connectors with consumer connectors in the same solution. Getting the tenant and environment layering right is critical.
Which connectors are available in which environments, which require admin approval, and which are blocked entirely. Custom connectors need their own approval process and security review.
Who is allowed to build, what training they complete first, which development standards they follow, and how their work gets reviewed. Governance without enablement just creates shadow IT.
Tenant-level visibility into what exists, who built it, when it last ran, and what data it accesses. Alerts for policy violations, unused apps, and license consumption keep your team ahead of problems.
Dataverse security roles, Azure AD group assignments, environment-level roles, and sharing policies. These determine who can access what at every layer of the platform.
The single most common governance gap. Without DLP, any maker can build a flow that sends Dataverse records to a personal Gmail account. It takes 30 seconds to create and nobody is notified.
Some organizations respond to governance gaps by locking everything down: no new environments, no custom connectors, approval required for every app. Makers leave the platform and go back to spreadsheets and email. Governance should channel building, not stop it.
IT does not know how many apps exist, who built them, which ones have active users, and which ones are abandoned. Without an inventory, governance is guesswork.
Organizations run on default security roles, default DLP policies, and default environment settings. These defaults were designed for initial exploration, not production workloads.
We audit your current governance posture: DLP policies, environment inventory, connector usage, security roles, maker permissions, and monitoring configuration. Every finding gets a risk rating and a remediation recommendation.
We design a DLP policy structure that maps to your organizational risk tolerance. This includes tenant-level baseline policies, environment-specific policy overrides, custom connector classification, and exception handling processes.
We define the environment model: which environment types serve which purposes, naming conventions, access controls, data isolation boundaries, and lifecycle rules. This connects directly to your ALM process.
We write the development standards guide your makers follow. We define the training requirements for different maker tiers (citizen developer, pro developer, admin). We design the review and approval workflow for apps and flows before they reach production.
We configure Power Platform Admin Center for tenant-wide monitoring, compliance alerts, license tracking, and capacity management. We set up the dashboards and alert rules your IT team uses for ongoing oversight.
We deliver written governance policies your organization adopts formally. These cover environment management, connector governance, data classification, maker onboarding, change management, and incident response.
Our Power Platform Assessment includes a full governance audit: DLP policy review, environment inventory, security role analysis, connector usage report, and a prioritized remediation roadmap.
