Gartner Recognizes CloudFuze for Microsoft 365 Governance Tools
CloudFuze is recently recognized by Gartner as one of the representative vendors in Microsoft 365 governance tools in their new research titled “Market Guide for Microsoft 365 Governance Tools.” You can access the research here (Gartner login is required).
What is this Research? And Why Does It Matter?
This latest research by Gartner focuses on the importance of third-party Microsoft 365 governance tools like CloudFuze Manage and other tools in properly governing Microsoft 365. The research highlights that a significant number of organizations face challenges in managing and governing their Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
For example, it is mentioned in the report that as per the 2025 Gartner Microsoft 365 and Copilot Survey’s findings, 25% of organizations find it difficult to manage their Microsoft 365 environment. Governance issues, such as content sprawl and oversharing, are also mentioned as the biggest Microsoft 365 deployment challenges.
The report also sheds light on Microsoft Copilot readiness and adoption challenges that businesses face. For example, it states that over 71% of organizations have identified several challenges in Copilot deployment, including security and governance concerns.
At its core, this Gartner research is aimed at helping IT leaders understand the critical challenges many organizations face with Microsoft 365 governance, Copilot readiness, deployment, and governance, improving compliance and security posture, and guides them to navigate the fragmented market of M365 governance tools.
How Was CloudFuze Selected as One of the Representative Vendors?
As stated in the research, CloudFuze, along with other governance solutions providers, was chosen as one of the representative vendors in Microsoft 365 governance tools based on publicly available information.
Our 360° SaaS and AI app governance platform, CloudFuze Manage, is included in the list of Microsoft 365 governance tools along with other tools on page 10 of the research document.
This recognition highlights CloudFuze Manage’s ability to reduce overhead, improve efficiency, and ensure secure, compliant Microsoft 365 environments.
How Does CloudFuze Manage Enable Copilot-Focused Microsoft 365 Governance?
CloudFuze Manage is built to enable organizations of all sizes and industries govern their Microsoft 365 environment in a modern way to not only keep content sprawl, oversharing, security and compliance gaps in check, but also to streamline Copilot AI readiness, deployment, and post-deployment continuous governance.
1) Microsoft 365 Governance for Content Sprawl, Security, Compliance, and AI Readiness
It all starts with content sprawl and oversharing governance in your Microsoft 365 environment. When Microsoft 365 becomes your organization’s main digital workspace, usage scales over time. And if there is no proper governance in place, issues like content sprawl, oversharing, and disjointed permissions are inevitable.
The deeper sprawl, oversharing, and broken permission seep into your Microsoft 365 ecosystem, the higher the risk of unauthorized data sharing and access, which, in turn, leads to security issues and compliance violations.
Therefore, it is important to focus on governance that lives on your Microsoft 365 ecosystem and ensures continuous optimization. CloudFuze Manage does exactly this through:
- Governance policy enforcement
- Shadow IT and shadow AI control
- User lifecycle management
Governance Policy Enforcement
Using CloudFuze Manage, you can set various types of governance policies that help keep content sprawl, oversharing, and unauthorized external sharing in check.
As you can see in the screenshot below, you can set specific governance policies like bans over external sharing in specific departments, automatic alters whenever external sharing is done, and more.
Shadow IT and Shadow AI Control
It is common for users to connect a lot of third-party tools, widgets, and integrations into Microsoft 365 with the IT team’s approval. And proliferation of AI tools is the biggest driver for these shadow IT and shadow AI issues.
These unapproved subscriptions and integrations remain hidden and not only create security loopholes but also drive costs up. CloudFuze Manage solves this problem by surfacing all the hidden apps and integrations that users have connected without IT approval.
User Lifecycle Management
The third piece of the puzzle in ensuring complete Microsoft 365 governance and Copilot readiness is managing the entire lifecycle of users. The essence of user lifecycle management is ensuring that all the governance policies that you set continuously align with each user’s lifecycle.
That means, every time a new user is onboarded to Microsoft 365, all core governance policies should be enforced on his/her account. Similarly, whenever a user is offboarded, processes such as license and policy withdrawal should come into effect.
With CloudFuze Manage, you can create onboarding and offboarding workflows that include all these conditions and filters. As a result, you can save a lot of IT man hours, and most importantly, avoid security and compliance loopholes.
To put things into perspective, setting up governance policies to control content sprawl, oversharing, shadow IT and shadow AI, and managing user lifecycle with CloudFuze Manage not only helps you maintain a well-optimized, secure, and compliant Microsoft 365 environment but also make it ready for secure Copilot deployment.
2) Continuous Microsoft 365 Governance for Post-Copilot Deployment
After deploying Copilot, it is just as important to maintain proper continuous governance for two core priorities:
- Govern the regular usage of Microsoft 365
- Govern Copilot and other AI tool usage
It goes without saying that adopting Copilot is a significant step towards AI enablement for most organizations. And therefore, it is important to manage and govern Copilot usage to ensure your organization gains maximum value out of it.
CloudFuze Manage has a dedicated Copilot Hub which you can use to monitor Copilot usage through several key metrics like:
- Usage distribution
- Copilot adoption by department
- Daily usage patterns
- Average productivity
How Does CloudFuze Help Enterprises Modernize Microsoft 365?
At CloudFuze, we provide enterprises with a full suite of tools for enabling complete Microsoft 365 modernization, including CloudFuze Migrate, and CloudFuze Manage.
With CloudFuze Migrate, enterprises can securely move large petabytes of data and several thousands of users to Microsoft 365 and retain full context and metadata in the process.
Post migration, CloudFuze Manage ensures continuous control, compliance, and security to enable enterprises to govern their Microsoft 365 ecosystem with ease and efficiency.
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