ENow Product & Company Updates

Microsoft Ignite 2025 kicked off with a powerful keynote centered on the "intelligence revolution". Chief Commercial Officer, Judson Althoff, stressed that the current technological shift is not about "doing things faster" but about "doing things we could not do before". For Microsoft 365, Copilot, and Entra administrators and leaders, Day 1 delivered a comprehensive blueprint for managing the transition to an agent-operated enterprise, prioritizing security, centralized governance, and ubiquitous AI infusion.

The identity threat landscape continues to surge. Organizations relying on Microsoft Entra ID are facing a growing challenge: how to govern hundreds or thousands of cloud applications, many of which are rapidly created, rarely reviewed, and frequently over-permissioned. 

"If we had to run this project manually ourselves, we would’ve been looking at one to two years. With ENow App Governance Accelerator, we got most of the initial cleanup work done in six months."

The Future of Entra ID Application Governance Is Here 

 Your Apps Are a Threat Vector. Are You in Control? 

Three years ago, as Microsoft began shifting more identity controls into Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), we realized something crucial: Entra ID is not secure out of the box. It’s constantly changing, and these changes introduce risk. Microsoft may set certain permissions as defaults, roll out new APIs, or alter consent settings, without a clear heads-up. 

This year, Microsoft will host its largest annual tech event, Microsoft Ignite, in the windy city—Chicago, November 18-22nd! We love Microsoft Ignite because it's where Microsoft typically unveils big announcements regarding updates to technology and services that keep our industry propelling forward. If there’s one thing that this community ecosystem agrees on, it’s that Microsoft is rapidly innovating and changing, and Microsoft Ignite is an opportunity to help us all keep up and hear the latest and (sometimes not the greatest) updates so we’re on the same page and can pivot where needed.