ENow Product & Company Updates

The Governance Gap That Copilot Revealed

Governance debt accumulates quickly. A site owner leaves, and no one notices that there wasn't a backup owner. A shared channel gets created with external guests and no lifecycle policy. Files spread internally far beyond their intended audience. By the time any of this surfaces through a user complaint, a security event, or a pre-audit scramble, the exposure has already happened. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

The Microsoft 365 Community Conference is always one of the most valuable events of the year for Microsoft IT professionals. It brings together the people responsible for keeping Microsoft 365, Copilot, Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, and even Entra ID running securely and efficiently, as well as the vendors, experts, and practitioners who help them navigate constant change.

We’re excited to share that ENow has been included as a Representative Vendor in the Gartner® Market Guide for Microsoft 365 Governance Tools (January 12, 2026), by Lina Al Dana, Dan Wilson, and Max Goss.

ENow Management System 8.6: Improving Monitoring Signal, Microsoft 365 Visibility, and Operational Control

Modern Microsoft environments are growing more complex, not simpler. As organizations expand across Microsoft 365, Exchange, Active Directory, and hybrid infrastructure, administrators are expected to maintain uptime, security, and performance with little margin for error.

ENow achieved impressive wins and created memorable moments in 2025. From conferences/tradeshows to tech parties and employee-growth seminars, last year was a year to remember. Join us as we recap some of our favorite ENow moments.   

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 Microsoft Ignite 2025 keynote didn't just showcase incremental updates; it delivered a rapid-fire succession of statistics defining the speed, scale, and stakes of the shift to the Agentic Enterprise, the evolution of the "Frontier Firm," where organizations are human-led and agent-operated. 

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 release of ENow Management System 8.5, now GA, delivers powerful new capabilities to refine alert precision, enhance identity security, and streamline administrative workflows. This release reflects our continued focus on giving IT teams the tools they need to reduce noise, respond faster, and optimize their Microsoft 365, Exchange, and Active Directory environments.