Governance & Compliance

Common patterns we see across regulated and enterprise environments:

80%

of enterprise data is unstructured and poorly classified

$14M

average cost of a data breach in the U.S.

60%

of BI initiatives stall without data governance

3 wks

typical OWCER engagement to first governance assessment readout

Sound familiar?

Governance gaps become expensive fast.

Records, identity, and data problems don’t stay in IT — they show up in audits, legal discovery, and board meetings.

“Our records live everywhere and nobody tags them consistently.”

Email, SharePoint, file shares, and SaaS tools each hold records your policy must cover. Without automated classification, retention and discovery stay guesswork.

“We’re not sure we’d pass an audit tomorrow.”

Frameworks like HIPAA, CMMC, and SOC 2 require specific controls, logging, and data handling. Compliance isn’t automatic — it has to be designed and enforced.

“Access controls are a patchwork.”

SSO, federated identity, and least-privilege access are table stakes. Gaps in identity management are a leading cause of breaches and audit findings.

“We have dashboards, but we don’t trust the numbers.”

Reports without governed data models create shadow IT and conflicting metrics. Leaders need visibility they can defend, not another spreadsheet export.

What we govern

Governance & Compliance Services

Practical controls for records, identity, data, and analytics — built where your people already work.

Records Management & Compliance

Lifecycle management across SharePoint, email, file shares, and cloud services — with retention, eDiscovery, and classification that scales.

Records

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Data Visualization & BI

Executive dashboards, governed self-service analytics, and interactive reporting on Power BI, Fabric, and the Microsoft data stack.

Analytics

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Identity & Access Management

Single sign-on, SAML, OIDC, federated identity, Zero Trust, and smart card / CAC / PIV for environments that cannot afford access failures.

Security

Information Governance & eDiscovery

Policy models, Microsoft Purview, holds, search, and export workflows so legal and compliance teams can respond without fire drills.

Compliance

AI Governance & Responsible Use

Guardrails for Copilot, Azure OpenAI, and custom AI workflows — data boundaries, usage policies, and audit readiness before adoption scales.

AI Policy

Regulatory & Industry Compliance

Implementation patterns for HIPAA, CMMC, DoD 5015.2, eTMF, and other frameworks — mapped to your systems and audit requirements.

Regulatory

Microsoft Purview SharePoint Power BI Microsoft Fabric Entra ID Collabware

How we engage

The OWCER Governance Model

Four steps from scattered content to defensible, auditable operations.

Assess

Inventory content, identity, and data flows. Identify gaps against your policies and regulatory requirements.

Design

Define retention, classification, access, and reporting models your teams can follow without friction.

Implement

Configure tools, automate where possible, and integrate governance into existing workflows.

Measure

Audit compliance, refine policies, and report metrics leadership and regulators expect.

Build the foundation first

Governance that enables AI and cloud.

Strong records, identity, and data practices reduce risk and accelerate everything you build on top. Let’s assess where you stand.

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