AvePoint Integrates Microsoft Office 365 Management Activity APIs into DocAve Policy Enforcer for Proactive SharePoint Monitoring

AvePoint’s SharePoint policy management product from the award-winning DocAve Software Platform now incorporates Office 365 Management Activity APIs to enhance listening capabilities

Jersey City, New Jersey — April 21, 2015 — AvePoint, the established leader in enabling enterprise collaboration across platforms and devices, today announced a new enhancement to DocAve Policy Enforcer with the integration of the new Microsoft Office 365 Management Activity API. This integration creates a new information stream that allows customers to fully audit and take action on all events that take place throughout their Office 365 environments.

“The new Office 365 Management Activity API provides customers with greater transparency and insight into actions taken on their content in Office 365,” said Nagesh Pabbisetty, Partner Group Program Manager, Application Services Group, Microsoft. “By tapping into this data stream, AvePoint’s DocAve Policy Enforcer can give customers an integrated view into everything that happens around their SharePoint information assets both in the cloud and on premises for auditing and governance purposes.”

Part of DocAve Administrator and the award-winning DocAve Software Platform, DocAve Policy Enforcer helps organizations rapidly respond to unauthorized modifications to SharePoint configurations, security, and management. By continuously monitoring and taking action on SharePoint environments, whether hosted on premises or on Office 365, DocAve Policy Enforcer ensures that all changes fall within an organization’s defined governance policies. With Policy Enforcer, organizations can:

• Proactively Monitor: Ensure all events in a SharePoint environment remain within policy and under control by monitoring them around the clock and automatically adjusting settings and configurations across existing environments, whether hosted on premises or on Office 365.
• Enforce Governance and Guidance: Control configurations, security, and management with configurable rules developed based on AvePoint’s experience enabling collaboration for more than 14,000 customers worldwide.
• Implement Enterprise Policies: Tailor to evolving information architecture by configuring the organization’s own rules and integrating more than 40 different event triggers using a Rules Software Development Kit (SDK).

“As security becomes a larger concern for organizations of every size and across each industry, IT administrators are tasked with discovering ways to continually enhance their auditing capabilities,” said John Peluso, Vice President of Product Management, AvePoint. “With DocAve Policy Enforcer and its new integration with Office 365 Management Activity APIs, IT administrators can rest easy knowing they are able to listen to and act upon all SharePoint workloads – whether in on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments – to ensure they remain within policy and under control.”

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