Services · Specialization
Microsoft Power Platform democratizes development — a blessing and a curse. Hundreds of Power Apps, Power Automate flows, and Canvas apps proliferate invisibly in your tenants. We make that visible, assess governance maturity, and introduce a sustainable Center-of-Excellence model. With our own tool support: devonso.com.
Managing Directors · Owners
In most tenants we audit, three to five times as many apps and flows are running as assumed. Orphaned citizen-developer apps process customer data without documented owners and without DLP protection. Governance is insurance against the NIS2 audit, the GDPR incident, and the day an employee leaves and their critical Power App leaves with them. Fixed-price audit — price on request, outcome in euros and risk classification.
Department Head · Business Unit
We deliver a complete tenant audit report: inventory of all Power Apps, flows, Canvas apps, and Dataverse tables across all environments, with maker, owner, last run, connector usage, and risk score. Plus a prioritized action list with effort estimates per action. Suitable for presentation in management, IT steering committee, or compliance committee — without further interpretation needed.
IT Lead · CIO · Solution Architect
We install and reduce the CoE Starter Kit to what's truly necessary, supplement with organization-specific risk scores, and integrate the telemetry into Power BI. Plus: DLP policy design (business / non-business / blocked connector classes), environment strategy with sandbox lifecycle, ALM pipeline with Power Platform CLI and Azure DevOps, and our own audit tool devonso.com as live proof of methodology.
For Managing Directors · Shadow IT as balance-sheet risk
Power Platform Governance is the bracket you as a Managing Director need to sleep at night. Fixed-price tenant audit (price on request), 2 weeks delivery, written report with risk heatmap and prioritized action list. If you don't know today how many apps run in your tenant and who is responsible, this is exactly the audit you should have done before someone asked.
For Department Heads · Audit report with owner list
You get a structured report that makes you actionable internally: all Power Apps, Power Automate flows, and Canvas apps with maker, owner, last run, premium connector usage, and risk score. Plus a recommendation per app — keep, hand over, archive, or delete. Ideal as a first engagement with a documented outcome for the next steering committee.
For IT leads · CoE, DLP, ALM, and devonso
Topics for the architecture conversation: CoE Starter Kit reduction to what's operationally necessary, Power BI telemetry integration, DLP policy classes (Business / Non-Business / Blocked), sandbox lifecycle for maker environments, default-environment strategy, Power Platform CLI with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions as ALM pipeline, Managed Environments assessment. Plus live demo of our devonso audit tool on an anonymized tenant.
Why governance, why now
Power Platform is one of Microsoft's most successful platforms of the last decade — precisely because it enables citizen developers to build apps and flows without IT approval. That very success is the problem: in most mid-market tenants we audit, we find three to five times the assumed app count, dozens of orphaned flows from former employees, and data flowing uncontrolled between Microsoft 365, external connectors, and third-party systems.
Power Platform Governance is not prohibition. It's the organizational and technical bracket that makes citizen-developer activities visible, secure, and sustainable — without sacrificing the speed advantage that makes Power Platform interesting in the first place.
Power Platform Governance is not the Microsoft 365 admin center. The admin center shows which environments exist — not who actually uses which app, who carries the ownership relationship, where premium licenses are burned, and which connectors are regulatorily problematic. That's exactly the gap we close.
Power Platform Governance is unique in the German mid-market. We don't know of any other Microsoft Partner in the DACH region that explicitly offers this specialization — and certainly not with their own audit tool as live proof of the methodology. More on our Power Platform practice and on related Compliance and NIS2 advisory.
Six governance disciplines
Each of these six disciplines on its own is no rocket science — but only in combination do they form what Microsoft describes as a "Center of Excellence" and what auditors and management today rightly expect.
What runs where, who has access, which data flows where. Complete inventory of all Power Apps, flows, Canvas apps, Power Pages sites, and Dataverse tables with maker, owner, last run, and connector usage — across all environments of the tenant, including the default environment.
Clean Dev/Test/Prod separation, sandbox lifecycle, personal-productivity environments for makers, dedicated production environments for business-critical apps. Including capacity planning, reset routines, and a strategy for the difficult question "what do we do with the default environment?".
Microsoft delivers the CoE Starter Kit for free — but generic, with 30+ apps and flows. We install, harden, reduce to what's necessary, add organization-specific risk scores, and integrate the telemetry into your existing Microsoft Teams or Power BI dashboards.
Power-user programs, training, mentoring. A patterns library with showcase apps, a clear onboarding path for new makers, an internal office-hours format. The goal: not fewer citizen developers but better ones — who know when to build themselves and when to involve IT.
Connector allowlisting, data classification, separation of business and non-business connectors per environment. Including test routines for DLP changes, so you don't accidentally break production apps when reclassifying a connector.
Governance metrics for management and auditors — app inventory, risk-score distribution, DLP compliance, maker activity, license utilization. Quarterly reports in audit-ready format, escalation-ready risk overview for management, NIS2-relevant data-flow diagrams.
Our own audit tool · Live proof
We don't just talk about governance — we build tools for it. devonso.com is our own audit tool for Microsoft Power Platform tenants. We use it in every tenant audit we run, and we continuously develop it based on what we see in practice.
Discovery. devonso scans your tenant via the official Microsoft admin and Dataverse APIs and creates a complete inventory — all environments, apps, flows, connection references, Dataverse tables, and makers. Within hours, no agent installation, no data export out of the Microsoft cloud.
Risk score. Every app and every flow is evaluated against a multi-dimensional risk index — maker status (active, departed, external guest), connector sensitivity, last run, permission scope, regulatory classification. You see at a glance which 20 artifacts carry 80% of your governance risk.
Comparison. Audits across multiple tenants or across multiple points in time — the CoE Starter Kit shows the current state, devonso shows the trajectory and the comparison. How has your maker population evolved, which environments grow faster than expected, where is connector usage shifting toward premium-license needs.
Recommendations. devonso generates prioritized action recommendations from the audit findings — what to archive, what to migrate, where owner changes are needed, where DLP adjustments reduce premium license costs. These recommendations flow 1:1 into the tenant audit report you receive at the end of the two weeks.
Three delivery models
We know the usual hurdle: "we know we need to tackle this — but where do we start, and how do we prevent it from becoming an open-ended advisory engagement?" Our three models are the answer — entry, build, ongoing operation.
The fixed-price entry. In 2 weeks we deliver a complete situation report on your Power Platform tenant — inventory, risk-score distribution, top-20 findings, prioritized action recommendations. With devonso.com as the technical backbone.
The project model when the audit should become a sustainable governance apparatus. We install and harden the CoE Starter Kit, define environment strategy and DLP policies, train your internal team, and hand over a functioning CoE apparatus.
For organizations without their own governance role. We take over ongoing CoE operations as a monthly flat rate — quarterly audits, continuous DLP and license optimization, maker mentoring, compliance reports for management and auditors.
Frequently asked questions
In most tenants we have audited, the honest answer is: significantly more than the IT lead assumes. Power Platform is designed as a citizen-developer platform — every Microsoft 365 license with Power Apps rights can create apps and flows. Our tenant audit delivers the reliable count in 2 weeks: all Canvas apps, Model-Driven apps, Power Automate flows, Power Pages sites, and Dataverse tables with maker, owner, last run, connector usage, and data-flow diagram.
A Center of Excellence is the organizational and technical bracket that makes citizen-developer activities in a company visible, secure, and sustainable. Organizationally: a mini unit (often 1–3 people) with a governance mandate. Technically: a set of Power Platform apps and flows that collect telemetry, maintain inventory, train makers, and enforce policies. Microsoft provides the CoE Starter Kit for this — we adapt it to your organization size and maturity.
The Microsoft CoE Starter Kit is a very good basis — but out-of-the-box generic, with 30+ apps and flows that are overkill for many mid-market tenants. We reduce it to what's necessary, harden the telemetry flows, add organization-specific risk scores, and integrate the reporting into your existing Microsoft Teams or Power BI dashboards. In parallel we complement it with devonso.com, our own audit tool that closes Starter Kit gaps — especially when comparing across multiple tenants and over time.
Only if done wrong. Good governance isn't prohibition — it's visibility, guardrails, and enablement. Makers should still be able to build fast, but in dedicated sandbox environments with clear DLP policies and an onboarding path toward production. Our maker-enablement program explicitly does not rely on restriction but on mentoring, a patterns library, and showcase apps. The result: more usable Power Apps, less shadow IT, clear responsibilities.
Three delivery models. First, the Tenant Hygiene Audit as a fixed-price package in 2 weeks — the typical entry investment for a first clear situation report. Second, the CoE Build as a project over 8 to 16 weeks, depending on tenant size and desired maturity. Third, CoE-as-a-Service as a monthly flat rate when you don't want to or can't fill a governance role yourself. Concrete calculation always in the initial conversation — depending on tenant count, app volume, and compliance requirements.
Three factors converge. First, Copilot Studio and Power Apps AI features lower the build barrier even further — the number of makers and apps grows exponentially. Second, NIS2 and the EU AI Act require demonstrable control over data flows and AI-supported workflows — exactly what is typically missing in uncontrolled citizen-developer environments. Third, Microsoft itself is shifting license models toward premium connector and capacity-based billing — anyone who doesn't have the tenant under control pays premium licenses for unused apps. Governance is no longer optional in 2026 — it's mandatory.
Take-away · two materials
Two depths for different reading needs. The factsheet is a quick reference (3–5 min) and instantly downloadable. The whitepaper is market education with methodology and comparison data (15–30 min) — you get it by email after a short request.
3–5 min read · Direct download · no form
Compact overview: scope, key metrics, pricing model, process — ideal to forward to CFO, procurement, or the business unit.
15–30 min read · by email after request
Methodology, comparison data, recommendation framework — material for internal argumentation toward stakeholders.
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2 weeks · fixed price · clear situation report
You don't know how many Power Apps and flows run in your tenant? You sense shadow IT has emerged, but you want a reliable number before setting up a bigger program? That's exactly what our Tenant Hygiene Audit is built for. In 2 weeks, fixed price, with devonso.com as the technical backbone.
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