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Athentra is the most flexible and effective solution designed to fully automate the governance and enhance the maturity of your Microsoft 365 platform. It offers features such as automated platform governance, maturity assessments with actionable roadmaps, admin configuration management, continuous health checks, and workspace provisioning. Athentra ensures compliance, security, and optimized performance across your organization.
The Features
Boost your Microsoft 365 platform maturity with Athentra's Maturity Assessment & Roadmap feature, driving improved compliance, security, and efficiency.
Maturity Enhancement
Flexible Assessment Options
The platform offers flexible assessment options that allow organizations to evaluate their maturity levels in two distinct ways. For those seeking a quick overview, the platform provides a high-level assessment that delivers immediate insights without requiring extensive effort. For a deeper dive, the comprehensive assessment examines all aspects of the platform in detail, uncovering strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement. This flexibility ensures organizations can choose the level of analysis that best suits their time, resources, and goals.
Clear Improvement Roadmap
One of the standout features of the platform is its ability to provide a clear improvement roadmap. After the assessment, organizations receive a methodical and structured guide to enhance their maturity levels. The roadmap breaks down complex objectives into manageable milestones, offering actionable steps and prioritized recommendations. This approach ensures that improvements are practical, achievable, and aligned with the organization’s unique needs and existing infrastructure.
Insightful Reporting Dashboard
To support continuous tracking and transparency, the platform includes an insightful reporting dashboard. This dashboard serves as a centralized hub, visualizing the organization's current maturity levels, progress, and gaps in an easy-to-understand format. Using dynamic visualizations like graphs, heatmaps, and performance metrics, it enables stakeholders to gain a clear understanding of where the organization stands and where it needs to go. The ability to export these reports further facilitates communication with decision-makers and stakeholders, ensuring alignment across teams.
Prebuilt Maturity Models
The platform comes equipped with prebuilt maturity models, offering a range of frameworks such as the Microsoft 365 Maturity Model, Essential 8 Maturity Model, SharePoint Maturity Model, and Power Platform Maturity Model. These ready-to-use models allow organizations to immediately begin assessing their platforms and planning their maturity journey. By leveraging these prebuilt models, organizations can quickly identify critical areas requiring attention without the need to create frameworks from scratch.
Customizable Frameworks
Recognizing that every organization is unique, the platform allows full customization of its standard frameworks. Organizations can adapt the prebuilt models to reflect their specific processes, structures, and priorities. Whether it’s adding, modifying, or removing competencies and capabilities, the customization ensures that the maturity models are tailored to fit the organization’s precise requirements and industry standards.
Core Maturity Model Characteristics
The platform also supports all core characteristics of maturity models, making it a robust tool for progression. It incorporates clearly defined levels that mark the journey from beginner to advanced, as well as competencies and capabilities that outline the skillsets and practices required at each stage. This systematic approach ensures organizations can track their progress in a structured and standardized way.
Integrated Task Management
Integrated task management is another powerful feature, enabling organizations to translate their improvement plans into actionable tasks. The task management system lets users assign tasks to specific individuals or teams, set deadlines, and monitor progress. By directly aligning tasks with maturity levels and capabilities, the system ensures that every action taken contributes meaningfully to advancing the organization’s maturity.
Versatile Model Support
Finally, the platform offers unparalleled versatility in supporting multiple maturity models. While it specializes in the Microsoft 365 Maturity Model, it also caters to other frameworks like the Essential 8, SharePoint, and Power Platform Maturity Models. Moreover, the platform’s flexibility allows organizations to incorporate custom maturity models, expanding its use beyond technology to other domains such as HR, finance, or operations. This adaptability ensures the platform can address a wide range of organizational needs, making it a comprehensive and indispensable tool for maturity and governance.
Automate platform governance across all Microsoft 365 services, ensuring consistent compliance, security, and management with minimal manual intervention.
M365 Platform Governance
Deep Service Inventory
Gain complete visibility into all your cloud services through a centralized inventory that aggregates data from multiple Microsoft 365 services, including Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Entra ID, Exchange, Viva Engage, and Power Platform. This detailed analysis helps you understand how objects interact and relate to each other, facilitating informed decision-making.
Clear Reporting and Insights
Utilize dynamic reports and dashboards that transform rich data from the inventory into intuitive visual representations. Customize templates by combining multiple data sets, and automatically distribute comprehensive reports to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and informed governance.
Simple Compliance
Implement and monitor compliance policies effortlessly with a library of over 100 fully customizable policy templates built on best practices. Continuously track violations and maintain compliance across your Microsoft 365 environment, addressing challenges related to security posture, service adoption, platform costs, and operations.
Advanced Automation
Build intelligent workflows to automate governance processes, reducing manual effort and ensuring consistent policy enforcement. Automations can be tailored to your organization's specific needs, enabling efficient management of your Microsoft 365 services.
Automate SharePoint and Teams provisioning with governance controls, ensuring compliance, consistency, and streamlined collaboration across your organization.
Workspace Provisioning
Predefined and Customisable Templates
Access a library of predefined templates for department workspaces, project workspaces, and community sites. These templates can be customized to align with your organization's specific governance policies, ensuring that all new Teams, SharePoint sites, and Viva Engage communities adhere to established standards.
Provisioning Template Builder
Utilize a user-friendly, three-step builder to adjust content and visibility settings, define provisioning parameters, and set up approval workflows. This ensures that all provisioning requests are appropriately configured and authorized before implementation.
Approval Workflows
Implement structured approval processes for provisioning requests, assigning approvers, setting deadlines, and establishing triggers for communication actions. This ensures that all new resources are provisioned in compliance with organizational policies.
Provisioning Access Details Page
Gain comprehensive insights into each provisioning request, including requester information, request time, status updates, and specific settings such as team names, users, owners, associated channels, and integrated apps. This transparency facilitates efficient tracking and management of provisioning activities.
Athentra’s Configuration Management feature enables you to seamlessly organize, import, and execute configuration sets, either manually or on a scheduled basis. A configuration set is a predefined collection of Microsoft 365 best-practice administrative settings, designed to streamline and optimize your environment.
Configuration Management
Athentra includes an extensive library of out-of-the-box best-practice configuration sets, covering a wide range of Microsoft 365 areas, such as:
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Security: MFA, conditional access policies, identity protection, password policies.
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Collaboration: External sharing, guest access, Teams and SharePoint templates, meeting, messaging, and app policies.
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Compliance: Data loss prevention, retention policies, and audit logging.
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Email & Messaging: Defender settings, email transport rules, spam and malware filtering.
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File Management: Storage quotas, sync policies, and storage settings.
In addition to these pre-configured sets, you can create custom configuration sets tailored to your organization’s unique needs. These can include actions like renaming hundreds of sites, moving and reorganizing thousands of documents, or applying bespoke administrative settings.
Need something more specific? Our team at Pack of 7 is ready to help you design individualized configuration sets to meet your exact requirements. Whether you’re leveraging our extensive best-practice library or building your own custom solutions, Athentra’s Configuration Management empowers you to take full control of your Microsoft 365 environment.
Enhance security by automating access reviews, ensuring the right users have appropriate permissions across Microsoft 365.
Access Reviews
Automated Scheduling
Athentra simplifies the process of access reviews by automating the scheduling of periodic reviews. Administrators can define review cycles (e.g., monthly, quarterly, or annually), ensuring that access reviews are conducted consistently without manual intervention.
Comprehensive Visibility
The feature provides a detailed overview of all users with access to specific Microsoft 365 objects (such as Microsoft365, Teams, SharePoint, Power Automate, PowerApps), including internal users, guest users, and external collaborators. Administrators can easily see who has direct or inherited permissions and analyze the roles assigned to each user.
Customizable Review Criteria
Organizations can tailor the access review process to align with their unique policies. For example, reviews can focus on specific user groups, access types, or high-risk permissions. Further filtering such as names of sites, security labels, last activity or role criticality can be used to prioritize reviews.
Reviewer Assignment
Access Reviews allow organizations to assign the responsibility for reviewing permissions to the appropriate stakeholders. This might include site owners, department managers, or compliance officers who are familiar with the content and can make informed decisions about access.
Approval and Revocation Workflows
Athentra streamlines the decision-making process by enabling reviewers to approve or revoke permissions directly within the platform. Revocation workflows are automated, ensuring that permissions are promptly adjusted according to review outcomes.
Notifications and Reminders
The platform keeps reviewers on track by sending notifications and reminders about pending access reviews. This helps avoid delays and ensures timely completion of the review cycle.
Access Recommendations
To aid reviewers, Athentra provides intelligent recommendations based on user activity, usage patterns, and risk assessments. For example, it might suggest removing inactive users or flagging permissions that exceed typical access requirements.
Audit Trails
Every action taken during the review process is logged for transparency and compliance. Organizations can easily generate reports detailing the results of access reviews, changes made, and any identified risks, ensuring a robust audit trail.
Compliance Support
The Access Reviews feature is designed to help organizations comply with data protection regulations, such as GDPR, by ensuring that only authorized individuals have access to sensitive content on website pages.
Reviewer Assignment
Athentra's Access Reviews integrate seamlessly with platforms like Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and Teams, enabling organizations to conduct reviews across their entire digital workplace, including website content.
Ensure secure collaboration by controlling external sharing across Microsoft 365, protecting sensitive data with customizable governance policies.
Controlling External Access
Continuously monitor and assess your Microsoft 365 environment with a standardised automated health check, ensuring ongoing compliance, security, and optimal performance.
Permanent Health Check
Streamline Power Platform governance with an automated asset lifecycle management process, ensuring compliance, security, and efficient control of your organisations Power Automate Flows and Power Apps throughout every stage.
Power Platform ALM
The Athentra story
When we set out to design Athentra, we could look back on many conversations with organisations of different size and industry. We found that those in charge of managing the M365 platform are all seeking a solution to not only grow the platform, but to do it in a controlled and sustainable manner.
As we explored the market for solutions, we were surprised to find that nothing truly addressed both growth and control in a comprehensive manner.
So we designed Athentra from ground up as a powerful and adaptable solution that
- drives both Maturity and Governance,
- is naturally built on Microsoft 365 and Azure and
- allows you to tailor it to your needs.
Athentra for your M365 Platform Governance
Athentra’s Governance Feature is built around two core modules. The first is the Scanning Module, which gathers all relevant Microsoft 365 metadata and stores it on your own tenant (the data isn’t stored outside your organisation!). Powered by Microsoft Azure, this module is offered as a SaaS solution, ensuring efficient and scalable data collection. This collected data forms the foundation for the second module: the Governance Module, which includes dashboards, policies, automations, and reports. This module leverages the full potential of Microsoft Power Platform, delivering a comprehensive set of tools for managing and governing your Microsoft 365 environment.
Together, these two modules offer a comprehensive, balanced and robust solution for your Microsoft 365 governance. Out of the box, Athentra provides over 100 preconfigured policies, along with multiple dashboards, reports, and automations. This default setup is a fully functional, all-in-one solution, ready to handle the governance needs of your organization from day one.
Athentra to improve your M365 Platform Maturity
Athentra’s Maturity feature is designed to support organizations in both assessing and optimizing the maturity of their Microsoft 365 environment. Athentra not only conducts self-assessments but also evaluates the results and offers insights to guide the development of an effective roadmap to improve your Microsoft 365 platform maturity. It covers key areas like governance, security, collaboration, and compliance, generating a maturity score that highlights strengths and areas for improvement. With actionable recommendations, Athentra helps prioritize initiatives and implement best practices, ensuring your Microsoft 365 environment evolves in line with organizational goals. It’s your trusted guide for long-term success.
One of its standout features is its comprehensive set of built-in and up-to-date maturity models such as the Essential 8 Maturity Model, the Microsoft 365 Maturity Model or the Power Platform Maturity Model which give you everything you need for your maturity journey. If you want more, Athentra allows you to fully customize these maturity models to meet your specific needs or to create entirely new models for areas beyond Microsoft 365.
