Power Platform governance

Let people build. Just know what they built.

Every tenant with the Power Platform enabled has more apps and flows in it than anyone thinks. LogiSam gives you the inventory, the environment strategy, the DLP policy and the Center of Excellence to keep low-code fast for makers and accountable for IT — without turning innovation into a ticket queue.

Read-onlyTenant inventory before any policy changes
<1 hourTo a full estate inventory across environments
4 pillarsEnvironments, DLP, ALM and ownership
CoEOperating model your admins can actually run
Sound familiar?

The conversations that lead people here

Governance almost never gets funded in the abstract. It gets funded the week after one of these.

Book a governance review
  • A flow that ran the invoice process stopped, because the owner left nine months ago.
  • Nobody can produce a list of the apps in production, let alone who owns them.
  • A maker connected a business system to a personal Dropbox and no policy stopped it.
  • Microsoft is asking about premium licensing and you have no usage evidence.
  • An app went straight from someone’s laptop to 400 users with no test environment.
  • Security asked which Power Apps touch personal data and the honest answer was “we will find out”.
Why it matters

Low-code scales faster than oversight

The platform is designed to let people build without asking. That is the value — and the reason estates get away from you within about eighteen months.

You cannot govern what you cannot see

Apps, flows, connections and Dataverse tables spread across environments nobody inventoried. Visibility is always the first deliverable, and usually the cheapest.

Orphans fail quietly

Apps and flows owned by leavers keep running on expiring credentials and personal connections — until a business process stops for no visible reason.

DLP is your only hard boundary

Without connector policies, any maker can wire a business data source to anything with an API. Policy per environment is what makes delegation safe.

No ALM means no way back

Editing live in production works until it does not. Solutions, environments and pipelines give you testing, rollback and a change history.

What we deliver

What governance looks like in practice

Deliverables, not a policy document that nobody opens. Most engagements start with the inventory and the DLP baseline.

01

Tenant-wide inventory

Every app, flow, connection, connector, custom connector, solution and Dataverse table across every environment, with owners and last activity. Deliverable: the list nobody currently has.

02

Environment strategy

Personal productivity, development, test, production and sandbox — with provisioning rules, naming, capacity and who can create what. Deliverable: a documented environment model.

03

DLP policy design

Connector classification per environment, tested against what makers actually use so policy does not break working solutions on day one. Deliverable: enforced, evidenced policy.

04

ALM & pipelines

Managed solutions, source control, Power Platform pipelines or Azure DevOps, and a release process. Deliverable: changes that can be tested and rolled back.

05

Center of Excellence

Operating model, roles, intake and approval process, standards, and the CoE toolkit where it fits. Deliverable: governance that survives handover.

06

Licensing & cost review

Premium connector usage, per-app versus per-user modelling and capacity consumption. Deliverable: an evidence-based licensing position.

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Our tool for this

The Power Platform inventory your CoE has been asking for

Governance starts with a list, and building that list by hand across a dozen environments is where most CoE initiatives stall. Power Insights connects read-only and inventories every app, flow, connection, connector and Dataverse table in the tenant — then follows each connection through to the account it actually runs as.

  • Canvas and model-driven apps with owner, version, sharing reach and dependencies
  • Cloud flows with trigger type, run state and the connection references behind them
  • Connections resolved to the owning account — personal credentials in production, exposed
  • Connector usage ranked and tiered, so premium licensing stops being a guess
  • Every environment, with region, type, Dataverse version and Managed status
  • Excel and PDF exports for auditors, CFOs and migration partners

Read-only · metadata only · nothing leaves your tenant

Power Insights app detail with connectors, data sources and sharing reach
Every app, with owner, connectors and who it is shared with
Power Insights cloud flow inventory
Flows with trigger type, run state and connection references
Power Insights connections and owning accounts
Which account is really running your production processes
Power Insights connector usage and tiering
Connector usage and tiering — the licensing evidence
Power Insights environment inventory
Every environment, region, type and Managed status
Power Insights Excel and PDF export
Export the whole assessment for people without a licence
How we run it

How a governance engagement runs

  1. 1

    Inventory

    Read-only scan of every environment. Nothing changes; everything becomes visible.

  2. 2

    Assess

    Rank the findings by real risk: orphans, personal connections, oversharing, premium exposure.

  3. 3

    Design

    Environment model, DLP classification and ownership standard, agreed with IT and the maker community.

  4. 4

    Roll out

    Apply policy in stages with exceptions handled, so nothing critical breaks unannounced.

  5. 5

    Operate

    CoE processes, reporting cadence and admin training — then we hand it over.

Outcomes

What you walk away with

Every engagement ends with something you can use — not a slide deck.

  • A complete, exportable inventory of the Power Platform estate
  • A documented environment strategy with provisioning rules
  • DLP policies enforced per environment, tested against real usage
  • Orphaned apps and flows reassigned or retired, with evidence
  • ALM pipelines and managed solutions for everything business-critical
  • A CoE operating model your own admins run after we leave
Ways to start

Ways to start

Free inventory

Under an hour

A read-only scan of every environment: apps, flows, connections, connectors and owners.

  • No agents, no changes
  • Excel and PDF export
  • The findings list that funds the rest

Governance baseline

3–5 weeks

Environment strategy, DLP design and roll-out, ownership remediation and a licensing position.

  • Policy applied in stages
  • Orphans reassigned or retired
  • Admin training included

CoE as a service

Ongoing

We run the reporting, intake and review cadence with you until your team is ready to own it.

  • Monthly estate review
  • Maker enablement and standards
  • Continuous policy tuning

Built on

Power Platform admin centreDataverseDLP policiesManaged environmentsPower Platform pipelinesAzure DevOpsCoE Starter KitMicrosoft Entra IDMicrosoft PurviewPower BI

Trusted by teams at

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FAQ

Power Platform governance: your questions answered

What does Power Platform governance actually cover?

Four things: where solutions live (environment strategy), what they are allowed to connect to (DLP policies), how they move from dev to production (ALM), and who is accountable for each one (ownership and lifecycle). A Center of Excellence is the operating model that keeps all four running after the consultants leave.

Will governance stop our business users building things?

Done badly, yes — and they will move to shadow tooling instead. Done properly it does the opposite: a clear personal-productivity environment where anyone can experiment, and a defined path for promoting something that outgrows it. The rules exist to make the good path the easy path.

Do we need the Microsoft CoE Starter Kit?

It is useful and we deploy it where it fits, but it is an unsupported toolkit that needs care and feeding, and it reports on what it can see from the environments it is installed in. Many organisations get further faster with a lightweight inventory — see Power Insights — plus targeted policy.

How do we find out what is already in the tenant?

A read-only inventory across every environment: apps, flows, connections, connectors, Dataverse tables and solutions, with owners, last-modified dates and sharing. That is exactly what Power Insights produces, usually in under an hour, and it is almost always the thing that gets governance funded.

What happens to apps whose owner has left?

They keep running until a connection expires, then they fail silently in the middle of a business process. Orphaned apps and flows, and personal connections behind production automations, are the single most common finding in a governance review. We identify them and put a real ownership model behind the ones that matter.

Can you help us control premium licensing?

Yes. Connector-level usage across the tenant shows exactly where premium is genuinely needed and where a standard connector or a design change avoids the cost. It turns the licensing conversation with Microsoft into an evidence-based one.

Is this the same as AI governance?

Related but separate. Power Platform governance controls apps, flows and connectors. AI governance and readiness controls Copilot, agents and the data they can reach. Most organisations need both, and the environment and DLP work is shared between them.

Start with the list nobody has

Run a free, read-only inventory of every app, flow and connection in your tenant. It takes under an hour, changes nothing, and is usually the most persuasive document in the governance business case.

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