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1 category · Named, not ranked

AvePoint Cloud Governance

17Judge labels

2First choices

1Negative labels

9 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

9 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. AvePoint Cloud Governance was named 9 times in M365 management, where CoreView led with 20%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business32 of 151

under the label threshold

Mid-market12 of 149

under the label threshold

Enterprise12 of 116

under the label threshold

In m365 management · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named AvePoint Cloud Governance for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Microsoft 365 management	IT operations and endpoint	2%	12 of 149	11%	9	under 10 labels · led by CoreView at 20%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for AvePoint Cloud Governance yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated AvePoint Cloud Governance across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	1	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	2	0	0	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	2	0	0	2

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase5 labels1

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained9 labels1

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative17 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Best for large enterprises requiring robust M365 governance and automation.” Llama 4 Maverick · M365 management · scale prompt · first choice

“AvePoint Cloud Governance for example is positioned for automating provisioning, access control and lifecycle management with a focus on compliance and security.” Muse Glimmer 30B · M365 management · scale prompt · alternative

“Highly mature governance, provisioning, and lifecycle management, especially suitable if your organization has strict compliance or auditing requirements.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · M365 management · scale prompt · alternative

“AvePoint Cloud Governance is the close alternative if governance, compliance reporting and business-user self-service requests are the primary drivers.” Muse Glimmer 30B · M365 management · direct prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“it is generally not recommended for a typical mid-sized B2B company... it represents "overkill"” Gemini 3.5 Flash · M365 management · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as AvePoint Cloud Governance, over the 17 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and AvePoint Cloud Governance was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

CoreView13 of 175Not among the top eight

AdminDroid7 of 172Not among the top eight

ShareGate7 of 171Not among the top eight

Syskit Point6 of 171Not among the top eight

Orchestry5 of 171Not among the top eight

ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus4 of 172Not among the top eight

Rencore Governance4 of 170Not among the top eight

Microsoft 365 Lighthouse3 of 170Not among the top eight

Microsoft Purview3 of 170Not among the top eight

Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 3653 of 170Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named AvePoint Cloud Governance. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 17 of the 17 answers that named AvePoint Cloud Governance and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com12

expertinsights.com11

learn.microsoft.com10

coreview.com9

microsoft.com9

cloudfuze.com7

findalternatives.net6

itechguides.com5

manageengine.com5

syncrosecure.com5

Seventy-nine of the seventy-nine domain citations in answers naming AvePoint Cloud Governance came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

expertinsights.com/it-management/the-top-microsoft-365-management-tools11

g2.com/categories/microsoft-365-management-tools10

cloudfuze.com/microsoft-365-management7

findalternatives.net/categories/microsoft-365-management-tools6

microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/microsoft-365-plans-and-pricing5

syncrosecure.com/blog/best-microsoft-365-management-tools-for-msps5

avepoint.com/products/workspace-management4

microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

avepoint.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, AvePoint Cloud Governance takes 2% of first choices and CoreView takes 20%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “microsoft 365 management tool”

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not in the top ten

Position for “microsoft 365 management tools”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 40 a month (“avepoint cloud governance”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 8,445 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 1,958 · 85 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 6,971
Paid Google search: 1 searches its ads show for, about 5 clicks and $33 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

103 ads · 82 text, 13 image, 8 video · 42 shown in the last 30 days

First shown January 2024, as AvePoint, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 77 in the year, 26 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 12 of 149 in M365 management

Segment leader

20%

CoreView

First choices: 2 across its categories
Named in: 17 answers
Its own site cited: in 17 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on avepoint.com

3,725

subdomains included

Content

1,890

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

151 · 24

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	668	7	2026-09-14	DLP, MFA
News or press	347	4	2026-08-06	DLP
Case study	304	4	2026-09-03
Webinar or virtual event	174	4	2026-09-17
Report or ebook	138	7	2026-08-19
Podcast or video	137	6	2026-09-24
Conference or event	102	9	2026-09-24
Comparison	12	2	2026-08-05	DLP
Glossary or explainer	8	2	2026-08-06

Most recent

2026-09-24Onpoint 2027 austria conference or event
2026-09-24Automation and augmentation are not the same strategy podcast or video
2026-09-21Avepoint vip partner dinner microsoft ignite 2026 conference or event
2026-09-17Avepoint innovates product update webinar or virtual event
2026-09-14Msp profitable infrastructure services blog
2026-09-10Avepoint g cloud 15 uk public sector blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page avepoint.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as AvePoint Cloud Governance

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as AvePoint Cloud Governance; a claim can dispute any of them.

AvePoint Cloud Governance / AvePoint Confidence Platform 1AvePoint Cloud Governance / EnPower 1

Follow AvePoint Cloud Governance

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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The company

AvePoint Cloud Governance is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Strukturierte Cloud-Steuerung
avepoint.com/de/case-studies
Price stated: The AvePoint Confidence Platform is a subscription-based model that flexes to your unique business needs. This means depending on the product, the pricing can be based on user count or the amount of data you seek to protect or migrate. avepoint.com/pricing
Free plan or trial: Get Your Free Trial avepoint.com
Certifications: ISO 27001:2022ISO 27701:2019ISO 27017:2015IRAPDESC CSP Security StandardCyber Essentials PlusCMMC Level 2
Customers named: WPPNestléMetLifeNASAHPOrganonThriveHAFN IT
Not stated on the pages read: Who it is for, starting price, integrations, hosting

What AvePoint Cloud Governance's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: avepoint.com, avepoint.com/pricing, avepoint.com/solutions/aws, avepoint.com/de/case-studies, avepoint.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when AvePoint Cloud Governance's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as AvePoint Cloud Governance, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for AvePoint Cloud Governance by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where AvePoint Cloud Governance is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name AvePoint Cloud Governance, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.