Rencore extends its governance platform beyond Microsoft 365 to govern every enterprise AI from one control plane

New AI & Agents capabilities bring Claude Enterprise, with ChatGPT Enterprise to follow, under the same identity-anchored governance as Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio and SharePoint agents

MUNICH, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Rencore, the Germany-based provider of Microsoft 365 and AI governance tools, today announced multi-AI governance in its AI & Agents module. For the first time, IT and security teams can govern Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, agents, and Claude Enterprise from one platform, under one set of policies, anchored to the identities they already manage in Microsoft Entra ID. Claude Enterprise governance is now available in preview, and ChatGPT Enterprise governance follows later in October 2026.

The preview is opt-in. Organizations can request preview access and help validate use cases with Rencore's product team.

The launch answers a shift most enterprises did not plan for. "Copilot was maybe the plan, but multi-AI is the reality," Rencore CEO Matthias Einig said at Rencore's launch webinar. Analysts like Gartner confirm this development, finding that two-thirds of organizations deploy at least two other enterprise generative AI assistants alongside Microsoft 365 Copilot, even advising customers to resist defaulting to a single vendor (compare "Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agents: Assessing Impact and Value in 2026", Gartner, 2026, doc ID 856639). Governance, meanwhile, has stayed split across one administration layer per provider.

Four consoles, one person

Employees now use several assistants side by side: Claude for deeper research and coding, Copilot for quick everyday tasks, ChatGPT or Gemini elsewhere. Each has its own management function, and each governs only itself. The same end user appears as unconnected accounts in four systems, often under slightly different email addresses, and no tool sees across them.

The data has not moved. It still lives predominantly in Microsoft 365. But since early 2026, ChatGPT and Claude have added Microsoft 365 connectors that read from, and in Claude's case write to, SharePoint, OneDrive and Outlook. Every assistant connected this way inherits the oversharing and sprawl already present in the tenant.

Compliance and cost add pressure. Provider audit logs are kept for a short time, as little as 30 days, so evidence for an incident review can be gone before anyone asks for it. Consumption pricing makes spend harder to predict: Microsoft moved Copilot Cowork to pay-per-use in July 2026. And McKinsey finds that while nine in ten organizations use AI, only 6 percent achieve significant value from it, because pilots stall when nobody can say what the AI can reach and who owns it (compare "The State of AI in 2025: Agents, Innovation, and Transformation", McKinsey, 2025).

One control plane, built around identity

To Rencore, a new AI is another inventory. Customers connect each platform through its provider's own API, such as Anthropic's Compliance API for Claude Enterprise, and Rencore keeps that inventory current, as it already does for Microsoft 365. Microsoft Entra ID is the anchor: every AI account is matched to a person, through single sign-on where it exists and through email and pattern matching where it does not. IT and platform admins see the person, not four separate consoles, and can write policies that cross service boundaries.

With the AI & Agents module, organizations can:

• Inventory every AI estate: for Claude Enterprise, more than 400 event types covering users, groups, roles, projects with owners and collaborators, chats, Claude Code and Cowork sessions, artifacts, skills, connectors and plugins, plus 46 organization settings. For ChatGPT Enterprise, workspaces, custom GPTs, agents, service accounts, canvases, library files, and per-project connectors.
• Find the risks that matter: artifacts or projects shared publicly, external users and contractors with AI seats, and orphaned accounts that remain active in Claude after the user is deactivated in Entra ID.
• Track seats and spend: see usage, token consumption, and cost by user, group, department, or cost center, and spot unused licenses to reassign.
• Keep the history: Rencore pulls activity continuously, building a record that outlasts Claude Enterprise's 30-day window.
• Act on findings: use out-of-the-box policies, including 35 for ChatGPT Enterprise, and trigger automations such as deleting a project or unpublishing an agent, with optional approval.
• Keep end users in Teams: owners manage access, approvals, and reviews in the Rencore Teams app, the same way they already handle Microsoft 365 requests.

Rencore provides operational governance, not runtime guardrails. It reads metadata only and never reads, stores, or displays message bodies, session transcripts, or file content. It works alongside Microsoft Purview and supplies the up-to-date inventories, ownership and lifecycle data that audits under the EU AI Act, GDPR, NIS2 and DORA depend on.

"If you only govern Copilot, you are governing a minority of the AI your employees actually use, and you cannot govern the whole picture if you only see part of it," said Matthias Einig, CEO of Rencore. "Governance is the enabler for AI. When people know they are working within the right guardrails, they have the confidence to adopt AI, and IT stays in control."

"We are extending a product that is already proven at enterprise scale, with the same interface, policies, automations and access reviews customers run for Microsoft 365 today," said Tiina Rytkönen, VP of Product and Engineering at Rencore. "Entra ID is our anchor. Instead of looking into each AI service separately, you are looking at the person."

Availability

Multi-AI governance is part of the AI & Agents module, an optional paid module on Rencore's Premium and Enterprise plans. Claude Enterprise governance is in preview now, and the ChatGPT Enterprise preview opens later in October 2026. Further AI services will follow based on customer demand. On the Microsoft side, Rencore is adding support for Agent 365 and Agent Builder, plus cost analysis for Copilot Cowork until the end of 2026.

The launch webinar, "Your company uses multiple AIs already. Why do you only govern one?", with Matthias Einig and Tiina Rytkönen, including a live product demo, is available on demand at rencore.com.

About Rencore

Rencore helps organizations govern Microsoft 365 and the AI built on it, and now the AI beyond it. The Rencore Governance platform gives IT, security, and compliance teams visibility, policy automation, and remediation across Microsoft 365, Copilot, agents, and enterprise AI platforms. Rencore is headquartered in Munich, Germany, and is ISO 27001:2022 certified and SOC 2 Type 2 attested. Learn more at rencore.com.

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