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The EPC Group blog collects the firm's working notes on enterprise Microsoft programs: Microsoft 365 and Copilot, Azure, Power BI and Fabric, Dynamics 365, security, governance and adoption. It is written for the architects, IT leaders and compliance owners who run those programs and need a specific decision explained rather than a product overview.

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AI Governance Metrics & Compliance 2026 | EPC Group
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AI Governance Metrics & Compliance 2026 | EPC Group

AI governance metrics for enterprise model performance and compliance. Guide covering accuracy monitoring, drift detection, and HIPAA/SOC 2.

Errin O'Connor
April 24, 2026
AI Simulated Agency: When AI Platforms Lie About Doing Work | EPC Group
AI Governance5 min read

AI Simulated Agency: When AI Platforms Lie About Doing Work | EPC Group

Deep analysis of AI simulated agency — the phenomenon where AI tools claim to complete tasks they never performed. Verification frameworks, audit trai

Errin O'Connor
April 24, 2026
BYOAI in the Enterprise: Managing 67 Unsanctioned AI Tools | EPC Group
AI Governance5 min read

BYOAI in the Enterprise: Managing 67 Unsanctioned AI Tools | EPC Group

Enterprise guide to managing shadow AI and unsanctioned BYOAI tools. Shadow AI inventory methodology, risk assessment framework, Purview detection, ac

Errin O'Connor
April 24, 2026
EPC Group Launches Enterprise Power BI Governance and Optimization Offering
Announcements5 min read

EPC Group Launches Enterprise Power BI Governance and Optimization Offering

EPC Group has launched an Enterprise Power BI Governance and Optimization offering to address report sprawl, semantic-model drift, and capacity-cost issues facing organizations running Microsoft Power BI Premium and Microsoft Fabric.

Errin O'Connor
April 23, 2026
EPC Group Introduces Copilot and Microsoft 365 Tenant Security Review
Announcements5 min read

EPC Group Introduces Copilot and Microsoft 365 Tenant Security Review

EPC Group introduces a Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft 365 Tenant Security Review covering oversharing scan, Conditional Access audit, Microsoft Purview sensitivity-label coverage, and DLP policy review.

Errin O'Connor
April 23, 2026
Connecting AI to Power BI: 5 Approaches Beyond Microsoft Copilot | EPC Group
Power BI5 min read

Connecting AI to Power BI: 5 Approaches Beyond Microsoft Copilot | EPC Group

Five enterprise approaches to connecting AI with Power BI beyond Microsoft Copilot. Azure OpenAI integration, Claude API for narrative generation, Pyt

Errin O'Connor
April 23, 2026
EPC Group Launches Multi-AI Power BI Architecture Connecting Five AI Engines
Announcements5 min read

EPC Group Launches Multi-AI Power BI Architecture Connecting Five AI Engines

EPC Group has launched a Multi-AI Power BI architecture connecting five distinct AI engines to enterprise analytics, allowing organizations to route analytical workloads to the model best suited to each task.

Errin O'Connor
April 22, 2026
CI/CD for Microsoft Fabric: Version Control and Deployment Pipelines | EPC Group
Power BI5 min read

CI/CD for Microsoft Fabric: Version Control and Deployment Pipelines | EPC Group

Enterprise guide to CI/CD for Microsoft Fabric. Covers Git integration, deployment pipelines, Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, environment promotion (

Errin O'Connor
April 22, 2026
The CIO
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The CIO

A practical 5-pillar AI governance framework for CIOs: Strategy, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and Culture. Board reporting templates, AI steering com

Errin O'Connor
April 22, 2026

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