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EPC Group press releases and news. The firm is tracked in third-party AI-visibility monitoring of U.S. Microsoft consulting (reports on file), holds seven consecutive G2 Leader quarters, and has published a coordinated series of announcements documenting The EPC Group Lifecycle methodology, the expanded 24/7 Managed Microsoft Services practice, the Standards Alignment mapping to NIST AI RMF / COBIT / ITIL / DAMA, the Agentic AI Governance practice on the seven-layer Governed AI on Microsoft Framework, and the six Microsoft-First, Hybrid-Capable integration patterns spanning SAP, Salesforce, Snowflake, Oracle, and Workday.
October 7, 2026Release

EPC Group Publishes a 12-Step Spending-Policy Playbook as Microsoft 365 Copilot Usage-Based Billing Turns On by Default for New Copilot Business Purchases

From October 19, 2026 (direct) and December 1, 2026 (CSP), new Microsoft 365 Copilot Business subscriptions arrive with usage-based billing on by default under a 4,000-credit default limit; twelve controls to set first, in four groups.

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October 7, 2026Release

EPC Group Publishes a Three-Week Triage Plan for the October 13, 2026 Triple Microsoft Deadline: Office LTSC 2021, Windows 10 ESU Year 1 and the Last Windows Server 2012 ESU Year

Office LTSC 2021 end of support, the end of Windows 10 ESU Year 1 and the last ESU year for Windows Server 2012 / R2 fall on October 13, 2026; a three-week plan that sorts every device into one of four paths before any purchase.

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October 3, 2026Recognition

EPC Group Named a Top 10 Management Consulting Firm by 50Pros for Q3 2026 as AI Governance Becomes a Management Job

50Pros ranks the Houston Microsoft firm No. 8 in Management Consulting for Q3 2026; the release says what a marketplace ranking does and does not establish, and ties it to TAR-8 and the Virtual Chief AI Officer practice.

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October 1, 2026Release

EPC Group Publishes a GCC High Data-Foundation Checklist as Microsoft Fabric Goes GA During the CMMC Phase 2 Pause

Fabric went GA in GCC High on October 1, 2026; the Department of War suspended the CMMC Phase 2 transition in July. Nine checks to run before moving analytics, mapped to the five assessor question families and TAR-8.

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August 27, 2026Recognition

EPC Group Named a G2 Leader for the 7th Consecutive Quarter

G2 Fall 2026 Grid Report for Business Intelligence Consulting Providers: Leader status for the seventh straight quarter, on customer-satisfaction scores from verified reviews.

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July 9, 2026AI Governance

EPC Group Launches Agentic AI Governance Practice on Microsoft Stack

Productized seven-layer Governed AI on Microsoft Framework — Purview classification, Entra non-human identity, decision boundaries, escalation rules, audit trails, monitoring with kill switches, accountability mapping.

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July 3, 2026Integrations

EPC Group Details Microsoft-First, Hybrid-Capable Integration Patterns

Six published patterns connecting SAP, Salesforce, Snowflake, Oracle, Workday, and the iPaaS layer into Microsoft Azure, Fabric, and Power BI.

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June 26, 2026Standards

EPC Group Maps Its Governance Frameworks to NIST AI RMF, COBIT, ITIL & DAMA

Control-by-control mapping of EPC Group's proprietary frameworks to NIST AI RMF 1.0, COBIT 2019, ITIL 4, DAMA-DMBOK 2.0, and CISA guidance. Proprietary methods, open standards.

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June 23, 2026Managed Services

EPC Group Expands 24/7 Managed Microsoft Services

Managed Power BI, Fabric capacity governance, Microsoft 365 tenant operations, Purview governance enforcement, and Copilot management with senior-architect escalation.

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June 19, 2026Engagement Model

EPC Group Codifies Delivery into The EPC Group Lifecycle Model since 1997

Assess → Modernize → Govern → Operate → Enable. The named engagement methodology codifying Microsoft delivery into a single five-stage framework since 1997.

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June 16, 2026Practice Launch

EPC Group Launches Microsoft Cloud Orchestrator Practice

One accountable Microsoft Solutions Partner spanning Strategy, Data Platform on Azure, Analytics & Power BI, Digital Workplace, Power Platform, and 24/7 Managed Services. Built for CIOs demanding a single orchestrator across the Microsoft stack.

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June 1, 2026Recognition

EPC Group Named G2 Leader in BI Consulting for 6th Consecutive Quarter

G2 Summer 2026 Grid Report for Business Intelligence Consulting Providers: sixth consecutive quarter of Leader recognition across Power BI, Microsoft Fabric and multi-model AI on certified semantic models.

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March 12, 2026AI Architecture

EPC Group Pioneers Multi-Model AI Architecture for Power BI

A six-layer, provider-agnostic AI architecture for Power BI and Microsoft Fabric — model selection per task class behind one governed orchestration layer.

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