AvePoint Investor Day Presentation Deck
WHY WE WIN
Control
Ave Point
INVESTOR DAY
2023
AvePoint
DLA Piper Automates Collaboration Safeguards
in M365, Achieves 80% Workspace Reduction
with AvePoint Cloud Governance
DLA PIPER
Customer Location
Baltimore, Maryland
Industry
Legal
Platform
Microsoft 365
Success Highlights
Customed self-service workspace
provisioning
Effective monitoring of workspace usage
and fecycles
Cut the number of workspaces by more
Foundation set to support safe external
sharing
Customer Profile
DLA Piper is a global law firm wh
lawyers located in more than 40 countries
throughout the America, Europe, the
Middle East Africa, and Asia Pacific. The firm
which has 31 offices in the United States
handles legal needs for more than half of
the Fortune 250
half of the FTSE 350 or the
DLA Pipera des governments and
public sector bodies
O The Challenge
After the COVID-19 pandemic forced a
sudden closure of in-person workplaces
DLA Piper worked quickly to get thousands
of employees set up to work remotely
Critical Needs
-Secure and easy collaboration for staff
- Custom automated workspace creation
Workspace configuration and
management
Protect sensitive data to ensure
compliance
Solution
AvePoint Cloud Governance
s
Tam leadership wanted to get Microsoft Teams
released quickly, but we didn't want a Teams
turning the wild wild west"Omar Ibrahim, sen
or manager for applications and engineering at DLA
Piper, seid about the collaboration platform. So, we
asked: OK, what guardrails can we get in place
This strategy went beyond the need for better user
experience and basic security
Legal documents are highly sensitive and subject to
privacy and backup regulations, so was critical for
the firm to ensure only approved eyes can access
edit and share certain data-whether in Microsoft
365 Groups Teams, SharePoint Online or Yanmer
and protect against data loss
p
Additionally, the organization need a way to se
up M365 workspaces with custom permissions and
recertification parameters based on the nature and
content of a project. These had been issues long
before COVID-19
OLA Per had no solution to gen quick might into
information managemene Idecycles or to serge
inactive workspaces. Provisioning and cloung duties
required time and energy, making the process more
cumbersome for IT teams and fostering a culture of
spraat
When I came in, it was all manual, and there was
na recertification," said Ibrahim was looking for
e tool that can manage identity plus all
call collaboration and to really have a
lockstep hold on a
"We want to provide our users the
best tools with as little friction as
possible. Microsoft Teams is a great
collaboration tool, and with AvePoint
Cloud Governance, users can quickly
request secure teams. The governance
tools allow IT to automate many
administrative tasks that certify users
and reduce site sprawl."
Omar Ibrahim,
Senior Manager, Applications and
Engineering, DLA PIPER
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