Martin Hatting

Yep.

So content sprawl is something that we encountered in our day jobs as Microsoft 365 consultants.

So we've been working, helping orgs move into the Microsoft cloud and then also build out their apps and run their services in the cloud.

And the one thing which is quite interesting

easy these days with Microsoft applications, with Teams specifically, and Teams have got more than 10 million users, is to create a workspace.

You can spin up a workspace really quickly and really easily, and people tend to do that.

It just goes wild.

It's a good thing from an adoption perspective.

But also what you end up having is like just thousands of workspaces that are unused.

You get duplicate information all over the place.

And then what happens is people can't find stuff.

And then they create more workspaces because they can't find what they're looking for.

And you just end up with just overload all over the place.

You solve that by putting governance in place, by putting a bit of friction in place for, well, there's a couple of steps.

Putting a bit of friction in place for the user so they can't just spin up the workspace willy-nilly.

There needs to be a definite purpose to it and it needs to be

properly thought out.

It needs to be based on a specific direction.

It needs to have a specific set of rules which govern its lifecycle.

And that's the governance framework which you can use to limit that.