AvePoint and Microsoft Advance Trusted AI Adoption

As organizations accelerate adoption of Microsoft Copilot, Agent 365, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Azure, many face a growing challenge: how to maintain visibility, control, and recoverability across an increasingly complex AI estate. AvePoint’s 2026 State of AI Report found that nearly 9 in 10 organizations delayed AI initiatives due to data security and management concerns, underscoring a broader reality that AI adoption is advancing faster than many organizations can govern it. As organizations move from experimentation to enterprise-scale AI deployment, success increasingly depends on combining leading AI platforms with the governance, security, resilience, and operational expertise needed to deploy AI with confidence.

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“For a quarter century, AvePoint has empowered organizations to realize the value of digital transformation,” said Dr. Tianyi Jiang (TJ), Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, AvePoint. “Today, AI represents the next major technology shift. Through our expanded strategic partnership with Microsoft, we’re helping organizations establish the trust, governance, and operational foundations needed to confidently deploy AI at scale. Together, we’re enabling customers to move faster while maintaining control over the data, agents, and systems powering their AI initiatives.”

Expanding AI Trust

AvePoint will continue serving as Customer Zero for AI transformation, using its own AI deployment experiences to inform product innovation and best practices for customers. Building on its successful adoption of Microsoft Copilot across its global workforce, AvePoint is deepening its investment in Microsoft by expanding access to Microsoft 365 E7, empowering employees with advanced AI and agent capabilities that help them work smarter, move faster, and drive greater operational efficiency. AvePoint’s internal adoption of Microsoft technologies generates practical insights that continue to inform the development of AgentPulse. These experiences help shape AvePoint’s approach to applying governance workflows across agents and other AI assets, with an emphasis on business context and accountability.

Driving Customer Outcomes Through Joint Innovation and Go-to-Market Collaboration

The expanded strategic partnership builds on AvePoint’s continued innovation across the Microsoft Cloud. As a Microsoft launch partner for Microsoft 365 Backup Storage, AvePoint introduced Cloud Backup Express to accelerate backup and recovery for Microsoft 365 data and has since expanded its capabilities to support prioritized recovery of critical Microsoft 365 workloads, identities, and infrastructure. As a result of deeper integration with Microsoft and the need to recover as quickly as possible from incidents, Cloud Backup Express customers have increased 45x in 2026 year to date. Additionally, AvePoint allows organizations to move beyond AI experimentation to operationalized AI with Microsoft. Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Microsoft Foundry support AI innovation.

Microsoft Agent 365 provides a common control plane for managing agents across supported platforms, with capabilities spanning governance, visibility, resilience, and cost optimization. AvePoint’s AgentPulse is designed to complement this portfolio with governance workflows spanning agents and other AI assets. By mapping agents to business use cases, departments, and accountable owners, these workflows help organizations bring business context to governance decisions and direct attestations and remediation to the appropriate business teams. With nearly half of employees today relying on AI agents on a daily or weekly basis, this combined approach enables customers to accelerate adoption while maintaining the oversight, accountability, and business controls required to evolve into AI-powered Frontier Firms without sacrificing governance, security, or resilience.

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According to Nabil Aitoumeziane, President of FSi Strategies, a customer-centric Microsoft Solutions Partner delivering enterprise-class managed IT and professional services, “A lot of organizations spent the last year getting AI-ready. Now the conversation is shifting toward execution. That’s where governance becomes critical, and where AvePoint has been a key partner for us and our customers.”

“Realizing AI’s business value at scale requires organizations to pair innovation with security, governance, and accountability,” said Edwin Vargas, Managing Director – AI Business Solutions and Security partnerships, Microsoft. “Our strategic partnership with AvePoint supports this approach by bringing together Microsoft’s AI and security capabilities with AvePoint’s focus on data governance and business-context-driven workflows, helping customers adopt AI with confidence and connect oversight to the teams putting it to work.”

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Continuing Innovation for Trusted AI

As organizations move deeper into enterprise-scale AI, the next phase of the AvePoint and Microsoft partnership is focused on helping them trust their AI so they can scale innovation without scaling risk. Gartner cited AvePoint in the first ever Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Agent Management Platforms and as a representative vendor for organizations looking to secure and govern an AI native workplace, manage storage costs in Microsoft 365, complement native governance capabilities in Microsoft Purview, and mitigate the risks of agent sprawl in enterprise applications. Leading up to Microsoft Ignite in November, AvePoint will continue evolving its data resilience and governance solutions to ensure organizations are maximizing their AI investments.