CoreView S.r.l., which helps enterprises manage their Microsoft 365 deployments, said it’s acquiring a startup called Simeon Cloud LLC to improve its capabilities in tenant configuration management. It also announced a new chief executive.

Announced today, the acquisition will provide enterprises with a simplified, holistic approach to satisfy all of their information technology and business governance requirements within the Microsoft 365 platform, including internal policies, external regulations and day-to-day operations.

Also today, the company’s board appointed channel expert Simon Azzopardi as its new CEO. He has been a scale and growth adviser for 18 years at Insight Partners, which led CoreView’s $10 million Series B funding round in October 2020.

The company claims to be a market leader with its Microsoft 365 management framework that’s designed to help large organizations in their management, delegation, auditing and reporting needs. The main focus of its platform is securing management policies upon lower-level administrators, allowing them to perform their job functions efficiently.

CoreView is a Microsoft Azure-hosted application that serves as a proxy to Microsoft 365, replacing the native Admin Portal. Sitting between administrators and Microsoft 365, it leverages Azure Active Directory single sign-on to securely control access to Microsoft’s suite of productivity tools. At the heart of the platform sits a sophisticated entitlement engine which can be used to control access to all its included functions granularly.

The company said that as more businesses rely on Microsoft 365 to get their work done, there’s an increased demand for tools that can simplify the deployment of that platform, optimize it and secure it. At the same time, cloud misconfigurations have become a major security concern for organizations, cited by 25% of companies as a top priority, according to a recent study by Gartner Inc.

With the integration of Simeon Cloud’s technologies, CoreView says it will be better able to address these cloud configuration concerns. It will ensure both managed services providers and large organizations have the tools needed to manage, automate and backup Microsoft 365 configurations at scale to enforce compliance and security for every user.

Simeon Cloud gives users an easier way to automate the initial setup of Microsoft 365 tenants and backup and monitor their infrastructure configurations. CoreView’s platform will then cater to the day-to-day management of each Microsoft 365 tenant.

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