Comparison
TenantIQ vs the alternatives
The same capabilities, four ways to get them. Microsoft ships many of the primitives, point tools cover slices, and a determined team can build a lot by hand — TenantIQ's job is to unify them into one continuous, cross-domain view of your Microsoft 365 estate.
This is a capability comparison, not a scorecard. The columns are approaches, not named vendors: the native Microsoft 365 admin centers genuinely offer many of these primitives — Secure Score, access reviews, app discovery — so we mark them partial where the building block exists. The gap a buyer feels is cross-domain unification, continuous evidence, and DACH-specific framework mappings, not the primitives themselves.
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| Capability | TenantIQ | Native M365 admin centers | Point tools | Build-it-yourself |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security posture | ||||
| Secure Score tracked over time with prioritised, highest-impact actions first | Full | Partial | Partial | Manual effort |
| Conditional-access gap & conflict analysis across all policies | Full | Partial | Partial | Manual effort |
| Defender, Entra, and email-security signals consolidated into one posture view | Full | Manual effort | Partial | Manual effort |
| Governance & access | ||||
| Joiner / mover / leaver access kept aligned to current roles | Full | Partial | Partial | Manual effort |
| Over-privilege & stale-access detection with the accounts to review | Full | Partial | Partial | Manual effort |
| Guest & external-sharing sprawl surfaced before it becomes exposure | Full | Manual effort | Partial | Manual effort |
| Continuous policy-drift alerts when configuration leaves your baseline | Full | Not covered | Partial | Manual effort |
| License & cost | ||||
| Inactive, duplicate & oversized license assignments detected from real usage | Full | Partial | Partial | Manual effort |
| Reclaim recommendations backed by sign-in & activity data | Full | Not covered | Partial | Manual effort |
| Tenant-wide spend visibility across SKUs and assignment trends | Full | Partial | Partial | Manual effort |
| Compliance & evidence | ||||
| Control evidence mapped to NIS2, ISO 27001, BSI IT-Grundschutz & DSGVO | Full | Partial | Partial | Manual effort |
| Continuous gap tracking showing met vs open controls per framework | Full | Partial | Partial | Manual effort |
| Audit-ready evidence export you can hand to an auditor on demand | Full | Manual effort | Partial | Manual effort |
| AI / Copilot & shadow-IT | ||||
| Microsoft 365 Copilot data-exposure surface mapped to users & content | Full | Not covered | Partial | Not covered |
| Shadow-app & shadow-AI discovery across connected tenant integrations | Full | Partial | Partial | Manual effort |
| Oversharing detection for the SharePoint / OneDrive permissions AI can reach | Full | Manual effort | Partial | Manual effort |
| One prioritised exposure view to remediate before enabling or expanding Copilot | Full | Not covered | Partial | Not covered |