Enterprise Governance Software That Turns Strategy Into Execution
Centric Governance Central (CGC) is an enterprise governance software platform built natively on Microsoft SharePoint. It centralizes OKR tracking, policy management, risk registers, compliance documentation, and project execution into one governed environment, so your leadership team stops managing strategy in spreadsheets and starts running it with real-time visibility.
Microsoft-Built.Enterprise-Ready. Compliance-Aligned.
CGC is a certified Microsoft 365 governance platform built on SharePoint, authenticated through Azure Active Directory, and available on the Microsoft Marketplace. It inherits the security, audit, and access control infrastructure of your existing Microsoft 365 tenant. Your IT team doesn't need to provision new systems. Your compliance team doesn't need to evaluate a new vendor. Your data doesn't leave your environment. Microsoft Cloud Solutions expertise embedded in every deployment.
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Strategy Exists. Execution Lacks Visibility.
Most enterprise organizations have a strategic plan. What they don't have is a reliable way to see whether anyone is executing against it. OKRs are updated in a spreadsheet once a quarter. Policies live in a shared drive no one checks. Compliance documentation is assembled manually before every audit. Risk registers are disconnected from the teams managing the risks. The result: leadership is always flying blind on execution, and governance becomes a retrospective exercise instead of a live operational discipline. That's the gap CGC was built to close and it does it inside the SharePoint environment your organization already runs on.
One Governance Platform. Every Strategic Layer. Zero New Infrastructure.
CGC is a purpose-built SharePoint governance tool that unifies the four layers of enterprise execution: strategic objectives (OKRs and KPIs), operational governance (policy management, risk registers, compliance tracking), project execution (milestones, budget oversight, approval workflows), and executive reporting (real-time dashboards, board-level visibility). Unlike standalone GRC tools that require separate logins, new vendor contracts, and data migrations, CGC runs directly inside your Microsoft SharePoint environment, so your data, your security controls, and your people stay in one place. AI automation handles routine governance tasks approval routing, policy review reminders, compliance attestations, so your governance team spends time on decisions, not administration.
Governance Workflows That Move at the Speed of Your Business
Automate OKR approvals, policy reviews, risk escalations, compliance attestations, and audit documentation workflows with full transparency. Automate OKR approvals, policy reviews, risk escalations, compliance attestations, and audit documentation workflows within full transparency.
Connected to Every System Your Governance Depends On
CGC integrates natively with Microsoft Project, Microsoft Teams, Planner, and Power BI for project tracking and executive reporting. Azure Active Directory manages identity and role-based access across every governance workflow, so permissions mirror your actual org structure, not a manually managed list. For organizations using ERP or HRIS systems, CGC connects via Azure Logic Apps and Power Automate to pull financial data, headcount, and operational metrics directly into governance dashboards. The result: OKR progress and budget performance updated in real time, without a single manual data entry. Our Microsoft Cloud Solutions team designs and owns every integration layer. Explore how digital transformation services can extend CGC across your enterprise operations.
Governance That Moves the Numbers That Matter
Improve OKR alignment, accelerate compliance reporting, reduce audit preparation time, and enhance executive visibility.
Audit Preparation Time
Automated documentation and policy tracking compress audit cycles from weeks to days
Manual Governance Effort
Digitized approval workflows replace fragmented email-and-spreadsheet governance
Executive Visibility
Real-time dashboards give leadership live OKR and compliance status not monthly snapshots
Process Completion Time
Automated escalations and approval routing cut governance cycle times in half
Built for Compliance-Critical Environments
CGC is designed for organizations where governance isn't a choice, it's a mandate. Whether you're in financial services, healthcare, government contracting, or a publicly traded enterprise, CGC's information governance software layer provides role-based access, immutable audit trails, document lifecycle management, encryption at rest, and structured compliance attestation workflows. All governed by your existing Azure AD and Microsoft Cloud policies. Pair CGC with Azure OpenAI to automate compliance monitoring and generate audit-ready reports on demand.
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Governance Assessment
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OKR & Framework Setup
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Policy Digitization
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Workflow Automation
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Leadership Enablement & Training
Flexible Commercial Pathways
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Centric Governance Central
What exactly does Centric Governance Central do?
CGC is an enterprise governance and execution platform built on Microsoft SharePoint. It gives organizations a single environment to manage strategic objectives (OKRs/KPIs), policies, risk registers, compliance documentation, project milestones, and executive dashboards. Rather than spreading governance across disconnected tools spreadsheets for OKRs, shared drives for policies, email for approvals CGC centralizes everything in one SharePoint-native platform with structured workflows, role-based access, and real-time reporting for leadership. It is the operational backbone between your strategy and your results.
How is CGC different from tools like Monday.com, Asana, or Workday Strategic Planning?
Project management tools like Monday.com and Asana manage tasks. HRIS planning modules manage headcount. CGC manages governance — which is a layer above project execution and separate from HR planning. It connects strategic intent (OKRs, board-level objectives) to operational compliance (policies, risk, audit documentation) with structured approval workflows and an immutable audit trail. Critically, CGC runs natively inside Microsoft SharePoint, which means your IT team doesn't need to approve a new SaaS vendor, your data stays in your Microsoft 365 tenant, and your existing Azure AD permissions govern who sees and acts on what. No tool in the general project management category provides this governance depth within a Microsoft-native architecture.
We already use Microsoft 365. Do we need anything additional to run CGC?
No new infrastructure is required. CGC is provisioned on your existing Microsoft 365 tenant — it installs into SharePoint Online, uses Azure Active Directory for authentication and permissions, and integrates with Microsoft Teams, Power BI, and Planner out of the box. If you're procuring through the Azure Marketplace, CGC can be live in your environment within 24 hours. For White-Glove implementations, our SharePoint consulting team handles all setup, configuration, and integration within your existing Microsoft environment.
Can CGC help us prepare for regulatory audits (SOX, ISO 27001, SOC 2)?
Yes. CGC is specifically designed to reduce the burden of regulatory audit preparation. The platform maintains a continuously updated policy library with version history, owner attribution, and review timestamps. Compliance attestations are captured through structured workflows, not email confirmations. Risk registers track issues, owners, and remediation status in real time. When an audit occurs, your team can generate audit-ready documentation packages from CGC's SharePoint environment — rather than spending weeks assembling records from multiple systems. CGC has been deployed in financial services, healthcare, and government contracting environments where SOX, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 compliance are standing requirements.
How does CGC handle OKR tracking across multiple departments and business units?
CGC supports hierarchical OKR structures — from board-level strategic objectives down to business unit, department, and individual contributor key results. Each level of the hierarchy has visibility appropriate to its role: executive leadership sees the full portfolio; department heads see their unit's OKRs and cross-functional dependencies; team members see and update their own key results. Progress rolls up automatically from team to department to executive view — eliminating the quarterly "OKR update collection" process that most organizations dread. AI-assisted insights flag at-risk OKRs and surface patterns across the portfolio so leadership can intervene before a missed objective becomes a missed quarter.
Is CGC suitable for our PMO and project governance needs?
Yes. CGC includes a full project governance layer — initiative tracking, milestone management, budget oversight, resource allocation, and structured reporting for your PMO. Unlike standalone project management tools, CGC connects project execution directly to the strategic objectives it's meant to serve. Your PMO can see which projects are on track, which are at risk, and whether their collective progress is moving the needle on the organization's OKRs — all in one dashboard. For organizations with mature PMO practices, CGC integrates with Microsoft Project Online and Azure DevOps to incorporate existing project data into the governance framework.
What does implementation look like, and how long does it take?
Implementation follows a four-phase approach: Diagnose & Align (governance assessment and framework design), Implement & Integrate (SharePoint provisioning and system integrations), Design & Validate (workflow configuration, KPI setup, UAT), and Execute & Optimize (go-live with 90-day hypercare). For Marketplace deployments with standard configuration, a basic environment can be live in 2–4 weeks. Enterprise implementations with custom workflows, HRIS integration, and multi-department rollouts typically run 8–14 weeks. Our digital transformation team provides a detailed timeline estimate after a one-hour scoping call.
How is CGC priced, and is it available through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace?
CGC is available through three procurement pathways. The Microsoft Azure Marketplace option allows you to purchase directly through your Azure subscription — qualifying for Microsoft MACC commitments and using your existing Azure billing. Direct licensing is available for enterprise agreements with custom pricing based on user count and modules. White-Glove implementation is a scoped engagement that includes platform licensing plus dedicated implementation services. For a pricing estimate tailored to your organization's size and requirements, speak to our team — we'll scope the right model in a single discovery call.
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Governance Expertise Meets AI Innovation
Building governance software on SharePoint requires two capabilities most vendors don't have simultaneously: deep Microsoft platform expertise and practical governance consulting experience. Centric has both. Our SharePoint consulting practice has designed information architectures, governance frameworks, and enterprise platforms for organizations across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and government. Our AI team layers intelligent automation on top of those frameworks turning static governance processes into self-executing, self-reporting systems. CGC is not a product we built and hand off. It's a platform we operate, optimize, and evolve with your organization.
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Operationalize Governance. Intelligently.
Your strategy is only as strong as the system tracking its execution. Stop governing by exception and start governing by design with real-time visibility, automated compliance workflows, and AI-powered insights, all inside your Microsoft SharePoint environment. Book a personalized demo and see CGC working with your actual OKR structure and compliance requirements. Or buy directly from the Azure Marketplace and have a live governance environment in your tenant within 24 hours.
From Strategy to Execution. Fully Aligned
In most organizations, strategy and execution live in different systems managed by different teams with different incentives. CGC changes that by making strategic alignment a structural feature of how your organization operates not a quarterly offsite exercise. Every initiative in CGC is connected to an OKR. Every OKR is connected to a department budget. Every budget is connected to an executive dashboard. When something slips, leadership knows before it becomes a problem. When something succeeds, the data to replicate it is already documented. This is what SharePoint governance looks like when it's done properly. See how digital transformation services power the full governance stack.
A structured approach to operationalize strategy at scale.
Deploying enterprise governance software isn't just a technical exercise it's an organizational change program. CGC implementations follow a proven four-phase approach that addresses technology, process design, and people adoption simultaneously.
Diagnose & Align
Our governance consultants assess your current state how strategy is communicated, where OKRs are tracked, how policies are managed, and where compliance documentation breaks down. We identify the specific fragmentation points CGC will close and align stakeholders on the target governance model before a single line of configuration is written.
Implement & Integrate
CGC is provisioned in your Microsoft 365 tenant. Azure Active Directory is connected for role-based access. Integrations with Microsoft Project, Power BI, Teams, and any HRIS or ERP systems are configured. Existing data OKRs, policies, risk registers, project records is migrated into the platform's structured architecture.
Design & Validate
Approval workflows, KPI scoring models, compliance attestation schedules, and executive dashboard views are customized to match your organization's governance structure. Your governance team, PMO leads, and department heads run UAT on real scenarios not test data before go-live is approved.
Execute & Optimize
CGC goes live with a 90-day hypercare period. Our team monitors OKR completion rates, workflow adoption, compliance documentation accuracy, and executive dashboard usage and optimizes configurations based on real organizational behavior. Ongoing SharePoint governance consulting is available as a retained service post-launch.
