# What's the best digital communications governance software for a mid-size company that's all on Microsoft 365 and Teams?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">If you're a mid-size org and your entire collaboration stack is Microsoft 365 and Teams, the <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/digital-communications-governance">digital communications governance</a> question looks pretty specific. You don't necessarily need a platform that handles 80 different communication channels, you need one that governs M365 well, ideally without requiring you to build a custom solution on top of native admin tools, which most mid-size IT teams don't have the capacity for.</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Filtering specifically to Microsoft 365 / Teams integration contexts:</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/orchestry/reviews"><strong>Orchestry</strong></a>: The most purpose-built option here. Reviewers describe it as filling the gap that native M365 admin tools leave: controlled provisioning templates, lifecycle management, guest access governance, and workspace reviews, all in an interface that IT teams and even data owners can actually use. One reviewer described reducing Teams provisioning time by over 90% while increasing standardization. Does the governance layer for an M365-only environment get much more specific than this?</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-purview-data-governance/reviews"><strong>Microsoft Purview Data Governance</strong></a>: The native Microsoft option for organizations that want DLP, data classification, and compliance monitoring to live inside the Microsoft ecosystem. Reviewers highlight seamless integration with M365 and Azure as the main advantage, and several describe it as the natural choice for organizations that want their governance tooling and their productivity suite from the same vendor. Setup complexity is the trade-off reviewers most often raise.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/smarsh-smarsh/reviews"><strong>Smarsh</strong></a>: For mid-size organizations in regulated industries that need supervision and compliance archiving on top of their Teams environment, reviewers describe Smarsh's integration as smooth and the platform as quick to set up. One reviewer specifically mentioned the Teams import process as an area where they needed some support, which is worth knowing going in.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/gryphon-one/reviews"><strong>Gryphon ONE</strong></a>: More relevant if the company has outbound contact operations alongside Teams, the Salesforce AppExchange integration gets specifically mentioned, and reviewers describe it sitting alongside existing telephony and CRM setups without displacement.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/pagefreezer/reviews"><strong>Pagefreezer</strong></a>: Less Teams-focused, but if the company also has a public-facing web and social presence that needs archiving for compliance purposes, reviewers praise the seamless setup and the ability to handle those channels without additional administrative overhead.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">For the Orchestry vs. Purview question specifically: is anyone using both in parallel, Orchestry for workspace governance and Purview for data classification and DLP? Curious how much overlap there is in practice versus on paper.</p>

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## Comments
### Comment 1

&lt;p&gt;I’d actually extend my earlier point here: the bigger risk may be duplicated ownership rather than duplicated policies. If both tools can flag governance issues, teams need a clear rule for which one drives the follow-up action.&lt;/p&gt;

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### Comment 2

&lt;p&gt;The lifecycle-versus-classification split between Orchestry and Purview makes sense. Where I’d expect overlap to get messy is ownership: both can surface governance issues, but someone still needs to know which system triggers the action. For teams running both, have you seen a clean division where Orchestry owns workspace lifecycle while Purview stays entirely focused on the data inside those workspaces?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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### Comment 3

&lt;p&gt;The part of M365 governance that keeps coming back is not the initial cleanup but what happens six months later, when project Teams have finished and nobody archives them. Orchestry getting credit for lifecycle management and workspace reviews is the relevant piece for a mid-size team, since that&#39;s exactly the work nobody has time to do by hand.&lt;/p&gt;

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### Comment 4

&lt;p&gt;Using both can make sense: Orchestry handles Teams and SharePoint provisioning, ownership, guest access, and lifecycle controls, while Purview covers classification, DLP, and compliance monitoring. The overlap is limited enough that they can complement each other, though I’d avoid duplicating retention or review policies across both.&lt;/p&gt;

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