The purpose of this document is to explain the complementary nature of Varonis DatAdvantage software for data governance and Microsoft's SharePoint content management solution. The volume of intranet content is growing at rates of 70 percent or more annually compelling administrators and users to look for ways to manage the deluge of information. Microsoft and other application vendors have created solutions collectively recognized as "content management products" that allow their customers to aggregate intranet content into corporate portals.

While SharePoint comprises a powerful portal and collaboration platform it was not designed to automate the computation and management of access controls to unstructured data. This is a Varonis core expertise. Further, SharePoint deployment and management is quite complex. It is therefore very important that enterprises understand the challenges with migration to SharePoint and draft a plan and phased approach for content management in order to ensure that security and seamless access to critical business assets contained on file shares are not compromised.