Document Governance Hub

From document request
to controlled publication.

Document Governance Hub (DGH) is a Microsoft 365 workflow solution for organizations that need a more consistent way to review, approve, publish, and maintain policies, SOPs, and work instructions.

Coming soon to Microsoft Marketplace. DGH 1.2 is in release-candidate validation. Clean tenant installation, configuration validation, approval routing, return-for-rework, controlled publication, lifecycle processing, and recovery scenarios have been exercised in Microsoft 365. Microsoft Marketplace certification is pending. Final availability and pricing will be announced with the Marketplace release.
Customer controlled

Runs in your Microsoft environment

DGH uses customer-owned Microsoft 365 connections and customer-designated SharePoint containers. The current release has no AppParallax-hosted document data plane, custom connector, or external vendor API.

Review integrity

Approve the copy intended for publication

DGH creates a protected review copy, links reviewers to that copy, and verifies review evidence before controlled publication.

Operations

Monitoring and recovery are part of the product

Reminders, escalation, expiry, issue views, guarded processing, and publication reconciliation help administrators see and recover work that needs attention.

Inside DGH

Clear updates.
Right in Teams.

Follow a document from submission to publication. These are illustrative renderings of the DGH notification content using fictional business details; actual Microsoft Teams appearance varies by client and configuration.

TTeams · Workflow notificationEXAMPLE
Document Governance Hub
Controlled Document Workflow
REQUEST RECEIVED
Request DGH-REQ-000042
Customer onboarding procedure
Your request has been accepted and entered the Document Governance Hub workflow.
DETAILS
Request #
DGH-REQ-000042
Request type
Revision
Priority
Normal
Current stage
Department Review
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
You will receive another Teams notification if action is required from you. Reviewers will receive their own stage notifications.
Open request
Received

A clear starting point.

The requester receives confirmation that the document has entered the workflow, with its request number and current stage.

Sample data only. The website rendering does not connect your browser to Microsoft Teams.

TTeams · Workflow notificationEXAMPLE
Document Governance Hub
Controlled Document Workflow
REVIEW REQUIRED
Request DGH-REQ-000042
Customer onboarding procedure
A governance review stage has been assigned to you. A Microsoft Approval will follow for the decision.
DETAILS
Request #
DGH-REQ-000042
Stage
Department Review
Approval mode
All Must Approve
Due
Sep 18, 2026
Requester
Alex Morgan
STAGE INSTRUCTIONS
Review the updated procedure for clarity, accuracy, and operational fit. Complete the Microsoft Approval when it arrives.
Open document / request
Review

Context before the decision.

The assigned reviewer sees the stage, approval mode, due date, and instructions. A separate Microsoft Approval collects the decision.

Sample data only. Actual approval and Teams interfaces are provided by Microsoft.

TTeams · Workflow notificationEXAMPLE
Document Governance Hub
Controlled Document Workflow
COMPLETED
Request DGH-REQ-000042
Customer onboarding procedure
The document governance workflow is complete and the controlled document is published.
DETAILS
Request #
DGH-REQ-000042
Document #
SOP-000128
Version
2.0
Effective date
Sep 21, 2026
Next review
Sep 21, 2027
DOCUMENT STATUS
The published document is now the governed record. Future revisions should reference this controlled document.
Open published document
Publication

Close the loop.

The completion notification identifies the controlled document, version, effective date, and next review date, with a link to the published document.

Sample data only. Actual Teams appearance varies by Microsoft client and configuration.

Familiar submission options

Use native SharePoint intake, an authenticated manual submission flow, or optional customer-configured Microsoft Forms intake.

Reviews with structure

Configure stages, multiple approvers, and scoped or global fallback routes. Reviewers receive approvals linked to a protected review copy.

Lifecycle beyond first publication

DGH supports new documents, revisions, periodic review, retirement, reactivation, and future-effective documents while preserving controlled document identity.

Approval rules that mean what they say

Stages support All Must Approve or First Response Decides. Under First Response Decides, either an approval or a rejection ends the stage. A global route is a fallback, not an extra approver automatically added to every specific route.

Designed for controlled publication, not just approval email

DGH separates review content from the original source. Publication uses the reviewed bytes, guarded workflow ownership, lifecycle metadata, and document identity. Failed or partially completed publication can be inspected and, when the controlled version already exists and verification succeeds, reconciled without blindly republishing.

Your Microsoft environment

The current release uses SharePoint Online, Power Automate, Microsoft Teams, Office 365 Users, and Standard Approvals. Microsoft Forms is optional. Customer-owned connections and a customer-controlled service account are used for installation and runtime operations. See the prerequisites and licensing matrix before deployment.

Know the current boundaries

DGH uses group-scoped SharePoint access. It does not provide per-document information barriers or a tamper-proof regulatory ledger. Source files must be direct file URLs on the configured SharePoint site. Training acknowledgments and automatic cross-document supersession are outside this release. DGH does not by itself establish regulatory compliance.

Review the product before Marketplace release.

Read the deployment guide, security model, product terms, and current release notes.