As technology rapidly evolves, two things stand out: organizations are seeing real results from AI, and the possibilities for innovation are endless. Our goal is to help you, whether you’re a developer, IT professional, AI engineer, business decision-maker, or data expert, use AI to move your business forward. With Microsoft’s experience, strong capabilities, and commitment to trustworthy technology, Azure brings everything together to support your AI goals and help you shape the future.
This week, we are sharing updates and new features that highlight our commitment to your success in this fast-changing time. Let’s get started.
Introducing Microsoft Azure AI Foundry: A Single Platform To Design, Customize, And Manage AI Solutions.
Each new wave of applications brings new needs. Just as web, mobile, and cloud technologies led to new platforms, AI is now changing how we build, run, and manage applications. A Deloitte report found that nearly 70% of organizations have moved only 30% or fewer of their generative AI experiments into production. So there is still a lot of untapped potential. Business leaders want to bring AI solutions to market faster and more affordably while tracking their performance and return on investment.
That’s why we are excited to introduce Azure AI Foundry, a unified platform for your whole organization in this new era of AI. Azure AI Foundry connects the latest AI technologies with real business needs, helping organizations use AI more efficiently and effectively.
We’re bringing together the AI toolchain in the new Azure AI Foundry SDK, making Azure AI features available in familiar tools like GitHub, Visual Studio, and Copilot Studio. We’re also updating Azure AI Studio to serve as an enterprise-level management console and portal for Azure AI Foundry.
Azure AI Foundry is built to help everyone in your organization, developers, AI engineers, and IT professionals customize, host, run, and manage AI solutions more easily and confidently. This unified approach simplifies development and management, allowing everyone to focus on innovation and achieving strategic goals.
For developers, Azure AI Foundry offers a smoother way to use the latest AI advancements and focus on building valuable applications. Developers also get an improved experience with access to all current Azure AI services, tools, and the new features we’re announcing today.
For IT professionals and business leaders, using AI brings up important questions about how to measure results, ROI, and ongoing improvements. There’s a real need for tools that give clear insights into AI projects and their business impact. Azure AI Center helps leaders track effectiveness, align projects with company goals, and invest in AI with more confidence.
To help you grow AI adoption in your organization, they’re offering detailed guidance for AI adoption and architecture through Azure Essentials. This resource brings together Microsoft’s best practices, product experiences, reference architectures, training, and resources in one place. It’s a great way to learn from our experience and see how to get the most out of Azure AI Foundry.
With so many different technologies and options available, we built Azure AI Foundry to meet a wide range of needs as organizations pursue AI transformation. It’s not just about offering advanced tools; we have those as well. It’s also about encouraging collaboration and alignment between technical teams and business strategy.
Now, let’s look at more updates aimed at improving your experience and efficiency throughout the AI development process, whatever your role may be.
Introducing Azure AI Agent Service: A Tool to Automate Business Processes and Help You Focus on Your Most Important Work
AI agents can handle routine tasks independently, boosting productivity and efficiency while keeping you involved. With the Azure AI Agents service, developers can organize, deploy, and scale enterprise AI-powered apps to automate business processes. These smart agents handle tasks on their own, but bring in people for final review or action, so your team can focus on the most important projects.
One key feature of Agent Service is its ease of connecting to enterprise data sources such as Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Fabric, as well as its integration with tools to automate actions. With options like bring-your-own storage (BYOS) and private networking, it keeps data private and compliant, helping organizations protect sensitive information. This lets your business leverage existing data and systems to build secure, powerful agent workflows.
