Workday and Microsoft have announced a practical, identity-first integration that lets organizations register, verify, and govern AI agents alongside human employees by linking Microsoft’s agent runtime and identity tooling with Workday’s new Agent System of Record (ASOR), enabling agents built...
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Microsoft’s IBC 2025 partner showcase made one thing clear: AI and cloud are no longer experimental addons for media workflows — they are the scaffolding for the next generation of production, distribution, and audience intelligence.
Background
IBC 2025 was widely framed as a turning point for...
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Workday and Microsoft’s new integration aims to let organisations manage human employees and AI agents from a single, auditable plane — registering Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry agents into Workday’s Agent System of Record (ASOR) and giving each agent a verifiable Microsoft Entra Agent ID...
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Azure’s new Agent Factory blueprint reframes trust as the primary design constraint for enterprise agents and presents Azure AI Foundry as a layered, identity‑first platform that combines identity, guardrails, continuous evaluation, and enterprise governance to keep agentic AI safe, auditable...
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Workday’s alignment with Microsoft marks a pragmatic shift from pilot-era AI experiments toward a governed, identity-first model for scaling agentic automation inside the enterprise, giving organizations a single plane to register, manage, and measure both human workers and AI agents across HR...
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Workday’s announcement at Workday Rising of a joint technical alignment with Microsoft marks a decisive step in making AI agents first-class, governable entities inside the enterprise — not just ephemeral bots stitched together by line-of-business teams. The new integration links Microsoft’s...
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Workday and Microsoft quietly stitched together a practical bridge between identity, runtime, and business context for AI agents—an integration that promises to make digital workers first-class citizens in enterprise HR, finance, and security systems while raising new questions about governance...
Cloud providers’ recent September preview releases from Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Google aren’t incremental feature drops — they’re a clear signal that enterprise expectations for cloud AI have shifted from “which model is best?” to “which platform makes models secure, auditable, and...
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Workday and Microsoft have announced a close technical alignment that will let AI “agents”—software entities built in Microsoft’s developer stack—receive directory-backed identities and be managed, governed, and audited inside Workday’s new Agent System of Record (ASOR), creating a single plane...
Workday and Microsoft have quietly stepped into the next phase of enterprise automation: they’re building the plumbing to let agentic AI workers — digital agents created in Microsoft’s developer ecosystem — obtain verified identities, join a corporate directory, and be managed alongside human...
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Microsoft used the Goldman Sachs Communicopia + Technology Conference to lay down a clear, product‑level road map for how it expects AI to reshape the enterprise — centering that plan on Microsoft 365 Copilot, a multi‑model infrastructure called Azure AI Foundry, and a “front end as platform”...
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The Czech Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs has quietly ushered in a new digital era for welfare delivery — combining an AI chat agent, a secure citizen portal and a cloud analytics stack built on Microsoft Azure technologies — a package that Microsoft says now helps roughly 100,000 people a...
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Microsoft’s message at the Goldman Sachs Communicopia + Technology Conference was unambiguous: the company sees Copilot — and the broader Copilot/Foundry/agent stack — as the hinge that will turn today’s productivity applications into the operating system for the AI era, but the path from...
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ENGIE Impact’s leap into cloud-native AI shows how a specialist sustainability consultancy can turn mass invoice and supplier data into sharper risk signals and faster client value by running Azure AI Foundry, Azure Databricks, and Microsoft 365 Copilot together in a governed Azure estate. The...
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Microsoft’s new Agent Factory narrative makes a simple but decisive argument: building a single clever agent is no longer enough—real business value arrives when agents, tools, and enterprise systems interoperate through open protocols, enterprise connectors, and built‑in governance so agents...
Microsoft’s IBC 2025 message is unmistakable: media and entertainment companies must move from experimentation to full-scale deployment of agentic AI if they want to become what Microsoft calls a “Frontier Firm” — organizations that combine human creativity with autonomous AI agents to unlock...
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Satya Nadella’s short public playbook — five repeatable prompts he says he uses inside Microsoft 365 Copilot — has done more than offer productivity tips; it has shown, in blunt practice, how an enterprise copilot can change the mechanics of leadership, reduce busywork and compress decision...
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CSOP’s push to turn hours of manual, error-prone work into seconds-long automated workflows shows how Azure AI and GitHub Copilot can reshape asset management — but the numbers, governance demands, and hidden costs behind that transformation deserve as much scrutiny as the glossy case study...
Microsoft’s latest AI push — framed by Satya Nadella as an effort to “empower people” and spotlighted during a high-profile White House engagement on September 4, 2025 — signals a fresh phase in the company’s long-term strategy to marry cloud scale, developer tools, hardware, and public policy...
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Microsoft has pushed a major real‑time audio milestone into the Azure stack: gpt‑realtime, a speech‑to‑speech (S2S) model optimized for low‑latency, natural‑sounding conversational agents, is now generally available on Azure AI Foundry and accessible through the Real‑time API for developers and...
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