Microsoft’s latest push to plant Copilot into every corner of Teams marks a decisive shift: AI is moving from a personal “assistant” to a collaborative, agent-driven layer that lives inside meetings, channels, SharePoint workspaces, and Viva Engage communities. The company announced new...
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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Work is changing shape: Microsoft is shifting Microsoft 365 Copilot from a personal assistant into a set of collaboration-first agents that live inside Teams, SharePoint, and Viva Engage — effectively giving every team, meeting, project, and community an AI teammate that acts on shared context...
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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...
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’s Agent Factory guidance sharpens the focus on agent observability as the non-negotiable foundation for reliable, safe, and scalable agentic AI — and its recommendations are timely: as agents move from prototypes to workflows that touch business-critical data and systems, observability...
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Microsoft’s deputy CISO for Identity lays out a clear warning: autonomous agents are moving from experiments to production, and without new identity, access, data, and runtime controls they will create risks that are fundamentally different from those posed by traditional users and service...
Agents are only as capable as the tools you give them—and only as trustworthy as the governance behind those tools, and Microsoft’s new Agent Factory guidance in Azure AI Foundry makes that dual imperative the organizing principle for enterprise-grade agentic AI.
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Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) stand at the precipice of an unprecedented technological transformation, as artificial intelligence rapidly shifts from concept to competitive imperative. In the midst of this seismic change, managed service providers (MSPs) are themselves being recast...
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The announcement of Pax8’s managed intelligence toolkit heralds an ambitious new era for managed service providers (MSPs) and their small to medium-sized business (SMB) clientele. As Pax8 lays out a roadmap towards scalable AI deployments, the promise sits at the intersection of automation...
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As managed service providers (MSPs) face a rapidly evolving technology landscape, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are no longer aspirational—they have become necessities for growth and survival. To stay competitive, MSPs need to move beyond mere infrastructure management and step...
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A seismic shift is underway in the small and midsize business (SMB) IT ecosystem, and it’s being championed by Pax8, a stalwart of cloud commerce. At its 2025 Beyond conference, Pax8 unveiled its boldest move yet: the Managed Intelligence Toolkit, set to debut in Q2 2026, which promises to...
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At Microsoft's Build 2025 conference, the company unveiled a comprehensive strategy centered on artificial intelligence (AI) agents and the promotion of open standards, signaling a transformative shift in software development and user interaction paradigms.
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In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming integral to organizational operations, Microsoft has introduced Entra Agent ID, a groundbreaking identity management tool designed to assign unique, secure digital identities to AI agents. This initiative underscores Microsoft's commitment...
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In an enterprise technology landscape undergoing rapid change, Microsoft’s unveiling of Entra Agent ID at the Build 2025 conference marks both a pivotal advance in secure AI adoption and a symbolic inflection point for digital workforce transformation. As autonomous agents proliferate in...
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