Features for controlling the actions of agents — ensuring they don’t misbehave — bring the enterprise-level controls required by IT/security pros and business leaders alike.
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At Paragon Films, MCP is enabling AI agents to do everything from managing approval workflows to pinpointing invoice discrepancies to making employee knowledge ‘immortal.’
Skills codify workflow details that are too often managed as ‘institutional knowledge,’ making those instructions accessible and reusable for agentic AI automation.
As initial release of ‘control plane’ becomes widely available, Microsoft is expanding agent registry, Shadow AI protections, and threat detection capabilities.
The amended partnership shows both companies are evolving; it’s not a falling out. The question for organizations is whether they are ready to make similar strategic shifts to focus on governance and outcomes.
Deloitte partner says most organizations are still in the transition phase of tapping AI in their ERP environments, but the technology can improve data consistency and improve financial compliance.
Updates include learned context and skills that get applied to future sessions as well as automatically created content that adheres to corporate standards.
Toolkit acts as a gatekeeper, preventing unauthorized access by AI agents and addressing top risks including goal hijacking and memory poisoning.
Latest MCP product from Microsoft works with cloud or on-premises SQL databases for efficient, secure connections to corporate resources without requiring language or framework expertise.
AI initiatives will fall for those companies that focus on the model and interface without building a solid underlying foundation to drive tangible business value.
Round of enhancements also includes simplified prompting during agent-building processes, new content moderation controls to govern sensitive material.
Initial release supports actions across agents, multiple AI models, and interoperability through the two most widely embraced interoperability standards.
New metrics provide visibility into usage patterns, while expanded controls improve governance over content sources in Purview platform.
The company and ISV partners deliver agents that inject new functions into Copilot, Defender, and other Microsoft platforms, driving significant growth in the security ecosystem.
The future — where users can describe outcomes in English and use AI to bridge intent and execution — isn’t limited to one AI tool. The real win comes when you use the right tool for the right work.
As work shifts from apps to agents, this session spotlights Microsoft’s vision for AI collaborators that execute autonomously, securely, and with full business context at enterprise scale.
This session covers how AI agents turn ERP into a system of action, connecting data, decisions, and workflows to execute business processes at scale.
Gain insights on AI industry strategy and governance from this discussion with Microsoft and Alithya representatives.
This panel examines how enterprises are moving from AI copilots to scalable, governed agent architectures that transform operations, customer experience, and core business systems.
WorkIQ-powered Copilot Cowork orchestrates complex tasks to the point that agents could take over one-fifth of any team’s work in the near term, while hastening the end of app-driven workflows.