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Mason Whitaker, president of Microsoft business apps partner Volt Technologies, says Agent 365 anticipates future SMB needs for agent management, while WorkIQ will "revolutionize" collaboration.

Deep-reasoning agent gains ability to fill out forms, create apps and build presentations after gathering data from a wide range of approved sources.

Modernization leader cites need for 'psychological safety' of employees during AI initiatives, explains how one customer reduced revenue booking time by 75% with AI.

Emerging Microsoft AI agents for ERP systems automate core financial processes — such as reconciliation, variance analysis, and reporting — within Dynamics 365 to streamline the record-to-report (R2R) cycle and enhance audit readiness.

Sentinel Data Lake provides important data storage and management improvements; universal connectors facilitate integration of third-party data such as SAP, Jason Revill says.

Framework places strong emphasis on standards, open-source initiatives to orchestrate complex workflows, processes across diverse systems and agents.

Data lake, graph correlations, and support for MCP standard advance Sentinel toward becoming a single AI-powered source for security insights, and action.

The latest AI push from workflow automation titan includes agents that manage diverse functions, multivendor agent governance, and a Configure Price Quote app as part of "Autonomous CRM."

Continuing a push to provide access to the best AI for a given function, Microsoft offers Claude models in Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot, and Researcher Agent.

Addressing the rapidly expanding need for agents in software development, OpenAI updates its coding agent with unified versions, platform-specific updates, and more robust code reviews.