Posts tagged with "Azure AI Foundry"

Frontier models are the default. Defaults are how teams overpay on LLM bills. Three workloads where small models (Phi-4, Llama 3.x 8B, Mistral Small) outperform on cost-per-decision without losing meaningfully on quality, three workloads where they do not, and the two-tier production pattern that cost-conscious teams converge on after a quarter of evaluation work.

Microsoft Ignite BRK270: Transform compliance from burden to accelerator. Microsoft Purview, Compliance Manager, AI Baseline, Regulatory Navigator. Automated governance for GDPR, AI Act, NIS2. 3-5x faster deployments, 70-90% less audit time.

Ride the agent revolution with Microsoft Foundry, the enterprise-ready Agent Factory. Build, test, and launch intelligent agents with 1,400+ tools, 11,000+ models, multi-agent orchestration, and seamless Microsoft 365 integration—all with bulletproof security and governance.

Microsoft Ignite BRK116: Deploy AI agents at scale with Azure App Service, AI Foundry, and MCP tools. Built-in observability, governance, security. Hitachi case study shows 73% downtime reduction and 41% cost savings.

Microsoft Ignite BRK114: Enterprise customer panel on production AI agents. Multi-tier architectures, event-driven orchestration, defense-in-depth security, human-in-the-loop patterns. Democratization with governance. Model selection optimization. Real deployments delivering $10M-$50M+ annual value. From experimentation to strategic differentiation.