Ignite 2025: Foundry IQ, Model Router, Agent Factory Breakdown

Are enterprise agents finally ready for prime time at scale in the enterprise world? At Microsoft Ignite, I sat down with the one and only Jay Parikh, Executive VP, Microsoft, to understand how Microsoft is actually building the full foundation for enterprise grade agents, not just talking about it.

In our conversation, we went deeper into what “any agent, anywhere, at any scale” really means for developers and teams who are trying to move from experiments to production.

We spoke about:

-- How Foundry IQ in public preview changes the way agents connect to enterprise and web data through one secure entry point

-- How Model Router being generally available helps teams pick the right model for each task instead of guessing

-- Why the new Foundry Control Plane is so important for centralizing agent management and scaling safely

-- How Foundry Observability being GA gives teams real time visibility into multi agent systems so they can troubleshoot and improve faster

-- What Microsoft Agent Factory solves by bundling 33 products for teams that want to deploy agents quickly without stitching everything together on their own

We closed by looking ahead at what the next phase of multi agent systems inside large enterprises could look like when you treat agents, data, models, and infrastructure as one connected stack instead of separate pieces.

If you are serious about building or scaling enterprise agents, this is one conversation you will want to watch.

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