Avanade last week launched an Agentic AI platform with industry-specific functionality designed to accelerate time to launch and impact with AI software. Announced at Microsoft Ignite along with Microsoft backing (Avanade was launched as a joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture), the Avanade Agentic Platform is targeted at companies with revenue between $300 million and $5 billion.
The platform is integrated with Microsoft’s new Agent 365 “control plane” with a goal of helping customers derive maximum value from their Microsoft AI investments, Aaron Reich, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at Avanade, said in the product launch.
Key Features
The Avanade Agentic Platform features a library of vertical industry agents and templates that the company says are easy to deploy and manage while integrating easily into their existing software stacks. The agents are designed to automate repetitive functions, increase user productivity, and uncover insights for smarter decisions by humans.
The agents are discoverable through Microsoft’s low-code Copilot Studio and pro-code Azure Foundry via Microsoft Agent 365. The platform includes an Agent Builder and library so customers can create agents in a no-code environment or refine pre-built agents from Avanade. Customers can conduct rapid experimentation with a clear pathway to putting agents into production.
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Agent Cockpit helps customers orchestrate, monitor, and improve AI performance while managing risks in real-time with built-in governance, while the Agent Solutions Marketplace will provide leading agents — including agents developed by startups — organized by industry and function. Avanade said it will manage integration so third-party agents operate seamlessly on its agentic platform.
The agents and templates in the platform are developed on the strength of Avanade’s experience in delivering AI and GenAI software to customers. The company said the platform delivers three core benefits:
- Time to value: pre-built agents reduce complexity and cost so customers can move quickly and scale up their initiatives
- Trust: a governed approach to agents ensures alignment, collaboration, and trust as AI adoption increases
- Analytics: integrated performance data measures impact, tracks performance, and identifies opportunities to optimize AI software
“The Avanade Agentic Platform helps organizations turn AI ambition into real business impact — faster, safely, and with confidence,” Reich said.
Jonathan Hunt, Corporate Vice President, AI Business Solutions at Microsoft, added: “By bringing together Microsoft Agent 365 and Avanade’s applied AI expertise, we’re helping organizations of every size build the confidence, agility, and trust needed to thrive in the age of intelligent business.”
Avanade’s Agentic Platform is available today.
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