Urudata S.A. and Urudata Software joined forces to host a technical drill down on the transformative announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2025, with presentations by Ignacio Cattivelli (Director of Engineering, Urudata) and Maximiliano Rial (Chief Product Officer, Urudata Software).
The session, which welcomed both in-person and remote attendees, reviewed the main announcements:
- A deep renewal of the AI ecosystem with the arrival of Agent 365 and a set of capabilities oriented toward agent-based architectures.
- The introduction of Microsoft Foundry: a platform that allows you to manage agents from creation through operation and monitoring.
- Improvements to Copilot Studio and Copilot Agent Builder to create enterprise agents using natural language.
- The expansion of the IQ ecosystem to unify semantics, operations, and automation.
- New models optimized for reasoning.
- Key updates in security, governance, and infrastructure for AI workloads.
These features define a structural shift in how intelligent solutions are designed, operated, and scaled in the enterprise environment.
Microsoft Agent 365 as the control plane: identity, permissions and multi-agent flows
The arrival of Agent 365 was presented as the most foundational announcement of Ignite 2025: a new control plane for agent-based architectures.
Under the premise that “the best infrastructure for managing agents is to extend the infrastructure you use to manage users,” Maximiliano Rial explained that Agent 365 expands what Microsoft 365 offers employees to also include the agents used by the organization.
Similar to Microsoft 365 user management, Agent 365 allows assigning an identity to each agent and granting the access it needs to perform its tasks. This ensures that the agent can operate normally while the IT team maintains control over the resources it uses.
Agent 365 has five pillars that underpin its operation:
- Registration: provides a centralized place to register agents and regulate their visibility to users and other agents.
- Access control: based on the principle of least privilege, each agent receives only the necessary access to perform its tasks.
- Visualization: offers a full map of connections between agents, users, and resources across the organization, enabling real-time monitoring.
- Interoperability: agents managed by Agent 365 can integrate with Microsoft technologies—such as Excel, Teams, SharePoint, etc. It is also possible to register agents created in Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, and Microsoft Agent Framework, as well as those from third-party platforms.
- Security: high-level security integrated with Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Purview, and Microsoft Entra.
Agent 365 is not just a tool; it is the infrastructure that enables this new way of building outcome-oriented solutions, where the company operates as a system of specialized agents collaborating with each other.
Microsoft Foundry: the end-to-end lifecycle of agents
Another major highlight from the event was the new Microsoft Foundry, the successor to Azure AI Foundry: a unified platform that centralizes agents, models, and AI tools to simplify their administration.
According to the Ignite 2025 announcements, Foundry incorporates a unified catalog of MCP tools that enhance agents and connect them with more than 1,400 services commonly used by organizations, such as SAP and Salesforce.
This release also includes:
- New models, including Anthropic’s Claude models and model-router, a model router that selects the ideal model for each query.
- Foundry IQ, which enhances agent reasoning, allowing agents to access data and draw conclusions from a unified knowledge base—whether in platforms like SharePoint or on the web.
- Foundry Agent Services, which allows you to create and host agents and workflows, streamlining scalability and governance. Custom agents can also be deployed in Microsoft 365 applications thanks to its integration with the aforementioned Agent 365.
- And Foundry Control Plane, a transformative tool for developers, which consolidates in a single platform the monitoring of agent behavior and lifecycle within Foundry.
The beginning of a new stage for engineering and business
The Ignite 2025 technical drill down outlined the path for the coming months, marked by the adoption of a new conceptual framework for enterprise development. Beyond models or copilots, Microsoft’s vision is an ecosystem where specialized agents collaborate to interpret data, execute actions, and align to business goals in real time.
For organizations, the challenge is no longer to incorporate AI as an isolated component, but to integrate these capabilities into their architecture to accelerate decision-making, automate processes, and design more adaptable solutions.
For Urudata Software, this shift opens opportunities to design more autonomous, secure, and outcome-oriented solutions, paving a clear path toward systems where intelligence is no longer peripheral but becomes the operational core of the organization.
