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MICROSOFT AZURE AI FOUNDRY IQ

Production agents on Azure AI Foundry - models, tools, evals, and governance in one operating model.

AI Agentic Practice

Microsoft Azure AI Foundry IQ

Gensten implements Microsoft Azure AI Foundry (Foundry IQ) architectures for enterprises that want agentic AI on Azure: model catalog, prompt/agent apps, evaluation, content safety, enterprise tool wiring, and integration with Microsoft Fabric IQ and OneLake. We help you industrialize agents under ADLC - not run one-off Foundry demos.

  • Foundry project setup, RBAC, and network isolation
  • Agent apps with enterprise tools and MCP-style connectors
  • Eval + content safety in release gates
  • Link agents to Fabric IQ / OneLake knowledge
  • Cost, latency, and quota operations at scale
Microsoft Azure AI Foundry IQ

Foundry as your agent control plane

Azure AI Foundry centralizes models, prompts, agents, and evaluations. We map your ADLC stages onto Foundry environments (dev/stage/prod), with promotion rules and auditability for regulated industries.

  • Environment strategy and secrets management
  • Model routing and fallback policies
  • Tool authentication patterns (managed identity)
  • Observability into Azure Monitor / OpenTelemetry

Foundry IQ + data estate

Agents get smarter when connected to Fabric IQ semantics and OneLake data. We design retrieval and analytics paths so Foundry agents reason over governed enterprise facts.

Use Cases

  • Azure-first enterprise Gen AI platform
  • Departmental agents with shared Foundry catalog
  • Secure Azure OpenAI replacement for shadow AI
  • BFSI copilots with Azure compliance controls

Technologies & Platforms

Azure AI FoundryAzure OpenAIAzure AI SearchMicrosoft FabricOneLakeAzure MonitorEntra ID

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Foundry IQ the same as Azure OpenAI?

Azure OpenAI provides models. Azure AI Foundry / Foundry IQ is the broader platform for building, evaluating, and operating agentic applications around those models - plus tooling, catalogs, and governance.

What is Microsoft Azure AI Foundry IQ?

Foundry IQ is Microsoft’s enterprise approach to building and operating AI apps and agents on Azure AI Foundry - models, prompts, agents, evaluations, safety, and governed catalogs in one control plane.

Why choose Foundry for agentic AI?

It centralizes environments, RBAC, model routing, content safety, and agent tooling - reducing shadow AI and aligning with enterprise Azure identity and networking.

Can Foundry agents use our ERP and CRM tools?

Yes. We wire secure connectors (including MCP-style patterns) with managed identity, scoped permissions, and full audit trails for tool invocations.

How does Foundry IQ connect to Fabric IQ and OneLake?

Agents retrieve governed knowledge and metrics from OneLake/Fabric IQ via search, shortcuts, and semantic query tools - so answers and actions use the same enterprise truth as BI.

Do you set up Foundry CI/CD and environments?

Yes. Dev/stage/prod Foundry projects, secret management, eval gates, and promotion rules mapped to your ADLC Test & Release process.

How is content safety handled?

We enable Azure content safety filters, custom deny policies, PII handling, and evaluation suites for jailbreaks and sensitive topic leakage before production release.

Can we mix OpenAI and open-source models in Foundry?

Where supported in your Foundry catalog, we route by task: frontier models for hard reasoning, smaller models for high-volume classification or extraction.

What about network isolation and private endpoints?

We design VNet-integrated patterns, private endpoints, and Entra ID RBAC so prompts and embeddings stay inside your Azure trust boundary.

How do you control Foundry cost and quotas?

Token budgets, model routing, caching, quota alerts, and Monitor dashboards for latency and spend per agent and per business unit.

Ready to build production AI agents?

Talk to Gensten about ADLC, RAG, LLM building, Foundry IQ, Fabric IQ, and OneLake - scoped to your KPIs and compliance needs.