Microsoft Azure for Partners

Microsoft Ignite 2024, the premier event for technology professionals, developers, and Microsoft Azure partners, once again showcased the company’s relentless drive to be a platform-first and a partner-first company.

With a focus on AI, quantum computing, sustainability, and productivity, this year’s keynote by Satya Nadella underscored Microsoft’s goal to build innovative platforms that harness the full potential of AI to create partner opportunities and add value for their customers.

This year’s event featured 80 groundbreaking announcements emphasizing Microsoft’s commitment to empowering organizations to tackle complex challenges while fostering growth and efficiency. Here are the most significant keynote takeaways for Microsoft Azure partners.

Azure AI Foundry - A new all-in-one platform for designing, customizing, and managing transformative AI applications and agents. Azure AI Foundry bridges the gap between cutting-edge AI technologies and practical business applications, enabling organizations to harness the full potential of AI efficiently and effectively. Watch the video.

Azure AI Foundry SDK - In public preview, the new AI toolchain provides a simplified coding experience that enables developers to integrate components together to build AI applications, wherever they build, whether it’s GitHub, Visual Studio, or Copilot Studio. It supports the development journey from idea to code to cloud.  

Azure AI Content Understanding - Now in preview, the service assists developers in building and deploying multimodal applications from unstructured data. It uses GenAI to extract information from documents, images, videos, and audio and transform it into customizable structured outputs. Watch the video.

Azure AI Agent Service - Announcing a platform designed to help developers build, deploy, and scale enterprise AI-powered apps to automate business processes. These intelligent agents handle tasks independently, involving human users for final review or action, ensuring teams can focus on the most strategic initiatives. Watch the video.

Microsoft Fabric Databases - A new class of databases that combines transactional and analytical workloads to simplify AI operations. Built on industry-leading SQL, they enable seamless AI functionality across various systems, ensuring high performance and easy scalability. Watch the video.

Review the Microsoft Azure partner blog or visit the Microsoft Ignite Book of News to see all the news items announced at Ignite. Make sure to watch the Microsoft Ignite sessions on demand and browse the session catalog to explore all the available learning opportunities.