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Microsoft is building Work IQ for agent-first enterprises.
Agents can discover data structures dynamically at runtime.
The biggest concerns are cost, governance, and exposure.
Work IQ is a new offering from Microsoft that showcases two quintessential Microsoft skills: the ability to solve complex technical and infrastructure problems with an elegantly sophisticated solution, and the ability to make something almost impossible to explain. But I'm going to try.
Work IQ is the result of Microsoft completely redesigning how enterprise software works. Yeah, it's that big.
If you think about how the enterprise software ecosystem has worked for the past few decades, it's consisted of applications and data (together, let's call them "solutions") that worked on their own, or passed data between one another.
Also: Enterprise AI agents are multiplying fast, and Microsoft wants full control of them
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