Agora enables Azure customers to leverage data from hybrid and multi-cloud environments to accelerate AI initiatives with intelligent agents.
PALO ALTO, California – Denodo, a leading data management provider and Microsoft AI Cloud Partner, announces that Agora, the company’s fully managed cloud service, is now available through Microsoft Marketplace.
Agora provides ready-made integrations with key Microsoft data services, including Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2, Power BI and Azure Synapse Analytics. The platform also integrates with services such as Azure OpenAI and Azure Databricks.
By combining Agora with Microsoft’s AI and data platforms, organizations can access data from more than 200 different source systems, including on-premises environments, SaaS applications and other cloud platforms. The goal is to give AI agents access to current, reliable data while preserving data sovereignty, security and regulatory compliance.
Connecting AI agents to data outside Microsoft’s ecosystem
Agora complements Microsoft Fabric’s semantic intelligence capabilities by acting as a logical data access layer between AI agents and mission-critical data that resides outside Microsoft’s own platforms.
While Microsoft Fabric provides semantic understanding and orchestration for AI agents through Fabric IQ, Agora enables real-time retrieval and use of data from external systems such as SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Snowflake and hundreds of other data sources across on-premises, hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
The architecture supports multiple types of AI agents—from Microsoft Copilot agents using Agora’s integration with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to custom AI solutions built in Microsoft Foundry that fetch data via Agora’s API.
The platform also includes an integrated data marketplace that lets Power BI users and other business users discover, access and consume enterprise data through the same semantic layer used by AI agents. This creates a shared information foundation where both humans and AI systems operate from consistent business definitions and context.
Real-time data for next-generation AI solutions
Together with Microsoft’s AI and data services, Agora enables organizations to build solutions for real-time decisioning, hyper-personalized customer experiences, automated workflows and other advanced AI scenarios that require direct access to distributed data.
Working with live data reduces the risk of inconsistencies while ensuring that analytics, recommendations and automated decisions are always based on the most up-to-date information available.
To support secure and governed data access, Agora integrates with Microsoft Entra ID and provides features such as attribute-based access control, end-to-end data traceability and centralized policy enforcement—even for data sources outside Microsoft’s ecosystem.
Microsoft sees growing demand for agent-based AI
“Microsoft is pleased to welcome Agora to Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Marketplace. Together with Denodo, we look forward to helping organizations accelerate their agent-based AI initiatives, especially in complex hybrid, multi-cloud and data-sovereign environments,” says Jake Zborowski, Head of Microsoft Azure Platform at Microsoft.
Agora is available through Microsoft Marketplace with a range of licensing options, including free trials, private offers, annual subscriptions and consumption-based pricing.
The solution is also eligible for Microsoft’s co-sell program and can be used within customers’ Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC).
Flexibility and scalability for enterprises with complex data landscapes
“By making Agora available on Microsoft Marketplace and offering seamless integrations with Microsoft’s AI and data services, we provide our joint customers with a powerful platform for agent-based AI solutions that can leverage an organization’s full data estate, no matter where information resides,” says Suresh Chandrasekaran, Executive Vice President at Denodo.
Agora on Microsoft Marketplace delivers a combination of flexibility, scalability, cost efficiency and ease of use that helps organizations realize value from their AI investments more quickly.
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