Key developments this update:
• DriveAI is now live on the Microsoft Marketplace — available for businesses to adopt directly
• AI agents now working across D365, CE, DevOps, and knowledge
• Annata included in Microsoft’s ERP MCP preview
• MCP servers deployed across the full Microsoft stack: F&O, Dataverse, Outlook, SharePoint, and Word
What We’ve Been Working on in the Prototype Lab
February marked a significant moment for DriveAI and for Annata’s AI programme. DriveAI launched on the Microsoft Marketplace, Annata was included in Microsoft’s ERP MCP preview, and the team moved from internal prototypes to agents that businesses can deploy across D365, CE, DevOps, and knowledge. Here is what happened and where it is leading.
DriveAI is now live on the Microsoft Marketplace
DriveAI has taken a big step forward recently. It is now something customers can try for themselves and not just a concept we talk about. We have been running workshops, helping teams prepare their environments, and spending a lot of time showing people what DriveAI can do in the real world.
Seeing DriveAI go live on the Microsoft Marketplace was a milestone for us. It represents a huge amount of work behind the scenes. The Microsoft Marketplace listing represents a significant delivery milestone — DriveAI is now something any A365 customer can access and adopt directly, rather than something that required a bespoke engagement to access.
Agents Becoming Part of Everyday Work
Agents have also moved on quickly. What began as a few Prototypes has developed into a set of agents that work across D365, CE, DevOps and knowledge. The thing I still find most exciting is how simple the experience feels for users. You start a conversation, ask a question, and the agent handles the rest.
This progress comes from a lot of detailed work. The team have kept improving the instructions, fixing issues we spot in testing, and exploring what new capabilities in Copilot Studio allow us to do. It’s great to see agents starting to become something people rely on rather than something they only experiment with.
Behind the Scenes Engineering
There has also been plenty of work that people do not see. Environment rebuilds, issues, bugs, authentication challenges, and pipeline improvements to name a few. None of this is glamorous, but it is the foundation that keeps everything stable for our customer work and agent development.
These tasks take time, focus and patience, but they matter. They are the reason we can move quicker when it counts.
Annata is now part of Microsoft’s ERP MCP preview
The Model Context Protocol ecosystem is becoming more important by the week. Being included in Microsoft’s ERP MCP preview was a significant moment for us. It confirmed that the research, experiments, and internal prototypes the team have been running were taking us in the right direction.
We are now utilising MCP servers across the Microsoft stack, not just F&O and Dataverse but Outlook, SharePoint, Word and beyond. This marks a new phase for enterprise AI within the Microsoft platform, agents can now call tools across the stack in a structured, safe, and governed way. The ability for agents to call tools across the platform in a safe and structured way opens possibilities we have wanted for a long time.
On Our Way to the Future Webinar
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Watch our recorded webinar sessions on AI agents, DriveAI, and Microsoft Copilot in industry workflows, available now in the Innovation Center.
