IBM's Azure Foundry Enterprise Kit

Why This Kit?

The Azure Foundry Enterprise Kit is a pre-built, opinionated delivery accelerator for enterprise engagements that require production-grade AI agent deployments on Microsoft Azure. It spans the full Microsoft AI Agent Platform Stack — Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, Microsoft Agent Framework, Agent 365 governance, MCP fleet management, and the Three-IQ intelligence layer (Foundry IQ + Work IQ + Fabric IQ).

Agent 365 is the enterprise governance control plane; this kit enhances it with controls Microsoft doesn't provide natively: cryptographic audit trails, automated certification pipelines, cross-agent compliance topology, and MCP fleet lifecycle management.

Why do enterprises struggle with AI agent deployment?

AI agents promise transformative automation. But without governance, nobody can prove the agents are safe, compliant, or traceable. The risk stays invisible. The value stays unrealized.

</>Platform Engineers

  • 6–12 months to build agent infrastructure from scratch
  • No reusable patterns for identity, networking, or observability
  • Custom adapter code duplicated across every project

📋Security & Compliance

  • Cannot prove AI agent compliance to regulators
  • No audit trail for agent decisions or tool invocations
  • Policy enforcement bolted on, not built in

Production-grade from day one

This framework was built because we saw the same pattern at every enterprise client: teams spending 6–12 months building agent infrastructure that should take weeks. The Enterprise Kit encapsulates hard-won production patterns from real deployments — so your team can focus on business logic, not plumbing.

12→2 weeks
Time to Production
100%
Audit Coverage
85%
Foundry Coverage
Zero Trust
Governance by Default

Everything you need to deploy governed AI agents

The Enterprise Kit delivers a complete, three-pillar architecture covering infrastructure provisioning, agent development, and governance — aligned with Azure CAF, Well-Architected Framework, Microsoft Responsible AI, and Zero Trust for AI.

01

Infrastructure (Deploy)

  • 28 Bicep Modules (CAF-aligned)
  • VNet + Private Endpoints
  • Managed Identities + RBAC
  • Key Vault (CMK)
  • APIM AI Gateway
  • Azure Policy Initiative
02

Agent Factory (Build)

  • Azure AI Foundry Hub
  • Foundry Agent Applications
  • MCP Fleet Governance
  • Foundry Guardrails
  • 7 Enterprise Adapters
  • Agent Memory
03

Governance (Govern)

  • Agent 365 Integration
  • Decision Ledger (Cosmos DB)
  • Continuous Evaluation
  • Certification Pipeline
  • Scorecard Compiler
  • Policy Graph + 17 ZT Controls
CHOOSE YOUR PATH

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