OVERVIEW
Boost agent ROI with trusted, scalable knowledge
- Deliver agents faster with point-and-click knowledge bases, reusable across agents.
- Unlock better results with agentic retrieval that finds relevant data automatically.
- Every answer respects your organization’s security, identity, and compliance policies automatically.
FEATURES
Turn scattered enterprise data into AI-ready knowledge
Fuel agents with knowledge from everywhere
Ground agents with enterprise-wide knowledge across indexed or remote data sources including Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Azure Blob Storage, Fabric OneLake, M365 SharePoint, the web, and modular communication protocol (MCP) servers.
Use agentic retrieval for superior context
Agentic retrieval in Foundry IQ plans queries, selects sources, searches, responds, and iterates to ensure your agent gets superior context without wasting tokens.
Point-and-click data transformation
Minimize upfront data preparation with automated, incremental indexing pipelines tuned per source, to offload data preprocessing from your application.
Respect user permissions
Honor user access with document-level access control lists (ACL) synchronization, indexed sources, and precise query time trimming aligned with each user’s permissions.
Unified governance and policy
Purview integrated sensitivity labels are extracted during indexing, enforced at query time, and preserved end to end across SharePoint, OneLake, Blob, and ADLS Gen2, without extra setup or policy duplication.
Pricing
Pricing for Foundry IQ
Foundry IQ enables agents to access, process and act on knowledge from anywhere. Pricing for agentic retrieval is based on tokens used in query planning and query execution.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- Foundry IQ provides a context engineering platform for Microsoft’s intelligence layer, unlocking knowledge for your agents, wherever it lives. Foundry IQ automatically handles how agents connect to, process and action enterprise information. With built-in enterprise security and agentic retrieval, agents deliver better results from the right context.
- In order to use Foundry IQ knowledge bases, an Azure AI Search resource is required.
- Foundry IQ, Fabric IQ, and Work IQ are three components of Microsoft’s intelligence layer. Work IQ focuses on work signals, Fabric IQ on business data, and Foundry IQ on organizational knowledge. Used together, they support contextaware AI agents across Microsoft platforms.
- Foundry IQ helps organizations deliver AI agents with enterprise data faster, improve response quality, and apply enterprise-wide governance to reduce risk.
- Foundry IQ respects identity based access and document level permissions. These controls ensure that only authorized users can retrieve protected content, enabling secure, compliant RAG and Copilot experiences over enterprise data.
- Organizations can get started with Foundry IQ knowledge bases directly in Microsoft Foundry portal or Azure portal.
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