Foundry Solutions
Microsoft Foundry enables a wide range of AI solution patterns across industries and use cases.Common Solution Patterns
Customer Support Automation
Build intelligent agents that:- Answer common questions using knowledge bases
- Retrieve customer order information
- Escalate complex issues to human agents
- Maintain conversation context
- File Search for FAQ retrieval
- Function calling for order lookup
- Azure AI Search for knowledge base
Document Processing
Automate document workflows:- Extract information from documents
- Summarize lengthy reports
- Generate responses based on document content
- Classify and route documents
- File Search tool
- GPT-4o with vision for document analysis
- Code Interpreter for data extraction
Data Analysis
Enable natural language data analysis:- Query databases using natural language
- Generate visualizations
- Perform statistical analysis
- Create reports
- Code Interpreter for analysis
- Function calling for database access
- GPT-4o for reasoning
Content Generation
Create content at scale:- Generate marketing copy
- Create product descriptions
- Write blog posts and articles
- Personalize content for audiences
- GPT-4o for generation
- File Search for brand guidelines
- Function calling for content management
Reference Architectures
RAG Pattern
Retrieval-Augmented Generation for knowledge grounding:- User query received
- Retrieve relevant documents
- Inject into context
- Generate grounded response
Multi-Agent System
Specialized agents working together:- Supervisor agent coordinates
- Research agent gathers information
- Analysis agent processes data
- Writing agent creates output
Tool Integration Pattern
Agent with multiple tool capabilities:- Agent analyzes request
- Calls appropriate tools
- Combines results
- Generates final response
Getting Started
Quickstart
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Agents
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Models
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Tools
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