The Agentic Enterprise: Key Agent Announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2025

Microsoft Ignite 2025 marked a pivotal shift in enterprise AI strategy, introducing a new generation of autonomous agents and the governance tools needed to manage them responsibly. From sales and HR to IT and productivity, Microsoft’s announcements signal a future where AI agents are not just assistants—but active participants in business operations.

New AI Agents: Expanding the Autonomous Workforce

Several new AI agents debuted at Ignite, each designed to automate and assist in specific business processes:

• Sales Development Agent – a fully autonomous sales AI that researches prospects, qualifies leads, and engages in personalized outreach to grow the sales pipeline. It works around the clock to nurture leads (via emails or meeting scheduling) and can hand off hot prospects to human sellers when needed. Sales teams can scale outreach and ensure no lead is overlooked, driving revenue growth without proportional headcount increases. (Preview via the Frontier early access program ...