The Microsoft IQ Solution Accelerator is an AI-powered enterprise intelligence accelerator that enables faster, more informed decisions by unifying enterprise data, business knowledge, and execution workflows into a shared context. It connects unified data, semantic models and ontologies in Fabric IQ, enterprise knowledge and retrieval in Foundry IQ, and work context in Work IQ to identify signals, assess impact, and recommend disruption mitigation, supporting human decision-making and coordinated responses.
Key Use Cases and Customization:
- Supply Chain Use Case: During supplier disruptions, teams assess risk and inventory, evaluate sourcing options, and coordinate actions to protect product availability and continuity of supply.
- Reusability and Customization: The architecture can be adapted for other business scenarios. Please refer to How to customize.
This is a ready-to-deploy solution accelerator built on Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, and Microsoft Fabric. It combines Work IQ, Foundry IQ, and Fabric IQ to support end-to-end disruption detection, analysis, and response.
The diagram below illustrates the solution architecture. For a detailed architecture description, see the architecture description.
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Preview notice: Some platform capabilities and integrations used in this solution, included MCP server integration, are currently in preview. These features are provided "as-is," "with all faults," and "as available" and may change or be updated without notice. As such, the solution is best suited for evaluation, experimentation and demonstration scenarios.
If you'd like to customize the solution accelerator, here are some common areas to start with steps to take:
- Review the documentation in the docs folder and subfolders, including architecture description.
- Review the schema and data loaded for Fabric Lakehouse to understand the differences between the sample data structure and your business data. Refer to Fabric Component Overview for more details.
- Review the documents stored in Foundry. Refer to Foundry Component Overview for more details.
- Review the Copilot Studio Agent and workflow, and compare it with your business process. Refer to Copilot Component Overview for more details.
- Review the source code in the src folder and sample data in the data folder to evaluate the needed source code change and sample data update. To help you refresh sample data, we have included documented and reusable sample data generation process and code in datagen folder. The folder contains documented Python code, PowerShell script, input data folder, and output data folder.
- Develop plan that identifies gaps and desired customizations.
- Customize according to the plan.
Click to learn more about the key features this solution enables
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Copilot Studio Agent and Supply Chain Management Workflow
Powered by AI, Copilot Studio Agent orchestrates the response workflow when disruption signals appear, helping teams triage issues and act quickly. -
Foundry Chat Agent
Used within the Copilot workflow, the Foundry Chat Agent answers questions about supplier contracts, terms, and policies.
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Fabric Ontology Data Agent
Used within the Copilot workflow, the Fabric Ontology Data Agent answers questions about enterprise data, including customers, products, inventory, suppliers, and demand forecasts.
To deploy the solution in your environment, follow the deployment guide.
To deploy this solution accelerator, ensure you have access to an Azure subscription with the following permissions:
- Contributor role at the subscription level
- Role Based Access Control (RBAC) permissions to assign roles at the subscription and/or resource group level
- Ability to create resource groups, resources, and app registrations
For detailed setup instructions, see Azure Account Set Up.
The table below lists the major Microsoft products utilized, with product, description, and cost reference.
Note: This pricing overview is not comprehensive—actual costs will vary based on your selected SKUs, usage scale, customizations, and tenant integrations. Use these estimates as a starting point and adjust for your specific requirements.
| Product | Description | Cost |
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| Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft 365 Copilot is an AI-powered tool that helps with your work tasks. Users enter a prompt, and Copilot responds with AI-generated information using both web and organizational data that the user has permission to access | Pricing |
| Microsoft Foundry | Microsoft Foundry is a unified Azure platform-as-a-service offering for enterprise AI operations, model builders, and application development. This foundation combines production-grade infrastructure with friendly interfaces, enabling developers to focus on building applications rather than managing infrastructure. | Pricing |
| Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Fabric is an analytics platform that supports end‑to‑end data workflows, including data ingestion, transformation, real‑time stream processing, analytics, and reporting. It provides integrated experiences such as Data Engineering, Data Factory, Data Science, Real‑Time Intelligence, Data Warehouse, and Databases, which operate over a shared compute and storage model. | Pricing |
| Microsoft 365 E5 | Microsoft 365 E5 is an enterprise suite that includes advanced security, compliance, analytics, and communication tools, along with the full Microsoft 365 app set. | Pricing |
| Microsoft Copilot Studio | Microsoft Copilot Studio is a low-code platform for building, customizing, and deploying AI-powered agents and copilots across Microsoft 365 and custom applications. | Pricing |
| Microsoft Copilot Studio User License | Per-user license required for users to interact with agents built in Microsoft Copilot Studio. | Pricing |
| Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Teams is a collaboration platform that integrates chat, meetings, file sharing, and app integrations within Microsoft 365. | Pricing |
⚠️ Important: To avoid unnecessary costs, remember to take down your app if it's no longer in use, either by deleting the resource group in the Portal or runningazd down.
Key use cases by role:
| Role | Capabilities |
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| Supply Chain Manager | The supply chain manager quickly assesses supply chain disruption impact, updates sourcing and planning actions that protect availability and meet demand. |
| Support Staff | Support staff can assist the supply chain manager in validating information and resolving problems. |
⚠️ Note: The sample data in this repository is synthetic, generated using Python programs, and intended for demonstration purposes only.
Click to learn more about what value this solution provides
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Role-aware signal detection and decisions in workflow
Copilot Studio Agent coordinates sub‑agents, people, and workflows to validate disruptions, align stakeholders, and act. Data-driven decisions are supported by Foundry Chat Agent and Fabric Ontology Data Agent. -
Assess impact in a timely manner
Fabric Ontology Data Agent enables consistent impact assessment across suppliers, products, and distribution centers, so teams can understand what’s at risk before decisions are made.
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Reason through feasible options
Foundry Chat Agent retrieves and reasons over supplier contracts, SLAs, lead times, policies, and historical performance to evaluate feasible sourcing and replanning paths.
This template uses Azure Key Vault to store all connections used to communicate between resources.
This template also uses Managed Identity for local development and deployment.
To ensure continued best practices in your own repository, we recommend that anyone creating solutions based on our templates ensure that the GitHub secret scanning setting is enabled.
You may want to consider additional security measures, such as:
- Enabling Microsoft Defender for Cloud to secure your Azure resources.
- Protecting the Azure Container Apps instance with a firewall and/or Virtual Network.
Click here to learn more about common questions about this solution.
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|---|---|
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