New integration unites IRIS Foundry’s AI-driven intelligence with Microsoft Teams and Copilot to streamline operations and empower frontline teams in manufacturing and energy
PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SymphonyAI today announced IRIS Foundry for Microsoft Teams (NASDAQ: MSFT), integrating industrial AI directly into Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Optimized for the complex demands of manufacturing and energy companies, the integration delivers real-time operational visibility, automated workflows, and AI-driven insights—directly inside the tools plant operators, industrial workers, and frontline teams use every day.
Immediate Impact in the Flow of Work
Industrial teams often waste time switching between maintenance systems, data historians, and analytics dashboards. With IRIS Foundry integrated using MCP, these capabilities are surfaced within Microsoft Teams, letting users:
- Ask plain-language questions in Microsoft 365 Copilot such as, “Show me recent heat exchanger anomalies at Plant 7,” and instantly receive visual summaries within Teams.
- Trigger automated workflows to initiate maintenance, adjust parameters, or escalate alerts—without leaving Microsoft Teams.
- Customize domain-specific AI assistants using Microsoft Copilot Studio so companies can match plant-specific KPIs, workflows, and compliance needs.
IRIS Foundry + MCP Energy and Manufacturing AI Capabilities
IRIS Foundry MCP Server unifies complex energy and manufacturing data and surfaces it in context:
- Data Contextualization and Unified Namespace: Turn raw data into meaningful context linked to assets, processes, and events, while giving streamlined, structured access to real-time and historical information in a publish-subscribe architecture.
- Knowledge Graph and Cortex AI: Leverage semantic relationships between equipment, events, people, and documentation to power Cortex—IRIS Foundry’s AI engine for intelligent reasoning, search, and recommendations.
- Predictive Analytics and Asset Intelligence: Continuously analyze equipment performance, predict failures, and surface anomalies with contextual alerts automatically routed to relevant Teams channels via MCP.
- Process and Operations Intelligence: Track KPIs, identify performance trends, and enable predictive insights across production lines and plants through conversational interactions in Teams and Copilot.
Top Business Benefits for Customers
- Accelerated Decisions: IRIS Foundry plant insights are surfaced directly in Microsoft Teams and Copilot leveraging MCP and AI Agents configured in Microsoft Copilot Studio, so frontline and operations teams can act faster — no analysts or extra tools required.
- Faster Time to Value: Because IRIS Foundry is integrated with Microsoft Teams and deployable via Copilot Studio, training is minimal, and adoption scales easily across enterprises and personas — maximizing existing Microsoft licensing investments.
- Scalable, Secure AI at the Edge: Built on Microsoft Azure with enterprise-grade compliance, IRIS Foundry is a Microsoft Manufacturing AI Certified platform and tailored to domain-specific needs.
Integration Designed for Real World Operations
SymphonyAI shares a simple premise with Microsoft: AI adoption succeeds when it fits the way people already work.
“Manufacturing and energy companies need more than analytics—they need AI that acts instantly, where work happens,” said Prateek Kathpal, President, SymphonyAI Industrial. “By integrating IRIS Foundry with Microsoft Teams and Copilot, we’re putting real-time intelligence and automation in the hands of frontline workers, creating resilience and efficiency across operations.”
“By integrating IRIS Foundry with Microsoft Teams and Copilot, we’re transforming daily collaboration into a launchpad for real-time, AI-driven action,” said Kumar Abhimanyu, Senior Vice President & Global Head of Strategic Partnerships, SymphonyAI. “This deepens our integration with Microsoft in a meaningful way—combining their trusted platforms with our industrial AI to help customers accelerate decisions, boost efficiency, and realize tangible business impact.”
“Integrating IRIS Foundry with Microsoft Teams and Copilot puts real-time insights and AI-driven workflows right where frontline teams work, helping them solve problems faster and keep operations running smoothly,” said Dayan Rodriguez, Corporate Vice President, Manufacturing and Mobility, Microsoft.
About SymphonyAI
SymphonyAI builds Vertical AI applications that help enterprises tackle their most complex, high-value challenges—like stopping financial crime, improving store performance, and boosting manufacturing efficiency. Trusted by more than 2,000 enterprise customers around the world including 200 of the top financial institutions, top 25 CPGs, and many of the world’s largest grocers and industrial manufacturers, SymphonyAI delivers domain-trained applications and pre-built agents, ready to work on day one. Learn more at www.symphonyai.com.
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