Microsoft 365 E7 and Microsoft Agent 365 are now generally available—and partners are instrumental in empowering customers to secure, govern, and scale AI. Across the Americas, partners are already turning this opportunity into action by addressing real customer needs, from agent visibility and risk management to adoption and operating models. Here’s how four partners are leading with differentiated approaches—and what others can learn as they build their own AI practices.
Invoke: Leading with security and agent visibility
Invoke is working with customers to address a foundational challenge: lack of visibility into AI agents—their identities, permissions, and access. Without that baseline, risk is difficult to assess, slowing adoption. Using Microsoft 365 E7 and Agent 365, Invoke leads with a clear principle: security is foundational.
“When E7 came out, the first thing that came to mind, quite simply, was ‘Invoke equals E7.’ It enables us to help customers protect identities, secure endpoints, and govern data while innovating with AI. I’m very excited about it.”
- Stephen Leuthold, Director of Growth & Alliances, Invoke
Invoke has developed an Agent 365 accelerator that enables discovery and inventory of both first-party and third-party agents. Customers use it to generate insights. From there, Invoke assesses agent-level risk and delivers prioritized actions, giving security and IT leaders a clear path forward. The result is a unified approach that allows customers to scale AI without introducing unmanaged risk.
Reply: Driving adoption with governance and change management
Reply is focused on moving customers from experimentation to enterprise-scale AI adoption. They use Agent 365 to operationalize AI in a way that’s secure, governed, and sustainable.
“Governance doesn’t block innovation. It makes it sustainable. Our role is to help customers build the trust they need to scale AI, while bringing their people along in that journey.”
- Margaret Hahn, Partner, AI Workforce & Modern Work, Reply
Their approach centers on treating agents as first-class identities—governed with the same rigor as users. This is how customers can address common challenges like agent sprawl, limited visibility, and unclear ownership. Reply strives to deliver what organizations need today: support not just in deploying AI but also in scaling it responsibly.
A key differentiator is their emphasis on adoption and organizational readiness. Reply combines governance with training and enablement to move from AI deployment to active use.
Protiviti: Bringing risk and compliance into AI at scale
As an Agent 365 Launch Partner, Protiviti focuses on operationalizing AI with a strong foundation in risk and compliance. Through their foundational Agent 365 Assessment & Roadmap offering, Protiviti starts with visibility—working with customers to inventory agents and assess risk using Agent 365 alongside Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Defender, and Microsoft Purview. From discovery to technical workshops to pilot and roadmap development, they establish governance baselines and demonstrate how Agent 365 can function as a centralized control plane.
“With Microsoft 365 E7, organizations have a new opportunity to unify security and compliance as a foundation for AI at scale. Protiviti’s partnership with Microsoft positions us to help clients not just adopt these capabilities, but operationalize them with confidence. That enables resilience, trust, and sustainable transformation across the enterprise.”
- Tom Andreesen, Global Microsoft Alliance Lead, Protiviti
Protiviti’s strength lies in aligning AI governance with both business priorities and regulatory requirements. By doing so, they support how organizations govern non-human identities, protect data, and scale AI—without increasing risk.
Slalom: Turning agent management into a strategic roadmap
Slalom is moving customers from experimentation to execution by translating AI investments into clear strategies for governance and control. Many organizations are already using agents but lack a unified approach to managing them across environments.
“Many of our Copilot customers are not leveraging agent management features from Microsoft 365 Copilot. Now that Microsoft 365 E7 is coming out and Agent 365 is coming out, it's shining a big light on those Copilot features that are available for agent management. Our customers are starting to realize that, ‘Hey, I should be taking advantage of this,’ and then it starts to point out some of the gaps.”
- Melissa Smith, Senior Principal, Microsoft Security, Solution Area Global Lead, Slalom
To address this, Slalom offers an Agent 365 and Microsoft 365 E7 workshop for customers to assess their current state and build a roadmap for discovery, assessment, and pilot. They also integrate security into every stage of AI strategy, building in governance early—not retrofitting it later.
With a tight feedback loop to Microsoft, Slalom empowers customers to adopt new capabilities quickly while influencing how those capabilities evolve.
Cyclotron: Supported, at-scale agent adoption with Agent 365
Cyclotron helps organizations integrate and scale AI agent functionality, securely. Their focus is establishing a strong foundation where security, identity, and governance are aligned with business priorities from the outset—so AI initiatives begin with intention and translate into measurable outcomes.
“Agents are already a significant part of how everyday work gets done, but scale only happens when people trust what's running behind the scenes and when that trust is backed by real-life outcomes. Our focus is helping organizations build that trust early with a secure foundation and practical, high-value AI use cases, so they can expand AI in a way that feels controlled yet innovative, intentional yet flexible, and above all else, built for real business impact.”
- Amber Bahl, Founder and CEO, Cyclotron
Through Cyclotron’s Microsoft Entra Suite Deployment and Microsoft Agent 365 Pilot Deployment offers, organizations can move from exploration to secure, production-ready environments faster—building trust, maintaining control, and scaling AI with confidence.
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Turning AI opportunity into partner growth with Microsoft 365 E7 and Agent 365
As customers move from experimentation to enterprise-scale AI, the need for visibility, governance, and security becomes critical. Microsoft 365 E7 and Agent 365 provide the foundation—but partners are the ones turning that foundation into real-world solutions. The opportunity with customers is clear:
- Lead with security and governance
- Build services around agent visibility and control
- Support adoption and operating model design
- Package offerings into repeatable assessments, accelerators, and workshops
Partners who move early are already shaping how AI is deployed—and capturing new growth as a result. Explore Microsoft 365 E7 and Agent 365 resources to start building your own secure AI offerings and empowering customers to scale with confidence.
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