Denodo's Agora now available on the Microsoft Marketplace

Denodo’s fully managed Agora cloud service platform is now available on the Microsoft Marketplace.

Agora provides native integrations with Microsoft services including Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2, Power BI, and Azure Synapse Analytics, as well as partner services such as Azure OpenAI and Azure Databricks.

The company claims Agora, combined with Microsoft’s AI and data services, enables organisations to extend their agentic AI capabilities to critical data residing in 200+ source systems across on-premises systems, SaaS offerings, and other cloud platforms while facilitating compliance with regulatory, data sovereignty, and security requirements.

Agora aims to complement Microsoft Fabric's semantic intelligence capabilities by providing the logical data access layer that connects AI agents to operational and analytical data outside Microsoft systems.

While Microsoft Fabric delivers semantic understanding and orchestration capabilities for AI agents through Fabric IQ, Agora enables those agents to access live, trusted data from non-Microsoft sources - including SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Snowflake, and hundreds of additional systems across on-premises and hybrid environments.

This complementary architecture supports multiple agent consumption patterns, from Microsoft Copilot agents accessing enterprise-wide data through Agora's Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration to custom AI agents built with Microsoft Foundry leveraging Agora's APIs for real-time data retrieval. Agora also includes a data marketplace that enables PowerBI and other business users to find, access, and utilise enterprise data through the same semantic layer that powers AI agents, enabling humans and AI agents to share consistent business definitions and context.

To support secure, governed access and enable compliance, Agora integrates with Microsoft Entra ID and delivers data governance capabilities such as attribute-based access control, end-to-end lineage, and policy enforcement for non-Microsoft sources.

With Agora now available on the Microsoft Marketplace, organizations can get started with options ranging from free trials to private offers for annual contracts and consumption-based pricing. These options enable customers to choose the model that best fits their business needs, while also intending to streamline procurement and enable customers to apply their Denodo purchase — an Azure IP co-sell-eligible solution — toward their Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC).

“With Agora’s availability on the Microsoft Marketplace and seamless integrations to Microsoft’s AI and data services, we offer our mutual customers a powerful solution for agentic AI use cases that leverage an organisation’s entire data estate across hybrid and multi-cloud environments,” said Michael Evans, regional vice president and general manager for ANZ and India at Denodo.

“Agora on the Microsoft Marketplace delivers new levels of agility, scalability, cost-efficiency, and ease-of-use.”