Assess:
Understand your data, knowledge and AI maturity.
Information Is Everywhere. Intelligence Is Not.
Modern organisations have enormous amounts of information.
Customer records, Financial data, Projects, Documents, Meetings, Emails, and Operational systems.
But information alone doesn’t create intelligence. The real opportunity is connecting information, understanding its context and turning it into meaningful decisions and actions.
Microsoft IQ represents Microsoft’s intelligence layer for enterprise AI, connecting capabilities including Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ and Web IQ. Connect organisational knowledge, business data, workplace context and AI to create a more intelligent organisation, where people and AI can make better decisions, faster.
At CPS, we help organisations prepare for this emerging intelligence ecosystem and build the foundations needed for intelligent, Agent-First operations.
Why Microsoft IQ?
- Connect Organisational Intelligence: Bring together data, knowledge, context and AI.
- Improve Decision-Making: Give people and AI access to more relevant information.
- Reduce Information Friction: Make knowledge easier to discover and use.
- Strengthen AI: Provide AI with the context needed to generate more meaningful outcomes.
- Prepare For Agent-First Working: Create an operating environment where people and intelligent agents can work together.
The Challenge With Generic AI
- Information Overload: Employees spend too much time searching for answers.
- Knowledge Silos: Critical expertise remains trapped within teams and individuals.
- Disconnected Systems: Important information exists across multiple platforms.
- Decision Delays: Leaders wait for information before taking action.
- AI Without Context: AI systems struggle when organisational knowledge and business context are disconnected.
The Shift From Data To Intelligence
Organisations have already moved through several stages of digital transformation.
- Data: Collect information.
- Information: Make it accessible.
- Insight: Understand patterns and opportunities.
- Intelligence: Use context, AI and knowledge to drive better decisions and actions.
Microsoft IQ represents the move towards this intelligence-led model.
The Microsoft IQ Ecosystem
Connected Intelligence Across The Organisation
- Work IQ – Understand How Work Happens: Work IQ focuses on workplace context, collaboration, people and workflows. Explore Work IQ.
- Fabric IQ – Understand The State Of The Business: Fabric IQ focuses on business data, analytics and the relationships between business entities and information. Explore Fabric IQ.
- Foundry IQ – Connect Enterprise Knowledge: Foundry IQ helps agents access and retrieve enterprise knowledge across sources including SharePoint, and other data sources. Explore Foundry IQ.
- Web IQ – Bring In External Intelligence: Web IQ provides fresh intelligence from the wider web as part of Microsoft’s broader IQ strategy.
Together these capabilities create a connected intelligence framework.
Microsoft IQ & AI
Give AI The Context To Be Useful
AI is only as useful as the context it can access.
Microsoft IQ brings together:
- Organisational knowledge
- Business data
- Workplace context
- Relationships
- AI
- Governance
This helps move AI beyond generic responses towards more contextual, organisation-aware intelligence.
Microsoft IQ & The Agent-First Organisation
AI Agents increasingly need to understand the organisation in which they operate.
They need to know:
- What is happening?
- Why does it matter?
- What information is relevant?
- What actions are possible?
- What rules and permissions apply?
Microsoft IQ provides the intelligence framework that helps answer these questions.
Common Microsoft Fabric Use Cases
- Intelligent Decision-Making: Give leaders richer organisational context.
- Workplace Intelligence: Understand how teams collaborate and where productivity opportunities exist.
- Business Intelligence: Use connected business data to support better decisions.
- Enterprise Knowledge: Help AI and employees access trusted organisational information.
- AI Agents: Give agents richer context so they can provide more relevant answers and take more meaningful actions.
Business Outcomes
- Faster Decisions: Give people and AI better access to relevant information.
- Improved Productivity: Reduce the time spent searching for knowledge.
- Better Business Visibility: Connect organisational information across systems.
- More Useful AI: Provide AI with richer context and organisational understanding.
- Scalable Intelligence: Create a framework for intelligence across the organisation.
- Agent-First Readiness: Prepare for a future where people and AI agents work together.
The CPS Intelligence Framework
CPS helps organisations move towards intelligence-led transformation through:
Connect:
Break down information silos.
Govern:
Ensure information remains trusted, secure and compliant.
Enable:
Prepare people and teams for AI-powered decision-making.
Build:
Create intelligent solutions using Microsoft technologies.
Evolve:
Develop the roadmap towards intelligent & Agent-First operating models.
Why CPS?
We Help Organisations Move From Digital Transformation To Intelligence-Led Transformation
Our expertise spans:
✔ Microsoft IQ
✔ Microsoft Fabric
✔ Microsoft 365 Copilot
✔ Copilot Studio
✔ Agent Factory
✔ Data & Analytics
✔ AI Strategy
✔ Modern Work Transformation
We help organisations create connected environments where information, knowledge, people and AI work together to drive better outcomes. Learn more about us at CPS here.
Build The Intelligent Organisation
The organisations that succeed in the AI era won’t simply have more data.
They’ll have better intelligence.
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