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Agora on Azure

by Denodo

Agora: Denodo's managed cloud service provides a unified and trusted data access and delivery layer

Agora, Denodo’s fully managed cloud service, integrates with Microsoft Azure data and AI services—including Microsoft Fabric and Azure OpenAI—to simplify access to all enterprise data across multi-cloud, hybrid, and sovereign environments for AI and analytics. Denodo delivers live, AI-ready data through a context-rich semantic layer, zero-copy data access, and fine-grained governance and security controls. Together, Denodo and Microsoft enable organizations to scale AI and analytics for real-time decisions, personalized experiences, and agentic workflows—driving meaningful business outcomes.

Unified data access across hybrid and multi-cloud environments
  • Get live, zero-copy access to operational and analytical data across your entire data estate.
  • Gain a single, trusted view of data across on-premises, multi-cloud, and sovereign environments (200+ systems).

Universal semantic layer and trusted business context
  • Establish a consistent, shared semantic layer across Microsoft Fabric, Azure data services, on-premises systems, and multi-cloud environments.
  • Deliver a unified business view with common definitions, metrics, and relationships, ensuring AI and analytics operate on trusted meaning and context.

Strong governance and security
  • Enforce consistent security and governance across all data, with Denodo governing non-Azure sources alongside Microsoft Fabric’s native controls for Azure data.
  • Protect sensitive data and reduce risk using fine-grained access controls, dynamic masking, and end-to-end data lineage across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

AI-ready data foundation
  • Build and run AI agents on Azure OpenAI with Denodo delivering governed, real-time data access with embedded context, lineage, and policy controls.
  • Ensure AI models and agents access trusted, compliant, and relevant data for reliable decision-making and autonomous actions at scale.
  • Turn business context into live, zero-copy, policy-controlled data access using MCP, text-to-SQL, and metadata embeddings instead of bulk data movement.

Key Use Cases for Denodo on Microsoft Azure
  • AI-ready data for intelligent AI agents: A universal semantic layer unifies all enterprise data in real time, providing context-rich, trusted information that enables AI agents to deliver accurate insights and take autonomous actions—accelerating decisions and driving measurable business impact.
  • Unified analytics for hybrid and multi-cloud: Users can query distributed data sources in real-time as if they were part of one unified logical data layer without copying data or building complex ETL (extract, transform, load) pipelines with significantly less effort.
  • Self-service access to enterprise data: Business users and analysts can get live, self-service access to data in enterprise applications such as SAP and Oracle without relying on IT in their preferred Power BI services or tools.
  • Workload migration and cloud modernization: With a logical data abstraction layer, your organization can migrate to Azure services and modernize architecture seamlessly—isolating reports and applications from backend changes to avoid operational disruptions and accelerate cloud adoption.

Getting Started
Ready to experience the power of Agora firsthand? See for yourself via an Agora free trial that can showcase how to transform your data into a secure, governed asset that drives your business forward. Note that if you as a Microsoft customer incur additional Azure infrastructure charges separate from Agora on Azure Marketplace transaction, you as a Microsoft customer are responsible for paying the additional infrastructure charges to Microsoft.

At a glance

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