USE CASES
Real architecture cases per Microsoft technology and industry: the business challenge, the chosen architecture, why that choice, the alternatives and the trade-offs.
Microsoft technology
Architecture discipline
Industry
Difficulty
Architecture pattern
Microsoft PurviewManufacturing
A vehicle engine manufacturer automates classification and lifecycle management for tens of millions of files with Microsoft Purview, as a precondition for a responsible Microsoft 365 Copilot pilot.
Microsoft 365 CopilotFinance
A financial services firm uses Copilot in Outlook, Word and Excel to summarize files and draft reports, with an agent on internal guidelines and DLP on financial data.
Microsoft FabricFinance
A financial institution consolidates a patchwork of services onto Fabric and builds controlled, demonstrably correct regulatory reporting with Warehouse, Purview lineage and Git-driven ALM.
Microsoft PurviewFinance
A financial institution makes security controls risk-driven with Insider Risk Management and Adaptive Protection, and ties communication oversight to a demonstrable audit trail.
Microsoft 365 CopilotGovernment
A government agency exposes large document corpora with Copilot within a strict grounding scope, after oversharing remediation and with labels, DLP and EU Data Boundary.
Microsoft FabricGovernment
A municipality exposes department data as an integral view through Fabric domains and OneLake shortcuts, with delegated ownership per department and central GDPR safeguards.
Microsoft PurviewGovernment
A government organization phases in Data Loss Prevention across mail, endpoints and network, with retention, Communication Compliance and a demonstrable audit trail for the regulator.
Microsoft FoundryGovernment
A ministry surfaces internal policy corpora through a RAG agent in an isolated project, with EU region, private networking and strict guardrails.
Microsoft FoundryHealthcare
An academic hospital surfaces protocols and guidelines through a grounded RAG agent, with groundedness evaluation and citations as a condition for use in the consultation room.
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