Where are you on your AI journey?
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Modern Work advanced specialisations
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STAGE 1
AI Entry & Expansion
A safe, guided on-ramp into Microsoft Copilot and modern AI enabled work.
This is you if
- You are not sure where to start with Microsoft 365 Copilot
- You want basic guardrails before you scale
- You worry about risk, oversharing or unstructured AI use
- You know you cannot delay adoption
Where are you?
You are early in your AI journey and want clarity, confidence and direction. This stage answers the first questions: what has changed and why E7 matters now, where to start with Copilot, and what good looks like for an AI enabled workplace.
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Ready to take your first safe step?
Ask about funded Immersion Workshops, Envisioning sessions and a readiness assessment.
Ready to take your first safe step?
Ask about funded Immersion Workshops, Envisioning sessions and a readiness assessment.
This is you if
- AI tools are spreading without IT oversight
- You lack visibility into who uses what, with what data
- Access control and guardrails are inconsistent
- You are worried about oversharing and compliance
Where are you?
Your AI usage is growing faster than your governance model, creating Shadow AI: fragmented, unmonitored AI across tools and teams. This stage gives IT and Security one way to observe, govern and control AI, and sets the foundation for Microsoft 365 E7.
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Bring Shadow AI into the light
Find the AI already running in your business, set the right guardrails and stay in control.
Bring Shadow AI into the light
Find the AI already running in your business, set the right guardrails and stay in control.
This is you if
- You are scaling AI to thousands of employees
- You need identity first security for agents and data
- You want a repeatable, measurable operating model
- You are evaluating Microsoft 365 E7
Where are you?
You are ready to scale AI across the business. This stage gives you a structured blueprint for operationalising AI at enterprise scale, with governance, identity protection, change management and measurable rollout, all enabled by Microsoft 365 E7.
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Ready to operationalise AI at scale?
Talk to us about an AI Operating Model and Centre of Excellence engagement on Microsoft 365 E7.
Ready to operationalise AI at scale?
Talk to us about an AI Operating Model and Centre of Excellence engagement on Microsoft 365 E7.
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Tell us where you are and we will help you find the right next step, including any Microsoft funded workshops you may be eligible for.
- Microsoft Solutions Partner with all six Modern Work advanced specialisations
- 600,000+ Microsoft Copilot users supported
- Guidance grounded in thousands of Copilot engagements
- Help accessing Microsoft funded Envisioning and readiness engagements
Frequently asked questions
The essentials on Microsoft 365 E7, Agent 365 and AI maturity.
Microsoft 365 E7 is Microsoft's Frontier Suite. It combines Microsoft 365 E5, Microsoft Copilot, the Microsoft Entra Suite and Microsoft Agent 365 into one secure-by-default platform for enterprise-scale AI.
Microsoft 365 E7 includes everything in Microsoft 365 E5, plus Microsoft Copilot, the Microsoft Entra Suite for identity, and Microsoft Agent 365 for governing AI agents. Together they provide the identity, security and compliance foundation for running Copilot and agents at scale.
Microsoft 365 E7 is listed at about $99 per user per month, and Microsoft Agent 365 at $15 per user per month standalone, as published at general availability. Confirm current pricing, licencing and any eligible Microsoft funding with SoftwareOne.
Shadow AI is the fragmented, unmonitored use of AI tools and agents across teams without central oversight. It creates blind spots around visibility, access control, compliance and cost.
Shadow AI is a risk because most AI use is invisible to IT. 81% of employees use AI tools their company never approved (UpGuard, 2025), and Shadow AI adds about $670,000 to the average data breach (IBM, 2025), through oversharing, weak access control and compliance gaps.
Microsoft Agent 365 is the control plane for AI agents. It lets organisations discover, govern and secure every agent, regardless of where it was built, using Microsoft Entra Agent ID for identity, Microsoft Purview for compliance and Microsoft Defender for threat protection.
Microsoft Agent 365 works across three jobs. Observe: a registry discovers every agent, including shadow agents. Govern: each agent gets a unique Microsoft Entra Agent ID and least-privilege access. Secure: Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Purview apply threat detection and data-loss prevention to agent activity.
Yes. Microsoft Agent 365 is part of the Microsoft 365 E7 Frontier Suite. It is also available standalone, but Microsoft 365 E7 brings it together with the identity and security foundation it relies on.