Articles

The article delves into the emerging field of agentic AI, highlighting its significance in driving real business impact beyond traditional RAG models by enabling agents to reason, act, and collaborate. It introduces five foundational patterns for building robust enterprise automation solutions: Tool Use (agents interacting with systems), Reflection (self-improvement for reliability), Planning (decomposing complex tasks), Multi-agent (collaboration among specialized agents), and ReAct (adaptive problem-solving). Each pattern is explained with real-world enterprise examples. The article emphasizes that these patterns are designed to be combined for more effective solutions. Finally, it presents Azure AI Foundry as an essential unified platform that addresses the challenges of building and scaling intelligent agents, offering features like flexible model choice, modular architectures, enterprise system integration, security, and comprehensive observability.