Microsoft named leader in Gartner 2026 Magic Quadrant for AI agent management
Microsoft announced it has been placed as a Leader in Gartner’s inaugural 2026 Magic Quadrant for AI Agent Management Platforms. The company says the accolade reflects its Agent 365 platform, which now has more than 50 million registered agents. Agent 365 builds on Microsoft’s existing identity and security stack – Entra, Defender, Purview, Intune and the 365 admin center – and assigns each…
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- Microsoft achieved Leader status in Gartner’s inaugural 2026 Magic Quadrant for AI Agent Management Platforms.
- Agent 365 now hosts over 50 million agents and integrates with Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, Google Gemini and other services.
- The new Action Center adds automated governance, cost tracking and value calculation for agents, supporting 60 local agent types.
The platform supports a broad ecosystem, with current integrations for Agentforce, Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, Databricks, Google Gemini and Google Vertex, and upcoming connections to OpenAI, ServiceNow and Snowflake. Microsoft is expanding discovery to 60 local agent types and adding an Action Center that automates governance tasks such as cleaning up inactive agents, reassigning owners and blocking risky agents, while also providing cost, task‑classification and value‑calculation insights. Agent 365 is available through Microsoft 365 E7 or as an add‑on to Microsoft 365 E5.
Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM for AI Agent Management Platforms
microsoft.com · 3 November 2026
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