What challenges did EY face before AI implementation?

Scale audit workflows with agentic AI. Reduce administrative burden for auditors while improving risk assessments and client assurance experience. Support complex, dynamic audit tasks across a global assurance operation.

Source

MicrosoftPilotEvidence: Medium55/100

EY rolls out agentic AI in assurance on Azure (EY Canvas)

Use case typeWorkflow orchestrationUpdated Jun 13, 2026

EY launched enterprise-scale agentic AI in assurance, embedding a multi-agent framework into EY Canvas, its global assurance technology platform. The platform is integrated with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Foundry, and Microsoft Fabric and supports audit workflows across EY’s global assurance network, which processes more than 1.4 trillion lines of journal entry data per year.

Organization: EY
Industry: Professional Services
Location: United Kingdom
Published: April 2026

Planned next steps

The capability will support 130,000 assurance professionals across 160,000 audit engagements in more than 150 countries and territories.
EY expects the system to support all end-to-end audit activities by 2028.

Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks

Customer: EY
Provider: Microsoft
Maturity: Pilot
Linked source: CPA Practice Advisor

EY said the capabilities followed extensive testing and piloting before enterprise-scale rollout and are intended to support all end-to-end audit activities by 2028

Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity supported

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Use case focus

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1Agentic AI orchestration
2Audit automation
3Workflow automation

EY integrated a multi-agent framework into EY Canvas to orchestrate complex tasks, processes, and technologies across audit phases.
The deployment uses Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Foundry, and Microsoft Fabric as the cloud and AI foundation.
EY said the capabilities followed extensive testing and piloting before enterprise-scale rollout and are intended to support all end-to-end audit activities by 2028.

Technologies

Microsoft Azure Microsoft Foundry Microsoft Fabric EY Canvas

EY said the platform processes more than 1.4 trillion lines of journal entry data per year.

Architecture

A multi-agent framework is integrated into EY Canvas, EY’s global assurance technology platform, and connected with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Foundry, and Microsoft Fabric to orchestrate audit workflows across a global enterprise-scale assurance operating model.

Sources & evidence1

Evidence: Medium55/100Evidence strength