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EY modernizes finance operations with Power Platform and Copilot Studio agents

EY · Workflow automation · Microsoft

EY modernized its finance operations by integrating intelligent agents through Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft Power Platform. The article reports substantially faster lead times and lower operational costs.

EY scales Copilot and agentic AI across finance operations, using Copilot Studio and Azure AI Document Intelligence

EY · Employee productivity · Microsoft

EY (Ernst & Young) used its own organization as Client Zero to validate ways of working with Microsoft technologies. It deployed Microsoft Copilot to employees, scaled Copilot across the enterprise, modernized finance operations with Microsoft Power Platform, integrated intelligent agents via Copilot Studio, built a multi-agent framework with Microsoft Azure AI Foundry and Microsoft Fabric for Assurance workflows, and applied Azure AI Document Intelligence on its Global Tax Platform to extract data from documents.

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EY.ai Agentic Acceleration Engine for agentic use cases in SAP finance, logistics, and inventory (SAP on Azure)

EY · ERP automation · Microsoft

EY built an EY.ai Agentic Acceleration Engine to identify and scale high-value agentic AI opportunities across fragmented SAP business processes. The program analyzed SAP financial close and supply chain workflows and turned them into working prototypes and solution designs for enterprise operations.

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EY Global Finance: AI-driven agents in Copilot Studio with Power Platform for SAP-powered journal posting and payment clearing

EY · Intelligent document processing · Microsoft

EY Global Finance modernized labor-intensive finance workflows across journal posting, payment clearing, and account reconciliation. The implementation used Microsoft Power Platform, Dataverse, AI Builder, and Copilot Studio to integrate directly with EY's SAP ERP environment and automate semi-manual processes across regions.

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EY integrates enterprise-scale agentic AI into audit platform using Microsoft Foundry, Fabric, and Azure

EY · Audit automation · Microsoft

EY has globally rolled out enterprise-scale agentic AI integrated within its EY Canvas assurance platform, which handles 1.4 trillion lines of journal entry data annually and supports 130,000 audit professionals across 160,000 engagements. The multi-agent AI solution is built on Microsoft technologies including Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, and Azure, automating all audit phases to reduce administrative burdens, improve risk assessments, and enhance audit quality. The AI deployment retains human judgment central to processes with alignment to responsible AI principles such as accountability, security, transparency, and sustainability. EY has invested billions in technology and training globally to upskill professionals in AI capabilities. Expected full support for end-to-end audit activities by 2028, showcasing a broad enterprise-scale transformation in audit workflows.

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