Hyland collaborates with Microsoft to power the agentic enterprise

Hyland, a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM) and a pioneer of the content-powered agentic enterprise, is partnering with Microsoft to bring the Hyland Content Innovation Cloud to Microsoft Azure—enabling Hyland to support customers across regions and cloud environments.

According to the companies, this collaboration unites Hyland’s governed enterprise content platform with the Microsoft Azure ecosystem to accelerate the adoption of content-powered agentic enterprise. It reinforces Hyland’s commitment to providing customers with flexibility, data residency options, and geographic reach, while supporting the next phase of AI-driven enterprise transformation.

Together, Hyland and Microsoft will enable customers to activate unstructured content as AI ready data and embed that intelligence directly into workflows that power real business outcomes.

“As enterprises quickly move AI to production-scale deployments, there is an even greater need for a trusted, governed content foundation available wherever they operate,” said Tim McIntire, chief technology officer at Hyland. “By combining the Content Innovation Cloud with the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, we’re giving customers the ability to turn governed content into actionable intelligence and power agent-driven workflows at scale with full confidence in their data.”

With this strategic partnership, Hyland and Microsoft are launching a formal joint go to market and co sell motion. This collaboration is designed to accelerate pipeline generation, expand customer reach, and drive revenue growth through coordinated sales execution, enabling both organizations to align around high value enterprise use cases, particularly in content-rich, highly regulated industries, where AI adoption depends on strong governance, compliance, and data residency capabilities, the companies said.

“Microsoft Azure provides the cloud and AI foundation enterprises need to scale innovation, and Hyland brings deep expertise in managing and governing the content that drives their most critical processes,” said Carlton Dossman, corporate vice president of U.S. commercial industries at Microsoft. “Together, we are enabling customers to embed AI directly into their workflows, accelerate adoption through our joint go to market collaboration, and realize the benefits of agentic automation across the enterprise with speed, trust, and control.”

By grounding AI in governed content, customers can move from fragmented pilots to production scale AI that supports real operational decisions, improving speed, accuracy, and accountability. This enables customers to modernize content driven workflows at scale, particularly in industries where governance, security, and compliance are critical, such as healthcare, insurance, financial services, education, and government, said the vendors.

Hyland solutions will be available through the Microsoft Marketplace, simplifying procurement and accelerating adoption for enterprise customers.

This commercial model enables organizations to use existing Microsoft cloud commitments, streamline purchasing and deployment, and scale consumption through a familiar, trusted marketplace. By lowering procurement friction and aligning with Azure purchasing motions, the partnership removes a key barrier to enterprise AI adoption and enables faster time to value, said the companies.

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