David has over two decades of architecture and delivery experience across Fortune 1000 and public sector enterprises with Avanade, Booz Allen Hamilton, and EMC.
Prior to Directions, David spent ten years at Avanade where he led global and regional engineering teams and advised on technology strategy and adoption.
Latest Content by David Berry
Roadmap
Updated: July 1, 2026 · by David Berry
Foundry Tools
Foundry Tools could become a strategic dependency for enterprise AI applications
Analyst Report
June 26, 2026 · by David Berry
Enterprise Agents at Scale: Control Improves, Costs Follow
The duality of agent management: Foundry Control Plane for operations and Agent 365 for enterprise governance,
Roadmap
Updated: June 22, 2026 · by David Berry
Web PubSub
Web PubSub is a general service for adding live communication capabilities to custom applications
Roadmap
Updated: June 22, 2026 · by David Berry
SignalR Service
SignalR Service is a managed service for adding live communication capabilities to .NET applications
Roadmap
Updated: June 12, 2026 · by David Berry
DevTest Labs
Azure DevTest Labs is a service for standardizing and governing development and test environments
Analyst Report
Updated: June 12, 2026 · by David Berry
M365 Copilot Adds Choice (and Risk) with Anthropic’s Claude
Microsoft partnered with Anthropic, adding its Claude’s Sonnet and Opus models to M365 Copilot.
Sidebar
June 12, 2026 · by David Berry
Where to Find Claude in M365 Copilot
Key places where Anthropic's Claude is used in M365 Copilot
Blog
June 5, 2026 · by David Berry
Microsoft’s AI Strategy: Platform Control Over Short–Term ROI
Microsoft is building out an operating model, not a product portfolio. And it’s making a bet on the enterprise AI...
Roadmap
Updated: June 4, 2026 · by David Berry
Other Runtimes and APIs Roadmap
Roadmap for Office Add-ins, Visual Basic 6.0, and other supported runtimes and APIs.