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 6, 2026 · by David Berry
Functions Roadmap
Functions is becoming part of Microsoft's broader strategy for AI-enabled enterprises.
Roadmap
Updated: July 6, 2026 · by David Berry
Azure Machine Learning
Azure Machine Learning is Microsoft's enterprise AI engineering and MLOps platform
Roadmap
Updated: July 6, 2026 · by David Berry
App Service
Azure App Service remains Microsoft’s “default PaaS” for production Web apps, APIs, and AI-connected business services.
Roadmap
Updated: July 6, 2026 · by David Berry
Service Bus Roadmap
Service Bus remains strategically important as Microsoft's transactional messaging backbone
Roadmap
Updated: July 6, 2026 · by David Berry
Azure OpenAI Service
Azure OpenAI service enables developers to use large language models (LLMs) developed by OpenAI
Roadmap
July 6, 2026 · by David Berry
Foundry Models
Foundry Models is Microsoft’s service for accessing and managing AI models from Microsoft and other providers
Analyst Report
Updated: July 1, 2026 · by David Berry
Restricted SharePoint Search Limits Copilot Results
Retiring Jan. 2027 - New SharePoint search restrictions can help organizations roll out Copilot.
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