Microsoft is a comprehensive technology provider trusted across various industries, including healthcare, banking, manufacturing, retail, services, education, and beyond. At Tursio, our core team members have previously spent years building Microsoft products, with a combined experience of over 30 years at the company. Therefore, it is natural for us to treat Microsoft as a first-class citizen in our structured data search. This blog explains how enterprises can seamlessly leverage Tursio within their existing Microsoft context.

Why Microsoft context?

Microsoft is a critical enterprise platform, dominating product lines such as office productivity suites, desktop operating systems, CRM, databases, and cloud services. Organizations rely on their integrated security, identity, and compliance stack, which is deeply embedded in enterprise IT standards. Clearly, Microsoft is where business happens, and below, we discuss how Tursio supports this ecosystem.

Where the data is born.

SQL Server has a 30-year history as the backbone of critical applications, including core banking systems, business applications, corporate intranets, ISV packages, and other components of the broader Microsoft stack. Recently launched SQL Server 2025 pushes the momentum further with 10,000 organizations in public preview and 100,000 active databases. Data for these applications is born in SQL Server, and Tursio enables structured search directly on this data, supporting versions as far back as SQL Server 2014, without requiring data pipelines or external data movement.

Cloud applications built on the Microsoft stack often use Azure SQL as the relational database or Cosmos DB as the NoSQL store. Tursio fully supports Azure SQL and selected dialects in Cosmos DB, e.g., the Cassandra API for Cosmos DB.

Overall, our goal in Tursio is to search data right where it is born without any complex infrastructure or tedious processing. Tursio ships both SaaS and on-premises versions and gets data search up and running within just 30 minutes.

Where the insights are generated.

Microsoft Fabric serves over 19,000 paying customers, including more than 70% of Fortune 500 companies. It provides a unified pane from data ingestion to transformation and insights, while seamlessly handling security and governance. Tursio’s structured data search operates directly on data stored in Fabric, enabling users to search for information and get answers without moving data elsewhere. Tursio complements Fabric Copilot by training small models with a deeper understanding of the actual data, thus doing a better job at data retrieval and factual answering tasks compared to generic metadata-based tasks that pre-trained models excel at.

Tursio also supports Azure Synapse Analytics, the precursor to Fabric, which allows users to manage their warehousing and big data infrastructure. Likewise, Tursio supports Azure Databricks for customers who are on the Microsoft stack but prefer the fast-growing data and AI platform from Databricks.

Where the reporting happens.

Power BI is the most widely used BI tool, with over 375,000 organizations, including 95% of the Fortune 500, using it. Under the hood, Power BI uses the Vertipaq engine (cached data) to process Data Analysis Expressions (DAX). These DAX queries contain dynamic calculations critical for business users. Since DAX queries are essential for reporting, Tursio supports ingesting DAX as custom measures. Users can export DAX in VPAX format using open-source DAX Studio and upload it to Tursio. Tursio automatically generates those same expressions when answering questions in natural language.

Likewise, Tursio supports existing reporting flows typically run through Dynamics and SSRS. Users can connect Tursio directly to the underlying SQL Server and run SSRS-style queries in natural language.

Where the LLMs are managed.

Azure OpenAI brings the OpenAI models into the secure, compliant Microsoft cloud. It offers control over data isolation (including prompts, training, and grounding data), deployment zones, and content filtering. Tursio enables users to bring their own Azure OpenAI keys and configure models privately within their subscription, ensuring no external visibility. Additionally, Tursio provides a fully transparent cost estimator, based on the search workload, helping users manage expenses across different models.

Where the identity is secured.

Microsoft Entra ID, formerly Azure Active Directory, is the default identity system for hundreds of millions of users and the vast majority of large enterprises. It has an estimated 720 million active users, with over 95% of the Fortune 500 companies relying on it. Tursio allows organizations to configure their existing Entra ID for a unified identity experience. This ensures that only Microsoft-authenticated users can access the Tursio portal, safeguarding the data in Tursio just like any other asset in the Microsoft stack.

Where the distribution is channelized.

Microsoft Marketplace, the unified version of Azure Marketplace and AppSource, hosts thousands of trusted solutions, including more than 3,000 AI-powered solutions. Enterprises depend on these for compliance, security, reliability, telemetry, and streamlined billing. Tursio is coming to the Microsoft Marketplace (currently in Canary), enabling users to install Tursio on Azure VMs. During VM creation, users can select the Tursio Agent VM extension to have it pre-configured, providing a zero-touch method for onboarding Tursio seamlessly within the Azure environment.

Where the trust is nurtured.

Microsoft is more than a software stack; it is an ecosystem of trust shaped by a growth mindset. Through the Microsoft for Startups program, Tursio has built the organizational muscle required to operate at enterprise scale. Over the past three years, the program’s growth principles have helped us engineer the reliability and rigor that enterprises expect. Being featured in the Microsoft Alumni Network is a meaningful milestone in that journey. We are deeply grateful for the support and proud to build for and alongside the Microsoft community.

References

• https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/sqlserver/sql-server-2025-is-now-generally-available/4470570
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• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/dax-overview
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