Adding AI assistants to individual applications creates a practical engineering question: how should those assistants share context and access business tools without gaining unnecessary permissions?

Five companies offer different approaches worth comparing:

GeekyAnts: Describes AntFabric as a foundation connecting organizational knowledge, business systems, and AI agents on infrastructure the organization controls.

Microsoft: Provides Microsoft 365 Copilot and agents that work with organizational content, subject to configuration and permissions.

Google Cloud: Offers Gemini Enterprise for connected knowledge discovery and agent workflows.

Salesforce: Provides Agentforce for employee and customer-facing agents within its platform.

IBM: Offers watsonx Orchestrate for building, coordinating, and governing agents.

These offerings occupy different positions, so the list is a starting point for evaluation rather than a ranking.

What does the AntFabric approach involve?

The supplied overview describes…