Model Context Protocol (MCP)
2 use cases using this technology
Building the intelligence foundation for the energy transition
BKW FMB Energie AG
BKW, a Switzerland-headquartered energy and infrastructure company, needed a more scalable, integrated approach to working with complex weather and geospatial data to support decisions across energy production, grid management, and infrastructure services as renewable penetration and climate volatility rise. BKW partnered with Microsoft to combine Aurora (an AI weather foundation model from Microsoft Research AI for Science and Microsoft AI Weather), Microsoft Planetary Computer Pro with AI Weather Grid HD EU data catalogs, and Azure-native infrastructure (Azure Container Registry, Azure Container Apps, Azure Application Insights, and an MCP server) into a unified platform for AI-driven weather and geospatial intelligence, with BKW retaining governance over how insights are applied. The collaboration is described as an exploratory, foundation-building engagement rather than a production deployment, giving BKW's data scientists, domain experts, and technology teams a shared, governed platform and supporting its net-zero and sustainable energy goals.
LSEG unifies 30 data systems, reducing product development time with Fabric
LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)
LSEG, a trusted data partner to 44,000 customers in more than 170 countries, partnered with Microsoft to build a unified data platform on Microsoft Fabric, consolidating 30 systems, 1,200 datasets and 33 petabytes of data. Using Apache Spark on Fabric, Apache Airflow in Fabric, Microsoft Purview and OneLake, LSEG reduced product development timelines for new data products from years to months; onboarding data and creating a new product now happens in months, accelerating launches such as its ESG and Fundamentals data products. LSEG processes around 80,000 files daily on Spark on Fabric, consuming approximately 280,000 capacity units per day, with month-on-month consumption growing more than 50%. The company is also building AI-readiness by hosting Model Context Protocol (MCP)-powered data in OneLake and enabling financial professionals to build custom AI agents via Copilot Studio.