Introduction to Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot has been developed to be a productivity companion for your business. With leading artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities, Copilot merges large language models (LLMs) with your business data to transform the way your team operate. Copilot aims to enhance your productivity, accelerate tasks, and facilitate learning of new programming concepts.
By collaborating with your team and leveraging Microsoft Applications – including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and more – Microsoft 365 Copilot converts your effort into a dynamic toolkit designed for creativity, efficiency, and workflow enhancement.
Most people report increased productivity with Microsoft Copilot. By analyzing how your team interacts with Microsoft 365 tools, Copilot offers time-saving suggestions and shortcuts to boost your productivity significantly.
It helps remove tedious tasks that slow you down and elevates individual productivity by introducing advanced knowledge models tailored to your business, utilizing vast amounts of data and insights to suggest efficient solutions.
Microsoft 365 Copilot will do the heavy lifting for you. Whether managing calendars, emails, meetings, or Microsoft Teams chats, Copilot seamlessly integrates into your workflow according to your preferences.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Security
Microsoft 365 Copilot seamlessly adopts your business’s security and privacy protocols by default, providing you with an AI solution you can rely on. It incorporates two-factor authentication, compliance boundaries, and up-to-date privacy safeguards to ensure all operations are conducted securely.
Moreover, Copilot’s large language models (LLMs) undergo training independently of your data or inputs. Through a robust and proven permissions framework, data confidentiality is maintained across user groups, preventing leaks.
You can rest assuredthat personal and individual data remains protected under Microsoft 365 Copilot’s secure environment, utilizing Microsoft’s longstanding technology to safeguard your customer and user data effectively.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Use Cases
Here are a number of prompts that you can use to get you started with Copilot:
- Recap a meeting – Get a summary of all key topics and actions required from a meeting. That allows you and your team to focus on the meeting, knowing that you will get a reliable summary at the end.
- Tell me about ‘something’ – Ask Copilot to give you insights and analysis from a range of sources from across your organization. Examples include topics or projects.
- Wat did they say? – You can ask Copilot to find out what someone has said about a particular topic. It will do all the research and come back to you with the information that you need.
- Summarize an email thread – Microsoft 365 Copilot can efficiently summarise a long email trail with all of the key information you need. Gone is the need for endless scrolling to find important information.
- Help me create – Copilot can help you create collateral around a topic quickly and effortlessly, allowing you to focus on refining documentation rather than creating it from scratch.
Microsoft 365 Copilot for Microsoft 365 Applications
Copilot integrated with Microsoft 365 offers a multitude of benefits to your team, significantly boosting productivity across various popular applications:
Copilot for Teams:
Provides recaps of conversations, organizes key points, and summarizes actions in Teams. It answers specific questions you pose, as well as generates meeting agendas based on chat history, identifying individuals for follow-ups.
Copilot for Word:
Revolutionizes the writing process in Word by streamlining tasks and fostering creativity. It allows you to easily create, summarize, comprehend, refine, and elevate documents from simple or detailed prompts. Copilot enhances text visualization and table creation, cross-referencing documents, retrieving related information easily.
Copilot for PowerPoint:
Acts as a creative ally, transforming ideas into dynamic presentations effortlessly. Copilot converts written content into engaging slides, creates speaker notes, and simplifies layout adjustments and animations using natural language commands.
Copilot for Excel:
Collaborates in data analysis, aiding in exploring and understanding data trends. It allows you to easily highlight, filter, and sort data or ask Copilot to identify patterns and provide detailed summaries.
Copilot for Outlook:
Streamlines inbox management and facilitates impactful communications. Copilot summarizes lengthy email threads, suggests actions, and assists in drafting emails by offering options for length and tone.
Copilot for Loop:
Empowers collaborative thinking and efficient teamwork in Loop, aiding with co-creation, information sharing, and maintaining synchronization among teammates.
Copilot for Whiteboard:
Accelerates idea processing, generation, categorization, and summarization in Whiteboard, enhancing collaborative brainstorming efforts.
Copilot for OneNote:
Transforms note-taking and organization in OneNote, offering insights, generating content summaries, creating content, and improving writing clarity for proactive planning and action.
Overall, Copilot’s seamless integration across these Microsoft 365 platforms enhances your team’s user experience and productivity across various aspects of business operations.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Considerations
As with any new application or tool, it makes sense to consider factors specific to you and your operations, such as:
- Legal considerations
- Ethical considerations
- Industry specific considerations
- Training considerations
- Testing and rollout considerations
- Access and licensing considerations
Microsoft 365 Copilot Key Drivers
Transform your productivity.
Allow your team to get away from endless menial tasks and focus on delivering true value for your operation.
Get valuable data insight and visualisation.
Working with other Microsoft applications, Copilot is able to provide detailed insight on data and help you visualise that effectively.
Get personalised assistance.
Over time, Copilot learns your preferences and work style. It then looks to improve your workflow to make you more efficient and effective.
Streamline workflows with automation.
Copilot excels at creating workflows based on scenarios and prompts you task it with. Copilot will then create automation and processes that streamline workflows and make you more effective.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Implementation
Like all new tools, creating a plan for effective adoption will allow you to take full advantage of the power of Microsoft 365 Copilot. Key to that is providing Copilot with data that is centralized, organized and error free.
It makes sense to take the time to prepare your data before feeding it into Copilot for Microsoft 365, allowing you to get the most out of your investment.
Microsoft 365 Copilot uses familiar tools that you and your team use every day. It seamlessly integrates the power of AI into your day-to-day operations.
Reach out to us to undertake a readiness assessment for you to ensure that you have no potential security risks, that your data is properly organized and any potential issues are highlighted early.
If you’re looking for a partner that has experience rolling out Microsoft 365 Copilot, reach out to us today on +44 203 034 2244 or +1 323 984 8908. Alternatively, you can contact us online.
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