Copilot for Microsoft 365 helps you achieve that dream by helping you write documents, create presentations, or even assist with your emails. If you are looking for guidance on readiness for Copilot, read on!
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Microsoft Copilot is a new artificial intelligence (AI) product that combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with in-house enterprise data generated by the Microsoft Graph and Microsoft 365 applications.
Microsoft Copilot works alongside popular Microsoft 365 apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and more. It provides real-time intelligent assistance, enabling users to enhance their creativity, productivity, and skills. You can use natural language conversations to ask Copilot questions, request suggestions, or generate content from your data.
Microsoft Copilot is designed to be a companion that works with you, to help you achieve your goals.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 is dedicated to promoting responsible AI practices. Responsible AI entails the design, development, and deployment of AI in a manner that encompasses ethical, legal, and societal considerations. This involves assessing the potential for unintended consequences, maintaining transparency in decision-making processes, and upholding privacy. Responsible AI also necessitates building trust, ensuring accountability, and preventing discrimination based on attributes such as race, gender, or other protected characteristics.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 introduces the Semantic Index for Copilot, an innovative approach that ensures alignment between AI models and your data and preferences. The Semantic Index for Copilot functions as a comprehensive map of your user and company data, identifying relationships and making crucial connections. It collaborates with the Copilot System and the Microsoft Graph to create an intricate map of all the data and content within your organisation. This empowers Copilot for Microsoft 365 to provide tailored, pertinent, and actionable responses.
This gives you control over your data privacy and security settings, allowing you to select which data sources you wish to utilise with Copilot and determine your preferred sharing settings.
To utilise Copilot for Microsoft 365, organisations must satisfy certain technical prerequisites and have specific features activated.
Our Copilot specialists and technical consultants will collaborate with you to offer guidance on best practice for configuring permission policies, specifics on administrative controls, change management, adoption strategies, security, privacy, compliance, and data residency. This is aimed at helping your organisation to make the necessary preparations and accelerate your journey to AI.
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Copilot for Microsoft 365 empowers you to achieve tasks more efficiently, harnessing the capabilities of AI to enhance your creativity and streamline your work. It collaborates with you to help summarise critical information and action items within Microsoft Teams, draft new documents in Word, facilitate quick responses in Outlook, design impressive presentations in PowerPoint, and more.
Promoting the adoption of Microsoft Copilot is a bespoke process that shares similarities with adopting any technology; it revolves around human-centric actions. Our team of Copilot specialists can provide support for the everyday applications your business relies on, enabling and empowering your teams in various areas, including:
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Harness the potential of AI alongside your work data and applications to unlock your creative abilities, enhance productivity, and elevate your skills.
Copilot in Teams
Enhance the effectiveness of your meetings, catch up on conversations, and consolidate everything within Teams.
Copilot in Outlook
Start emails swiftly, create summaries, and manage lengthy emails with ease.
Copilot in Word
Commence a draft, add to existing documents, rework text, generate summaries, or engage in a conversation with Copilot.
Copilot in PowerPoint
Craft new presentations, organise and summarise existing ones, and more.
Copilot in Excel
Delve deeper into your data, unearth insights, generate formulas, and more.
Phoenix are one of a small number of partners globally with access and capabilities to deliver a range of both fully-funded and chargeable Copilot for Microsoft 365 workshops across public and private sector organisations. Book your free one-to-one call today to start your Copilot readiness and adoption journey.
In short, Copilot for Microsoft 365 is for everyone. But we know that everyone is unique whether doing a specific role or a mix of roles within an organisation.
Some of the key areas and users are:
Business User
Business users have the responsibility of advancing the organisation’s mission through human connections, robust tools, and navigating continually evolving business models. Technology can be a valuable ally in this.
Champion
Champions are the driving force behind engagement and business transformation. They blend their technical expertise with empathetic interpersonal skills to facilitate meaningful change by promoting and assisting their colleagues in embracing modern technology.
Developer
Developers play a pivotal role in creating people-centric, cross-platform productivity experiences that extend the reach of Microsoft 365 even deeper within your organisation. They spearhead integrations that fuel the development of the new modern workplace and inspire the future of work.
What is the Copilot for Microsoft 365 release date?
Microsoft confirmed that Copilot for Microsoft 365 will be available for business and enterprise users globally on 1 November 2023.
How do I use Copilot for Microsoft 365?
If you can access Copilot for Microsoft 365, you can simply switch it on within any of the integrated Microsoft apps. Find the Copilot icon on the ribbon menu for the app and click it to activate the service. Some Copilot experiences will launch Copilot automatically on your apps.
How to install Copilot for Microsoft 365?
To use Copilot, your organisation must meet some technical requirements and have some features enabled. Our team can guide you through this process sharing best practice about setting permissions policies, details about admin controls, change management, adoption, security, privacy, compliance, and data residency.
If you are interested in finding out more about Copilot for Microsoft 365 and how it could work for you and your organisation, book your free one-to-one call with one of our specialists by using the booking form.
Alternatively, please email us at [email protected] or call 01904 562200 and one of our specialists will be in touch to discuss your requirements.
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