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Today’s business leaders need to prepare their workforce for the new era of AI-powered productivity. While everyone is talking about how AI will transform the everyday workings of the next-generation workforce, this blog will delve into the capabilities of Microsoft 365 Copilot and how you can plan its adoption.
“Working with AI is more than just pushing buttons. It’s about asking the right questions,” says Jaime Teevan, Chief Scientist & Technical Fellow at Microsoft. “If you can learn the art and science of doing that, AI can really elevate the potential of you and your organization and redefine the boundaries of what can get done.”
In today's fast-paced business environment, organizations seek innovative solutions to enhance efficiency, productivity, and decision-making. Microsoft 365 Copilot and Power Platform offer a powerful combination to drive transformation. By automating routine tasks, optimizing workflows, and extracting valuable insights from data, businesses can achieve unprecedented levels of efficiency. Together, these platforms empower organizations to streamline operations, improve customer experiences, and gain a competitive edge.
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMBs) face increasing pressure to compete in today's digital age. While technology offers potential solutions, adopting complex AI systems can be overwhelming.
Microsoft 365 Copilot is a game-changer for SMBs. By seamlessly integrating AI into daily operations, Copilot empowers businesses to boost productivity, make informed decisions, and gain a competitive edge. Copilot offers a comprehensive suite of AI-powered tools designed specifically for business needs, from automating tasks to providing data-driven insights.
Copilot provides valuable insights through data analysis, helping SMBs make informed decisions and identify new opportunities. This strategic advantage allows businesses to focus on core competencies and drive growth.
From drafting emails and creating presentations to analyzing sales data and generating reports, Copilot streamlines various business processes. This increased efficiency translates into cost savings and improved customer satisfaction. Additionally, Copilot fosters collaboration by facilitating efficient communication and knowledge sharing among team members.
As AI continues to evolve, Copilot remains at the forefront of innovation. By embracing Copilot, SMBs can unlock their full potential and thrive in today's dynamic business landscape.
Microsoft Copilot is an AI-powered assistant designed to enhance productivity and creativity within the Microsoft 365 suite. It leverages advanced language models to understand and respond to user prompts, offering intelligent assistance across various applications.
Copilot is integrated into familiar Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. By analyzing your data and understanding your tasks, it provides real-time suggestions and generates content. For instance, in Word, it can suggest sentence structures, create outlines, and even draft entire documents. In Excel, it can analyze data, identify trends, and create visualizations.
Key Benefits of Copilot
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Microsoft 365 Copilot offers long-term benefits that often surpass its costs. Consider this: If on an average, an employee earns $30,000 annually and works approximately 2000 hours per year, their hourly wage is roughly $15. By automating tasks or providing insights that save even two hours per month, Copilot can effectively offset its monthly cost. Over time, the accumulated savings can be substantial, making Copilot a strategic investment rather than an expense.
Additionally, the qualitative benefits like improved decision-making, enhanced creativity, and strengthened collaboration often translate to increased revenue and reduced operational costs, further justifying the investment in Copilot.
Plan | Price | Included Features |
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Copilot Pro (Personal) | $20 per month |
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Copilot for Microsoft 365 (Business) | $30 per user per month |
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Copilot for Microsoft 365 (Enterprise) | $30 per user per month |
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Some key points:
Tool | Price per User per Month | Key Features |
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Microsoft 365 Copilot | $30 |
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Gemini Enterprise | $30 |
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OpenAI ChatGPT (Enterprise) | Varies (contact for pricing) |
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Perplexity AI | $40 |
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Imagine having a super-intelligent assistant who knows your business inside out, is always ready to help, and can boost your productivity tenfold. That's the power of Microsoft 365 Copilot when integrated with your favourite Microsoft apps. Let's explore how this dynamic duo can revolutionize the way you work.
Co-Pilot in Word: Users can collaborate with Copilot to draft, revise, and generate documents. Copilot can pull relevant data from the internet or reference texts and create initial drafts based on user-supplied topics. It can also enhance existing documents, summarize information, and adjust the writing style to match the user's tone.
Co-Pilot in PowerPoint: Copilot transforms ideas into polished presentations using natural language instructions. It can generate presentation decks, create speaker notes, and even summarize extensive presentations. Users can also use voice commands to make layout changes and animations. You can also create PowerPoint Presentations from Word documents.
Co-Pilot in Excel: Copilot helps users gain insights, identify patterns, and create data visualizations quickly. Simply activate Copilot by clicking the icon, and it can handle complex statistical data without requiring users to master formulas for each column and row.
Co-Pilot in Outlook: Copilot helps organize and consolidate inboxes, providing summaries of lengthy email exchanges, condensed overviews of unread emails, and even generating responses to emails. It can also assist in drafting meeting invitations.
Co-Pilot in Teams: Copilot offers real-time meeting transcriptions and action items, enhancing meeting efficiency. Additionally, Microsoft Teams Premium's Intelligent Recap feature is a powerful tool that can help users save time, catch up on what they missed, and discover the information that matters to them most. By automatically generating meeting notes, recommended tasks, and personalized highlights, Intelligent Recap can help users make the most of their meetings.
Check out more about our Microsoft 365 Copilot services to discover how we can help you achieve your business goals.
Copilot is more than a tool; it's a productivity powerhouse. By automating tasks and providing intelligent assistance, Copilot frees you to focus on strategic thinking and innovation.
Key benefits include:
Copilot transforms the way you work, driving efficiency, creativity, and success.
Some examples of how Copilot can help you achieve your business tasks with ease and efficiency. (Taken from GitHub Repo)
Prompt: You are my personal secretary for meetings and agenda. Map out my upcoming meetings for 3 days that are part of a series. Arrange them chronologically, considering their start times. Also show me if I have responded to RSVP for these meetings.
Prompt: Show me Emails and Teams conversations that needs my action or attention and I have not replied them yet. Show a table with sender, subject, date, and importance. For Teams conversations show 👨👩👦👦, for emails show ✉️. If I was mentioned show ⬆️, else show 🔔.
Prompt: You are my personal assistant helping me coordinate and schedule meetings. Ask the user to input the person they wish to meet with. Then ask on which day they want to meet. Do not provide a response until the user has responded to you. Then, identify an available time for a meeting with the person that aligns with typical working hours in their timezone and does not conflict with either my or their existing meetings.
Prompt: Help me create a sales proposal for an energy sales lead. This proposal is about the Copilot offerings provided by Microsoft, Add different SKUs of copilots. Emphasize on Copilot for Microsoft 365, Add license details, show how to use prompts and how can an organization be prepared for Copilot and manage Copilot for Microsoft 365. Mention how we as an organization can help this customer in implementing, adopting Copilot for their organization. make sure to add all the content in the presentation from here, copilot-microsoft-365.pdf. The proposal should be crisp and concise with no longer than 3 pages.
To find more samples of Copilot Prompts visit here: Copilot Prompts
We understand that adopting new technology can raise questions. Let’s address some common concerns about Microsoft Copilot:
Remember, Copilot is a tool designed to enhance your work, not replace you. By understanding its capabilities and addressing your concerns, you can effectively leverage its potential.
Microsoft 365 Copilot offers businesses a strategic advantage by enhancing decision-making, and fostering creativity. By integrating seamlessly with familiar Microsoft applications, Copilot becomes an invaluable asset, empowering employees to focus on higher-level strategic initiatives.
The long-term returns of Copilot, in terms of enhanced productivity, cost savings, and gaining a competitive edge, make it an attractive proposition. Copilot stands out as a driving force for transformation in the evolving digital landscape. The way you utilize it is entirely up to you. It’s not just an expense, but a strategic investment for the future.
We can help you with initial calls and training to see how you can best use Copilot for Microsoft 365. Contact us today to schedule a consultation and learn how Microsoft 365 Copilot can revolutionize your operations. Our team members will work with you to develop a tailored solution that meets your specific needs and drives tangible results.
Monthly updates, news & events from Microsoft to help you & your business grow & get best out the Microsoft services.
Monthly updates, news & events from Microsoft to help you & your business grow & get best out the Microsoft services.
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