Why you need to introduce Copilot for Microsoft 365 in the workplace
In today’s fast-paced business environment, staying ahead of the curve means embracing the transformative power of AI. Microsoft is leading the AI charge with Copilot: a revolutionary tool designed to enhance productivity and streamline operations in the workplace.
In this series of blog posts, we’re taking a deep dive into the world of AI and Microsoft Copilot. For our fourth blog in the series, Matt Dunkin, COO at AspiraCloud, reveals how you can empower users and really drive productivity with Copilot for Microsoft 365.
Read on:
How does Copilot for Microsoft 365 drive productivity?
For anyone who has ever struggled to find an email, searched for a particular Teams conversation or tried to locate a document hidden in SharePoint, you have, in fact, already used all the technology that Copilot for Microsoft 365 leverages.
Firstly, Copilot for Microsoft 365 lives inside your Microsoft apps. This means you can ask Microsoft Word to summarise a 100-page, 5 year strategy document into an executive summary and Copilot will:
- Search for the document using the same search you would use
- Retrieve the document using the same Graph requests
- Take the data and pass it through the natural language engine
- Present the summarised data to you – immediately ready to use.
In reality, the information presented by Copilot for Microsoft 365 will still take a little bit of work to get it polished – but it will have saved you a significant amount of time. Pre-Copilot, conducting a SharePoint search may eventually find your strategy document, but it would be up to you to summarise it from 100 pages into a succinct one-pager.
Introducing Microsoft Graph. Again
Beyond the apps, Copilot for Microsoft 365 is attached to Microsoft Graph.
Graph is used across Microsoft 365 and in third party apps. You can query Graph, Microsoft 365 apps use Graph, and developers can build applications on Graph. Copilot for Microsoft 365 is in fact built on Microsoft Graph. The benefit here is that authentication (who am I), authorisation (what am I allowed to access) and indexing – which was taken care of many years ago. There is some additional indexing required for Copilot for Microsoft 365, but the fundamentals were already in place long before the AI boom exploded.
See our article on Microsoft Graph which explains this in further detail.
It’s time to fly!
Copilot for Microsoft 365 is “just another client” to your Microsoft 365 data. It can help you retrieve and generate content across your all Microsoft 365 Apps. You don’t install Copilot for Microsoft 365, it works alongside you, as your Copilot (for 365)! It really is time to fly!
If you would like to learn more about Copilot and how your organisation can embrace AI, simply contact us.