Small and medium-sized companies (SMBs) have super imaginative and prescient and fervour, and Copilot for Microsoft 365 may also help flip desires into actuality. With Copilot for Microsoft 365, you need to use the ability of AI to scale back the every day grind of operating your small business—supplying you with extra time to succeed in extra prospects, create new merchandise, and proceed to develop your small business. Copilot for Microsoft 365 is accessible for companies of all sizes, and we just lately introduced availability on extra plans, equivalent to Microsoft 365 Enterprise Primary. Learn to get Copilot for Microsoft 365 now.¹

Copilot for Microsoft 365

Deal with what issues most with Copilot for Microsoft 365 and the ability of AI.

SMBs are vital drivers of financial progress and important for the well-being of communities each domestically and globally. Whereas the precise enterprise challenges might differ, one factor is true—a lot of you’ve advised us that you’re challenged by time-consuming, mundane duties.² Copilot for Microsoft 365 may also help you save time and allows you to keep deal with why you began a enterprise within the first place—your imaginative and prescient to your services or products and fixing the issues your prospects face. And with Copilot for Microsoft 365, you may really feel assured in figuring out Microsoft has a dedication to accountable, safe AI and the Copilot Copyright Dedication.  

Unlock the transformative energy of AI

The age of AI is right here, and the know-how is evolving quickly. To assist companies and employees, Copilot for Microsoft 365 introduces a completely new means of working. You may acquire loads from incorporating AI into your work.

There are numerous choices accessible for these of you who wish to faucet into the transformative energy of AI. To start your journey, you can begin with Copilot to see what is feasible when utilizing AI plus the online. Nonetheless, you may go a lot additional than that and use instruments that meet you the place you’re within the circulation of your work whereas maintaining your small business secure and safe. To know how we make this attainable with Copilot for Microsoft 365, let’s begin with an outline of the capabilities.

All of it begins with AI and huge language fashions (or LLMs), which make up the foundational, underlying intelligence for Copilot. LLMs generate responses primarily based on prompts that you simply create. The fashions are guided by receiving use-case-specific info by a course of we name grounding. When you find yourself utilizing our free model of Copilot, you get the ability of AI grounded within the info extensively accessible on the net. However what if you wish to obtain info extra related to you and your small business—like gathering all the data related to serving to you put together a proposal for a buyer? A part of the magic of Copilot for Microsoft 365 occurs when responses are primarily based in your customized work info. That is made attainable with the Microsoft Graph.

The Microsoft Graph is your entire work content material and context that exists all through your day—like your emails, chats, name transcripts, paperwork, and extra. The standard and relevance of the responses acquired enhance dramatically when AI is reasoning over your info from the Microsoft Graph. For instance, you may immediate Copilot for Microsoft 365 to provide the newest updates and knowledge from one among your workforce members or a abstract of enterprise efficiency and it’ll return info that’s related together with references for assist. All this may be achieved with ease within the instruments that you simply use day by day.

“Everybody has a favourite means for gathering and utilizing info. Some individuals use e-mail, some OneNote or one thing else, however a single app by no means provides you the entire image. That’s what’s nice about Copilot as a result of it appears to be like at every little thing throughout all of the Microsoft 365 apps and knowledge after which permits you to deliver all of it collectively regardless of which app you’re utilizing.”

—Melissa Lee-Younger, Head of Advertising, Era-e

The Microsoft 365 apps embody the instruments you employ to run your small business, equivalent to Microsoft Groups, Outlook, Phrase, PowerPoint, Excel, and extra. You will discover so some ways to get extra achieved in much less time utilizing Copilot for Microsoft 365 inside these apps together with:

• Holding tabs in your every day operations by asking Copilot in Microsoft Outlook to summarize lengthy e-mail threads so that you’re instantly in control with these vital conversations.

• Partnering with Copilot in Microsoft Phrase to put in writing and edit job descriptions and customer-facing content material in addition to summarizing paperwork so that you by no means have to start out with a clean sheet once more. 

• Rising your prospects and constructing your model by remodeling written content material into compelling pitch decks and shows with Copilot in Microsoft PowerPoint.

• Staying on prime of your small business efficiency or tasks through the use of Copilot in Microsoft Excel (at present in public preview with updates starting to roll out in June 2024) to filter, format, kind, and edit info, letting you go from uncooked knowledge to helpful insights sooner.³  

Having Copilot for Microsoft 365 at your aspect throughout the circulation of labor—as a substitute of leveraging an exterior device that doesn’t have entry to the data most related to you—is how employees can reap the advantages of supercharged productiveness and creativity that Copilot for Microsoft 365 presents.

Knowledge safety is mechanically inherited by your present Microsoft 365 safety, privateness, identification, and compliance insurance policies. Copilot for Microsoft 365 acts on behalf of the person consumer, so it could actually’t entry any info that somebody doesn’t have permission to see. Your knowledge at all times stays inside your management and isn’t used to coach the fashions with out your permission. This safety of your small business knowledge is a key purpose why your small business info is safer utilizing AI within the confines of Microsoft 365, versus by a free service.

Floww, a fast-growing FinTech firm in the UK has constructed a monetary infrastructure platform for entrepreneurs and buyers to supercharge personal market progress. Floww is an ecosystem that connects scaling corporations with enterprise capital and buyers, primarily based on advantage and actual knowledge, whereas additionally managing all regulatory perimeters.

Floww depends on Copilot for Microsoft 365 to assist their staff rapidly compensate for conferences and observe discussions to recommend motion gadgets. Additionally they use Copilot to get real-time entry to rapidly pull and synthesize info from a number of sources. Copilot for Microsoft 365 is giving time again to Floww’s staff to allow them to deal with essentially the most impactful work.   

“As a result of we’re a comparatively small workforce we now have to maximise each useful resource we now have. Copilot is already reducing the time our staff spend on mundane duties by 10 to twenty%, which lets them think about extra significant work.”

—Alex Pilsworth, Chief Know-how Officer, Floww

Get Copilot for Microsoft 365 immediately 

When you’ve got Microsoft 365 Enterprise Commonplace or Microsoft 365 Enterprise Premium, you should purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 as an add-on and understand this magic for your self immediately.⁴ As we simply introduced, Microsoft 365 Enterprise Primary prospects may even have the ability to buy. After all, if you don’t have already got these core productiveness choices you may buy them now and add Copilot for Microsoft 365 to your subscription.

Copilot for Microsoft 365 transforms your on a regular basis work life, easing the burden of rote duties so you may keep targeted on the work that issues. Discover out extra about Copilot for Microsoft 365 or attain out to a Cloud Answer Associate to study extra.⁵ 

You may begin taking steps to organize, perceive licensing and technical necessities, familiarize your self with new capabilities, and get your workforce prepared, too. Copilot for Microsoft 365 introduces a complete new means of working, so go to the Copilot Lab to see prompting in motion and study extra about how Copilot works in Microsoft 365 apps. It’s also possible to try our WorkLab for insights and thought management on how Copilot is remodeling work.

¹Copilot for Microsoft 365 might not be accessible for all markets and languages. To buy, enterprise prospects should have a license for Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 or Workplace 365 E3 or E5, and enterprise prospects should have a license for Microsoft 365 Enterprise Commonplace or Enterprise Premium or a model of those suites that doesn’t embody Microsoft Groups.

²Wakefield Analysis. (2023). Microsoft research: Small companies intrigued by AI and the alternatives it brings. 

³Copilot in Excel (preview) is at present supported in English (US, GB, AU, CA, IN) and might be supported in Spanish (ES, MX), Japanese, French (FR, CA), German, Portuguese (BR), Italian, and Chinese language Simplified beginning in March. 

⁴Copilot for Microsoft 365 is at present supported within the following languages: English (US, GB, AU, CA, IN), Spanish (ES, MX), Japanese, French (FR, CA), German, Portuguese (BR), Italian, and Chinese language Simplified. We are going to begin rolling out Arabic, Chinese language Conventional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Ukrainian over March and April. Examine the public roadmap and message heart to trace roll out standing. 

⁵Extra info on the way to discover your Microsoft 365 associate or reseller.