If you're looking for ways to increase your employees' productivity, then Microsoft 365 Copilot It might just be the answer. This AI solution is designed to help teams collaborate more efficiently across various Microsoft applications. In this blog post, we’ll discuss the capabilities of Microsoft 365 Copilot, its availability, and its cost.
What is Microsoft 365 Copilot?
Microsoft 365 Copilot takes AI integration to the next level, allowing users to interact with their Microsoft apps using everyday language in prompts. This will speed up and simplify your daily work. The AI assistant appears as a chatbot in the sidebar of all your Microsoft 365 apps. It helps with analyzing data (Excel), writing documents (Word), and maximizing productivity during meetings (Teams), presenting (PowerPoint), and managing communications (Outlook). It is, therefore, a powerful AI-driven service that uses large language models (LLMs) in combination with your data in the Microsoft Graph.
Availability and Pricing for Microsoft 365 Copilot for Business
Copilot for Microsoft 365 is now available to businesses of all sizes, including small and medium-sized businesses, with no minimum number of seats required. You can find more information about this here.
- Copilot for Microsoft 365 is generally available for small businesses with Microsoft 365 Business Premium and Business Standard.
- Customers can purchase 1 to 299 seats for about 30 euros per person per month.
- The minimum purchase requirement of 300 seats is being eliminated, and Copilot will be available to Office 365 E3 and E5 customers (previously, a Microsoft 365 license was required).
- Commercial customers can now purchase Copilot for Microsoft 365 through Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider partners.
The Difference Between Windows Copilot, Bing Chat Enterprise, and Microsoft 365 Copilot
Copilot in Windows 11 is the free “basic version” for individual users to increase their usage, productivity, and support.
Bing Chat Enterprise It integrates the use of business information into the generative AI model's knowledge base while ensuring commercial data protection for this sensitive business information. It is available as a standalone product for $ 5 per user per month, or included in Microsoft 365 E3 and E5.
Microsoft 365 Copilot is the ultimate AI assistant for businesses. In addition to providing enterprise-level security, privacy, and compliance, it also offers powerful AI capabilities across all M365 apps. It will be available for $ 30 per user per month starting November 1.
How Copilot Works Within Your Microsoft 365 Apps
Copilot in Outlook
Copilot in Outlook helps you manage your inbox and your messages, so you have more time for important communication. For example, it provides summarized overviews of email threads that include different viewpoints and open questions that need to be answered. You can also have Copilot generate professional responses based on a simple question or using content from other emails and documents in Microsoft 365.
Examples of things you can ask Copilot to do:
- Summarize the emails I missed yesterday.
- Draft a reply in which I ask for more details about their first and fifth points.
- Invite everyone to a team meeting next week at 10 a.m. to discuss our new sales process.
- Discover even more possibilities with Copilot for Outlook.
Copilot in Excel
Copilot in Excel helps you analyze and explore your data. It reveals connections, suggests “what-if” scenarios, and proposes new formulas based on your questions. It can also generate powerful visualizations to help you identify trends.
Examples of things you can ask Copilot to do:
- Provide a breakdown of sales by type and channel. Include a table.
- Project the impact of [a change in a variable] and generate a line graph to help visualize it.
- Discover even more features of Copilot in Excel.
Copilot in PowerPoint
Copilot in PowerPoint is a handy tool for creating presentations. With Copilot, you can easily turn existing documents into slide decks, complete with speaker notes and sources, or create a new presentation based on a question or outline. You can also shorten long presentations, adjust the layout, reformat text, and time animations perfectly. Copilot in PowerPoint helps you turn your ideas into stunning presentations.
Examples of things you can ask Copilot to do:
- Create a six-slide presentation based on this Word document and add stock photos.
- Combine this presentation into a two-slide summary.
- Rearrange these five bullet points into five columns, each with a photo.
- Learn more about how Copilot in PowerPoint can function.
Copilot in Teams
With Copilot in Teams, you can hold more effective meetings and stay up to date on conversations without interrupting the flow of the discussion. It can answer specific questions, as well as create meeting agendas, identify the right people for follow-ups, and schedule check-ins.
Examples of things you can ask Copilot to do:
- Summarize the main points from the last meeting. What point did we agree on?
- Create a table listing the pros and cons of [the topic discussed]. What else should we consider before making a decision?
- What are some of the proposed next steps from last Friday's meeting?
- Learn more about the features of Copilot in Teams.
Copilot in Word
Copilot in Word is the perfect assistant for formatting documents. It can draft a document and incorporate information from across your entire organization. With Copilot, you can add content to existing documents, summarize text, share it, or rewrite the entire document to make it more concise. You can also ask for suggestions regarding your tone of voice, such as professional, informal, or grateful.
Examples of things you can ask Copilot to do:
- Write a three-page project proposal based on the information from [a Word document] and [an Excel spreadsheet].
- Make the fourth paragraph more concise. Change the tone of the document to make it sound more professional.
- Create a two-page design based on these five points.
- Discover even more possibilities with Copilot in Word.
Take Your Business to the Next Level
Copilot will fundamentally change how people work with AI and how AI works with people. With Copilot by their side, organizations can work more efficiently, innovate faster, and drive business growth. It’s time to discover the power of Microsoft 365 Copilot and take your business to the next level.
