ARTICLE INTRODUCTION
Artificial intelligence is quickly taking the world by storm – with generative AI being one of the technologies propelling AI forwards. Microsoft is playing a massive role in this, with the implementation of Copilot for Microsoft 365 in countless businesses.
So how does Copilot for Microsoft 365 add value to your business? After all, using a tool is one thing, but whether it is beneficial is a whole other thing. You may ask: is it worth it implementing Copilot into your business workflow?
In this article, Extech Cloud outlines four ways that Copilot for Microsoft 365 can add value to your business. We’ll take a look at each one – and explain how they can be used in real world applications – to illustrate the tangible value of Copilot.
Improving productivity
Productivity is key inside the workplace, yet so much time can be spent on simple tasks, such as scheduling group meetings and summarising important documents – wasting daily resources. Copilot boosts employee productivity whilst enhancing workflow efficiency.
By using an automated workflow, Copilot can complete a variety of daily tasks, such as drafting emails, generating reports, or sending reminders, saving a large chunk of time in your already busy working day.
Enhancing communication within your business is simple with Copilot. With features like information retrieval, accurate language translation, personalised assistance, and more, employees can be connected like never before with the ability to send and receive information, and work quicker than ever.
Enhancing operational efficiency
One of the greatest benefits of using Copilot as a business is that it fits into your existing software. Copilot can be integrated into Microsoft 365 applications such as Teams, Word, Outlook, for example, allowing you to access it from anywhere and use it to its full potential.
Within Microsoft 365, Copilot has unique features to help you work efficiently. You might summarise your latest Teams meeting to keep as notes, whilst creating your latest presentation draft in PowerPoint, or reading a generated summary of your inbox in Outlook; the list is endless.
Copilot can also transfer important information between applications, so you can access statistics from an Excel spreadsheet while writing in Word, for example. This also means you can maintain your workflow and reduce the risk of error.
Alongside enhanced efficiency, Copilot helps reduce operational costs using automation and provides handy cost analysis spreadsheets, giving you visibility on business spending.
Kickstarting creativity
Brainstorming new and innovative ideas is simple with Copilot. Your team can create a host of new ideas and kickstart creativity by typing a simple prompt.
Copilot can provide intelligent ideas and suggestions to help boost your creativity, like recommend new ways of working that may not have crossed your mind previously. This can be useful for all kinds of things, from innovating and finding new solutions to generating imaginative output for marketing and social media.
In fact, Copilot can be used as a marketing powerhouse, extrapolating data to highlight best practise and potential gaps in the market, as well as areas for improvement.
Simply ask it to give you marketing ideas and Copilot will provide data-backed suggestions that will help you succeed.
Driving data-driven decision making
Copilot doesn’t just have generative and creative capabilities. It can also provide real-time data insights from organisational data. This is vital in business as data is the key to longevity; being able to provide real-time insights based on data can be the difference between making good and bad decisions.
Copilot can process data faster than the human eye and find new insights and trends that may not have been apparent. You can take advantage of this information in your decision-making to give your business a competitive edge.
On top of this, you can use Copilot to create innovative new code to help maximise innovation. It can also help with data visualisation, making it easier to understand.
How we can help
Microsoft Copilot is one of the most potent modern tools for any business – and taking advantage of its capabilities can spell the difference between success and failure. Every business is looking at ways to implement Copilot into its workflow, so why don’t you take the first step and begin innovating with Copilot yourself?
These four Copilot applications will undoubtedly add value to your business. While automation, productivity, and data analysis are ways to improve core business functions, the generative AI properties of Copilot can ultimately bolster creativity.
Are you looking to get started with Copilot? Whether you’re ready to make the move or still hesitating, Extech Cloud is here to help. We have the expert knowledge to support your Copilot journey and will provide a helping hand every step of the way.
Take the initiative and get in touch now to give your business a worthwhile AI boost.