AI Adoption: Ensuring Success when Implementing Copilot for Microsoft 365

Artificial intelligence is a headline technology, shaping how companies work. One of the most recent developments in AI has been language models – they’re powerful, easy to use, and can transform your daily workflow tenfold. 

Enter Copilot for Microsoft 365. Microsoft has taken the technology behind the most powerful language model – GPT – and used it to power its own tool, to help businesses utilise its tremendous power. Copilot gives you your own AI assistant to boost productivity and unlock time throughout the day.

In this article, Extech Cloud will outline how to ensure your Copilot implementation is successful. We’ll explain how Copilot works and ways your organisation can prepare for it.

Understanding Copilot for Microsoft 365 

Copilot for Microsoft 365 is a game-changing technology. It’s your own AI-powered assistant, designed to not only enhance your productivity but also unlock the potential of your other Microsoft 365 applications.

Leveraging large language models – namely GPT- to understand prompts and carry out tasks, Microsoft Copilot is easily one of the most powerful features in the Microsoft ecosystem. What used to take hours can now be achieved in a few sentences; Copilot can even provide insights and analysis along the way.

Copilot for Microsoft 365 is available within every Microsoft 365 application. Here are some of the things it can do:

• Outlook: You can use Copilot to draft emails in seconds, summarise conversations between multiple people, and schedule meetings. On top of this, you can also use Copilot to label emails and find important information quickly.
• Word: Copilot makes drafting documents easier than ever – with just a few prompts. It can also summarise text, suggest edits, and do so much more based on your writing.
• Excel: You can use Copilot to analyse data from your spreadsheets, create visualisations and reports, and edit your data much more efficiently.
• Powerpoint: With Copilot, you can easily generate presentations, or ask for design suggestions. You can also generate content, as well as using language features to improve the content.
• Teams: Copilot in Teams lets you summarise meetings in seconds, generate further actions, and help you find relevant information with ease.

While there are other AI tools you can use within a browser online for free, Copilot also boasts great security. This means that using it to input sensitive information is. It also means you can use it and take advantage of the higher level of personalisation due to your organisational data.

On top of this, Copilot complies with the relevant data protection regulations, meaning that you’ll never breach compliance using it.