What is Copilot for M365 and How Can It Help You Work Better

If you’re looking for a way to boost your productivity and creativity at work, you might want to check out Copilot for M365, a new AI assistant that integrates with your Microsoft 365 apps and helps you accomplish more with less effort. In this blog post, we’ll give you an overview of what Copilot can do for you and how it can enhance your work experience across various applications.

Copilot for M365: Your AI Assistant at Work

First of all, let’s understand that Copilot is designed to leverage your data effectively and generate natural language responses that suit your needs. Moreover, it uses Microsoft Graph to access your relevant information and employs large language models to understand and generate text. It also follows Microsoft’s comprehensive approach to security, compliance, privacy, and responsible AI, ensuring that your data remains protected and private at all times.

Security and Privacy across Copilot for M365

Additionally, Copilot for M365 is committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy. Therefore, your data is not used to train OpenAI foundation models without permission, and it is safeguarded by enterprise-grade compliance and security controls. Microsoft stands behind its Copilot customers with a Customer Copyright Commitment, ensuring that the product includes copyright guardrails.

Integrated Applications

Copilot offers a range of intelligent features across different Microsoft 365 applications, such as Teams, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Power BI, and Excel. Thus, Copilot for M365 can help you with your daily tasks and boost your productivity:

Teams:

Copilot in Teams can help you prepare for, participate in, and follow up on meetings more efficiently. It provides you with relevant documents and information before a meeting, generate live summaries and action items during a meeting. Also, it can answer questions about the meeting content after a meeting.

Outlook: 

Copilot in Outlook assists in managing your emails with greater efficiency. As well as drafting replies, summarizing email threads, and prioritizing important messages for you, ensuring that you stay on top of your inbox and communicate clearly.

Word:

Copilot in Word can support you write better documents with less effort. Consequently, it suggests content, rewrites passages, and generates ideas to improve the quality of your documents. It can also help you with formatting, grammar, and spelling, ensuring that your documents are polished and professional.

PowerPoint:

Copilot in PowerPoint helps you create impactful presentations with ease. It is capable of suggesting design layouts, content, and can even generate entire sections of a presentation based on your input. Additionally, it can assist you in rehearsing and confidently delivering your presentation, offering feedback and tips in the process.

SharePoint:

Copilot in SharePoint will assist you in organize and manage your content, workflows, and information more effectively. Besides, it can generate new content based on existing documents and data, help you find what you need quickly, and automate tasks and processes for you, ensuring that you can collaborate and share your work seamlessly.

Power BI:

Copilot in Power BI helps you analyze and visualize your data more easily. For example, it can offer insights, generate visualizations, and analyze complex data sets, assisting you in making well-informed decisions and presenting your findings clearly.

Excel:

Copilot in Excel can assist you perform advanced data analysis and automation with the addition of Python support. It is capable of running Python scripts, generate advanced visualizations, and perform complex calculations for you, helping you understand your data better and save time.

Check out this video to learn more about Copilot for M365

Pricing and Availability

The great part is that Copilot for M365 is available at just $30 per user, per month, and includes foundational capabilities like web grounding, commercial data protection, and graph grounding. It also offers role-specific capabilities for sales and service sectors.

We trust you found this blog post informative and now have a better understanding of Copilot for M365 and its features. Don’t hesitate to reach out to us if you want to learn more or contact us at info@itblueprint.ca.

 

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