New Copilot enhancements help small and medium-sized businesses innovate

Copilot has made a huge impact on small and medium-sized businesses over the past year, and we’re excited to share the second wave of innovations in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Announced today No matter the size of your business, we’ll help you achieve greater results.

In a recent survey of companies with 300 or fewer employees, business leaders reported, on average, experiencing the following: 12% faster launch time For new products and services.¹

Our customers have told us that Copilot has impacted their business in many ways. ICGCopilot, a start-up construction company, uses Copilot to create client proposals. 6 times faster This allows your sales team to pursue more opportunities and revenue. PakshaCopilot, a software development company, helped the customer success team. Reduce the time required to analyze data by 75% This enables teams to provide insightful recommendations to customers faster.

As your company scales and grows, we’ll explore how the latest AI innovations can help you serve your customers and stand out from the competition.

Microsoft is innovating on behalf of your business.

AI assistant for work

We’re making the free Microsoft Copilot more accessible to users who use . and Microsoft 365 apps. Soon, you’ll be able to pin it directly to Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Outlook, making it easier to use during your daily work. You can use it to ask business-related questions, such as summarizing industry trends, and all your data is encrypted and kept private.

You can also type a prompt like “Compare my product to a competitor’s” and ask them to reference an internal product spec sheet by manually adding a file. Copilot can infer the file and provide a response by pulling the latest public information from the Internet.

Here’s a Copilot image for your business chat environment.

Microsoft Copilot is available to users who use . Business Chat (BizChat) a is required and can be accessed here. Microsoft365.com/copilot.

BizChat Combines the power of web-based insights. Microsoft Graph It gathers data from your documents, presentations, emails, calendars, notes, and contacts, and contextualizes this data with information from the web. Like an assistant, it has a deep understanding of you, your job, your priorities, and your organization. It can find everything you need in your files (even the ones you forgot existed), quickly connect the dots across all your content and context, and even integrate with the apps you use to run your business.

We have strengthened you BizChat experience Pilot PageA continuous canvas for collaboration. Simply click “Edit on Page” at the bottom of a Copilot response. A page will be created and opened with a chat containing Copilot’s response. Pages takes AI-generated content and makes it durable, so you can edit, add to, and share it with your team like a Microsoft Word document. You and your team can work together in real time, asking Copilot more questions and adding more content. Copilot Pages will be generally available later this month and will also be accessible through the free Microsoft Copilot.

Here’s an image of the Copilot Page environment and how to share links to pages with your team.

Analyze your business data

Microsoft Excel is widely used by small businesses for inventory management, dashboards, project work-arounds, data analysis, and other business tasks. Data analysis can be difficult, but with Copilot, you only need to ask for insights.

Pilot in Excel Now generally available. Simply ask Copilot to analyze data written in a spreadsheet or text content written in a document and provide actionable insights. Then ask Copilot to visualize your insights in a chart, scatter plot, or pivot table. Copilot can also recommend the right visualization to help you better understand complex data and make more informed decisions with your team.

yes, Copilot in Excel using Python Adds the power of Python to enable advanced analytics in natural language without the need for coding. Simply ask questions in everyday language to enable predictive modeling and text analytics. Repeat Copilot in Excel to create heatmaps and word clouds. These features are available in: Microsoft 365 Insider And we will continue to roll it out to all our customers over the coming months. .

Go to work after finishing a busy day

Copilot helps you reduce the effort required for routine, time-consuming tasks so you can focus on growing your business.

While meeting minutes contain important information, a lot of discussion often takes place in the meeting chat as well. Now with this new feature, you can transcribe and Meeting Chat It helps keep meeting details up to date by providing a full picture of what was discussed.

Pilot of Outlook We’ll soon help you manage your inbox more effectively. Prioritize your inbox. Copilot combines the context of your role in your organization with your previous work emails to surface your most important messages, so you can spend less time sorting through your inbox and focus on what matters most. This feature will be available in public preview starting in late 2024.

Make your business stand out

Pilot in PowerPoint We work with you to turn your ideas into professional presentations. New Narrative Builder You can ask Copilot to create an outline for your presentation in PowerPoint, and then after you’ve adjusted the outline, you can ask Copilot to create the slides for you. You can use your company’s templates or create custom images created for you. You’ll never have to start from a blank slide again.

Use Copilot Agents in all your business apps

Often, small business infrastructure is a combination of different tools and software to meet specific processes and customer requirements. Copilot helps you coordinate all of these business functions and workflows using agents, so you can orchestrate your business in a single place.

Generally available No need to spend time switching between different tools or contextualizing information from different sources in BizChat. These agents allow you and your team to streamline processes and focus more on the task at hand.

You can use it to build custom agents for inference on specific SharePoint sites. Agent BuilderA lightweight experience integrated into Microsoft 365 Copilot. Click “Build Copilot Agent”.In BizChat, say ” and then connect an agent to your team.

You can also create agents for third-party systems or edit existing agents in Copilot Studio. You can @mention agents like any other team member to ask questions about their site. You can access agents from any device that has BizChat, including mobile devices. Copilot Agent and Copilot Studio Agent Builder will be generally available in the coming weeks.

Get started

To get started with Copilot right away, access Microsoft Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps. Go to Microsoft.com/copilot. You must log in. Entra ID account.

To use Copilot across all your Microsoft 365 apps and work data, purchase: Microsoft 365 Copilot Available as an add-on to your Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Microsoft 365 Standard, or Microsoft 365 Business Premium subscription. If you don’t already have these core productivity offerings, you can: Purchase Them now.

Learn more Microsoft 365 Copilot Or contact ~ Contact your cloud solutions partner for more information.

You can get started and explore the steps to understand preparation, licensing and technical requirements, and become familiar with new features. Here’s the new Copilot Success Kit for small businesses.

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¹ “New Technology: The Estimated Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft 365 Copilot for SMBs” is a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft. Results are based on a composite organization.