Work Smarter: Copilot Productivity Tips for Secure Insights

With the recent announcement of improvements to Microsoft 365 Copilot, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at some everyday use cases and see how you can leverage them. Today, let’s take a quick look. Enterprise Data Protection (EDP) We’ll show you how Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot can help you get things done with confidence, and why we think it’s important.

First, what is EDP? It stands for Control and Promise. data Additional Protection Clauses (DPA) and Product Terms and ConditionsApplies to customer data for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot users. If you sign in with an Entra ID, it applies to both Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot.

Check it out link To learn more, but at a high level, this means that your data is private, secure, and not used to train underlying models. This allows you to use Copilot confidently to get your work done without the risk of data leakage. Now let’s see how this can be useful!

Tip 1: Find out how your product compares to your competitors

Let’s say I have an internal document that describes the specifications for a new product and I need to figure out how to get it to market. EDP means I can attach a file to my prompt knowing that it will remain safe while Copilot combines information from my data with the latest information from the web to provide me with a response.

1. Here, we are in the “web” scope. Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Screenshot from Microsoft Copilot

2. Enter the prompt.
“I am using the product specifications in this document to create a table comparing my new e-bike to other products on the market. I want to see how my product compares and get an idea of ​​how much I should price my bike.”

3. Select the paper clip icon in the bottom right of the chat window and select a product specification document from your files.

Screenshot of chat window with prompt and file associated with it

Display a screenshot of the results returned from Copilot in a table

Screenshot of the response provided by Copilot based on analysis of competitor proposals

Copilot provides me with the tables I requested, as well as some of the analytics and pricing strategies I requested, and the information I exchange with Copilot does not train any underlying models and is not at risk of being leaked.

Tip 2: Simplify collaboration with Microsoft 365 Copilot

If you have a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, you can use Copilot Pages to further streamline collaboration with your colleagues.

1. I put the same prompt in the scope of work in Business Chat, but this time in the scope of work in Microsoft 365 Copilot. This time, I just use the slash button to link the file to the prompt.

Screenshot of Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat

2. After receiving Copilot’s response, select “Edit”. bloodage“. The pilot automatically Bring Through responses to pages.

Screenshot of Copilot’s response with the “Edit on Page” button

3. Select Share in the top right corner of the page or tag colleagues directly via @mention to instantly collaborate on content.

Screenshots of the business chat and page components

Or you can share a link to the page or copy the page component to an email, which is the same way you would use the Loop component (if you want to learn more about the experience, I showed you how to use Copilot in Loop in a previous blog post). here).

For example, you could mention @Bri and ask her to take a look and add her thoughts and ideas. She can do this directly on the page, or she can ask Copilot for help.

These small but simple ways of leveraging Copilot have dramatically improved and changed the way I work, solve problems, and collaborate.

If there are any other ways this might help you, please let me know!