Artificial intelligence is quickly taking the world by storm — with generative AI being one of the technologies propelling AI forward. Microsoft is playing a massive role in this, with the implementation of Copilot for Microsoft 365 for lots of businesses.
But, how does Copilot for Microsoft 365 add value to your business? After all, using a tool is one thing, but that tool being beneficial is a whole other thing — is it worth it to implement Copilot into your business’ workflows thoroughly?
In this article, we’re going to give you four ways that Copilot for Microsoft 365 can add value to your business. We’ll take a look at each one, and multiple ways that each one can be used in real use cases to be able to create tangible value out 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. However, Copilot is truly a dream come true for businesses — boosting employee productivity whilst enhancing workflow efficiency all around. Now with Copilot, dealing with routine tasks is easier than ever.
By using an automated workflow, Copilot can complete a variety of daily tasks for you such as drafting emails, generating reports, or sending reminders, saving a large chunk of time in your already busy workday.
Enhancing communication within your business is simple with Copilot. With skills such as information retrieval, accurate language translation, personalised assistance, and more, employees will be connected like never before, with the ability to send, receive, and work with information quicker than ever.
Enhancing Operational Efficiency
One of the greatest benefits of using Copilot as a business is that it fits right into your existing software. Copilot is integrated into existing Microsoft 365 applications such as Teams, Word, Outlook, and more — ensuring you can access Copilot from anywhere and use it to its full extent.
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 — you can quickly access your statistics from an Excel spreadsheet whilst you’re writing in Word, all through Copilot’s handy information access, letting you stay in your workflow while reducing the risk of error.
Alongside enhancing efficiency, using Copilot helps your company reduce operational costs using automation, reducing errors, and offering handy cost analysis spreadsheets giving you visibility into your business’s 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 will be able to intelligently provide you with ideas and suggestions to help boost your creativity, which will ultimately let you find new ideas that might have not even crossed your mind previously. This can be useful for all kinds of things, from innovating and finding new creative solutions to generating creative outputs for marketing and social media.
In fact, Copilot can be used as a marketing powerhouse — combining data and creativity to be able to take your marketing to the next level. Copilot can extrapolate data to be able to see what works well for your business, and your audience.
With this, you can ask it to give you marketing ideas, and Copilot will be able to give you data-backed marketing suggestions that will help you succeed.
Driving Data-Driven Decision Making
Copilot isn’t just for generative and creative capabilities. It can also provide real-time data insights from your organisational data. Of course, this is vital — data is the resource that makes the business world turn, and being able to provide real-time insights based on data is the difference between making good and bad decisions.
Copilot can look at your data and offer insights in real-time, being able to process said data faster than the human eye and find new insights and trends that may have not been apparent previously. With this, you can take advantage of this information and ensure that you have a competitive edge in your decision-making.
On top of this, artificial intelligence can do wonders with data — and Copilot is no exception. It can be used for full data science and engineering, letting you enhance your data analysis and identification process so you can take your data capabilities to the next level.
Using Copilot, you can create code to use within both Power BI and your lakehouse, meaning that you can use Copilot to create innovative new code that’ll be able to help you maximise innovation — while letting you boost the value of Copilot within your business. Copilot can also help with data visualisation, letting you see your data in front of you and making it much easier to understand said data.
How We Can Help
Microsoft Copilot is one of the most potent modern tools for any business, and being able to take advantage of its capabilities can spell the difference between success and failure for your business. 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 ways that Microsoft Copilot adds value to your business are vital for success and will be able to take your workplace from one step to the next with ease. Automation, productivity, and data analysis are ways to improve core business functions, whereas the generative AI properties of Copilot can be used to bolster creativity.
Are you looking to get started with Copilot? Reach out to us now, as our experts are here to help you ensure you have everything you need to be able to succeed with Copilot — providing you with a helping hand every step of the way.
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