Microsoft 365 Copilot

Through using Microsoft 365 Copilot, businesses can work smarter, be more productive and boost creating – the AI companion that works everywhere you do and intelligently adapts to your needs.

Vissensa and Microsoft Copilot

Reinventing productivity and collaboration tools across your organisation

What is Microsoft Copilot and how will it benefit my business?

The industry as a whole continues to invest in sophisicated generative AI tools from ChatGPT to Microsoft Copilot. 

Combining the power of large language models (LLM’s) with data – your calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings and more – and the Microsoft 365 apps, Copilot is the most powerful productivity tool in the planet. 

Overcome the time consuming elements of your work and enhance creativity across your business. 

What are the Microsoft 365 Copilot benefits?

Copilot can help reduce some of the time saving elements, find out more on how each of the Microsoft 365 Apps can be enhanced by copilot.

Copilot Word – writing, editing, summarising and more with a brief prompt, Copilot creates first drafts bringing information from across your organisation.

Copilot Excel – analyse and explore, providing correlations, “what-if" scenarios from simple questions you ask the AI tool. 

Copilot PowerPoint – turn ideas into stunning presentations, transform documents into powerpoint presentations with stock images.

Copilot Outlook – spend less time reading emails, summarising those with long email chains, see different viewpoints across staff and turn quick draft notes into professional looking emails.  

Introducing Microsoft Copilot
Vissensa - Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft Copilot with Vissensa

Since 2008, Vissensa has continued to introduce new products that help our clients increase collaboration and streamline business processes. 

Look no further than Microsoft’s introduction of Copilot, a whole new way of working! 

Build your own Microsoft Copilots

Microsoft 365 Copilot Studio

If you are familiar with Copilot or Microsoft 365 copilot, then you are probably aware of the immense benefit these generative AI tools can be for your business. 

Copilot studio is a graphical, low-code tool for creating, customising and maintaining your Copilot – low-code meaning that that there is no need for sophisticated coding and instead an easy to use system. 

This allows your organisation to customer Copilot to suit your business, enabling you to hone down on what the business needs from such AI tools.

Microsoft Copilot Features and Use Cases

Copilot Microsoft Word

Microsoft Copilot Microsoft Word

With the ability to write, edit, summarise and create documents right alongside you – it hasn’t been easier to streamline your work. 

Copilot will help bring a first draft to you, bringing relevant information together across your organisation. Adding content from existing documents, rewriting sections or even entire documents to make it more concise – with the ability to suggest and change tones from professional to casual and thankful. 

Copilot Work Use Cases

  • Draft two page project proposal’s bringing data from a document and spreadsheet
  • Make paragraphs more concise whilst also changing the tone of the document to a more casual approach
  • Create a one-page draft document based on a rough outline as shown on the image to the left. 

Microsoft Copilot Excel

Excel spreadsheets can be sometimes difficult to analyse and explore, with Copilot you can ask, in normal language, for it to reveal correlations in data, propose particular scenarios and suggest new formulas across your spreadsheet! Explore your excel data without having to modify it. 

Copilot in Excel Use Cases

  • Providing a breakdown of sales by type and channel with inserting a table. 
  • Project the impact of a change and generate a chart to visualise this
  • model how a change in growth rate for particular variables would impact gross margin
Copilot Microsoft Excel
Copilot Powerpoint

Microsoft Copilot Powerpoint

Creating professional looking Powerpoint presentations has never been easier with Copilot, as your story telling partner, it can help transform written documents into complete slide decks with speaker notes and sources. 

Copilot also has the ability to condense lengthy presentations on demand, adjust layouts, reformat text and introduce perfect time animations. 

Copilot in Powerpoint Use Cases

  • Creating a four-slide presentation based on a word document in your Sharepoint environment and include suitable stock photos
  • Consolidate lengthy presentations into a three-slide presentation summary
  • Reformat bullet points into a number of columns each with a picture. 

Microsoft Copilot Outlook

Copilot works with you in your inbox across your messages, helping to speak less time reading and more time communications. Through summarising lengthy email threads with multiple people, through to gathering different viewpoints across the team and any open questions left to be answered. 

Respond to existing emails with a simple prompt and turn quick notes into professional messages – it even allows you to adjust the tone and length of your note to suit your needs. 

Copilot in Outlook Examples

  • Summarise emails you might have missed whilst you were on holiday or away whilst flagging important items
  • Draft a respomnse thanking the team, asking for more details on particular points, shorten or even lengthing the message and making the tone more professional.
Copilot Outlook
Copilot Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Copilot Teams

Using Copilot in Teams helps you to run more effective meetings, catching up with the conversation, organising key discussion points, summarising actions of the entire group so that everyone knows the next steps – all without interrupting the flow of the discussion. 

With the ability for it to create meeting agendas based on chat history, identifying the appropriate people for follow-ups and scheduling the next meeting. 

Copilot in Teams Examples

  • Summarise what has been missed in the meeting, points to be made aware of and where does the team disagree on these points
  • Create a table of pros and cons of a particular topic in discussion, whilst also noting what else should be considered for deciding
  • What decisions have been made in the meeting and suggest next steps. 

Product Spotlight – Copilot Business Chat

New Experience that works across all your data and apps 

Business Chat works alongside you to bring together all your data such as calendar, emails, chats, documents, presentations, meetings and more.

Through bringing together information from multiple sources and data points, it ensures everyone on the team are on the same page and working together. 

Less time focused on tools and more time focused on important work! 

Examples of use cases 

  • Summarisation – summarise chats, emails, documents about a particular customer/issue or project escalation that took place the night before
  • Milestones – what is the next milestone for a project? Any risks identified bu the team as well as help brainstorm a list of potential mitigations of that risk.
  • Planning Overview – use a style from one particular file, with the timeline from another and then incorporates a project list from a particular person. Pulling together documents and data points into a single pane of glass. 
Copilot Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Copilot License Pricing and Packages

Discover more around the copilot licensing available for businesses, 

Copilot License – Free

Find the information you’re looking for, creating original content and get things done faster.

Including;

Chat with text, voice and image capabilities. Summarisation of documents and web pages.

Image creation in Designer, Web Grounding and use of plugins and Copilot GPTs.

Copilot for Microsoft 365

For business: bring copilot to your organisation with a Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Business Premium subscription.

Copilot in Teams, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote and Outlook. 

Enterprise-grade data protection

Customisation and extensibility through Microsoft Copilot Studio license

Microsoft Copilot Studio

Your copilot, your way

Build and run your own copilots across websites and other channels to serve employees and customers.

Bundled with Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and you can use Copilot Studio to build extensions within Copilot for Microsoft 365 Chat. 

Speak to the Vissensa Team about our Microsoft Copilot and the new way of working with AI.

If you have a need for streamlining business processes, reducing time consuming tasks, helping to collaborate more with your team then Copilot is worth exploring, the Vissensa team is here to provide advice and guidance and answer any questions you may have.

As a Microsoft partner, our Consultants will work with you at any stage you require. Please complete this short form, and a member of our team will be in touch to have an informal chat about our Microsoft Copilot options.

We will never sell your data and we promise to keep your details safe and secure. For further details on how your data is used and stored please view our privacy policy.

FAQ’s

What does Copilot do?

Copilot is a rapidly growing productivity tool from Microsoft to help streamline cumbersome tasks by using generative AI to help encourage creativity and efficiency. 

How can Copilot help my business?

Copilot for Business helps to reduce time consuming tasks such as creating a Powerpoint presentation from a 10-page document, summarising emails that were sent whilst you were on holiday through to creating tasks from Teams meetings. 

The possibilities are endless in terms of capabilities, with Microsoft continuing to invest in Copilot and its abilities to increase productivity in the modern workplace.