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How does Microsoft 365 Copilot add value to your organisation?

How does Copilot for Microsoft 365 add value to your business? After all, using a tool is one thing, but being beneficial to that tool is another. Is it worth it to implement Copilot thoroughly into your organisation’s workflows?

This blog will discuss four ways Copilot for Microsoft 365 can add value to your business. We’ll look at each one and the multiple ways each can be used in actual use cases to create tangible value out of Copilot.

Improving Productivity

Productivity is critical in the workplace, yet so much time can be spent on tasks such as scheduling group meetings and summarising important documents, wasting daily resources. However, Copilot is genuinely a business dream, boosting employee productivity while enhancing workflow efficiency. Now, with Copilot, dealing with routine tasks is easier than ever. 

Using an automated workflow, Copilot can complete various 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 most significant 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 It from anywhere and use it to its full extent.

Within Microsoft 365, Copilot has unique features to help you work efficiently. For example, you might summarise your latest Teams meeting to keep as notes while 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. For example, you can quickly access your statistics from an Excel spreadsheet while writing in Word through Copilot’s handy information access. This lets you stay in your workflow while reducing the risk of error.

Alongside enhancing efficiency, Copilot helps your company reduce operational costs through automation, reduce errors, and offer handy cost analysis spreadsheets that give you visibility into your business’s spending.

Kickstarting Creativity

With Copilot, brainstorming new and innovative ideas is simple. By typing a simple prompt, your team can generate many new ideas and kickstart creativity. 

Copilot will intelligently provide ideas and suggestions to help boost your creativity. This will ultimately let you find new ideas that might not have previously crossed your mind. This can be useful for everything, from innovating and finding new creative solutions to generating creative outputs for marketing and social media.

Copilot can be a marketing powerhouse, combining data and creativity to take your marketing to the next level. It can extrapolate data to see what works well for your business and audience. 

With this, you can ask for marketing ideas, and Copilot can provide data-backed marketing suggestions to help you succeed.

Driving Data-Driven Decision Making

Copilot isn’t just for generative and creative capabilities. It can also provide real-time 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. It can process said data faster than the human eye and find new insights and trends that may not have been apparent previously. With this information, you can take advantage of it and ensure you have a competitive edge in your decision-making.

In addition, artificial intelligence can do wonders with data, and Copilot is no exception. It can be used for complete data science and engineering, enhancing your data analysis and identification process to 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 develop 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 organisation, and taking advantage of its capabilities can spell the difference between success and failure for your business. Every business is looking for 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 organisation are vital for success and will easily take your workplace from one step to the next. Automation, productivity, and data analysis improve core business functions, whereas Copilot’s generative AI properties can bolster creativity.

Are you looking to get started with Copilot? Contact us now. Our experts are here to help you ensure you have everything you need to succeed with Copilot, providing you with a helping hand every step of the way.

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