Microsoft 365 Copilot

What I like most about Microsoft Copilot is its ability to significantly enhance productivity across various Microsoft 365 applications. The seamless integration into everyday tools like Word, Excel, and Teams is incredibly valuable for crafting messages and information. Two applications, in particular, have provided the most value: Excel: It has been very valuable for creating visualizations and analysis, especially when users might forget specific formulas. Copilot makes this process much quicker and easier. Outlook and Teams: From my position, I engage in extensive communication that requires a specific tone, depending on whether I'm addressing leadership or peers. Copilot helps me achieve the right tone faster by allowing me to provide a raw draft and generating a refined message based on the desired tone and audience. My top three most-loved features are: 1. Rephrasing: This feature is incredibly helpful because it often takes a considerable amount of time to get the tone and message precisely accurate. Copilot significantly assists in this process. 2. Summarization: It efficiently summarizes long email chains, saving me valuable minutes that would otherwise be spent manually sifting through information. 3. General coaching and language structure: Copilot helps in understanding how to structure language for different audiences and situations, which is crucial for effective communication. I also appreciate how intuitive the interface is, describing it as pretty basic and just like chatting with somebody. The fundamental functionality is very straightforward, requiring minimal learning. Furthermore, the robustness of its security and data compliance is a major advantage. Knowing that information remains within our company's instance and does not go outside is a primary reason why my organization, and others, are willing to adopt it. From a broader organizational standpoint, Copilot is playing a crucial role in bringing awareness about AI products and prompt engineering to the entire workforce. It's a general-use application, which makes it very hard to get wrong with it. The positive feedback regarding productivity improvements, including a reported 20% reduction in time for refining content and 20-30% time savings on tasks like PowerPoint presentations, further highlights its value.

It is fast is fully integrated with microsoft You do not have to learnt anything to use it It will help you to code in any programming language, or make a nice presentation, or a summary of a meeting notes, its a time saver, but you can trust 100%, you should use your criteria, and it is very important to make the right questions (prompts).

Microsoft 365 Copilot works very well and intuitively with other M365 products. I am able to quickly use Copilot to find a specific document that I need, or even find specific information within a document. Copilot instantly summarizes emails and documents, saving you time and giving an accurate summary of the information you are attempting to ingest. Copilot also generates insightful and beneficial information when asking a question. All the answers have their sources provided for easy access as well.

While the overall experience with Copilot has been positive, there are a few areas that could be improved. Although the AI-generated responses are generally accurate, around 80% to 90%, inconsistencies arise when I ask it to perform specific actions. For instance, when I instruct it to create a table or a specific slide in PowerPoint or Word, it sometimes fumbles. There are occasions when it successfully performs the action, but at other times, it states it's unable to do so, even if it has completed a similar task previously. This inconsistency in executing actions, such as creating slides based on documents or generating tables, is something I would like to see improved over time. Another concern, though infrequent, is related to AI hallucinations. Sometimes, Copilot might go outside the context of your question and hallucinate a little bit. A key feature I would like to see developed is personalization. Currently, I have to repeatedly give instructions about the desired tone or the type of audience I am communicating with. I wish Copilot could learn from my past conversations and adapt to my priorities or preferred style of content generation. This would eliminate the need to provide the same instructions every single time, making the interaction more seamless and tailored to my individual workflow. Additionally, specific functionalities like customer segmentation are pretty much non-existent. I also haven't personally used it for tasks such as lead generation or campaign management, so I cannot comment on those aspects.

It is not 100% accurate, you have to be sure about the topic, to avoid mistakes due to trust 100% Copilot reply

Microsoft 365 Copilot only knows what it has access to within your environment. The user must make sure all relevant files are synced so Copilot can read them. Sometimes Copilot doesn't fully understand what I am asking of it. In those situations, I have to rephrase and resubmit what I am asking of it. The pricing can be quite expensive. Depending on the size of your organization and how many licenses are required, the total price can accumulate very quickly.