Microsoft Copilot, is it worth investigating for your business? 10 things you can use it for TODAY

Released earlier this year, Microsoft Copilot is available for you to use today and is Microsoft’s answer to the growing trend of AI assisted technologies. Copilot is a Microsoft 365 offering alongside their other popular business software applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and more but you may be asking, what can I do with it?

Here are 10 real life use cases for Microsoft Copilot:

1. Automate Reporting from Excel: If you’re still manually generating reports based on the Excel spreadsheets created by your business that can end today. Copilot can generate comprehensive reports based on trends, perform calculations and more. Copilot will even analyze the data and alert you if it senses there are errors.
2. Create Visuals from Your Data: If you need charts to demonstrate certain aspects of your business to clients and partners, Copilot can generate charts and graphs based on the data you have available with the click of a button.
3. Document Creation: Like other AI tools, Copilot can help you reword documents you currently have in progress or offer additional creative inspiration alongside your UGC (User-Generated Content). It can also generate images that will complement your documents.
4. Easy Integration: Since Copilot is a Microsoft tool, that makes integrating it into your business easier than trying to evaluate the many emerging AI technologies on the market and you can train your staff on the features found with AI.
5. Use Copilot for Reminders: You can train Copilot to create reminders for you based on previous activity, say you have a monthly meeting each month. Copilot can look at that data and create reminders for it going forward without you needing to manually schedule those reminders yourself.
6. Fraud Detection: Speaking of analyzing behaviors, Copilot can also look for behaviors that are unusual within your business – such as financial transactions that differ greatly from your norm and report these to you.
7. AI-Powered Customer Chat: Copilot can be an automated chat and response tool for your business when it comes to interacting with your clients, including allowing it to respond to routine questions so you don’t need to take time out of your day to do so.
8. Marketing Campaigning: Copilot can analyze your customer base and suggest marketing campaign ideas to send to your target audience.
9. Software Development: As with ChatGPT and the like, Copilot can even offer assistance if your business has in-house programmers or technical people. Even for nontechnical roles, many questions can be answered via AI without needing to go down the rabbit hole of a Google search.
10. Tailored to You: In case we weren’t clear, Copilot can do as much or as little as you want it to do – from writing emails, to creating slide decks, to analyzing data, to performing routine tasks, Copilot and AI in general is powerful tool that most businesses should be taking advantage of in 2024.

If all of these advantages weren’t enough, Microsoft just recently announced Copilot for Security. Taking advantage of the vast wealth of data the Microsoft Security Suite has available and powered by AI, Microsoft Copilot for Security will look for user risks and can even resolve security incidents before they become a problem.

If you would like to learn more about utilizing Copilot for your business, Valley Techlogic has been a Microsoft partner since 2004 and would be able to assist your business as we enter this new age of AI powered technology. Schedule a consultation with us today to learn more.

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