3 Ways Microsoft Copilot Studio Can Boost Your Productivity

Productivity should remain top of mind for business leaders as we approach the end of the year, especially come the holidays when employees begin to take extended vacation. Business can’t stop — in fact, it might pick up for your organization — and leveraging reliable, modern technology can help keep productivity flowing strong.

Microsoft Copilot Studio is one such tool that allows users to create, manage and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) agents for conversational applications and interactions. Users can create “copilots” for internal or external use, with the ability to customize AI-powered copilots to suit their needs.

By empowering people to develop custom environments through artificial intelligence that can help them perform their jobs more productively, Copilot Studio is the low-code tool of the modern workplace.

Here are three ways that make Copilot Studio the productivity booster your organization can benefit from.

The primary value Copilot Studio brings to organizations dealing with vast and/or varied amounts of data is supplying them with user-created virtual assistants. Users can configure these skilled bots based on a large corpus of knowledge to help answer common questions and troubleshoot problems.

Employee handbooks are one example wherein virtual assistants can quickly field user questions from how many vacation days they receive to specifics on the cell phone reimbursement policy.

You can even leverage virtual assistants to help identify consultants to staff for projects based on established parameters. With natural language capabilities, virtual assistants can communicate with you and your employees so that everyone is on the same page to remain focused and productive.

With so many tasks to get done and a limited staff to complete them, time is always of the essence. Giving your people an edge by allowing them to automate certain tasks can lead to considerable time- and cost-savings for your organization.

Let’s say your staff needs to create an automation triggered by an event such as the arrival of a time-sensitive email from a specific person or schedule an automation for a data upload to SharePoint or a database.

Copilot Studio enables users to create a cloud flow that performs one or more tasks automatically after it’s triggered by a designated event. With the click of a button, users can turn conversation into actionable tasks using custom topics and AI prompts.

Copilot Studio’s automation also extends to help resolve IT issues. Users can leverage AI-powered agents to look up tickets and ask questions for a seamless self-service experience, empowering them to work smarter, not harder.

Copilot extensibility gives your organization the ability to customize and extend Microsoft 365 Copilot with additional knowledge and skills. Your people can deploy agents directly to the applications they leverage daily such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and Business Chat — meaning they can eventually bring to life actual business results based on AI-assisted summarizations of important conversations.

Additionally, manufacturers have produced, and are continuing to develop, innovative hardware such as enhanced keyboards which include a Copilot key that launches the Copilot app that can assist users with writing accuracy[1]. With automated capabilities, this tool can identify spelling and grammatical errors and provide suggestions on sentence structure and tone. The integration of AI tools such as Copilot keyboards offers your organization the opportunity to efficiently produce high-quality writing and boost productivity on strategic initiatives.

[1] Editor’s Note: Microsoft Copilot in Windows requires Windows 11 or later and is available in select global markets. Functionality may be limited and may require a separate subscription. When Copilot for Windows is not enabled on the device, pressing the Copilot key will launch Windows Search.

CDW is distinctly positioned to boost your organization’s productivity with our decades-long partnerships with industry leaders and our knowledgeable solutions architects. No matter what your business challenges are, we can help you solve them on any timeline. Our experts can guide you from implementation and beyond, equipping your organization with a conversational AI platform to accelerate productivity with automated workflows. Quick wins will add up to less stress for stronger morale and reduced costs for a better bottom line.

^[1] Editor’s Note: Microsoft Copilot in Windows requires Windows 11 or later and is available in select global markets. Functionality may be limited and may require a separate subscription. When Copilot for Windows is not enabled on the device, pressing the Copilot key will launch Windows Search.