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10/09/2024
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In the dynamic world of IT management, streamlining tasks and enhancing efficiency isn’t just beneficial; it’s essential. Copilot, Microsoft’s generative AI assistant, is transforming how IT managers and professionals handle their daily workload. By integrating Copilot into your IT operations, you can elevate your productivity and precision to new heights.
As an IT manager, mornings can be hectic, filled with catching up on missed meetings and setting the day’s agenda. With Copilot’s integration with tools like Jira, you can have a prioritized list of tasks and updates ready before your first cup of coffee. No need to sift through countless emails or dashboards—Copilot does the heavy lifting, ensuring you start your day efficiently.
Preparing for stakeholder meetings can be overwhelming, requiring you to stay on top of every message, document, and task. Copilot’s seamless integration with communication platforms like Teams helps you summarize key points and action items. This ensures you enter each meeting fully informed and ready to engage effectively.
IT Managers are often bogged down with processing documentation, reporting, and preparing presentations. Copilot’s assistive features in Word and PowerPoint transform these manual, time-consuming processes into quick, effortless tasks. You can generate comprehensive proposals and presentations from your data, complete with key insights and actionable steps, all while maintaining focus on content that resonates with your stakeholders.
Analyzing IT strategies and technical reviews demands attention to detail and the ability to categorize information by impact, initiative, and financial implications. Copilot in Excel serves as your analytical partner, helping you summarize complex data into coherent, stakeholder-friendly tables saving you time and presenting data effectively.
As the working day nears a close, providing feedback on initiatives and projects is crucial. Drafting clear, concise, and actionable emails to stakeholders ensures continuous improvement and engagement. Copilot’s functionality within Outlook simplifies this process, keeping your projects on track and your team informed.
For IT managers, Copilot is more than just a tool—it’s a digital assistant that adapts to your needs, streamlines your workflow, and empowers you to focus on delivering value and innovation within your organization. Every minute counts, and Copilot ensures your business keeps pace and sets efficiency standards for the entire organization.
By integrating Copilot into your working day, you get more than just a license; you gain a competitive edge.
Interested in learning how Copilot can elevate your IT operations? Contact us for licensing details and expert Copilot consulting services to harness the full potential of your IT infrastructure management.
Publish Date
10/09/2024
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Microsoft’s artificial intelligence assistant Copilot is well known for its ability to cut through mundane tasks enabling people to draft content and summarise meetings quicker and in context but its newest version, which went live this year, has major implications for improving enterprise efficiency and productivity. Here’s how:
Copilot can help complete lines of code, debugging, or even writing entire functions and GitHub Copilot can help programmers simplify their coding process. So instead of spending time on routine coding tasks or searching for bugs in code, developers can focus on complex problem-solving and innovation.
Copilot applications like Jarvis and Copy.ai make it easier for writers to create copy. These tools help generate marketing copy and more so that writers can focus on research, strategy, and execution.
Corporate or contract law professionals can use Copilot to automate the review and drafting of legal documents. AI speeds up this normally time intensive task and lowers the chance of human error.
Copilot can help medical professionals in diagnosing conditions and creating personalized treatment plans. Combining Copilot with a medical database offers quick access to relevant information, which leads to faster and more accurate diagnoses and more effective treatment strategies. The result is improved patient care experiences.
Copilot can help customer service representatives deliver faster and more accurate support. AI can suggest the best responses or solutions by analysing customer queries and improving customer satisfaction. Copilot skims available information to provide a detailed summary and overview helping businesses maintain high service levels.
Using Copilot in education enables faster creation of learning materials and the ability to cater to individual learning styles. Currently, learning materials are created for mass consumption but not everyone learns at the same pace or at the same level. Through Copilot and adaptive AI, a more tailored approach to distance learning can be created so that students at all stages of the learning curve have content available to them through more accessible means.
Banking, investment, or insurance professionals constantly make decisions based on data. Using Copilot automation to improve the data analysis enables faster identification of trends and quicker strategic decision-making.
Copilot can optimize advertising campaigns and strategy planning to enable digital marketers to analyse their audience faster and with more depth. Automation can analyse data from a previous campaign and suggest improvements, target demographics, and content strategies that lead to higher engagement rates and ROI. Marketers can then consistently refine their efforts to reach wider audiences and gain maximum impact.
Automation delivers a competitive edge in logistics and distribution. Planning optimal routes, managing inventories, and predicting demand take considerable time and manpower. Through Copilot, operations are more efficient, costs are lowered, and operators can pivot to meet demands faster while preparing for future demand.
Architects and designers can use Copilot applications to enable more efficient design processes by providing real-time suggestions and automate parts of the design process. Professionals then have more time to explore creative solutions while project development and client presentations become much easier to shape.
Want to know more about how Copilot can supercharge your efficiency and productivity? Contact us for expert Copilot consulting. email: sales.uae@cobweb.com or call +971 4 455 3100.
Publish Date
28/05/2024
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Continuing its drive to empower people and businesses with leading-edge AI tools, Microsoft now plans to take group collaboration to a whole new level with its ‘Team Copilot’ AI assistant due for release around Q4.
The new ‘Team Copilot’ will keep meetings on track, take collaborative notes, manage large projects, and assigns tasks but people will stay be in control having the ability to ignore or override Team Copilot’s choices or assignments or even assign tasks to the new collaborative AI assistant.
Team Copilot, which will be available in Microsoft Teams, expands the capabilities of Microsoft 365 Copilot which currently acts as more of a personal assistant rather than a team player. Due for release in preview later this year, clients will need a Microsoft 365 Copilot license to access Team Copilot.
If you are still in the early throes of deciding on Microsoft 365 Copilot, you can call us for more information and a free demonstration. You will need to get to grips with Copilot M365 to get the best from Team Copilot down the line, so it’s best to get your house in order now. However, it’s important to bear in mind that while there’s no limit on how many licenses you can have for Copilot M365, it is an annual upfront paid commitment, so it really is best to trial it in a pilot phase before rolling it out.
Join our Copilot for Microsoft 365 workshop and discover how to get more time to focus, reduce time spent on research, and streamline communication tasks. It’s the new future of work. Don’t miss out!
When – 26/06/2024 at 3 pm GST
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To help you in your Copilot M365 decision-making, we’ve developed a five-step process.
Assessment:
Our experts will assess your AI-readiness and identify opportunities and any technical gaps needing to be plugged to for seamless Copilot integration.
Alignment:
Working together we define your unique business goals and challenges that Copilot can address.
Plan:
We will work with you to develop a tailored implementation plan which will detail timelines and resource allocation.
Test:
We will demonstrate and give you hands-on experience of Copilot to ensure it delivers positive business impact as quick as possible.
Roll Out:
We’ll help you with your business-wide implementation providing training for your users.
Register for your free demo here
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Publish Date
24/04/2024
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Copilot – Microsoft’s generative AI assistant – is the talk of workplaces the world over. It is fast taking off, particularly in light of the IDC report which shows that companies that invest US $1 in AI reap an ROI of 3.5 within a year or less.
While many have an overarching understanding of what Copilot is, there are some key pointers you may have missed, so we are shining a spotlight on them.
There are various versions. key to companies just starting out on their AI journey are:
Copilot With Commercial Data Protection:
This is available for all employees in organizations with a Microsoft 365 licence. It does not have access to any of the organization’s enterprise data so anything that its users paste or chat within Copilot is protected and is not shared outside of the organization.
Copilot For Microsoft 365:
This is the superpower version which has access to your Microsoft graph – that’s all the data and signals that are in your digital workplace including emails, OneDrive, Sharepoint and Teams sites, as well as external information on the Web making it a superb research and brainstorming tool. It can summarise documents helping you make sense of all the information, summarise meetings and data for more insightful actions.
Because it works on a language model, Copilot can contextually refine texts and generate ideas to resonate with different audiences.
You can use Copilot to also generate images to enliven your presentations, newsletters, and reports.
If you use Copilot you are protected against copyright infringement. However, if you are an organization with a lot of IP, it is important not to make it available to public facing websites where it could be used to feed models to create generative AI versions.
There’s no limit on how many licences you must have for Copilot M365, but it is an annual upfront paid commitment so trial it in a pilot phase before rolling it out.
Don’t forget, to get the most out of your Copilot experience, users must be upskilled to use it, such as the art of prompting, as well as the underlying technology i.e. whiteboard and Teams. Thanks to our collaboration with Storyals, we can provide their comprehensive, modern, cost effective and sustainable training programme. This is a mix of on-demand training in your own environment with evergreen, continuously updated training on how to use M365 Copilot and the underlying technology as well as live instructor-led training.
To reach out to us, email at: sales.uae@cobweb.com or call us on +971 4 455 3100.
Publish Date
03/04/2024
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Microsoft’s Copilot, a generative AI assistant, is revolutionizing workplaces globally. Serving as the premier solution, it accelerates research and summarization processes, fostering enhanced comprehension of issues and driving up productivity levels.
However, Copilot is only as good as its users who need to know how to get the best out of this transformative solution.
Our recent webinar on Productivity With AI highlighted three essential steps before embarking on an organizational-wide M365 Copilot journey.
Here are your three readiness steps:
Ensure that you are aware of and have approved the individuals who have access to specific resources. A frequent oversight among organizations is the assumption that information within a public Teams group is limited to its members. However, this is not the case. Unless specified as a private team group, everyone within the organization can access the information—the same goes for SharePoint.
Make sure multi-factor authentication is activated. If an account with Copilot access falls into the wrong hands, it could be exploited to gain further sensitive information. Safeguard your accounts!
Copilot is only as good as the people that use it. They should learn about good prompting and how to get the best out of the AI assistant which can transform good work into great work. Storyals trains organisations in a modern way that is extremely cost effective and sustainable. It mixes on-demand training in your own environment where it provides access to evergreen, continuously update training on how to use Microsoft 365, and not just Copilot but also the underlying technology including Whiteboard and Teams. Storayls combines the on-demand training with instructor-led training with real life scenarios on how to use the tools, continuously updated to enhance your digital workplace now and for the future.
To reach out to us, email at: sales.uae@cobweb.com or call us on +971 4 455 3100.
Publish Date
08/03/2024
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Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is transforming the workplace yet before you take off with this powerful modern workplace tool and optimize its benefits, its essential you have the correct security posture in place.
Copilot works by memorizing all your data and indexing it – that way it gets to understand better what you need and how it can help. However, if you don’t have a robust security infrastructure in place, Copilot could prove to be a loose cannon putting your entire data – your most precious and sensitive business asset – at risk.
To ensure our clients have the best and most secure Copilot experience, we’ve created a new Cobweb Copilot managed service. This two-phase service will take the strain out of securing your Copilot implementation giving you the peace of mind to leverage Copilot’s extraordinary workplace efficiencies meaning your team can focus on innovation to boost competitiveness.
Here’s how our managed service works:
Phase 2:
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If you’re wanting to know more about Copilot, you can now see it in action with our demo which covers five scenarios in action:
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Publish Date
16/02/2024
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The arrival of Microsoft Copilot has brought a new era of productivity and innovation to software development. This AI-powered assistant has the potential to transform how developers write code and streamline the development process. However, while the excitement around Copilot is palpable, it is crucial to temper that enthusiasm with careful planning and a robust data strategy.
Microsoft Copilot is designed to be a powerful assistant, but it needs access to data to be effective. Ensuring that your company data resides within Microsoft 365 is essential. This enables Copilot to consume and interrogate the data efficiently, allowing it to provide more accurate suggestions.
Cobweb can help you migrate your data to Microsoft 365 seamlessly. We offer expert services in data migration, ensuring that your valuable information is stored securely and accessible for Copilot’s use.
Before integrating Microsoft Copilot into your Microsoft environment, it’s essential to have a clear understanding of your existing data, permissions, and access controls. Copilot’s effectiveness depends on having the right data at its disposal, and a deep understanding of your data landscape is crucial.
Cobweb’s expertise in Microsoft 365 can help you gain insights into your data structure. We can assist in conducting data audits, helping you identify and classify data that Copilot should prioritise. This ensures that Copilot is equipped with the most relevant information to assist your developers effectively.
Microsoft recommends using sensitivity labels to add an extra layer of protection to confidential data. Sensitivity labels ensure that only authorised personnel can access and view sensitive information. Integrating sensitivity labels into your data strategy is crucial, especially when Copilot is dealing with proprietary code or sensitive data.
Cobweb can assist in implementing sensitivity labels across your Microsoft 365 environment. We can help you define policies and permissions, ensuring that confidential data remains protected, even as Copilot interacts with it.
Security should always be a top priority when implementing new tools like Copilot. Microsoft’s Conditional Access and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) are essential components of a robust security strategy. These features help ensure that only authorised users can access your organisation’s resources.
At Cobweb, we specialise in security solutions for Microsoft 365, by helping you configure and implement Conditional Access policies and MFA. This adds an additional layer of protection to your data and Copilot interactions.
To maximise Copilot’s capabilities, it’s important to have a standardised and secure device environment. Microsoft recommends Windows 11 as the preferred operating system for Copilot, although support for Windows 10 is being enabled in select markets. Ensuring that your devices are secure and up to date is essential for a smooth Copilot experience.
Cobweb can assist in device management and software updates, helping you maintain a secure and compatible environment for Copilot.
Know your Usage Requirements
Being specific in your needs and goals when using Copilot is essential for maximising its effectiveness and ensuring a successful integration into your business operations. Copilot is a powerful AI tool, but its capabilities are not limitless, and it operates within defined parameters. To make the most of Copilot, you need to clearly understand what tasks it can automate and what tasks it cannot. By identifying the specific business units where you want to deploy Copilot, you can tailor its usage to suit the unique needs of each department, optimising its impact.
By ensuring your company data is well-organised, protected, and accessible, you can harness the full potential of Microsoft Copilot while safeguarding your organisation’s valuable assets. So, as you embark on your Copilot journey, remember that a solid data strategy and a partner like Cobweb can make all the difference in your success.
This March, we’ll be hosting a webinar with Storyals on ‘Productivity with AI’. Get a head start on modern workplace efficiency for 2024 Register now!.
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Publish Date
10/01/2024
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Our journey into 2024 has been marked by a fantastic beginning, as we proudly introduce Storyals – the Swedish digital employee upskilling program – to our expanding product range. With this modern training program, you can continuously inspire, motivate, and educate your workforce on new digital ways of working with Microsoft 365.
Storyals’ world-class training features unique on-demand courses and instructor-led programs. These help organizations build the vital digital skills for a modern workforce that is hyper productive, collaborative, and efficient.
There’s a range of Storyals programs to choose from and to suit all employee profiles from office workers, to front line staff and even leadership! They include:
This Teams App training, fits businesses looking for an easy and effective way to provide employees with continuous digital workplace training. Storyals integrates e-learning, chatbot technology, and in-person coaching to create an enjoyable and engaging learning experience.
This product will actively strengthen the digital competence of an entire organization and drive effective usage of Microsoft 365. It comes with the multi-award-winning learning management system LMS365 so clients can easily assign, track, and follow-up learning organization-wide.
This exclusive program complements an organization’s Storyals training product. It is targeted to professionals who need a more focused training plan to strengthen their digital leadership. Led by Storyals Productivity Coaches, attendees get a personalized training plan and 1-1 productivity coaching sessions. Included are workshops with their direct team to align on efficient ways of working.
The program complements an organization’s Storyals training product and is for those licensed for Microsoft 365 Copilot. The program gives employees a kick-start in using Microsoft’s AI-powered tools including Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot (former Bing Chat Enterprise). Users get expert guidance on best practices, security, tips for accelerating results, hands-on practice sessions, and feedback from their peers and coaches.
This February, we’ll be hosting a webinar with Storyals on ‘Productivity with AI’. Get a head start on modern workplace efficiency for 2024.
Contact us now for a free solutions assessment.
To reach out to us, email at: sales.uae@cobweb.com or call us on +971 4 455 3100.