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Microsoft Unveils Wave 2, AI Integration Across Microsoft 365 Products

By Consultants Review Team Tuesday, 17 September 2024

With approximately 60% of Fortune 500 enterprises use Microsoft 365 Copilot, the software is revolutionizing how businesses operate. The purpose of the program is to help staff members finish assignments, conduct meetings, and automate workflows and procedures.

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Wave 2 includes 700 new product improvements, according to the business. In a live-streamed event, the business announced that more than 150 new features had already been released. The GPT-4o model is one of the new characteristics that have significantly enhanced performance, according to the business.

Microsoft is merging pages, the web, and work with these changes. Additionally, Copilot is now integrated with OneDrive, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook.

During the launch, Microsoft's chairman and CEO, Satya Nadella, referred to these upgrades as the AI user interface.

Only eighteen months have passed since the release of Microsoft 365 Copilot. For the more than 400 million users of Microsoft 365, it is quickly evolving into an organizing layer for work, changing the workflow and work products," Nadella stated during the live broadcast.

He went on to say that almost twice as many individuals use Copilot every day at work than there was a quarter ago. "Clients are returning to assign additional seats. In actuality, Copilot is being adopted more quickly than any other new Microsoft 365 suite, he continued.

Additionally, the business reported that the number of clients with over 10,000 seats had more than quadrupled on a quarterly basis. Vodafone, for example, has purchased 68,000 licenses for its 100,000 workers. Microsoft claims that Vodafone workers save about three hours each week, which enhances productivity and improves work-life balance. An hour has been cut out of the contract preparation process by the legal and compliance team.

Honeywell customers save 390,000 hours a year, or an average of 92 minutes per week. Bank of Queensland has lowered the time it takes to develop documents, while Finastra utilizes Copilot to produce marketing materials more quickly.

Since using Microsoft365Copilot, several businesses including Progressive Insurance, Lumen Technologies, Teladoc, Amgen, Cognizant, ICG, PKSHA, Joos, Morula Health, and Floww have also seen increases in efficiency and productivity.

According to Microsoft, Copilot will change in three main ways. It will first integrate pages, work, and the web. This implies that Copilot can create a multiplayer AI canvas out of any data that is found on the internet or in a user's work.

Secondly, Copilot has a close integration with a number of Microsoft programs, including Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint. And lastly, Copilot agents will be unveiled by Microsoft.

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