??NEWS: Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2 is Here!

It's been a call we all have been waiting for! Yesterday, Satya Nadella - CEO Microsoft and Jared Spataro - CVP Microsoft, AI at Work have announced the launch of Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2, bringing groundbreaking innovations to enhance your productivity and collaboration.

Let me summarize the key highlights to help you getting an overview:

1. INTRODUCING COPILOT PAGES ??

?? A dynamic, persistent canvas for multiplayer AI collaboration.

?? Transform ephemeral AI-generated content into durable, editable, and shareable assets.

Copilot Pages is a dynamic, persistent canvas designed for multiplayer AI collaboration. This new digital artifact allows teams to work together in real-time, making AI-generated content durable and editable. Imagine collaborating with your team and Copilot, adding content from your data, files, and the web seamlessly. This is the future of knowledge work!

2. ENHANCED COPILOT IN M365 APPS??

Rapidly improving Copilot across Microsoft 365 apps:

??EXCEL: Now with Python integration, enabling advanced data analysis and visualization without coding.

?? POWERPOINT: Narrative builder helps create polished presentations quickly, with brand management features.

??TEAMS: Copilot can now reason over both meeting transcripts and chats, ensuring no question or idea is missed.

??OUTLOOK: Prioritize your inbox with AI, summarizing emails and highlighting important messages.

??WORD: Quickly reference and integrate content from various sources, streamlining your writing process.

??ONEDRIVE: Easily find and compare information across your files with AI-powered insights.

3. COPILOT AGENTS??

?? Automate and execute business processes effortlessly.

?? From simple tasks to fully autonomous agents, scale your team like never before.

Introducing Copilot agents, AI assistants designed to automate and execute business processes. From simple tasks to fully autonomous agents, these tools help scale your team’s capabilities. With agent builder, anyone can create a Copilot agent in BizChat or SharePoint, unlocking the value of your organization’s knowledge repository

“In the past, if we were building a major campaign like the Finance is Open campaign, it would’ve taken us three months to generate the content. We can do that now with Copilot in less than one.” — Joerg Klueckmann, Head of Corporate Marketing and Communications, Finastra?

4. COPILOT CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORIES??

Customers worldwide are experiencing the transformative power of Copilot:

??VODAFONE: Empowering 68,000 employees with Copilot.

??AMGEN: Accelerating research on rare diseases.

??TELADOC: Saving up to five hours per week for customer service agents.

??FINASTRA: Reducing content production time by 75%.

??HONEYWELL: Saving 92 minutes per week per user, equivalent to 74 hours annually.

LOOKING AHEAD ??

This is just start of ongoing innovation in Microsoft Copilot that will change the way we all work. Stay tuned for more updates on how Copilot is supercharging productivity and accelerating business value for every customer.

For more details and demos the show the power of Microsoft Copilot: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2024/09/16/microsoft-365-copilot-wave-2-pages-python-in-excel-and-agents/