A practice input - use the power of M365

It's been more than six months since I started our expert blog at Campana & Schott about 'Copilot: Are You Ready for Takeoff?' Back then, the key message was that organizations need to be technically ready to get the most out of Copilot.

Let's take a look at what I experience in my daily work.

Are there technical showstopper for Copilot?

While we conduct our Copilot Readiness Workshop to ensure that no technical showstoppers occur during a rollout/pilot phase, we often see similar situations at customer sites:

? Most customers have the minimum technical requirements to start with Copilot ?? No technical showstoppers are identified.

? But at the same time, most of them are not ready from a cloud content readiness perspective, especially when you look more closely at data & security.

Do your homework to get the most out of Copilot

During the pilot phase, you can accept that you may not have everything under control and may be struggling with oversharing, not using metadata, or not using Microsoft Purview. So if you're starting with Copilot and you already know there's a lot of homework to be done, make sure you leverage the power of M365. There are so many helpful aspects to the platform that will help you on your journey, both technically and from a user enablement perspective.

SharePoint Premium for an advanced content management

SharePoint Premium brings you additional capabilities regarding your auto-meta-tagging, governance, and many, many more. Stay tuned for a special episode on SharePoint Premium ??

The introductory blog by Jeff Teper from Ignite can be found here.

Personally, I see tremendous relevance and importance in SharePoint Premium.

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Microsoft Purview provides the necessary secure foundation

Microsoft Purview is a comprehensive suite of solutions designed to help organizations address their data governance, risk management, compliance, and information protection needs. It enables organizations to gain visibility into their data landscape, automate tasks to simplify data management, comply with regulatory requirements, and secure their most valuable asset--their data.

?? Be sure to check out my colleague Maximilian P. 's latest blog post on "Data protection meets artificial intelligence".

But also check out the latest article from Thomas Eklund about 'understanding Purview Information Protection Labels and access restrictions'

Accelerate your Copilot journey with Viva

And, of course, you need to make sure that your users are on board and empowered for the long term. That is why Microsoft Viva is your key element. It allows you to strengthen and accelerate your AI and Copilot journey. In particular, Copilot Dashboard powered by Viva Insights and Viva Learning are two top priorities to improve the journey.

If you missed it, check out my Copilot Your Day episode about Viva and Copilot.

Copilot it's not plug and play

In any case, be prepared technically and do your homework. As I mentioned earlier, there's often no technical showstopper to getting started with Copilot, but there is a lot of homework to do to get the most out of it. This is important from a security perspective, but also from a user enablement perspective.

It's about creating 'aha' moments and building trust in the new technology, so you need to make sure that the basics and security are in place.

? What other M365 tools do you use to get the most out of Copilot? And what are your experiences? Let me know in the comments. ??

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