Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft 365 Copilot is a productivity tool that primarily helps our teams manage their email and calendars. I think it's great at saving time when you leverage its summarization tools, and it helps you become a better employee with its automated daily recap of things you might need to address or have missed, so you know what to come back to.

I think if your organization is already using the Outlook platform, it's a great tool to add to simplify and enhance your experience across all other Outlook apps. However, if you're not using email very often or you're on a Google suite, I don't think it's strong enough to onboard on its own, and you would be better off using a different platform.

This tool helps me craft professional responses to others. It also allows me to take data and analyze it in a fast and efficient manner. It can summarize meetings for me to help me stay on track. it can help layout outlines of plans that I need done. It assists with simple how-tos that are otherwise easy to find, but it can synthesize the steps quickly.

If you are in need of assistant, being ready to provide information quickly, or organize information, or synthesize talking points, this may be a tool for you. I have found that it may also be very helpful to track who is speaking in a meeting and summarize notes and action steps and to dos. It can be helping make communications.

We use Copilot to assist in many challenging tasks, including writing emails, finding solutions for challenging problems, automating email, comparing resumes against job description, preparing Boolean logics, etc.

comparing resumes, writing excellent summary against job descriptions, finding solutions.

We use Microsoft Copilot in various departments. For technical departments, it's primarily used to quickly find a specific answer to an IT issue, for analysis, or to provide support for quickly obtaining answers. This saves a tremendous amount of time. Another powerful application is retrieving data from various sources and combining or editing it to achieve the desired end result. This has a wide range of applications, from presentations to technical overviews and everything in between.

If I want to generate a document based on input from other documents, Microsoft Copilot can generate it very quickly and efficiently. This saves me a tremendous amount of time. This also applies to building a custom script for the client. Microsoft Copilot can provide valuable tips and input here to achieve this much faster. Where Microsoft Copilot often encounters problems is when an IT environment has a lot of hardware and software solutions from external parties. Microsoft Copilot doesn't have this information and can only provide useful information about the connection to these endpoints, but in terms of configuration or troubleshooting, Microsoft Copilot falls short.

We attempt to use Microsoft Copilot for everything we possibly can, including the integrated version with all of our M365 products (ie. Teams, Powerpoint, Word, Outlook etc.). We are still testing its limits, so I tend to try lots of things in there from create a poster, to create balanced sales territories in excel based on budgeted sales and geographies of customers.

Well suited to meetings, emails, writing such as business cases, and basic chat-bot questions. Complex analysis and asking it to generate new data in Excel seems to be a black hole... you can spend half a day arguing with the thing and it will, in my opinion, lie to you / generate blank spreadsheets and say it's done. The same with poster and marketing materials creation - cannot seem to take direction about changes to the text (ie. larger font, split this line onto two lines etc.).

We use it in teams365, Search and direct knowledge issues. Correction of documents and to search on sharepoints in the many documents we have. Besides that in code checking and solutions. Generate functions for coding, automate processes

Well suited: in correction of documentation, give suggestions of documentation, images, solutions to translate bulk entries. Less suited: finalizing documentation, you always have to check it. Images generation with text, rely on the answers it gives

Microsoft Copilot became the go to tool when using the Microsoft office suite. It helps with Excel spreadsheets and formatting PowerPoints. It is great to automate some functions on outlook and take notes on Teams. Unfortunately, in my opinion, it is not that good for coding anymore. The competition took over and I think Microsoft Copilot is now way behind of other tools from OpenAI, Claude and xAI

In my experience, if you're using within the Microsoft office suite, it has the best integration. The usability is great and the user has to put little effort to get a task done.
On the other hand, in my experience, coding within Visual Code is unreliable and the results are not consistent. You can't use with different programming languages and ask for complex tasks. Pitty because I think the VS integration is great.

It summarizes my email content, helps in designing powerpoint slides, finds error from excel sheet, etc. As a result, it enhances productivity, creativity, and collaboration through AI-powered assistance. It streamlines workflows, automates tasks, and provides data-driven insights, ultimately saving time and improving overall work efficiency.

for day-to-day activities, it works absolutely best to increase productivity and saves a ton of time. However, since occasionally it produces misleading information, nobody can completely rely on it. hence, you need to go through the content each time it produces.

We use Copilot in Word. It helps us create document drafts. We also use Copilot to create charts in spreadsheets. We like the function "Show data insights" provided by Copilot to finish the task in a table. We are exploring its use in creating PPT slides and composing emails.

We use MS Office every day, and Copilot helps us with our daily tasks, saving a lot of time, even though it's not perfect.

Copilot has many instances: Free, Premium, and Agents. We are using the premium and agents, so my review will cover these aspects. We use Copilot to connect to all the Microsoft 365 applications to help understand the organisation, find content that's relevant to our project work, and creating content for various purposes. We also use it across Power BI, Excel, and other power applications to help development tasks. We also use Copilot agents for specific special audiences and tasks.

The premium version of Copilot is fantastic, seriously helping with the heavy lifting of analysing, drafting and improving written content. It connnects across the Microsoft 365 suite of online applications, surfacing information to help it answer questions about the organisation and/or to provide context to develop content for a specific purpose.

It has some limitations caused by incompatible architecture in SharePoint, and often seems to be biased towards surfacing information from documents instead of SharePoint sites.