Microsoft Copilot Studio: The Future of AI Integration to Increase Productivity
OVERVIEW
Your way, your agent
Use Microsoft Copilot Studio to create intelligent, dynamic, and connected AI assistants for staff members and clients.
Strong, networked agents created by you
Create agents
Create conversational apps for many platforms by utilizing big language models and generative AI.
Include agents in Copilot for Microsoft 365
Change business procedures by implementing agents on Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Make use of a single linked platform
Begin with Microsoft Copilot Studio and easily include Azure AI and additional conversational AI capabilities from Microsoft.
Capabilities
Create your own agent
Make contact
- By referring to the websites or internal expertise of your company, you can help your representative respond to inquiries more rapidly.
- Using Power Platform connectors, Power Automate flows, custom topics, and AI prompts, create actions that are triggered by user chats.
- To increase your agent’s efficiency, choose from thousands of prebuilt data connectors that link to both Microsoft and non-Microsoft data sources.
- Configure, train, and connect Azure services, including knowledge bases, foundation models, and Azure OpenAI Service.
Design
- Create unique processes that call for predetermined answers, such those pertaining to delicate subjects like customer information or policy.
- Incorporate workflows and triggers into talks using graphical user interfaces and natural language.
- Personalized interactions, real-time notifications, and rich, dynamic responses can all improve user experiences and increase customer engagement.
- Use a graphical user interface, natural language, or code view to create agents.
Improve
- Distribute your agent easily through a variety of platforms, such as social media and websites.
- Improve the capabilities and reach of your line-of-business applications by developing a contemporary conversational experience.
- Link Microsoft Copilot Studio to websites, data, analytics, workflows, and low-code apps.
- With an end-to-end customer interaction platform, carry on the discussion with human agents.
Include agents in Copilot for Microsoft 365
- Install agents straight into the programs that your staff members use most often, such as Business Chat, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams.
- Create customized dialogues for recurring situations that call for particular answers, including those pertaining to compliance or regulatory subjects.
- Use Microsoft 365 Copilot to streamline and automate corporate procedures and processes, like updating benefits, onboarding new hires, and submitting expenses.
- Connect to your external line of business apps or grant agents secure access to your most important organizational data in Microsoft 365.
Safely oversee and control
- With thorough rules, environment management, and access restrictions available from the admin center, you can build confidence.
- Use the built-in analytics, which include important key performance indicators (KPIs), to optimize responses and optimize your agent.
- To guarantee optimal performance for your agent, remove the strain of infrastructure management, upkeep, and updates.
- Maintain the highest standards for data controls, trust, and governance.
Microsoft Copilot Studio Pricing
Microsoft Copilot Studio
Create multi-channel agents to help employees and customers.
Working with Microsoft conversational AI tools, Copilot Studio provides a graphical development platform for building agents with generative AI, advanced dialog creation, knowledge, actions, and built-in analytics.
Pricing: $200.00 -25,000 messages/month
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Build Microsoft 365 Copilot agents with Copilot Studio.
With a business or enterprise Microsoft 365 subscription, add Microsoft 365 Copilot.
*Not all markets and languages provide Microsoft 365 Copilot. Purchase requires a qualified Microsoft 365 enterprise or business plan.
$30.00 user/month, Annual commitment
New capabilities coming to Copilot Studio
With thousands of prebuilt connectors, AI models, a low-code design interface, and managed software as a service (SaaS) infrastructure, Microsoft Copilot Studio offers a comprehensive platform for creating agents. It allows publication to Copilot, the web, and your apps and combines analytical, business, and personal data. Agents can now take independent action, start events, and automate intricate business processes with these additional capabilities. Let’s investigate how this operates.
Autonomous triggers
Agents are able to start tasks and react automatically to signals throughout your company. They can be programmed to operate on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis, or they can be set up to respond to events or triggers that come from different tools, systems, and databases without the need for human involvement.
Dynamic agent plan
Since agents make dynamic plans on the spot to manage and finish tasks, each business process can take a distinct route. Each agent’s path’s underlying logic, including important facts, steps, and systems involved, is visible to users. Along with specific steps, such as variables and outputs, which are essential for debugging, this offers insight into the agent’s decision-making process, context, and the reasons behind the method selection.
Activity overview
The foundation of building agent autonomy in organizations is accuracy, reliability, and trust. These agents’ capacity to keep an eye on actions in real-world situations, which improves company results, is their actual strength. We’re introducing a new “Activity” option to increase accountability and transparency. This tab will allow makers to view a comprehensive history of previous agent runs, which includes progress tracking, block identification, trend analysis, and a review of previous decisions.
New models like the OpenAI o1 series
The most recent models, such as the OpenAI o1 series, are utilized by Microsoft Copilot Studio agents and are part of the exclusive private preview for autonomous agents. These models improve the capacity to resolve challenging issues since they are tailored for sophisticated reasoning activities.
Secure and trusted platform
Microsoft is dedicated to the development of AI based on human-centered, ethical AI concepts.
Businesses have corporate data protection, which includes a full suite of features to protect agents, such as encryption, safeguards against data loss, and a responsible AI approach to reduce risks associated with AI, such early injection. Robust authentication processes are among the strict security measures and controls that the admin center oversees for the data sources connected to the agent.
Maker-defined knowledge, actions, and instructions set agent boundaries and controls. Access controls can be put in place for the creation, sharing, and use of agents. Additionally, you may create information labels and regulations to protect data and keep an eye on agent usage.
With process governance, you can effectively control an agent’s lifecycle from creation to retirement. Policies pertaining to publication, access permissions, and resource usage can be set up. In order to guarantee compliance and ongoing improvement, you can also audit events and gather information on application performance.
Businesses may create, secure, and implement agents that are suited to their organizational requirements with the extensive tooling that Copilot Studio offers.
Becoming an AI-first company
Using agents to make workflows smarter and more resilient, Microsoft Copilot Studio is becoming the new user interface for artificial intelligence. The Copilot and all of your agents are powered by your data, which is transformed into knowledge and arranged and rationalized in a safe setting. This change gives businesses the ability to use and develop complex, intelligent apps.