The growth in AI capabilities contines at speed. But for employees, users and problem solvers sat on a Windows laptop, there has been a big gap between creating work or tasks, and integrating them with your existing apps and documents. For those users, that issue is resolved with the arrival of computer use in Copilot Studio, via early access.
The new capability allows Copilot Studio agents to treat websites and desktop applications as tools. Meaning agents can interact with your apps, documents, spreadsheets and other resources. For users and creators, that means you can integrate AI with your current apps or browser pages. There’s no need to rebuild data or tools within the AI’s own system.
That reduces the risk of duplicated data files, inconsistent data, and diverging truths. Benefits include more tasks that are suitable for automation and optimisation. That makes for a better employee experience. And the opportunity to create more value from data, build new apps and improve business processes.
More power to the Copilot
Use examples include, automated data entry into your apps, speeding up many bugbear processes. Collecting marketing data from online sources for analysis, providing insights without the need for manual collation or intervention. Also, invoice processing can extract data from invoices and automatically input it into accounting systems.
For businesses with large data srouces, this creates another way to deliver advanced robotic process automation (RPA) with real-time changes and built-in intelligence.
Expect many more announcements around AI and agents at May’s Build event, as Microsoft looks to deliver more productivity and practical advantages to businesses users through Copilot.
Copilot Studio is available from $2,400 per year or as a pay-as-you-go option. The Copilot companion is now a feature of Windows, Office 365, and in the Copilot or Bing mobile apps.