Microsoft has made some major changes to its solution portfolio in recent years. Perhaps two of the most significant updates to the Microsoft ecosystem for business leaders, are the introduction of Microsoft Premium, and the intuitive generative AI Copilot service.
Built in collaboration with the innovators at OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot aims to fundamentally transform the way we use technology to collaborate with colleagues and complete tasks. Microsoft Premium, on the other hand, offers an add-on solution for your collaboration platform, providing access to more intelligent, personalized, and secure communication tools.
So, how do the two solutions work together? Here’s everything you need to know about the power of Copilot combined with Microsoft Teams Premium.
Understanding Microsoft Copilot: Generative AI for the Workplace
Microsoft Copilot is one of the most exciting solutions to emerge in the world of unified communications and collaboration in recent years. The technology acts as a “personal assistant” for employees, designed to improve productivity, automate repetitive tasks, and enhance communication on a fundamental level.
Copilot takes advantage of Microsoft’s multi-billion-dollar investment in the OpenAI company, best-known for its ChatGPT tools. Leveraging the latest developments in generative AI, Microsoft built Copilot as a personal assistant users can interact with easily, using natural language inputs.
Copilot sits within the existing Microsoft ecosystem, seamlessly integrating with various applications, from the Office 365 productivity tools, to Microsoft Teams, and even Microsoft Dynamics. Though it’s still in the initial stages of development, Copilot promises to offer an assistant for:
- Productivity in office applications: Copilot can work inside of applications like Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Excel, Microsoft BI, and more, offering guidance, suggestions, and natural language content generation tools.
- Enhanced meetings: Copilot in Microsoft Teams can summarize key discussion points from meetings, automatically generate action points, and conduct sentiment analysis.
- Better communications: In both Teams and Outlook, Copilot can provide suggestions to enhance the sentiment, clarity, and tone of messages.
- Organization: Copilot can integrate with OneNote to assist users in drafting plans, generative ideas, organizing information, creating lists, and more.
- Stronger collaboration: In Microsoft Loop, Copilot can facilitate stronger team collaboration and alignment, by summarizing content and curating crucial documents.
What is Microsoft Teams Premium?
Introduced as an add-on license for Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 subscribers, Teams Premium offers users access to more advanced experiences within the Teams landscape. Available at a price of $7 per user per month, the solution adds new functionality to Teams, to make conversations between employees more intelligent, personalized, and secure.
| Jamie Wheeldon – Chief Architect for Symity
The relatively low price point of Teams Premium when compared to the recently announced Copilot costs, combined with the more focused scope of the AI features, make it the perfect place for organisations to get started with AI without the added security and compliance considerations that will likely need consideration when adopting Copilot. |
With Teams Premium, companies don’t just get access to more intuitive AI-powered tools, they can also leverage advanced scheduling features for meetings, custom backgrounds and together mode scenes, watermarks for data protection, and more meeting options.
Teams Premium also comes with automated meeting protection options, powered by sensitivity labels, advanced virtual appointment setting tools, and state-of-the-art reports and analytics. What’s more, it empowers companies to host more advanced, high-quality webinars.
With Teams Premium, you can create registration workflows for your webinars, customize communications with registrants and attendees, and even present more effectively using behind-the-scenes tools to distribute your content.
Intelligent Re-Cap Microsoft Teams Premium
One of the core components that sets Microsoft Teams Premium apart from other subscription plans, is direct access to a range of AI solutions. With Teams Premium, companies can immediately access Microsoft’s latest AI innovations to transform the quality and outcomes of meetings.
Intelligent re-cap in Teams Premium gives business leaders the opportunity to boost productivity, by creating automated meeting summaries. The AI-generated notes service allows users to focus on the discussion taking place, rather than recording important data.
