The rapidly evolving promise of AI can enable individuals to be more productive. But it can also make navigating work life in the moments that matter much easier than before – improving overall employee engagement and building a high-performance organization to drive towards better business outcomes.
Today at Ignite, we announced new innovations in Copilot for Microsoft 365—combining the power of large language models, web search, your data in the Microsoft Graph and the Microsoft 365 apps, to help you unlock productivity and unleash creativity every day.
Amongst these innovations we unveiled are exciting new connected experiences and insights between Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Viva – applying AI to positively transform the employee experience.
Here are some highlights of the new Viva value coming to Copilot:
Learn more about all these innovations below.
Eight months ago, we announced that Copilot would be integrated into Microsoft 365 to reduce the drudgery of work, but what everyone wants to know now is will Copilot be worth it? Will it really transform work? And how quickly?
Our newest Work Trend Index data shows that productivity gains with Copilot are real. 77% of people who've worked with Copilot said they don’t want to give it up. Overall, in experiments that we ran, users were 29% faster across a series of tasks when working with Copilot. 70% said Copilot makes them feel more productive; 68% said it improved the quality of their work. And Copilot helped people catch up on meetings nearly 4x faster.
Now, business and IT leaders looking to plan their organization’s AI readiness, to drive adoption, and to measure the impact of their Copilot for Microsoft 365 investment, can use the new Microsoft Copilot Dashboard powered by Viva. The dashboard will begin rolling out in preview this month to all customers with a Microsoft 365 license. The insights available from the dashboard will allow business and IT leaders to do the following:
Ensure technical eligibility of users and review current Microsoft 365 app usage to determine how many users are ready to benefit from Copilot.
Microsoft Copilot Dashboard, Readiness tab
Understand how people are using Copilot across Microsoft 365 apps to save time and augment their work.
Microsoft Copilot Dashboard, Adoption tab
Understand potential time savings across your Copilot users and leverage helpful resources as you continue on your AI journey.
Microsoft Copilot Dashboard, Impact tab
Explore employee feedback about the value and benefits Copilot provides.
Microsoft Copilot Dashboard, Sentiment tab
In early 2024, the dashboard will have more advanced capabilities for customers with a Viva Insights license. This enhanced experience will allow analysts to dig deeper into the data, while including out-of-the-box reports that will enable organizational leaders, for example, to do the following:
Measure the impact of Copilot deployment as behaviors change and work is transformed.
Microsoft Copilot Dashboard, Copilot usage data combined with collaboration data
Analyze user sentiment from surveys vis-à-vis Copilot usage patterns
Microsoft Copilot Dashboard, employee survey data combined with collaboration data
Read the Viva Insights blog for more details about the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard and other new features and capabilities.
Copilot for Microsoft 365 is your everyday AI assistant, working alongside Microsoft 365 apps (Word, Excel, PPT, Outlook, Teams and more, to help you navigate any task and boost day-to-day productivity. Copilot goes far beyond simple questions and answers. It combs across your entire universe of data—all your emails, meetings, chats, documents, and more, plus the web—to solve your most complex problems at work. Microsoft Viva is an employee experience platform that brings together the tools and applications you need to keep employees informed and aligned, enable them with the right knowledge and skills, and continuously measure and improve workforce engagement, productivity, and performance at every level.
Now, we are introducing Microsoft Copilot enhanced with Viva – AI-powered assistance for the employee experience – to enable new ways for Copilot to boost employee self-service at work. Copilot will work across Viva data, insights, and applications to guide employees, empower managers, and help HR and business leaders create a high-performance organization.
Customers using both Copilot for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Viva will have the benefit of interfacing with a single natural language conversational interface within the productivity tools they use every day, while being able to prompt Copilot to access data and intelligence from Viva that supports key employee experience needs or initiatives — whether it’s understanding team health, setting new priorities with OKRs, or upskilling on new areas for career growth. Our vision is to make the employee experience simpler and more productive.
For example, since Microsoft Copilot understands Viva employee experience data from your organization, it can surface a trending topic for you to explore and then respond with a rich summary coming from multiple Viva data sources such as social communities, results from an employee survey and a workplace analytics report.
In this scenario, Microsoft Copilot enhanced with Viva, can help you with crafting goals based on a document containing a new set of initiatives launched within your organization.
We’ll be releasing pre-configured integrations between Microsoft Copilot and Viva Glint, Viva Insights and Viva Goals in private preview early 2024 with additional integrations across other Viva applications in late 2024.
Microsoft has been integrating AI-powered copilots into its popular products, such as GitHub, Microsoft 365, and Bing, to improve efficiency and productivity. This journey has continued with the introduction of Copilot in Microsoft Viva, which offers organization leaders a new way of working by providing the insights needed to make effective decisions.
In April, we announced the first set of experiences for Copilot in Microsoft Viva. Additionally, there are new experiences coming to Copilot in Viva apps to help organizations better understand and engage with their workforce to improve performance. These include:
Viva Engage and Viva Amplify are tools to allow organizations to connect everyone through employee communities and conversations to build meaningful relationships and give company messages needed volume. Apart from capabilities announced last month, here are additional updates to both platforms:
Viva Learning helps organizations build a culture of learning by simplifying the learning experience, creating a single front door for resources, and delivering it all from the apps and services employees already use throughout the workday. Today we are sharing updates on newly available features and features coming soon.
In the same way that the innovations we announced today between Microsoft Viva and Copilot for Microsoft 365 dramatically increase the value for the organization, leaders, and employees, we have new capabilities and scenarios being enabled across the Microsoft Viva apps that reinforce the flywheel of driving mission and alignment, enabling a high-performance workforce and measuring engagement and productivity.
We are excited about the impact that AI can have on transforming the employee experience for your organization. Copilot for Microsoft 365 utilizes the power of large language models (LLMs) with your data in the Microsoft Graph, the Microsoft 365 apps, and the web, to turn your words into the most powerful productivity tool on the planet. When you have Copilot with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Viva, you can use those words as well, to transform your employee experience — managing through all the phases of readiness, adoption and measurement as you accelerate workforce insights and boost employee engagement to help you build a high-performance organization.
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