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HAVE YOU PLANNED YOUR JOURNEY WITH MS COPILOT ?

African enterprises need to consider their journey with Copilot and how it can be leveraged within the business . How can it be optimised within different silos , what are the areas that would benefit most , how clean is the enterprise data , and how accessible is it ? Heath Huxtable at Braintree describes the pros and cons .

400 million paid Office 365 users . That is how many users have invested into the Microsoft ecosystem as of its latest earnings report which also showcased impressive overall growth for the company at a time when most are struggling .

A large percentage of this growth is attributed to Microsoft ’ s decision to incorporate Copilot into almost everything . Currently it is available on 75 million Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems and this is only set to grow as more companies adopt the technology .
Artificial intelligence , AI empowered productivity is on a rapid rise throughout the Microsoft ecosystem as it enhances systems and processes across everything from GitHub to emails . However , companies should
The most important ingredient for the successful integration of Copilot is the data .
pause before they integrate to ensure they get the value they expect from this technology .
Currently , all companies with a Microsoft 365 licence have access to the basic version of Copilot , an intelligent chatbot capable of providing answers pulled from the web . It provides minimal support within the ecosystem and online and offers no commercial protection for the data that is being entered into its system .
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