Technology

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, effective communication is paramount. Whether you’re collaborating with team members, interfacing with clients, or engaging with customers, seamless communication is the cornerstone of success.

Microsoft Copilot Studio

Introducing Copilot Studio – your ultimate companion in the world of chatting. Copilot Studio is designed to revolutionize the way teams communicate, collaborate, and conquer challenges together.

Copilot Studio isn’t just a chat tool – it’s your virtual assistant. Using advanced AI, it analyzes conversations in real-time, providing instant suggestions and insights to streamline your workflow. Say goodbye to endless searching – with Copilot Studio, the answers you need are just a click away.

Let’s deep dive into creating a virtual assistant using copilot studio for your website.

Step 1: Go to Microsoft Copilot Studio.

Step 2: Put your website URL address.

Step 3: Accept the terms and conditions then start chatting with virtual agent of your website.

Step 4: Chat with website data. Ask any questions. Examples, Briefly tell me about agile tech consulting?

In summary, Copilot Studio revolutionizes teamwork with its AI-driven assistance, tailored features, and seamless integration. Say goodbye to traditional chat tools and embrace a new era of productivity. Build your custom Copilot with Copilot Studio and experience unparalleled efficiency today.

Key takeaways

Copilot Studio: Simplifies AI chatbot creation for businesses.
Uses: Customer support, sales, employee services, public health tracking, multilingual engagement.
Licensing: Tenant and User licenses required for chatbot creation and publishing

What is Copilot Studio?

Copilot Studio is a tool by Microsoft that lets you build and customize chatbots, also called conversational interfaces, for your business applications. These chatbots are powered by artificial intelligence (AI), specifically large language models (LLMs).

Here’s a breakdown of what Copilot Studio offers:

• Low-code development: You don’t need to be a programmer or data scientist to use Copilot Studio. It’s a graphical low-code tool that simplifies the process.
• Customization: You can design chatbots that fit your specific needs and brand.
• AI-powered conversations: Chatbots can handle a range of requests, from answering simple questions to having complex conversations.
• Integration: They can connect to your existing data and systems to provide more helpful responses.
• Multiple channels: Chatbots can interact with users on various platforms like websites, mobile apps, or Microsoft Teams.

How does a business typically use Copilot Studio?

Microsoft Copilot Studio is a powerful tool that enables businesses to create and maintain AI-powered conversational interfaces called copilots. Here are some ways businesses typically use Copilot Studio:

1. Customer Support and Sales: Copilots can handle customer inquiries, provide support, and assist with sales-related questions. For instance, they can answer queries about product availability, pricing, and order status.
2. Store Information: Businesses often use copilots to share essential information with customers. This includes details like store hours, locations, and contact information.
3. Employee Services: Copilots can assist employees by answering common questions related to company policies, benefits, and vacation requests. For example, an employee might ask about health insurance coverage or how to request time off.
4. Public Health Tracking: During health crises or emergencies, copilots can provide real-time information about public health guidelines, vaccination availability, and safety precautions.
5. Multilingual Engagement: Copilots can communicate with customers and employees in multiple languages across various channels, such as websites, mobile apps, and Microsoft Teams.

What about licensing? Here are some key considerations.

If you are creating copilots for everyone, here’s what you need to know:

• You need a tenant license for Copilot Studio. The tenant license can be activated in your Microsoft 365 tenant by a Global Admin. The tenant license allows users to create copilots, and anyone internal or external to your environment that you allow can access those copilots.
• To publish generative AI chatbots, users creating copilots need to have the Microsoft Copilot Studio User License assigned to them. The Microsoft Copilot Studio User License is included with Microsoft 365 E3 and E5.
• Power Virtual Agents (PVA) has been renamed Copilot Studio for Teams. Copilot Studio for Teams allows you to create traditional chatbots in Teams that do not use natural language models with generative AI. Functionality is limited, and chatbots can only be published to Teams. PVA is accessible to users who are licensed for Microsoft Teams.
• The tenant license costs $200 per month for up to 25,000 messages. Every interaction an end user has with your copilot or your traditional chatbot created using Copilot for Teams (PVA) is considered a message, but consumption of messages is different between the two:
• Copilot Studio for Teams (PVA) consumes one message per interaction.
• AI copilots consume two messages per interaction.

If you are creating plugins for Copilot for Microsoft 365, here’s what you need to know:

• Users creating plugins need to have the Microsoft Copilot Studio User License assigned to them. The Microsoft Copilot Studio User License is included with Microsoft 365 E3/E5.
• Only Copilot for Microsoft 365 licensed users can use plugins.
• There are no consumption charges associated with creating or using plugins.

Skip the code, build a business bot! Microsoft Copilot Studio empowers businesses with AI-powered chatbots for customer service, sales, employees, and more. Multilingual chatbots keep communication flowing, but licensing applies. Copilot Studio simplifies bot creation, boosting interactions across the board.

Resources

• Overview of copilot Studio: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/videoplayer/embed/RW1eXkL
• Link of introductory official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gdIDiJt4Uw

This is a brief overview of techniques used to run Xamarin.Forms apps on iOS from a Windows PC. This will allow you to test your apps on iOS devices without being part of the Apple Developer Program. This simulator testing is valuable and convenient, it is also essential to test your apps to verify that they function properly before deploying them to Apple Store.

Required Tools: Windows PC, Macintosh Computer, Xamarin.Forms (Installed on the PC and Mac), Visual Studio 2019 (PC only), XCode (Mac only).

Let’s begin. On the Mac, navigate to “System Preferences” and then to “Sharing.” Ensure that “Remote Login” is enabled and “All users” is selected. Leave this window open as we will need it later.

Back on the PC, open Visual Studio, and create a new project. Select the “Mobile App (Xamarin.Forms)” template. Then click next.

Continue through the setup wizard as normal until you reach this screen. Ensure that the “iOS” platform is enabled.

Once the project is created, click on the “Pair to Mac” button at the top right of the screen.

This window should appear. If your Mac is already listed, simply click on it and then “Connect.” If your Mac is not listed, click “Add Mac…” and enter the Mac’s IP address.

This step will likely cause the most headache and confusion. If you run into any problems, double-check that both computers are connected to the same network, both computers are powered on and awake, and that all your software is up to date.

But if everything goes according to plan, your Mac should now be successfully paired to Visual Studio.

Once we have paired to a Mac, it’s time to run our app. At the top of Visual Studio, click the “Solution Platforms” dropdown and choose “iPhone Simulator.” Next, click the “Startup Projects” dropdown and choose “<yourProjectName>.iOS” Last, click the “Device” dropdown and select your preferred iPhone emulator.

The final step, click “Run” and your iPhone emulator should startup on the Mac. After a couple of moments, your app should open on the emulator.

In summary, We hope this is helpful to you. Mobile app development is a tremendous market that businesses need to invest in. Aside from publicity, entrepreneurs can use this platform to connect to customers on a personal level and to be relevant in younger generations.

Contact Agile Tech if you want to develop mobile apps for your business so you can improve your communication with your clients and employees. We’ll design it, develop it, deploy it, and maintain it for you.