Microsoft’s Copilot ‘notes’ and the enterprise

Microsoft has been very slow to gain enterprise adoption of Copilot.
Several factors have combined to land Copilot in the 'too hard' basket for most enterprises, including:

• Organisational unfamiliarity with AI; 

• An absence of policies concerning appropriate usage of AI; 

• Few use cases justifying a hefty $50 per user per month subscription; 

• Concerns about enterprise data privacy when using Copilot.

Guidance recently provided by Microsoft reflects what’s been learned by enterprises preparing themselves for Copilot - and how they've needed to protect themselves when using Copilot. Wisely AI strongly recommends any enterprise preparing to roll out Copilot for Microsoft 365 make use of these resources.

Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 documentation
A master repository for information about Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365.

Transparency Note for Copilot for Microsoft 365
A white paper (or 'note') detailing the operations of Copilot in an enterprise context. 

Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365
A white paper covering the use, privacy and security of enterprise data ingested by Microsoft Copilot.

Use policy settings to manage privacy controls for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise
A white paper detailing the essential privacy settings and controls when using Microsoft 365 Apps within the enterprise.

Semantic index for Copilot | Microsoft Learn
A white paper explaining how 'semantic search' uses Copilot and Microsoft Graph to generate precise and detailed search query results