Recording - Copilot Use Cases for Finance: Copilot for Microsoft 365 Starter Series
Session 2 of 8
In this recorded webinar Microsoft’s Nicholas Aquino and Christina Tillbrook showcase how Copilot can assist human resources professionals in HLS organizations.
Finance departments in healthcare and life sciences (HLS) organizations face many challenges in today's dynamic and complex environment. They need to manage multiple sources of data, ensure compliance with regulations, optimize costs and revenues, and support strategic decision-making. To achieve these goals, they need tools that can help them automate workflows, streamline processes, and enhance collaboration across teams and stakeholders.
That's where Copilot for Microsoft 365 comes in. Copilot is a cloud-based solution that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) to provide smart assistance for finance professionals. Copilot integrates seamlessly with Microsoft 365 applications, such as Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Teams, and augments their capabilities with advanced features, such as data extraction, analysis, visualization, summarization, and generation.
With Copilot, finance teams in HLS organizations can benefit from the following use cases:
- Data extraction and analysis: Copilot can automatically extract relevant data from various sources, such as invoices, receipts, contracts, reports, and emails, and convert them into structured formats that can be easily analyzed in Excel or Power BI. Copilot can also perform calculations, apply formulas, create charts and dashboards, and generate insights from the data.
- Document creation and summarization: Copilot can help finance professionals create and edit documents, such as financial statements, budgets, forecasts, and presentations, using natural language commands or templates. Copilot can also summarize long and complex documents, such as contracts, policies, and regulations, and highlight the key points and action items.
- Communication and collaboration: Copilot can enhance communication and collaboration among finance teams and other stakeholders, such as managers, auditors, regulators, and customers, by enabling seamless sharing of data and documents through Outlook, Teams, or SharePoint. Copilot can also generate email responses, meeting notes, and follow-up tasks, and provide reminders and notifications.
By using Copilot, finance teams in HLS organizations can save time, reduce errors, improve productivity, and deliver better results. Copilot can also help them stay ahead of the curve and adapt to the changing needs and expectations of their industry.
Resources:
- Presentation slides with step-by-step screenshots of the demonstrations
- Copilot in Excel help & learning (microsoft.com)
- Financial Sample Excel workbook
- Overview of Copilot for Power BI (preview) - Power BI | Microsoft Learn
- Copilot in Outlook help & learning (microsoft.com)
- Copilot in Microsoft Teams help & learning
- Copilot in PowerPoint help & learning (microsoft.com)
You can see the entire upcoming Copilot for Microsoft 365 Starter series here.
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