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Bing Chat for Enterprise: Is This Bing's Moment of Triumph
Bing Chat for Enterprise enables businesses to engage through a secure web GUI, facilitated by Bing. The simplicity of this approach is stunning. Users log into Bing Enterprise and are greeted with a seamless, secure chat experience, driven by a sophisticated large language model. What sets Bing apart here are the robust enterprise controls Microsoft employs, ensuring your data is neither exploited for training nor provided to third parties for large language model development.
This revolutionary platform offers a straightforward, non-technical gateway into harnessing large language models in your organisation. It provides users with enhanced enterprise chat functionality and a suite of extra features akin to those found in tools like GPT Plus Code Analyzer, such as the ability to chat using images, PDFs, and code, as well as document generation directly from the web GUI.
Microsoft Sales Copilot
Microsoft Sales Copilot is a role based copilot that unlocks sales productivity. This copilot allows sellers to prepare for customer engagement, stay in the flow of activity with customers, respond to emails, whilst you are in Microsoft teams meetings and ground activity with CRM data. This helps overall increase productivity and increase personalisation within customer interactions to enable your sales team to approach more opportunities and close more deals.
Chat GPT & Copilot webinar
Tune into our exclusive must-see webinar with major ChatGPT investor, Microsoft and our solution experts, as we unpack the mystery of ChatGPT, Open AI and Copilot.
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Chat GPT, Generative AI and Microsoft Co-pilots
Security Copilot - Do more with less
Security Co-pilot is going to completely revolutionise how internal and external security teams detect & respond to threats to their organisations. The goal is to make security teams more efficient and productive, as well as assist in combating the issues presented by the Cyber Security skills gap.
Announcing Power Automate Process Mining and Power Platform Licensing Update
Microsoft have just announced new ways to use AI on a single, cost-effective platform for all low-code development to be available on 1st August. AI Powered Process Mining in Power Automate provides AI-powered insights that enable customers to optimise existing processes and drive efficiencies with low-code automation. Power Automate Process Mining offers two industry standard capabilities, task mining and process mining, that break down barriers that might make it difficult for an organization to identify inefficiencies in their workflows and where to improve. Process Mining includes functionality such as the Process Mining desktop app with advanced analytics and Power BI customisation.
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Preparing for Microsoft 365 Copilot; your new way of working is crucial and yesterday’s Microsoft Inspire revealed the pricing for commercial customers. It will be available at $30 per user, per month for Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard and Business Premium when it is widely available.
Azure Boost Preview
Azure Boost is a new system that offloads virtualisation processes traditionally performed by the hypervisor and host OS onto purpose-built hardware and software, such as networking, storage, and host management. By separating hypervisor and host OS functions from the host infrastructure, Azure Boost enables greater network and storage performance at scale, improves security by adding another layer of logical isolation, and reduces the maintenance impact for future Azure software and hardware upgrades.
This innovation enables Azure customers participating in the preview to achieve a 200 Gbps networking throughput and a leading remote storage throughput up to 10 GBps and 400K IOPS, enabling the fastest storage workloads available today.
Harnessing the Power of Diverse Open-Source LLMs with Azure: A Spotlight on Meta's LLama 2 Integration
In a captivating development, Azure's OpenAI service is expanding its horizons. It's not just about the in-house LLMs of OpenAI anymore. Now, it accommodates open-source and third-party LLMs within their impressive Cognitive Services portfolio.
You might wonder - why does diversity matter in LLM selection?
Introducing Microsoft Dev Box
Microsoft Dev Box is an Azure service that gives developers access to ready-to-code, project-specific dev boxes. They are preconfigured and have central management systems.
You are able to support hybrid dev teams of any size with high performance, cloud-based workstations to allow them to focus on writing code. Streamlining their tool access provides the ability for them to solely focus on this.
Microsoft Fabric - Licensing & Pricing
During Build 2023 Microsoft unveiled Microsoft Fabric—an end-to-end, unified analytics platform that brings together all the data and analytics tools that organizations need. Fabric integrates technologies like Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Power BI into a single unified product, empowering data and business professionals alike to unlock the potential of their data and lay the foundation for the era of AI.
Microsoft Azure Active Directory is becoming Microsoft Entra ID
When Microsoft introduced Microsoft Entra in May of 2022, it included three products: Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Microsoft Entra Permissions Management, and Microsoft Entra Verified ID. Later Microsoft expanded the Microsoft Entra family with Microsoft Entra ID Governance and Microsoft Entra Workload ID. Today, Microsoft Entra protects any identity and secures access to any resource—on-premises, across clouds, and anywhere in between—with a product family that unifies multicloud identity and network access solutions.
Microsoft 365 Backup & Microsoft 365 Archive
Two new Microsoft Syntex Innovations were announced: Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Archive.
Microsoft 365 backup overcomes the issue with the rise in ransomware encryption attacks and security breaches. This allows for your organisations to prioritse cyber security within your organisation to avoid losing data and protect sensitive information.
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