Enable ISVs to submit custom copilot agents for certification
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| Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
|---|---|---|
| Users by admins, makers, or analysts | 
May 15, 2024 |
Nov 2024 |
Business value
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) can now offer bundled solutions for their customers that can simplify and automate business journeys through low code and generative AI. The ISVs partnering through this can develop the low code AI ecosystem offering that contains the Power Platform connector, which can be extended to a copilot connector + the flow template based on a Power Platform connector, and custom copilot agents for their use cases.
This solution bundle empowers the customers of the ISVs and solution integrators to build on top of this solution. It also allows them to simplify for the end users the hassle of choosing the right product for automating their business needs.
Feature details
With the launch of the new certification experience in Build 2024 for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to certify copilot connectors (Power Platform based) developed in the maker portal and Microsoft Copilot Studio through Partner Center, you can get the following results:
- 99% certification efficiency gain by reducing the time from 40 days to 48 hours (P80).
- 100% automated partner vetting, ensuring the authenticity of ISVs and partners through OneVet on Partner Center.
- 72% simplification in submissions by reducing manually captured metadata and instead relying on attributes provided in package JSON.
For Ignite 2024, we extend the certification journey to bring all Microsoft Copilot Studio under one umbrella of certification in Partner Center to also accept copilot templates and copilot agents built by partners and ISVs for certification. This enables a starting point for our end customers and accelerates the ability for customers to install, extend, and deploy copilot agents to their environments.