Extend Copilot capabilities in finance and operations apps

Copilot in finance and operations apps provides AI-powered assistance that helps application users through a sidecar chat experience that includes natural language guidance and actions. Copilot builds on contextual experiences that enrich the application. Here are some examples of the skills that Copilot capabilities can include:

• Provide guidance about app features and functionality, such as generative help and guidance with Copilot.
• Answer questions about your data.
• Recommend and perform client actions.
• Automate operations.

There's massive potential for these Copilot capabilities in finance and operations apps as Microsoft engineering teams continue to build on Copilot. The more questions Copilot knows how to answer and the more prompts it knows how to perform, the more useful it becomes. A key to accelerating the growth of these capabilities is to provide extensibility tools that users can use to extend and customize the Copilot experience. Each capability that's added becomes something new that Copilot knows how to do. Therefore, it becomes a richer experience and a better guide for users in finance and operations apps.

Use the following topics and tutorials to learn about the architecture and options for extending the sidecar chat Copilot in finance and operations apps.