Microsoft’s decision to bake Copilot adoption benchmarks into Viva Insights’ Copilot Dashboard is less a neutral analytics upgrade and more a strategic pivot: it turns a usage signal into a managerial instrument that vendors, procurement teams, and people managers can weaponize — intentionally...
Microsoft has quietly added a new, potentially game‑changing layer to Viva Insights’ Copilot Dashboard: Benchmarks, a set of internal and external adoption metrics that let managers see which teams are using Microsoft Copilot, how often, and how their organization stacks up against anonymized...
Microsoft’s new Benchmarks feature in the Copilot Dashboard for Viva Insights turns AI adoption into a measurable, comparable workplace metric — and it raises as many governance questions as it promises productivity answers.
Background
Microsoft launched Viva in 2021 as a suite of...
Microsoft’s new Benchmarks feature for the Copilot Dashboard in Viva Insights gives IT leaders a straightforward way to measure who in their organization is actually using Copilot — and, controversially, how that usage stacks up against anonymized peers outside the company.
Overview
Microsoft’s...
Microsoft’s Copilot on Windows has taken a decisive step from chat assistant to document workhorse: the Copilot app can now generate Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and PDFs directly from a chat session, and it can link to personal email and cloud accounts so it can...
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Title: Microsoft Wants to Know Who Isn’t Using Copilot — What the New Viva Insights Benchmarks Mean for Work, Privacy and Management
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Microsoft has quietly added a new layer to its workplace analytics: Copilot adoption benchmarks inside Viva Insights. The tool gives managers comparative...
Microsoft is adding a new set of Copilot adoption benchmarks to the Viva Insights Copilot Dashboard, a feature that will let managers compare how different teams are using Microsoft Copilot — both inside their own organization and against anonymized industry peers — and is entering private...
Microsoft has quietly added side‑by‑side adoption benchmarks for Copilot into the Viva Insights Copilot Dashboard, turning a manager’s view of AI usage into a formalized set of comparative metrics that can be sliced by group, role, region and app — and, crucially, compared externally against...
Microsoft has quietly added a new dimension to its Copilot analytics: benchmarks inside the Copilot Dashboard (Viva Insights) that let organizations compare Copilot adoption both within their tenant and against external peer groups — a move designed to turn usage telemetry into actionable...
Microsoft’s latest push to fold AI into everyday enterprise workflows adds a new, very public layer: benchmarking Copilot adoption and nudging organizations to compete — internally and against peer companies — on who uses the assistant most. The company has begun rolling out Benchmarks in the...
The path from AI hype to steady, measurable value is rarely a straight line; New Era Technology’s conversation with UC Today — led by Kristian McCann and Steve Daly — lays out a pragmatic playbook for moving organizations beyond AI disillusionment and into sustained Copilot adoption. The central...
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Microsoft’s Viva Insights will soon put Copilot analytics directly into the hands of frontline managers, delivering team-scoped dashboards, out-of-the-box Copilot reports, and a publishing pipeline for analysts to surface tailored insights — a change Microsoft says will begin rolling out in late...
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Microsoft's relentless drive to make workplace analytics more insightful and actionable took another major leap with the recent expansion of Viva Insights' reporting capabilities. True to its mission of helping organizations maximize productivity and employee development, Microsoft has stitched...
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