Microsoft 365 Copilot Business
Copilot for Microsoft 365 Business
Microsoft has released Copilot for Microsoft 365 Business, bringing enterprise grade AI to organizations with up to 300 users at very affordable price. Copilot works inside the Microsoft 365 apps your team uses daily—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams, to automate routine work and unlock productivity.
Key points:
Same capabilities as Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise, but sized and priced for SMBs
Works across your business data (emails, files, meetings, chats)
No separate infrastructure or setup—just add the license and start working
Designed to be secure, compliant, and privacy preserving
What You Need Before Using Copilot
What You Need Before Using Copilot
To activate Copilot for Microsoft 365 Business, you need:
✔ A qualifying Microsoft 365 Business plan
- Business Basic
- Business Standard
- Business Premium
✔ Microsoft Entra ID account for each user
This ensures secure identity and access.
✔ Your mailbox must be on Exchange Online
No shared or delegated mailboxes.
✔ Microsoft 365 Apps (latest version) installed
Copilot works inside the apps—so they must be updated.
✔ Third party cookies enabled (for web apps)
Required for Copilot in Word/Excel/PowerPoint online.
✔ OneDrive enabled
For file access, versioning, and grounding.
Copilot Chat Free vs Copilot for Microsoft 365 Business vs Copilot for Microsoft 365 Enterprise
| Feature / Capability | Copilot Chat (Free) | Copilot for Microsoft 365 Business | Copilot for Microsoft 365 Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Webbased AI chat grounded in the web | Full Microsoft 365 Copilot for SMBs | Full Microsoft 365 Copilot for enterprises |
| Works inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams | ❌ No | ✅ Yes — same capabilities as Enterprise | ✅ Yes |
| Grounded in your organization’s data (Graph) | ❌ No | ✅ Yes (uses your business data securely) | ✅ Yes |
| Copilot Agents / Automation | ❌ No | ✅ Included | ✅ Included with enterprise governance |
| Copilot Chat (web + work data) | Webonly | Included | Included |
| Compliance & Governance | Basic consumer-level | Follows Microsoft 365 Business tenant policies | Full enterprise governance, auditing, analytics |
| User Limit | Unlimited | Up to 300 users | No limit |
| Licensing Requirements | None | M365 Business Basic/Standard/Premium | M365 E3/E5/F1/F3 |
| Security Boundary | Internet data | Business tenant boundary | Enterprise compliance boundary |
| Pricing | Free | ~$21/user/month | $30/user/month |
What Copilot Can Do for Your Business
Copilot helps your team:
- Write emails, proposals, letters, reports
- Summarize long email threads & Teams meetings
- Analyze Excel sheets using plain English
- Prepare PowerPoint presentations from a simple prompt
- Search across your business data in seconds
- Automate repetitive tasks using Copilot Agents
- Create reusable knowledge using Copilot Pages
This is enterprise-grade AI productivity—finally made accessible to SMBs.
Why SMBs Need Copilot
Most SMBs suffer from:
- Disorganized data scattered across files, emails, WhatsApp, Teams
- Overloaded staff doing repetitive work
- No documented processes
- Slow decision-making
- Poor reporting
- Security risks due to inconsistent practices
Copilot fixes the symptoms, but Techgyan fixes the cause.
If an SMB deploys Copilot without preparing:
- Data chaos → poor answers
- Weak security → data exposure
- No training → low adoption
- No governance → business risk
AI success = AI + Readiness + Training + Governance.
This is where Techgyan shines.
How Techgyan Helps You Succeed with Copilot
We assess your:
- Data structure
- Security & compliance posture
- Licensing
- Readiness gaps
- Business workflows
- Adoption risks
Then deliver a CopilotReady Blueprint for your organization.
Practical, department wise training:
- HR: Letters, hiring workflows, policy drafts
- Sales: Pitches, CRM summaries, follow-ups
- Finance: Excel analysis, reconciliations
- Leadership: Strategy docs, board summaries
- Operations: SOP creation, task automation
Zero theory. Zero fluff. 100% hands-on.
✔ Copilot Immersion Briefings (Techgyan Style — “Cloud Changes Everything”)
Your teams experience real-life scenarios in Copilot value in your business context.
Start Your Copilot Business Journey with Techgyan
Empower your organization with secure, structured, high impact AI adoption.
✔ Book a Copilot Readiness Assessment
✔ Enroll your team in a Copilot Workshop
✔ Schedule a Copilot Immersion Briefing
Let’s build your Digital Nervous System with Microsoft 365 + Copilot.