Azure Connect - For Copilot Extensibility
Integrate all your data sources across all your enterprise applications into one powerful AI engine, fuelling your Microsoft Copilot and Azure OpenAI initiatives with Azure Connect's fully managed integration offering.
Your Key to Unlocking AI, through managed integrated data
OVERVIEW
Maximizing AI Potential with Integrated Data Solutions
With Azure Connect, leverage an extensive suite of over 1,000 connectors, powered by Azure Integration Services (AIS), connect every system, application, and data source within your organization into a unified data ecosystem. This central hub facilitates real-time data availability, ensuring your AI solutions like Copilot and Azure OpenAI have instant access to the information they need.
Unleash the full power of your private data by integrating it with Microsoft's AI services, including Microsoft 365 Copilot and Dynamics 365 copilot. This powerful combination unlocks new dimensions of AI innovation, tailored to your unique business requirements and safeguarding your proprietary information.
Elevate your AI's potential by providing it with access to real-time data from across your organization’s systems, applications, and data lakes. This enriched data foundation supports a more robust AI engine, enabling comprehensive and sophisticated AI models for deeper insights and actionable intelligence.
KEY FEATURES
Azure Connect Key Features
Azure Connect brings seamless integration and automation to your organization, powered by Microsoft's Azure Integration Services (AIS) and the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) to create a unified data ecosystem. This strategic amalgamation not only empowers Azure OpenAI and Microsoft Copilot projects but also ensures your AI initiatives thrive on real-time, comprehensive data.
Connect and Automate
At the heart of our service offering is Azure’s integration and automation services, enabling the seamless integration and automation of your data ecosystem. This foundational step not only simplifies workflows and data flows across platforms but also primes your organization for the development of Copilot API Plugins and System Integrations.
Leveraging the Industry-Leading Cloud Framework
We harness the full potential of the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and the Azure Well-Architected Framework. This structured approach not only provides industry-leading guidance but also maximizes cloud benefits, aligning technology deployment with your overarching business objectives for a transformative impact.
Managed Azure Integration Services
Leverage our Azure Connect managed service offering to navigate the intricacies of AI integration. From design and delivery to full management, we handle the intricacies so you can concentrate on creating impactful AI use cases, knowing your integrations are in expert hands.
Expertise in Action
Our team brings a wealth of integration expertise, particularly with the industry-leading Azure Integration Services, ensuring your organization is primed for digital transformation and AI readiness. With experience across a broad range of systems, we’re focused on delivering successful integrations essential for thriving in the current AI wave.
Integrated data is the cornerstone of AI excellence, crucial for unleashing real-time, organization-wide insights that drive AI success.
Azure OpenAI: Unleashing AI Potential With Integrated Data
Azure Connect serves as a managed integration solution, integrating data from sources like Salesforce, Oracle, SAP, Workday etc. into Azure. This integration secures private company data and empowers organizations to leverage their entire data landscape, enhancing Azure OpenAI's functionality.
By adhering to the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and deploying within Azure Landing Zones (LZs), Azure Connect ensures best practices in data security and cloud adoption. This setup feeds real-time information continuously to Large Language Models (LLMs), keeping them up-to-date with insights from across the organization, not limited to data within Microsoft ecosystems.
Through Azure Connect, companies can harness the full power of Azure OpenAI, utilizing generative AI and LLMs fed by comprehensive, real-time organizational data for dynamic, AI-driven solutions.
Use Cases
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Conversational AI: Enhance customer service with AI bots for dynamic Q&A and optimized contact centers.
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Content Generation: Leverage AI for rapid, relevant content creation across mediums.
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Strategic Insights: Use real-time data analysis for informed decision-making and trend forecasting.
Copilot: Maximizing Copilot with Comprehensive Data Integration
Azure Connect expands Copilot's capabilities by facilitating access to data from external systems such as your CRM, ERP, Finance or HR systems. Through Azure Connect, developers can craft plugins using the OpenAI schema, connecting application data directly to Copilot.
This allows Copilot to perform a wider array of actions by fetching real-time information from these external sources, thus enhancing user interactions with richer, more informed responses and making your AI assistant far more powerful and versatile. Azure Connect API Plugins can retrieve information or perform tasks on behalf of a user. For example, a plugin can provide real-time bidirectional access to your Salesforce CRM, such as changes to contact or opportunity records, enabling Copilot to seamlessly integrate and interpret Salesforce data, providing real-time, actionable insights directly within your workflow.
Get more from copilot when integrating all your data silo’s.
Use Cases:
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Sales Analytics: Use integrated CRM data for instant sales insights and decision-making.
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Project Management: Enhance planning and risk management by accessing ERP project data.
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Customer Service: Improve responses with personalized data from external customer interactions.
HOW IT WORKS
How Azure Connect Enables Real-Time Data To Power AI Services
Pricing
Core Connect
$5000
Monthly Total
1-3 Copilot Plugins (APIs)
Core Connect Includes:
Business Hours Support
Monthly reporting and insights
Real-time monitoring, logging, and analytics
30,000 API requests per day
Up to 3 APIs to Core Systems of Record (SoR)
High Availability and Reliability Options
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Load balancing
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Auto-scaling
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Failover
Data Encryption in transit
Fully Secured Endpoints
Plus Connect
$7500
Monthly Total
Up to 6 Copilot Plugins (APIs)
Plus Connect Includes:
Business Hours Support
Monthly reporting and insights
Real-time monitoring, logging, and analytics
60,000 API requests per day
Up to 6 APIs to Core Systems of Record (SoR)
High Availability and Reliability Options
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Load balancing
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Auto-scaling
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Failover
Data Encryption in transit
Fully Secured Endpoints
Advanced Connect
$9200
Monthly Total
Up to 10 Copilot Plugins (APIs) to Core Systems of Record (SoR)
Advanced Connect Includes:
Business Hours Support
Monthly reporting and insights
Real-time monitoring, logging, and analytics
90,000 API requests per day
Up to 10 APIs to Core Systems of Record (SoR)
High Availability and Reliability Options
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Load balancing
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Auto-scaling
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Failover
Data Encryption in transit
Fully Secured Endpoints
Frequently asked questions about Azure Connect
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What is Azure Connect For Copilot?Azure Connect is a fully managed solution powered by Azure Integration Services (AIS) that enables organizations to unify all their data sources across enterprise applications into a single powerful AI engine. It expands Copilot's capabilities by facilitating access to data from external systems such as CRM, ERP, Finance, or HR systems.
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How does Azure Connect work?Azure Connect harnesses managed APIs to seamlessly integrate critical data sources, empowering Copilot to access and utilize data from external systems. These APIs unlock the data necessary for AI success, leaning on AIS to ensure smooth data integration.
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What are the benefits of using Azure Connect for Copilot Extensibility?By empowering Copilot with integrated data sources, Azure Connect enhances AI capabilities and enables organizations to derive deeper insights and make more informed decisions. It leverages the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and the Azure Well-Architected Framework to ensure robust and efficient data integration processes.
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What is a fully managed service?A fully managed service means that Azure Connect takes care of all aspects of data integration, including setup, maintenance, and ongoing support. It utilizes managed APIs to seamlessly integrate critical data sources, providing organizations with a hassle-free data integration solution.
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What is Copilot, and how does it relate to Azure Connect?Copilot is an AI-driven work assistant within the Microsoft 365 and Dynamics suite. Azure Connect expands Copilot's capabilities by providing access to data from external systems through managed APIs. This integration enables Copilot to perform a wider array of actions and provide richer, more informed responses by leveraging external data sources.
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What is a Copilot Plugin API?A Copilot Plugin API is a mechanism that allows external systems, such as Salesforce, Workday, or SAP, to integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Copilot. Each Copilot Plugin API connects a specific external system with Copilot, enabling the exchange of data between the two platforms. By leveraging Copilot Plugin APIs, users can access and utilize data from various sources directly within Copilot, enhancing its capabilities and facilitating data-driven decision-making.
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What is included in one Copilot Plugin API?Each Copilot Plugin API represents a connection point between an external system, such as Salesforce, and Microsoft Copilot. For example, if integrating Salesforce with Copilot, one Copilot Plugin API may include an endpoint for accessing opportunities data, while another API may provide access to accounts information. These APIs serve as gateways for retrieving specific datasets from the external system and making them available within Copilot, enabling users to access and analyze relevant data seamlessly. In this scenario, accessing opportunities and accounts data would require two Copilot Plugin APIs
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Do Azure Connect plugins run on the customer's Azure tenant?Yes, Azure Connect plugins are designed to operate seamlessly within the customer's Azure tenant. We adhere to the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Landing Zone (LZ) guidance, ensuring that these plugins are not only optimized for performance within your specific Azure environment but also align with Microsoft's best practices for security, compliance, and scalability. This approach allows for a seamless integration and operation of Azure Connect plugins, directly within your own Azure infrastructure.
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How can I get started with Azure Connect?To get started with Azure Connect, you can reach out to our team for more information and assistance with implementation. We offer consultations to discuss your specific integration needs and tailor a solution to meet your requirements, leveraging the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and the Azure Well-Architected Framework.
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