The Microsoft AI Decision Brief

The AI Decision Brief Insights from Microsoft provides insights for AI leaders on navigating the Generative AI platform shift. AI has a potential to transform business but the rapid growth of the technology causes challenges in keeping up to date and knowing how to adopt it. As well and the infrastructure required 2 areas that are covered in the report which I this need investing is is AI skills and the importance of AI governance strategies. It is worth reading the guide to understand about the complexities and seeing how real world examples use AI.

The paper shares the five stages of generative AI readiness as

1. Exploring
2. Planning
3. Implementing
4. Scaling
5. Realizing

The five drives for business value mentioned are

1. Business strategy
2. Technology and data strategy
3. AI strategy and experience
4. Organisation and culture
5. AI governance

The top 3 elements to create best practice to get started are to

• Define the AI strategy and direction
• Target a top business challenge
• Establish AI readiness and governance

It is a useful document to read AI Decision Brief Insights from Microsoft

Reference

Maximizing AI’s potential: Insights from Microsoft leaders on how to get the most from generative AI

Customizing Generative AI for Unique Value

A new global report from MIT Technology Review Insights report looks at how business is leveraging AI customisation. It examines challenges faced by technology, motivations and methods to create business value. The report talks about improving efficiency, user satisfaction, and innovation but also looks at challenges such as data integrity and privacy. Simplifying AI customization is key and Azure AI Foundary , formerly AI Studio, helps design, customise and manage AI apps and agents at scale to help with business opportunities.

AI Playbook for the UK Government

The UK Government launched the AI Playbook for 2025 to provide departments and public sector organisations with accessible technical guidance on the safe and effective use of AI. 

The playbook covers 10 core principles for AI use in government and public sector organisations. These are

Principle 1: You know what AI is and what its limitations are

Principle 2: You use AI lawfully, ethically and responsibly

Principle 3: You know how to use AI securely

Principle 4: You have meaningful human control at the right stage

Principle 5: You understand how to manage the AI life cycle

Principle 6: You use the right tool for the job

Principle 7: You are open and collaborative

Principle 8: You work with commercial colleagues from the start

Principle 9: You have the skills and expertise needed to implement and use AI

Principle 10: You use these principles alongside your organisation’s policies and have the right assurance in place 

The paper shows the interdependencies between some existing and emerging fields of AI. 

Microsoft Purview Data Governance Roadmap H1 CY2025

The Microsoft Purview Data Governance Roadmap H1 CY2025 has been shared

Purview Data Governance is aligned with the Microsoft Security wide semester planning process. Next roadmap update is expected in July 2025. The roadmap covers these four areas to enhance data governance, improve data quality, and leverage AI in data management.

Unified Data Catalog Roadmap

• Enhancements in catalog management, including glossary terms, custom attributes, and duplicate detection.
• Support for glossary migration and scoped access.
• Automation of workflows for publishing business concepts and data product access.

Data Quality Roadmap

• Support for multicloud and on-premises data sources.
• Actionable data quality features, including scheduling, alerting, and issue remediation.
• Incremental data quality scoring and expanded connectors for on-premises support.

Data Estate Health Roadmap

• Introduction of bring-your-own-compute (BYOC) capabilities.
• Enhanced controls and user experience for monitoring data assets and ensuring critical data governance.
• Reporting on data quality trend history.

AI for Data Governance & Copilot

• Natural language search and data discovery with Security Copilot.
• AI-assisted catalog management and data quality rule recommendations.

Data Toboggan Winter 2025 Piste Maps

 The Data Toboggan Piste Maps for Saturday 25 January 2025

Register Now: https://bit.ly/DT2025-Register

Agenda: https://bit.ly/DT2025-Agenda

Bramberg Room

Pradaschier Room

Rigi Kaltbad Room

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and Agent Starter Kit

Jack Rowbotham has shared a great set of tool to get Copilot ready for agents . The full set of tools to use can be downloaded here: https://lnkd.in/gpPBSMmf

This includes 4 areas:

• Agent in Copilot Chat Handout
• Agent Overview Guide 
• Copilot Chat User Training Guide
• IT Controls Guide

This is a great set of resources to help you get started with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. The Copilot Control System covers enterprise data protection (EDP) for data privacy and security. It has the ability to govern access, manage and report the usage and lifecycle of Copilot and agents. 

The guides include

Agent Overview Guide

1. Options for creating agents
2. Agent templates
3. Examples you can create
4. Agent building steps
5. One-pagers on use cases with instructions

Download: https://lnkd.in/gfxr-rrH

IT Setup and Controls Guide

• IT admin setup steps
• Managing access to Copilot Studio
• Setting up pay-as-you-go for agents
• Managing and viewing consumption

Download: https://lnkd.in/gRqrzAJi

Read more about it Enabling agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

Try Copilot Chat today at: www.m365copilot.com

A Postcard from Data Toboggan

Continuing our travels with Data Toboggan

History of Events

2021

Inaugural event Winter Edition 2021: January 30, 2021

Cool Runnings July 2021: June 12, 2021

World Synapse Day 2021: Friday, November 12th, 2021

2022

Winter Edition 2022: January 29, 2022

Cool Runnings July 2022: July 9, 2022

Alpine Coaster 2022: Friday, November 25th, 2022

2023

Winter Edition 2023: January 28, 2023

Cool Runnings June 2023: June 24, 2023

Alpine Coaster 2023: Friday, November 24th, 2023

2024

Winter Edition 2024: February 3, 2024

Data Toboggan Slide Preparation  @ SQLBits: Thursday 21 March 2024

Cool Runnings 2024: Saturday, July 13th, 2024.

Alpine Coaster 2024: Friday, November 8th, 2024

2025

Winter Edition 2025: Saturday, January 25th, 2025.

Register for our next event: https://bit.ly/DT2025-Register

Agenda: https://bit.ly/DT2025-Agenda

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