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iPads have evolved into versatile productivity tools with numerous apps available to enhance organization and focus.
Google is introducing several new Gemini integrations across Docs, Slides, Sheets, and Drive, the most notable of which is aimed at helping you create projects from the beginning. Gemini already exists in Google's productivity offerings, but now it can access your email, your Drive, and other documents and use those to craft entire spreadsheets in Sheets, presentations in Slides, or documents in Docs.
We're investing a lot in AI - we're doing a lot, but we're stopping at individual productivity. We're not taking the next step. You can't just screw AI on everything - it only makes you faster. It means you need to think about, 'how are our teams collaborating? How are people collaborating?' You probably need to change the way you work.
Copilot Cowork brings together long-running parallel task completion inside of Microsoft 365 Copilot, with the agent able to complete work in the background so workers can focus on other tasks. This allows you to amplify your work and be more productive while you multitask and work across all kinds of different Microsoft 365 applications.
As early adopters have discovered, Copilot delivers real transformation only when it becomes an integral part of critical workflows. Enterprises are beginning to treat generative AI not as an isolated productivity tool, but as the connective layer linking business applications, data, and human judgment. Nowhere is this shift clearer than in organizations using Microsoft 365 Copilot as part of a broader architecture that spans CRMs, low-code platforms, and specialized AI systems.
Microsoft is pitching this new tool to retailers as a way to reach a wider pool of potential customers and offer a seamless shopping experience that is more likely to convert sales. By integrating purchases directly into Copilot rather than redirecting consumers to an external site, the hope is that with one less step, customers will be more likely to click buy, rather than abandoning their cart.
Microsoft is making it a lot faster and easier to add links to text inside Word documents. Instead of having to open a menu item to insert a link or use the CTRL + K keyboard shortcut, you can now simply paste a link on top of the text you want to hyperlink. This new feature reduces the amount of clicks you need to do an everyday task like linking URLs, and it works across Word for the web, Windows, and Mac.
Microsoft has woven its generative AI technology throughout Microsoft 365, the company's productivity suite. Its Copilot AI assistant is most often used in M365 apps for text-oriented actions, such as generating email or document drafts in Outlook or Word, or writing summaries of Teams meetings. In Excel, of course, Copilot's primary uses lean toward calculations and data analysis. It can also help you style or edit a spreadsheet.
Microsoft has made OneDrive agents generally available, allowing users to query multiple documents simultaneously through Copilot instead of just one at a time. Users can select up to 20 files and create an agent, saved as a .agent file in OneDrive. Rather than teasing information out of individual documents, Microsoft says users can make cross-document queries, including "What decisions have we made so far?" and "What risks keep coming up?" The agent then generates a response based on the documents' content.
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It's about replacing entire layers of business process management with intelligent systems that route work, make recommendations, and execute decisions autonomously. PEGA builds workflow automation and CRM software specifically designed for this transformation. The company generates $1.73 billion in trailing revenue with a 16.1% profit margin, focusing on AI-driven customer engagement and process automation. Recent quarters show dramatic profitability improvement, with Q1 2025 delivering $85.4 million in net income after the company posted losses in 2022.
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