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As a seller, you expect chat systems to understand not only general inquiries but also your organization’s unique language and business nuances. You seek a solution that accurately interprets industry terminology and delivers relevant, context-specific responses. Consistency and accuracy in responses are essential, making the chat system a dependable tool for daily operations. A glossary solution within Microsoft Copilot Studio would allow admins to integrate business-specific terms, enabling you to receive precise answers to your questions.

A glossary enables Copilot to understand and use business-specific terms accurately, ensuring responses are consistently relevant to your context. This improves efficiency in closing deals, as you can easily access information with familiar terminology, allowing you to address concerns, gather relevant facts, and answer questions quickly, ultimately streamlining the path to a successful deal.

Feature Details

With this feature, you can:

  • Define a glossary with terms and logic that are relevant for your business. This helps you gain greater control over how Copilot interprets your queries. This includes defining business-specific terms, customizing ownership models, fine-tuning CRM queries, and setting guidelines for terms like "top," "best," and "we."
  • Access the glossary across all skills, including custom skills, ensuring consistent understanding and responses across various contexts.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
Note:
  • The author created this article with assistance from AI. Learn more

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Dec 1, 2024
General Availability : ---
Last updated: Dec 20, 2024

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

Organizations that rely on semiannual releases for major changes may find that it limits the speed of innovation and delays access to newer features. With this feature, the Sales Hub app will be enabled for monthly release channel, allowing it to be updated every month. This frequent update cycle ensures that the Sales Hub app receives the latest, generally available features as quickly as possible, enabling you to stay at the forefront of innovation and continuously improve your workflows.

Feature Details

With this feature, the out-of-the-box Sales Hub app shipped by Microsoft is enabled to use the monthly channel instead of the semiannual channel. This change allows you to get new features every month instead of having to wait for the semiannual releases. To learn more about features shipping in the monthly channel, go to Monthly channel release notes for model-driven apps.

Release channel configuration provides three options: Auto, Monthly, and Semiannual. Currently, Auto is set as the default value for the Sales Hub app. With 2024 release wave 2, the release channel for the Sales Hub app is being changed from Auto to Monthly. If you want to continue using the semiannual channel, you can set the app release channel to Semiannual before October 2024. If you’d like to enable the monthly channel for other model-driven apps, you need to set it manually.

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: Aug 12, 2024
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Oct 21, 2024
Last updated: Feb 19, 2025

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

In the world of sales, seamlessly engaging with customers across linguistic boundaries is essential.

With the latest updates to Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales, you can now rely on Copilot to read documents in various languages and provide answers in your preferred language. This enhancement enables you to quickly access information from multilingual sources without language constraints, allowing you to maintain a consistent workflow in your chosen language.

By bridging language differences in the background, this feature helps you deliver a smooth, personalized customer experience that fosters better understanding and drives sales success. Now, you can focus on connecting with customers while Copilot manages the language nuances for you.

Feature Details

As a seller, you can get answers to your questions from SharePoint documents in your preferred language. Copilot searches all SharePoint files that you have access to and translates the answers from the documents to the language you prefer.

Copilot can answer questions from documents in the following languages:

  • Chinese (simplified)
  • Czech
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • Finnish
  • French
  • German
  • Greek
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Norwegian
  • Polish
  • Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Thai
  • Turkish

This feature is automatically enabled with Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales. Learn more about enabling Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales at Turn on and set up Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Nov 29, 2024
Last updated: Feb 19, 2025

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

As a sales professional, you sift through lengthy documents to understand the customer’s needs and preferences across multiple systems. This time-consuming task leads to decreased productivity and potentially missed opportunities. With the ability to automatically summarize important details from lengthy documents including proposals, reports, and agreements, you can save time and focus on building relationships with customers and closing deals. The sales document summarization feature can improve the quality of customer interactions by ensuring that you have a comprehensive understanding of customer needs as per the BANT (Budget, Authority, Need, and Timeline) framework.

Feature Details

As a seller, you can use Copilot chat to:

  • Get a summary of the documents stored in SharePoint that you have access to.
  • Get a summary of the documents associated with your contact, opportunity, lead, and account.
  • Use the summary to understand the budget, authority (decision maker), need, and timeline based on various documents.

Watch the demo to know how to use the feature.

This feature is automatically enabled with Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales. Learn more about enabling Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales at Turn on and set up Copilot in Dynamics 365 Sales.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Nov 5, 2024
Last updated: Feb 19, 2025

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

In the fast-paced world of sales, you often work on multiple accounts simultaneously. It can be challenging to stay on top of all your accounts and gather relevant information efficiently. With the Account summary feature, you can now access a consolidated summary of vital customer data, including buying behavior, associated opportunities, leads, marketing campaigns, and the latest news about an account through the power of AI. This enables you to quickly research an account.

You no longer need to spend excessive time shifting through scattered information or manually compiling account details. You can quickly access a comprehensive overview of each account, prioritize your work effectively, and engage with customers in a more personalized and targeted manner.

Feature Details

As an admin, you can:

  • Enable Copilot Account summary for any Dynamics 365 application.
  • Configure the entities and fields to use for creating the account summary.

As a seller, you can:

  • Get a 360-degree view of your account, which is built using all the data associated with the account. 
  • View a summary of the associated opportunities.
  • Know about the associated leads.
  • Learn the latest news about the account.

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: Jul 29, 2024
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Oct 20, 2024
Last updated: Feb 19, 2025

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

As a seller, you often struggle with writing effective emails to communicate with your customers. You may face challenges such as not knowing how to structure your emails, which information to include or exclude, or how to strike the right tone. This can lead to poor customer engagement, lost sales, and damage to their brand image. Though organizations try to use templates, most of the emails sent cannot be standardized and thus templates are not very useful in such scenarios.

Email assistance can provide tremendous value to you by addressing these challenges. As a language model trained on a vast collection of text, Copilot can generate personalized, high-quality emails that are tailored to meet the specific needs of each customer. By using natural language processing (NLP) algorithms, Copilot can help you craft clear, concise, and compelling emails that resonate with your audience. This can lead to improved customer engagement, increased sales, and enhanced brand reputation. You can adjust the tone and length of the message to better resonate with customers, fostering stronger connections. You can also customize the suggested content before you send it.

Feature Details

Copilot lets you spend less time composing emails. With this feature, you can:

  • Select a predefined category or enter your text and Copilot will suggest content with specific prompts and actions.
  • Adjust the tone and length of the email.
  • Customize the suggested content before you send it.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Jun 16, 2023
General Availability : Oct 1, 2024
Last updated: Feb 19, 2025

Included in:
2024 release wave 2
2023 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

Identifying high-engagement contacts enables targeted follow-up, allowing sales teams to focus on deals with the greatest potential. By tailoring communications based on specific engagement actions, teams can create more personalized outreach that resonates with prospects. It also ensures efforts are directed toward high-interest prospects, maximizing productivity. Together, these metrics enable a strategic approach to engagement, driving higher conversion rates and improving overall sales outcomes.

Feature Details

The email engagement enhancement highlights key engagement metrics, displaying only the first and most recent instances of clicks, replies, attachment views, and opens, while omitting all other instances. This keeps the focus on the most critical interactions. To access this feature, ensure that the email engagement option is enabled in the Sales Insights settings of the sales application.

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.
Note:
  • The author created this article with assistance from AI. Learn more

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Jan 31, 2025
Last updated: Mar 04, 2025

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users, automatically

Business Value

The opportunity pipeline view in Dynamics 365 Sales now offers an even more empowering experience for opportunity management. By placing you, the seller, at the center of your workflows, it enables you to view your entire pipeline with new-found clarity, gather context quickly, take actions efficiently, and work in a manner that truly suits your needs.

This upgraded pipeline view allows you to further streamline your sales strategies. You can now group opportunities dynamically based on critical factors such as account name, seller name, or closing date/month. This functionality enhances your ability to segment and target specific areas of your pipeline, ensuring a more personalized and effective approach to each opportunity.

In addition to the improved grouping capabilities, Dynamics 365 Sales now facilitates the aggregation of numeric values. You can effortlessly assess the total estimated revenue within your pipeline or within specific grouped segments. This feature equips you with invaluable insights into the financial potential of your opportunities, making it easier to prioritize and focus on deals that contribute significantly to the bottom line.

Feature Details

As a seller, you can:

  • Group opportunities by account name, seller name, closing date/month, or any other relevant field.
  • Aggregate numeric values such as estimated value and actual revenue in the editable grid.

Enabled for:

Users by admins, makers, or analysts
This feature must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: ---
Public Preview: Aug 12, 2024
General Availability : Oct 20, 2024
Last updated: Feb 19, 2025

Included in:
2024 release wave 2
2024 release wave 1

Enabled for:
Users by admins, makers, or analysts

Business Value

Streamlined lead qualification in Dynamics 365 Sales empowers you to fine-tune the qualification process, aligning it precisely with your organization's unique needs and sales criteria. This agile configuration eliminates back-and-forth interactions and saves valuable time, promoting swift, informed lead evaluation.

As a sales professional, you can benefit from insightful Copilot lead summaries, which provide clear and concise lead overviews for informed decision-making. The ability to create multiple opportunities from a single lead maximizes sales potential, while enhanced collaboration allows for opportunity assignments among team members. Furthermore, redundant data entry is eliminated as fields of the generated opportunities are prepopulated, boosting your productivity and ensuring focused efforts on high-value sales activities.

Feature Details

As an administrator, you can:

  • Configure the lead qualification process to ensure that leads are thoroughly evaluated.
  • Enable Copilot to generate a lead qualification summary.
  • Configure the creation of multiple opportunities from a single lead.

As a seller, you can:

  • Assign newly generated opportunities to other sellers, fostering collaboration and maximizing sales team efficiency.
  • View the AI-generated lead qualification summary after a lead is qualified.
  • Choose to create multiple opportunities from a single lead.

Enabled for:

Users, automatically
This feature includes changes to the user experience for users and is enabled automatically.

Change history
Timelines:
Early Access: Jul 29, 2024
Public Preview: ---
General Availability : Oct 25, 2024
Last updated: Feb 19, 2025

Included in:
2024 release wave 2

Enabled for:
Users, automatically