Approvals Kit

“Approvals kit” – a kit from Power CAT that will accelerate building your approvals faster than ever – available as a public preview. Approvals kit is a no-code ready-made kit built on top of Power Platform components that allows your organization to configure sophisticated approvals such as conditional branching, delegation, admin overrides and more – all without the need to write a single code – empowering every person in your organization to “do more with less” for your organization’s approval needs.

Approvals Kit documentation https://aka.ms/ApprovalsKit : Public landing page of the kit, describes what and where approvals kit is along with usage personas and frequently asked questions.

Learn Module https://aka.ms/ApprovalsKit/Learn : Self-guided or instructor led delivery to get started using the approvals kit.

Instructor Guide https://aka.ms/ApprovalsKit/Instructor : New automated setup experience to take a group of learners through the learn module content.

Office Hours https://aka.ms/ApprovalsKit/OfficeHours : Join our regular office hours on the second Monday of each month.

Microsoft Copilot Studio

Microsoft Copilot Studio, a low-code tool to customize Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and build standalone copilots. Copilot Studio is included in Copilot for Microsoft 365 and brings together a set of powerful conversational capabilities—from custom GPTs, to generative AI plugins, to manual topics—allowing you to:

  • Easily customize Copilot for Microsoft 365 with your own enterprise scenarios.
  • Quickly build, test, and publish standalone copilots and custom GPTs.
  • Manage and secure your customizations and standalone copilots with the right access, data, user controls, and analytics.

Pls refer below link for announcement –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2023/11/15/announcing-microsoft-copilot-studio-customize-copilot-for-microsoft-365-and-build-your-own-standalone-copilots/

If you want to learn more about Microsoft Copilot Studio, visit these resources:

Copilot studio expanded capability to various locations, including:

  • Europe
  • United Kingdom
  • Australia
  • India
  • Japan
  • Asia Pacific
  • South America
  • Switzerland

Microsoft Ignite 2023

Here are the key announcements from Microsoft Ignite

  1. Microsoft AI chips
  2. Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365
  3. Microsoft Copilot Studio
  4. Copilot in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides
  5. Microsoft Copilot for Azure
  6. Microsoft Copilot for Service
  7. Immersive Microsoft Teams experience
  8. Bing Chat is now having Copilot
  9. Windows AI Studio
  10. Security Copilot
  11. NVIDIA AI foundry service

Pls refer details in Book of News

https://news.microsoft.com/ignite-2023-book-of-news/

AI Builder Models

These models are broadly classified 4 types based on operation –

Documents Type

This contains all the models which deals with documents

Prebuild Models
Invoice ProcessingExtract information from invoices
Text RecognitionExtract all the text in photos and PDF documents (OCR)
Receipt ProcessingExtract information from receipts
Identity Document ReaderExtract information from identity documents
Business Card ReaderExtract information from Business Cards
Custom Models
Document ProcessingExtract custom information from documents

Document Type Models

Text Type

This contains all the models which deals with text analysis

Prebuild Models
Sentiment AnalysisDetect Positive, Negative, or neutral sentiment in text data
Category classificationClassify customer feedback into predefined categories
Entity ExtractionExtract key elements from text, and classifies them into predefined categories
Key Phrase ExtractionExtract most relevant words and phrases from text
Language DetectionDetect the predominant language of a text document
Text translationDetect and translate more than 90 supported languages
Azure Open AI ServiceCreate text, answer questions, summarize documents and more with GPT
Custom Models
Category ClassificationClassify texts into custom categories
Entity ExtractionExtract custom entities from your text

Structured Data

This contains model which deals with structure of data

Custom Models
PredictionPredict future outcomes from historical data

Images

This contains models which deals with images

Prebuild Models
Text recognitionExtract all the text in photos and PDF documents (OCR)
Custom Models
Object DetectionDetect custom objects in images

Each model will pass through below 4 phases in sequence –

  • Build
  • Train
  • Manage
  • Publish

Build Model

To build a model using AI builder has below prerequisite –

  • AI builder requires Microsoft Dataverse storage to store and manage business data
  • AI builder must be enabled for the environment

Train Model

Before using AI builder models, you need to train the models. More the training of the model with different samples the confidence or accuracy will be more. So, training is a vital activity in AI automation.

Training takes some time in AI builder based on the level of difficulty so once the model is trained first time, you have access to details page where you can manage the model and you can see performance score of the models.

On the details page, training results appear in the last trained version section.

Manage Model

Optimising an AI model is an iterative process whose results can vary depending on the configurations you set and the training data you provide. Updating these factors can affect the performance of your model.

After model is trained a performance score will appear for each trained version so accordingly you can improve the model by adjusting the factors affecting the model.

After evaluation of model, you can check whether your model is perfectly fit, Underfit or Overfit

Underfit – This occurs when your model is not able to perform which is less than the expectation, in this case you need to train your model with more relevant information

Overfit – This occurs when your model gives accurate prediction for training data but not for new data, in this case you need to adjust relevant parameters and retrain the model

If your model is already once published, you will see one Published version and one Last Trained version which is not published yet after retraining. You can choose which one you want to use as final version to use and publish accordingly.

Publish Model

After the model is trained successfully you can publish to make it available. All users in your current environment will be able to use your published model when you publish it.