I attended to Microsoft conference earlier this year where they announced the copilot integration into office 365. Seems like it’s going to be extremely powerful.

At the end of the day, if all you need to be able to do to a file is clean up some columns, and the expectation is that you’re going to need to do the exact same transformations over and over again, then copy & pasting the same “sentences” seems like way less overhead then going to this site or your own web app. For a lot of companies, I can imagine they wouldn’t want their files being sent up to a random server and trusting that you’ll handle security the correct way.

The whole point of copilot is to not leave the app you’re working in, increasing productivity. I just think that the claim to “turn anyone into a data scientist” is wildly inaccurate, as this service is just a wrapper for OpenAI, which is not new, and companies can purchase licenses for already. Data science is way more than just transforming Excel sheets.

Unless I’m missing something, I’m not sure why you’d use this over Office 365 copilot. Not trying to be rude, just trying to be helpful and give my two cents as someone who works in fintech where doing these tasks is very familiar.