AI Opportunities: How Node4 is helping unleash AI.
Yesterday, the Government set out their plans to ‘unleash’ AI across the UK, emphasising its transformative potential for various industries. The announcement highlighted a bold new plan to integrate AI across public and private sectors, which aims to transform public services, boost economic growth, and cement the nation’s position as a global AI leader.
But AI isn’t new to us. We’re not just embracing it, we’ve been continuously pioneering its application to drive transformative change. Last year, we made a substantial investment by purchasing 1000 Copilot seats, demonstrating our dedication to integrating AI into our operations and services. This investment has enabled us to enhance our capabilities and provide our clients with cutting-edge solutions that drive efficiency and innovation, helping our clients achieve more through AI.
Our focus on AI extends to ensuring that our clients can confidently navigate the vastly growing AI landscape. With our 3-day Copilot Readiness Assessment programme, we have supported our partners in delivering business-critical Microsoft services, helping them harness the power of AI to achieve their goals.
“To truly unleash the potential of AI, it’s crucial to start with a robust foundation. And what better foundation than the data that organisations already value and trust? However, preparing this data for optimal use is a challenge that many organisations encounter, especially when integrating new services or planning future growth strategies.”
Jay Fitzhenry – Pre-sales Lead for Data & AI
“The real game-changer lies in leveraging AI to deliver information swiftly to systems that boost workforce productivity. The next significant advancement in this field is the use of agents through agentic AI models. By developing these as Large Action Models (LAMs) instead of Large Language Models (LLMs), we transcend beyond mere text generation. AI-driven agents will not only comprehend and generate content but will also execute tasks on your behalf, driving efficiency and innovation in ways we’ve never seen before.”
With tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio, our experts like Principal Consultant Nick Lloyd, can help your organisation navigate this Government implementation and do more with AI to improve productivity, streamline operations, and drive innovation. See what Nick has to share below.
The Power of Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft 365 Copilot integrates seamlessly with the Microsoft 365 suite, providing AI-powered assistance across various applications such as Word, Excel, and Outlook. Here are some ways Copilot can benefit your organisation:
- Enhanced Productivity:
Copilot can automate routine tasks, such as scheduling meetings, managing emails, and generating reports, allowing employees to focus on more strategic activities.
- Data-Driven Insights:
By analysing data from multiple sources, Copilot can provide actionable insights and recommendations, helping your team make informed decisions.
- Improved Collaboration:
Copilot facilitates better collaboration by summarising discussions, tracking action items, and ensuring everyone stays on the same page.
Unlocking Creativity with Copilot Studio
Copilot Studio empowers users to create custom AI solutions tailored to their specific needs. Whether you’re in the public or private sector, Copilot Studio offers a range of tools to help you innovate and solve complex problems:
- Custom AI Models:
Develop and deploy AI models that address unique challenges within your organisation, from predictive maintenance to customer service automation.
- Integration with Existing Systems:
Copilot Studio allows you to integrate AI capabilities with your current IT infrastructure, bringing disparate systems together and providing natural language interrogation of key data.
- Automate manual tasks:
Develop custom solutions to capture, analyse and transform incoming data. Surface key points for internal teams to review and provide the ability for those teams to get further information in conversational style interfaces.
Supporting Public Sector Transformation
The government’s AI plan emphasizes the use of AI to enhance public services, such as reducing administrative burdens and improving service delivery. We’re well-positioned to support this transformation by:
- Understanding the value of AI:
Our engagements help public sector organisations identify top functional scenarios, build business cases and develop strategic implementation roadmaps.
- Implementing AI Solutions:
Through multi-stage engagement, we can help public sector organisations with a deployment and adoption experience to rapidly assist with deploying and adopting a purchase of Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses so the value of Copilot can be released.
- Ensuring Compliance and Security:
We prioritise data security and compliance, ensuring that AI implementations adhere to relevant regulations and protect sensitive information.
As we continue to innovate in the AI space, we’re committed to providing exceptional client outcomes. Our strong relationships with market-leading vendors, including Microsoft, and our recognition as a Microsoft Inner Circle partner for five consecutive years, underpins our expertise and dedication.
“I’m pleased with the new AI Opportunities Action Plan, which sets out 50 recommended actions to boost the UK’s productivity through AI innovation and adoption. It focuses on building the right infrastructure, skills, and environment for success, while still recognising the need for AI safety initiatives. By promoting rapid pilot-to-scale initiatives in the public sector, and the development of world-class compute data and regulatory frameworks, the plan aims to deliver a significant economic impact. If implemented with urgency, it could position the UK as a global AI leader, where pioneering research, practical deployment, and responsible governance drive sustainable growth in this new era.”
Technology & Innovation Director Connectivity – Glenn Akester
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