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The workflow is the product: Copilot Cowork plugins change what AI can do for businesses

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Srini_Raghavan_Msft

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Most of the work that matters doesn't happen in one place. A quarterly review, a win-loss analysis, an onboarding plan—each one draws on several systems, moves through several tools, and depends on someone holding the thread across all of them. That sort of connective work is exactly what our customers would like to see from AI. Copilot Cowork, now generally available worldwide, is built for this sort of work—navigating long-running, multi-step processes. We designed it to be enterprise-ready from the outset: secure, compliant, and grounded in the data your business runs on, across your connected systems. Cowork is at its best when it can reach the systems your teams already use. I'm excited to show you the partners already making that real. Cowork works across the systems that power your business Our partners each extend Cowork with a new place to do real work—a system to draw from, a tool to act on, a step a user can review and take action on. The more systems Cowork can reach this way, the more of the task it carries from start to finish. Two simple building blocks make this work. Skills are repeatable instructions for doing a job, such as a research process or a regulatory response workflow. Connectors are secure bridges into the systems you already run. Either or both can be packaged into a plugin, distributed through the Microsoft Marketplace, built and maintained by a partner, so your team can add the capability simply by installing the plugin. That's what makes Cowork a specialist in the systems your business runs on, not just a capable generalist. Here are some of the partners bringing their expertise and insight to Cowork; all plugins are currently available unless otherwise stated (videos have been condensed for length and clarity): Inform financial and investment decisions These partners bring market, fund, and credit intelligence—and the legal reasoning behind the deals—into reach, so Cowork can ground the numbers and the agreements in sources you trust. S&P Global Energy delivers a comprehensive view of global energy and commodities markets to Cowork, enabling more informed decision-making based on trusted data, insights, and research. LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is one of the world’s leading providers of data, analytics, and critical financial infrastructure, enabling customers to draw crucial insights through data, analytics, and workflows. These capabilities are now brought to Cowork, bringing trusted data, analytics, and research across global asset classes. Morningstar gives Cowork independent investment research, verified data, and proprietary analytics across global asset classes to help professionals ground portfolio decisions, client insights, and market analysis in the independent intelligence relied on by investors worldwide. Moody’s equips Cowork with its intelligence to inform your decisions, powering high-priority financial workflows including peer comparisons, ratings pitches, sector outlooks and comprehensive company analysis, all grounded in Moody's proprietary ratings, research and risk intelligence. Money Forward connects Japan-market finance and accounting to Cowork, pulling AP/AR and expense data, reconciling transactions, and producing close-ready reporting. Scale consistent, high-quality outcomes across professional service engagements Box powers a meeting prep workflow in Microsoft Copilot Cowork. With the Box plugin enabled, Cowork can search Outlook calendar invites, retrieve relevant documents via Box MCP server tools, and produce a prep summary saved back to Box and ready to open inside Microsoft 365. Harvey brings purpose-built legal intelligence to Copilot Cowork—contract review, clause comparison, and jurisdiction-aware drafting—so legal teams can run complex, multi-step workflows without leaving Microsoft 365. Ground your work in market and competitive research When the question is what's happening beyond your own walls, these plugins give Cowork the analyst's view: market size, sentiment, and competitive signal. CB Insights (coming soon) adds predictive intelligence on private companies and markets to Cowork. Teams use it to source the most promising companies, evaluate new markets, and support their work in strategy, M&A, and corporate and business development. Statista (coming soon) supplies Cowork with validated market forecasts and consumer survey data spanning 190+ countries, 1,000+ markets, and 2M+ consumer interviews, grounding market sizing, consumer research, and automated briefings in statistics trusted by businesses worldwide . Act across the enterprise systems work runs on Cowork acts inside live records—reading orders, updating files, moving projects forward—without anyone needing to export or re-key a file. monday.com connects boards and items to Cowork, opening projects, updating statuses and owners, flagging work that's slipping, and rolling board activity into a status update ready to share. enosix Arnold ™ for Cowork turns SAP order management into a smoother experience, helping teams track progress, make updates, create quotes, and retrieve documents with ease. Turn finished work into something ready to share Once the thinking is done, these partners turn Cowork's output into a finished, on-brand deliverable: decks, documents, and visuals. Adobe (coming soon) extends Cowork with its Customer Experience Orchestration agentic capabilities and intelligence to streamline workflows, optimize customer journeys, and expedite campaign decisions within the flow of work. Canva brings visual design expertise into Cowork. Set the goal—a branded deck, a launch kit, a personalized campaign—and Cowork uses Canva's design skills to deliver it end-to-end: on-brand, finished, and saved back to Canva, ready to share. Miro turns Cowork's analysis into a visual board—diagrams, frameworks, and workshop-ready layouts your whole team can build on, all on one shared canvas.. Templafy (coming soon) turns Cowork’s output into consistent, on-brand presentations built from a company’s own templates, best-practice slides, and brand assets. Every action Cowork takes is governed like the rest of Microsoft 365 Cowork integrates with Microsoft Purview controls your data security and compliance teams already use today to manage Microsoft 365 Copilot. That means sensitivity labels are inherited and respected, interactions are captured in audit logging and DSPM activity explorer, and Communication Compliance and eDiscovery apply. Customers can also detect user risk with Insider Risk Management and leverage retention policies with Data Lifecycle Management. Data Loss Prevention protections extended to Cowork are coming soon. For prompts, responses, and generated artifacts, we are extending to Cowork scenarios available today for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Put Cowork to work across your systems This launch is just the beginning. Every plugin that joins the ecosystem gives Cowork another place to do real work and another stretch of the task it can carry end to end. Cowork is generally available worldwide, and we can't wait to see what your teams get done with it. Read the Cowork plugin GA announcement for details on what's available. Get started with Copilot Cowork. Review the plugin development guide on Microsoft Learn . Learn how to distribute Copilot extensibility solutions through the Microsoft 365 and Copilot program .

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