In this episode, hosts Tom and Josh continue their breakdown of Microsoft Ignite 2024, focusing on Power Platform and cybersecurity after covering M365 Copilot and Fabric in the previous episode.
Key Topics Covered:
🔹 Power Platform Updates
- Plan Designer: A new AI-driven tool that helps organisations design solutions by generating user stories, data models, and automations.
- Agent Builder in Power Apps: Converts existing Power Apps into autonomous AI agents that can oversee business processes.
- Next-Gen Document Processing: GPT-4.0-powered AI eliminates the need for traditional OCR training, making document-based automation (e.g., invoice processing, approvals) much faster.
- Automated Form Filling: AI can now extract data from files and emails to fill out forms, reducing manual data entry.
🔹 Cybersecurity & Compliance Updates
- Microsoft Purview Enhancements: New AI-powered data security posture management to detect oversharing and compliance gaps.
- Copilot Security Upgrades: AI risk management features, including prompt injection protection and insider risk alerts.
- Defender for Business Integrations: Smaller businesses now have access to Huntress, a 24/7 security operations centre, and enhanced email threat detection using AI.
- Windows 365 Link: A thin-client device that connects directly to Microsoft’s Cloud PC, offering a secure, hardware-free computing experience.
With AI adoption accelerating, the hosts discuss the overwhelming pace of change and the challenge for businesses to keep up. They suggest starting with a security posture assessment and exploring AI-driven document processing as key priorities for 2025.
