Question

A manufacturing company uses Microsoft 365 Copilot and wants employees to be able to ask Copilot questions that reference product specifications stored in a third-party, on-premises product lifecycle management (PLM) system. The data is not currently accessible to Microsoft 365. The leadership team wants Copilot to surface and reason over this external PLM content alongside existing Microsoft 365 data, without migrating the PLM system. Which approach best meets this requirement?

Accepted Answer

Deploy a Microsoft Graph connector to index the PLM content so it becomes part of the Microsoft Graph and is available to Copilot grounding.

Answer

Fine-tune the underlying large language model used by Microsoft 365 Copilot with the PLM specifications.

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Export the PLM data to Excel files and instruct employees to upload them into each Copilot Chat session.

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Increase the model temperature so Copilot generates the missing product specifications from general knowledge.