How can I customize this PowerPoint template for my brand?
You can use the deck as a starting point and quickly turn it into a branded eBook by following these steps:
1. **Set up your brand look and feel**
- Open the **Slide Master** and update the **fonts and colors** to match your brand guidelines.
- Replace the **placeholder logo** with your company logo.
- Make sure font sizes and layout work well within the existing template so text remains readable and balanced.
2. **Update the highlighted content**
- Look for **highlighted text and graphics**—these indicate areas meant to be customized.
- Replace the sample copy with your **brand-specific messaging**.
- Once updated, **remove the highlight** so the text matches the surrounding style.
3. **Adjust visuals and imagery**
- You may **optionally replace stock photography or icons** with your own images if you prefer.
- Important: images and icons that ship with this template are **licensed for use only within this template**. They should not be reused elsewhere or altered.
4. **Finalize and export your eBook**
- Delete any **offslide instructions** and remove any remaining highlights.
- Save your final PowerPoint file with a clear name and in the right destination folder.
- Use **File → Export** and save as **PDF** to create your final eBook ready for sharing.
Why should an SMB consider Dynamics 365 Business Central with Copilot?
Many small and medium-sized businesses see the value of AI but are unsure how to put it into practice. In fact, **71% of SMB leaders believe AI adoption is critical to remain competitive**, while **61% say their company lacks a clear AI vision**. Dynamics 365 Business Central with Copilot is designed to close that gap.
Here’s how it helps:
1. **Unified, cloud-based business management**
- Business Central connects **finance, sales, service, and operations** in a single application.
- It’s a **cloud-based solution** built on Microsoft Azure, with identity, security, management, and compliance built in.
- You can work seamlessly with tools you already use, like **Outlook, Teams, and Power Platform**.
2. **Proven business impact**
- Business Central is trusted by **more than 45,000 companies worldwide**.
- A Forrester study of a composite customer reported:
- **172% ROI over three years**
- **Up to 18% increase in productivity**
- Around **USD 30,000 in annual savings** from avoided third‑party fees.
3. **Built-in AI and Copilot capabilities**
- **Copilot in Business Central** helps individuals boost personal productivity—summarizing information, suggesting content, and assisting with tasks like **bank account reconciliation** and **product description drafts**.
- **Prebuilt agents** (such as a **Sales Order agent** and **Payables agent**) can handle tasks like communicating with customers, interpreting requests, receiving vendor invoices, capturing invoice data, and registering invoices according to your policies.
- You can extend AI further by connecting to **Microsoft 365 Copilot, Power Automate, Power Apps, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI Foundry**.
4. **Support for growth and change**
- Business Central is designed to **scale as your business grows**, including support for operations across **multiple locations and countries**.
- Microsoft experts can help tailor the solution to your current needs and future plans, so you can **adapt faster, work smarter, and perform better** without constantly switching systems.
Overall, Business Central with Copilot helps SMBs move from experimenting with AI to embedding it in everyday processes, using tools their teams already know.
What can Copilot and agents in Business Central actually do for my team?
Copilot and the broader agentic ecosystem in Dynamics 365 Business Central are designed to support you at different stages of AI maturity—from basic assistance to more advanced automation.
**Three levels of AI capabilities**
1. **Copilot in Business Central (included)** – focused on personal productivity:
- **Guide and explain concepts** to help users learn new skills or understand processes.
- **Search with natural language** to find records, pages, and matching products, including similar products.
- **Analyze and organize data** so users can get to insights faster.
- **Compare bank statements and incoming e-documents** to support reconciliation.
- **Suggest numbering patterns** for records and **draft product descriptions** to speed up setup work.
2. **Agents (consumption-based pricing)** – focused on business productivity:
- **Sales Order agent** can:
- Communicate with customers.
- Interpret customer requests.
- Help send quotes and support the order-taking process.
- **Payables agent** can:
- Receive vendor invoices.
- Capture invoice information.
- Register invoices according to your company’s policies, preferences, and history.
- More **prebuilt agents** are planned, and you can also build **custom agents**.
3. **Copilot extended** – connecting AI across your ecosystem:
- Integrate with **Microsoft 365 Copilot, Power Automate, Power Apps, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry**, and more.
- Work across apps like **Outlook, Excel, and Teams** without constantly switching screens.
- Use AI to help **draft emails, summarize information, and guide workflows** so work flows more smoothly between applications.
**Building your own agents**
- With **Microsoft Copilot Studio**, individuals—regardless of technical skill level—can build their own agents to automate repetitive workflows and optimize specific business processes.
In practice, this means your finance team can speed up reconciliations and payables, your sales and service teams can manage customer interactions more efficiently, and your operations team can rely on timely, AI-assisted insights to keep projects and inventory on track.