AI in focus: Teams Premium or Copilot?

Experience the future of collaboration: choose between Teams and Copilot for the most advanced AI features that will drive your business forward.

More efficient meetings: One of the outstanding features of Microsoft Teams Premium is the AI-powered intelligent summarisation of meetings. With the introduction of Microsoft 365 Copilot, the question arises: How do the two licences differ in terms of AI functions? Our article looks at the comparison and highlights the key AI upgrades of Copilot.

Comparison of functions: Teams Premium vs. co-pilot

Let's take a closer look at how Teams Premium and Microsoft 365 Copilot differ in terms of AI features. The diagram below provides a clear overview of the differences between Teams Premium and Microsoft 365 Copilot, especially in terms of AI features. Teams Premium is aimed at power users and organisations that require advanced configuration settings for Teams meetings. In contrast, Copilot offers deeper AI functions.

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Teams vs. Teams Premium: Licensing of Microsoft Teams Premium

Microsoft Teams Premium is an add-on license for Teams that allows organisations with Microsoft 365 subscriptions to enhance their Teams experience by gaining access to various benefits. Let's start with a quick check of the advanced meeting protection features that Teams Premium offers:

Meetings with watermark
End-to-end encryption
Automatic background checks
Chat control for priority accounts
Markensitzungen
Meeting templates
Advanced functions for virtual meetings
Real-time translation
Intelligent summary

Extended confidentiality

Teams Premium also offers additional protection and monitoring capabilities for user experiences with the following key features:

Confidentiality designations: Advanced control options for meeting settings, including waiting area, chat, chat copy, presentations and recordings.
Watermark: Display the email address of a participant to protect confidential information in meetings.
End-to-end encryption: Provides increased security for meetings that require special protection.
Control over visible participants: Meeting organisers can decide which avatars or video feeds are visible during a Teams meeting and hide others.
Anonymity of participants: Organisers can hide participants' names from others, both in the sharing window and in the chat.
Advanced collaboration analyses: Teams administrators can view comprehensive data on users, teams, federated domains, channels and guests regarding their external collaboration activities in the Teams Admin Centre.

Microsoft Copilot

Copilot is embedded as an assistant in all Microsoft 365 applications. Let's now take a look at the additional AI functions that are included in Copilot:

Chat with Copilot via the transcript
Prompts during the meeting/call
Integrated chat in the entire M365 environment
Price comparison between Teams Premium and Copilot

Prices

These are the current prices for both licences.

Teams Premium: $7 per month with an annual contract or $8.40 per month under NCE conditions*
Copilot: $360 upfront for one year (no monthly option)

Here you will find further information on prices and plans for Teams Premium and Copilot for Microsoft 365.

New Commerce Experience (NCE) is a new pricing and licence model from Microsoft that has been introduced for customers of business solutions on the Dynamics 365 platform (such as Finance, Supply Chain Management, Sales, Business Central, etc.).

Conclusion: Which licence is the right one for your organisation?

Now that we have analysed the functions and differences, the decision is up to you. Let's summarise briefly: Teams Premium offers a more cost-effective introduction of AI through intelligent session summarisation. Copilot scores with deeper AI functions and holistic chat in the entire Microsoft 365 environment. The decision depends on your individual requirements and budget considerations.

Your choice, our expertise

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The source of today's article is this publication from msp4msps on the portal tminus365.com