Microsoft has introduced Dynamics 365 Contact Center, a Copilot-first cloud contact center solution aimed at revolutionizing customer service. This innovative platform integrates generative AI to provide seamless customer engagement across multiple channels, including voice, SMS, chat, email, and social media. It offers advanced features like context-aware, personalized conversations, real-time sentiment analysis, and intelligent routing to ensure customers receive timely and accurate assistance. The solution also supports effortless self-service, allowing customers to resolve their issues independently through natural, human-like interactions.

The impact of adopting a digital contact center is profound for businesses. For instance, companies can experience a 31% increase in first call resolution and a 20% reduction in missed routes, leading to enhanced customer satisfaction and loyalty². Additionally, the platform's real-time reporting capabilities enable service leaders to optimize operations and reduce costs, further driving efficiency and effectiveness in customer service delivery.

***Editor's note: - To clarify Sree's point about Copilot Studio, Copilot Studio entitlements are included in D365 Contact Center, but not D365 Customer Service. If you purchase licenses for D365 Customer Service it does NOT come with Copilot Studio entitlements. That would require an additional purchase of Copilot Studio licenses.

Episode Topics:

• What is D365 Contact Center?
• Which type of customer would be a good fit for D365 Contact Center?
• How does D365 Contact Center differ from our other CS offerings?
• How can customers learn more and get started?

Useful Resources:

• Announcing Dynamics 365 Contact Center - a Copilot-first cloud contact center to transform service experiences - The Official Microsoft Blog
• Dynamics 365 Contact Center | Microsoft Dynamics 365
• Introducing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Contact Center

About Sree Yeggina

Sree Yeggina has over 15 years of experience in the technology space as an engineer, functional consultant, and sales enablement leader. Currently, Sree is the Global Director of Sales Readiness for Business Applications Customer Experience and Service categories where she passionately enables the world about achieving world class CX through end-to-end seamless customer engagement

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Out of the box, Dynamics 365 can help organizations of various sizes across different industries solve business problems with technology. Whether that's improving seller efficiency and pipeline accuracy, or boosting CSAT by solving your customer service problems more quickly, or it's ensuring your field agents are better equipped to complete their work orders with a true customer 360 view, Dynamics 365 can help.

Another powerful aspect of the platform is its ability to integrate with Partner solutions that help augment dynamics 365 processes and workflows. For example, you can integrate Docusign with your existing D365 ecosystem to ensure more intelligent and automated document management

In this episode, we interview Suresh Jeevanani, senior director of Strategic Partnerships at Docusign to highlight the value of the D365 and Docusign integration and how organizations can use it today.

• What do you do at Docusign do?
• What is the value of a Docusign and D365 integration?
• What does the Docusign integration feature within Copilot for Sales entail?
• How can a customer get started?

• Dynamics 365 Integrations | Docusign
• DocuSign for Dynamics (microsoft.com)
• Sign up for Copilot for Sales Extensibility Preview (microsoft.com)

Suresh Jeevanani is Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships at Docusign. He has over 2 decades of experience in the high-tech industry. He is passionate about bringing power to technology & technology ecosystems to help customers transform their businesses. He lives in San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and daughter. In his spare time, Suresh likes to play tennis and go road-biking.

Connect with Suresh - Suresh Jeevanani | LinkedIn

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Customer service agents face challenges such as access to relevant data and the right technological tools, with some juggling up to 10 different systems to address a single issue. Each step in the process of resolving customer issues is time-consuming and complex, with agents spending significant time researching cases and seeking out solutions. As customer inquiries increase in volume and complexity, organizations must find ways to streamline processes, reduce the workload on agents, and improve the overall customer experience.

This week on the podcast, we have Edgar Wilson II, Principal Program Manager for Customer Service Business Applications to highlight what Copilot for Service is and how customers can extract value from it.

• What is Copilot for Service?
• How is this different than D365 CS?
• How can a customer get started?

• Official Microsoft Copilot for Service documentation - Copilot for Service | Microsoft Learn
• Quickstart—create and deploy Copilot for Service - Copilot for Service | Microsoft Learn
• Get started with Microsoft Copilot for Service - Training | Microsoft Learn

"Hi, my name is Edgar Wilson, Principal Program Manager in the Dynamics 365 Customer Service group. I hold over 15 years of Dynamics experience having spent 7 years with prestigious implementation partners including Aderant, Customer Effective and Hitachi. During this time I worked as an architect and technical consultant implementing Dynamics in a variety of industries including Financial Services, Healthcare and manufacturing. I’ve been at Microsoft 8 years, holding a variety of roles in sales and engineering in the business applications group."

Connect with Edgar - Edgar Wilson II | LinkedIn

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