Copilot 365 license trial/pilot effort
Description
Conduct a 90 day pilot with 60 licensed individuals to measure usefulness and understand where best to target licensing for optimal ROI. Feedback will be in live, recorded weekly sessions, weekly surveys and ideally in tracked usage metrics.
Project Justification
Licensing all of DEP would cost near to $1 mil per year. The need to wisely adopt ensuring ROI and uptake calls for some trial effort to learn what makes sense.
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Sponsoring Leadership Area
Div. of Information Technology
Sponsoring Leadership Area's Priority
AP-1
Program Area Lead(s)
Knute Jensen
DOIT technical lead(s)
Kurt Jaegers, Maria Valenti, Also need OIT and Office of Innovation
All Involved Leadership Areas
Air, Energy and Materials SustainabilityBudget and Financial OperationsClimate ResilienceDiv. of Information TechnologyEnvironmental HealthFish and WildlifeScience and ResearchSite Remediation and Waste ManagementState Parks, Forests and Historic SitesWater Resource ManagementWatershed and Land Management
Created: 11 September 2025, 16:04
Updated:
24 September 2025, 13:48
Microsoft is setting a follow-up meeting to 9/23 with Rob DeVleming so that an engineer can walk the team (Pete, Knute, Kurt, Maria, Mike Mc, Manav) through the differences between: 1. Broken expected features, 2. pending but essential basic features, 3. planned future improvements. Rob promised access to a better roadmap of pending GCC features than is publicly available.
Rob will also share some government role description to use-case mapping from other efforts.
DEP CoP team will meet Thursday with pilot timing still indefinite pending more Microsoft info.
As of this week programs have supplied more than 60 candidates, some still need to meet the training requirement. Seeking a meeting with Microsoft to learn of limitations to the tools where files cannot be edited/updated on the fly nor produced for download. Also currently lacking Analytics for use tracking. Met with OOI today who is working toward two draft surveys (weekly and initial/final).