Anthropic Connects Claude To Microsoft Teams, Outlook, And Onedrive

Anthropic is integrating its Claude AI adjunct pinch Microsoft 365 services truthful it tin aboveground contented from Word documents, Teams messages, and Outlook emails successful conversations pinch nan chatbot. It’s portion of a bid of updates to Claude to make nan chatbot more useful astatine work.

Claude will now link pinch Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive to hunt and analyse documents without you needing to upload them manually. The Microsoft 365 connector is disposable now for each Claude Team and Enterprise scheme users, but administrators request to alteration nan integration earlier extremity users tin link up their accounts.

The Microsoft Outlook integration pinch Claude lets nan chatbot entree email threads and analyse communications to aboveground applicable discourse successful its answers. Claude will besides beryllium capable to hunt done chat conversations successful Microsoft Teams, arsenic good arsenic entree transmission discussions and gathering summaries.

Anthropic is besides launching endeavor hunt successful Claude, a caller characteristic that makes it easier for nan AI adjunct to hunt crossed each of a company’s information sources. As galore businesses usage a assortment of devices to negociate HR processes, communications, and different parts of a business, information is often successful galore different apps and services. “Enterprise hunt is peculiarly valuable for onboarding caller squad members, answering strategical questions for illustration analyzing patterns successful customer feedback, and quickly identifying nan correct soul experts to consult connected immoderate topic,” says Anthropic.

The Claude and Microsoft 365 integration useful by utilizing a Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector, Anthropic’s open-source modular for connecting AI applications to different information sources and apps. Microsoft has been embracing MCP, promising to use it wide successful Windows arsenic it rewrites its operating strategy to move computers into AI PCs that you talk to.

Microsoft has besides been progressively relying connected Anthropic AI models to improve its Microsoft 365 apps. Anthropic’s models are now helping powerfulness Copilot Researcher, GitHub Copilot, Copilot Studio, and a new Office Agent that is capable to nutrient Word and PowerPoint documents from Microsoft’s ain Copilot chat interface. Microsoft is cozying up to Anthropic conscionable arsenic it’s investing much successful its ain AI models and trying to debar putting each of its AI eggs successful 1 complicated OpenAI-shaped basket.