Develop Power Platform Connectors for custom copilots in Copilot Studio

Last Modified 2024-08-07


ISVs can bring the power of tools and data sitting in Microsoft Graph into your own apps, enhancing functionality and the customer experience. Copilot Studio allows creation of low-code AI apps that can respond to common queries, using data from your organization and Microsoft and partner data sources. Using Power Platform Connector, Copilot Studio can bring in data from potentially any source, where there are more than 500 connectors today. You can use these or create your own to empower your customers to create their own internal copilots and AI apps, ground in your data.

Common scenarios for ISVs to create low-code AI apps with Power Platform Connectors

  • You're looking to provide a chat bot experience to your customers, within their existing applications, which can respond to questions and turn conversations into actions.
  • Customers asking questions within your application and receiving answers grounded in your, Microsoft, or customer data sources.
  • You'd like to create a customer connector from your existing APIs and convert it to a plugin using Copilot Studio, allowing these APIs to be called from a chat bot with natural language interface.
  • You want to convert existing Power Automate flows into plugins that can be called from Microsoft copilot chat to perform actions and retrieve information.
  • You'd like to access data through natural language interface from enterprise systems such as Zendesk, GitHub, and Salesforce through these connectors in Power Platform.

In this collection, you'll find a fully working, cloud-ready application deployable with the GitHub Developer CLI to get you started, and some materials to help you understand Power Platform Connector architecture, how to create and publish them to extend copilots, and how to create AI plugin actions for Microsoft Copilot.

For a full explanation of all approaches and scenarios, you can visit Creating Generative AI Experiences with the Microsoft Cloud: A Guide for ISVs. If you'd like help to streamline your app build, publish, and marketplace growth journey, visit app advisor on ISV Hub, answer a few questions, and get the right information you need, right now.