Bing Chat Enterprise ,AI-Powered Chat for Work in Microsoft Edge Sidebar

Introduction

Have you ever wished you had a personal assistant who could help you with your work tasks, answer your questions, and boost your creativity? Well, now you do. Meet Bing Chat Enterprise, the AI-powered chat for work that is available in Microsoft Edge sidebar.

Bing Chat Enterprise is a new feature from Microsoft that lets you chat with an intelligent bot that can help you get work done faster, be more creative, or support customers better. All of this can be done with the confidence that your user and business data is protected and will not leak outside your organization.

In this article, we will show you how to use Bing Chat Enterprise in Microsoft Edge sidebar, and how it can benefit you and your work. We will also answer some frequently asked questions about this amazing feature. Let’s get started!

Benefits of Bing Chat Enterprise

Bing Chat Enterprise is not your ordinary chatbot. It is powered by large language models (LLMs) that can understand natural language and generate high-quality content. It also leverages your data in the Microsoft Graph and Microsoft 365 apps to provide relevant and personalized answers.

Here are some of the main features and advantages of Bing Chat Enterprise:

• Complete answers from web and organizational data sources. Bing Chat Enterprise can search the web and your organizational data sources (such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Outlook, etc.) to provide you with complete answers to your questions. You can ask anything from industry insights, company policies, product information, customer feedback, etc. Bing Chat Enterprise will give you the best answer possible, along with references and links to the sources.
• Full chat experience with natural language interaction. Bing Chat Enterprise is not just a search engine. It is a chatbot that can interact with you in natural language. You can type or speak your queries or commands in plain English, and Bing Chat Enterprise will respond accordingly. You can also have a conversation with Bing Chat Enterprise, ask follow-up questions, provide feedback, or request clarification.
• Features to unlock creativity and productivity. Bing Chat Enterprise can do more than just answer your questions. It can also help you generate content, analyze or compare data, summarize documents, learn new skills, write code, and much more. You can use Bing Chat Enterprise to create social media posts, marketing campaigns, business reports, presentations, etc. You can also use Bing Chat Enterprise to learn new topics or skills, such as project management, coding languages, design tools, etc.
• Data protection and privacy controls for user and business data. Bing Chat Enterprise is designed for the enterprise. It respects your data privacy and security. Your chat data is not saved or shared with anyone outside your organization. Microsoft has no eyes-on access to your chat data. Your chat data is also not used to train the underlying models. You can also customize or disable Bing Chat Enterprise according to your preferences or policies.

Bing Chat Enterprise can help you with different tasks and scenarios at work. For example:

• If you are a marketer, you can ask Bing Chat Enterprise to help you understand the implications of a decision: “What are the pros and cons of offline marketing strategies?” and “How can I measure the success of my offline marketing campaign?”
• If you are a project manager, you can ask Bing Chat Enterprise to help you learn new skills: “What are the top 5 things I should know when managing a large project?” and “What is agile project management and how does it differ from waterfall?”
• If you are a financial analyst, you can ask Bing Chat Enterprise to help you analyze data: “If we’re forecasting 7% EPS growth this coming quarter, how does our internal forecast compare with EPS growth in the top US public CPG companies?”
• If you are a researcher, you can ask Bing Chat Enterprise to help you summarize a work PDFs open in Edge: “Recap the findings of this internal cybersecurity report and the top 3 concerns” and “What are best practices for addressing these kinds of security issues?”
• If you are a developer, you can ask Bing Chat Enterprise to help you write better code faster: “Write a regular expression in Python that matches email addresses” or “How can I use the unittest module to write test units for my Python code.”
• If you are a salesperson, you can ask Bing Chat Enterprise to help you plan a business trip: “Where should I stay in Manhattan that has a good running path close by?”
• If you are a social media manager, you can ask Bing Chat Enterprise to help you generate social media content: “Use this messaging framework to generate 5 social media posts describing its value to healthcare workers.”

As you can see, Bing Chat Enterprise can help you with a variety of work tasks and scenarios. It can be your copilot for the web and for work.

How to Use Bing Chat Enterprise in Microsoft Edge Sidebar

Now that you know the benefits of Bing Chat Enterprise, let’s see how to use it in Microsoft Edge sidebar. Microsoft Edge sidebar is a feature that lets you access your favorite apps and tools without leaving your current tab. You can use it to browse the web, check your email, take notes, listen to music, and more.

To use Bing Chat Enterprise in Microsoft Edge sidebar, you need to do the following:

• Enable Bing Chat Enterprise for your organization (if not already done). Bing Chat Enterprise is available for Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard and Business Premium customers. To enable it for your organization, you need to follow the instructions in the technical documentation. Once enabled, Bing Chat Enterprise will be available for all users in your organization who have an eligible Microsoft 365 subscription.
• Sign in to Bing Chat Enterprise with your work account in Microsoft Edge. To use Bing Chat Enterprise, you need to sign in to Bing with your work account. This will ensure that you get personalized and relevant answers from your organizational data sources. To sign in to Bing with your work account, go to bing.com/chat and click on the sign-in button on the top right corner. Then, select your work account from the list or enter your work email and password.
• Open Bing Chat Enterprise in Microsoft Edge sidebar. To open Bing Chat Enterprise in Microsoft Edge sidebar, you need to click on the Bing Chat icon on the toolbar. If you don’t see the icon, you can right-click on the toolbar and select “Show Bing Chat button”. Alternatively, you can press Ctrl+Shift+Y on your keyboard to open the sidebar. You can also pin the sidebar to keep it open while you browse the web.
• Use Bing Chat Enterprise commands and queries in the chat box. To use Bing Chat Enterprise, you need to type or speak your commands or queries in the chat box. You can use natural language to interact with Bing Chat Enterprise. For example, you can say “Hello”, “How are you?”, “What can you do?”, “Help me with…”, etc. You can also use keywords or phrases to trigger specific features or integrations. For example, you can say “Visual Search”, “Summarize PDF”, “Copilot Suggestions”, etc.
• Use Bing Chat Enterprise features and integrations in the sidebar. In addition to using the chat box, you can also use the features and integrations that are available in the sidebar. These include:
• Visual Search in Chat: This feature lets you search by image or screenshot. You can use it to find similar images, products, information, or inspiration. To use Visual Search in Chat, you need to click on the camera icon on the chat box and select an image from your device or take a screenshot of your current tab. Then, Bing Chat Enterprise will show you relevant results based on your image or screenshot.
• Summarize PDFs: This feature lets you recap the main points of a document open in Edge. You can use it to quickly understand the key findings, recommendations, or actions of a report, proposal, contract, etc. To use Summarize PDFs, you need to open a PDF document in Edge and click on the Summarize PDF icon on the toolbar. Then, Bing Chat Enterprise will show you a summary of the document in the sidebar.
• Copilot Suggestions: This feature lets you get relevant suggestions from Copilot based on your context. Copilot is a new service from Microsoft that uses large language models to help you write better and faster. You can use Copilot Suggestions to get ideas, examples, templates, or corrections for your writing tasks. To use Copilot Suggestions, you need to select some text in your current tab and click on the Copilot Suggestions icon on the toolbar. Then, Bing Chat Enterprise will show you some suggestions from Copilot in the sidebar.
• Share Content: This feature lets you copy or send chat content to other apps or people. You can use it to share information, insights, or ideas from Bing Chat Enterprise with others. To use Share Content, you need to select some chat content in the sidebar and click on the Share Content icon on the toolbar. Then, Bing Chat Enterprise will show you some options to copy or send the chat content via email, Teams, OneNote, etc.

Conclusion

Bing Chat Enterprise is a powerful feature that can help you get work done faster, be more creative, or support customers better. It is available in Microsoft Edge sidebar, which lets you access it without leaving your current tab.