Welcome to the AI Copilot Podcast, analyzing the latest AI Copilot and agent developments from Microsoft and its partners, delving into customer use cases, and exploring how AI plus the Cloud helps customers reimagine their business. In this episode, Tom Smith speaks with Dhruv Asher, Senior Vice President, Head of Business Development and Product Alliances for UiPath, about its expanded partnership with Microsoft for bidirectional integration of AI products.
Highlights
Unlocking Orchestration (1:05)
Asher notes this is the first integration of its kind, focusing on the developer experience and orchestration between UiPath and Microsoft Copilot Studio. The integration has been a joint effort with Microsoft, developers, and customers, with Johnson Controls validating the scenario. The goal is to create an end-to-end automation platform where Copilot understands the Microsoft landscape and UiPath contributes to the UI, document, and orchestration layers.
Benefits and Impact on Customers (3:44)
Asher says the integration benefits all customers using both Microsoft and UiPath, allowing seamless invocation of UiPath agents and automations from Copilot Studio. The integration enables human-in-the-loop orchestration, where tasks can be delegated to UiPath agents or humans can step in to validate processes. The integration addresses a significant barrier to capitalizing on AI technology.
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Functionality and Development Perspective (7:35)
Asher explains that UiPath’s agentic orchestration unlocks complex scenarios, allowing automation of multiple line-of-business systems and documents. There is no additional development required by corporate developers. It’s not based on any industry standard like Model Context Protocol but is a result of a collaboration between UiPath and Microsoft product and engineering teams.
Use Cases and Future Directions (9:57)
In a claims processing use case, Copilot orchestrates multi-step processes involving multiple systems, highlighting the importance of agents and robots working together, with UiPath providing the orchestration layer. The integration supports a future where there could be a massive uptake in agents, and UI Path is prepared to connect and complement these agents. Asher explains that UI Path’s agentic platform will be released on April 30.
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