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Microsoft Teams Up with UiPath to Advance AI-Driven Enterprise Automation

Microsoft and UiPath have announced a new collaboration focused on enterprise automation, unveiling a seamless integration between Microsoft Copilot Studio and UiPath Studio.

The partnership allows developers to embed UiPath agents and automations directly into Microsoft Copilot Studio, while also enabling Microsoft Copilot agents to be used within UiPath Studio. The integration is aimed at streamlining automation across disparate platforms and technologies. It expands on last year's demonstration of UiPath Autopilot in Microsoft Teams and Copilot experiences, offering new capabilities for orchestration and process automation.

"We believe in the power of people, agents, and robots working together to solve tough, ambiguous business problems," Graham Sheldon, UiPath Chief Product Officer said. "This collaboration with Microsoft brings the promise of agentic automation and orchestration to life for our customers, offering unparalleled capabilities and flexibility."

At the technical level, the integration enhances UiPath's Power Platform connector, allowing developers to embed UiPath agents directly within Copilot Studio agent flows. These agents can complete tasks and trigger APIs to return control back to Copilot, enabling end-to-end process orchestration across Microsoft 365 apps such as Outlook and SharePoint, and external enterprise systems.

In a blog post, Microsoft outlined some of the scenarios that are unlocked, thanks to the bidirectional integration:

  • Invoke UiPath agents & automations from Copilot Studio agents: Dynamic input parameters in the connector enable Copilot Studio agents to hand off processes to UiPath agents with the necessary data required to complete the task.
  • Invoke Microsoft agents from UiPath Studio: UiPath Studio activities enable the ability to use Copilot Studio agents as tools/functions in UiPath Studio, enabling UiPath agents in turn, to handoff process to Copilot Studio agents. 
  • Automate long-running and asynchronous processes: UiPath agents can now hand off a process back to the Copilot Studio agent to resume processing and trigger flows. This allows a Copilot Studio agent to delegate a task to a UiPath agent and wait for task completion before resuming the next steps.

Use cases include e-mail triage and case assignment by Copilot agents in Outlook, which then hand off to UiPath for document processing and system updates. UiPath agents can also route escalations via Microsoft Graph and UiPath Action Center, with status updates returned to Copilot Studio for follow-up steps.

Developers can start building agentic workflows using UiPath Connector actions in Microsoft Copilot Studio starting today.

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Chris Paoli (@ChrisPaoli5) is the associate editor for Converge360.

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