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Empowering Organizations with Power Virtual Agents

By : Nicolae Tarla
Book Image

Empowering Organizations with Power Virtual Agents

By: Nicolae Tarla

Overview of this book

Power Virtual Agents is a set of technologies released under the Power Platform umbrella by Microsoft. It allows non-developers to create solutions to automate customer interactions and provide services using a conversational interface, thus relieving the pressure on front-line staff providing this kind of support. Empowering Organizations with Power Virtual Agents is a guide to building chatbots that can be deployed to handle front desk services without having to write code. The book takes a scenario-based approach to implementing bot services and automation to serve employees in the organization and external customers. You will uncover the features available in Power Virtual Agents for creating bots that can be integrated into an organization’s public site as well as specific web pages. Next, you will understand how to build bots and integrate them within the Teams environment for internal users. As you progress, you will explore complete examples for implementing automated agents (bots) that can be deployed on sites for interacting with external customers. By the end of this Power Virtual Agents chatbot book, you will have implemented several scenarios to serve external client requests for information, created scenarios to help internal users retrieve relevant information, and processed these in an automated conversational manner.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: An Introduction to Power Virtual Agents
5
Section 2: Leveraging Power Virtual Agents on Your Website
9
Section 3: Leveraging Power Virtual Agents in Teams
13
Section 4: Best Practices for Power Virtual Agents

Understanding Power Virtual Agents in Microsoft 365

For the second scenario, where we leverage Power Virtual Agents for Teams, the licensing is different than the standard Power Platform. User rights are included with your standard Office 365 licenses. Of note is that not all Office 365 licenses include the ability to leverage Power Virtual Agents for Teams.

Office 365 licenses that include access to Dataverse for Teams will typically also include user rights for Power Virtual Agents for Teams. These include the following:

  • Standard Enterprise (E) licenses, such as the E1, E3, and E5.
  • Business licenses such as the Business Basic, Business Standard, and Business Premium licenses.
  • Some of the education licenses include user rights for Power Virtual Agents, including the A3 and A5 licenses for Faculty and Students.

When using Power Virtual Agents for Teams, you can create and deploy chatbots in Teams only. You have no session limits with a standard subscription...