Software
PR Newswire | November 02, 2023
Mural, the leading visual work platform for the Enterprise, today announced its integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot, which provides Copilot users with an AI-powered experience that can be used in conjunction with Mural. Mural is one of the first integrations with Microsoft 365 Copilot which became generally available (GA) today and is the only visual collaboration solution in the initial set of third-party integrations being offered. Alongside this integration, Mural is launching Mural AI, which includes the AI-powered features: actions, mind maps, and clustering. Mural is firmly committed to creating tools and developing partnerships that help teams harness the power of AI to solve the most pressing challenges faced by teams in the enterprise today. Through in-platform AI solutions and responsible, secure integrations with existing tools, Mural is giving teams across the enterprise the technology they need to work together better, faster, and smarter, for increased productivity and job satisfaction.
Integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft selected Mural to be among a group of premier partners — as well as the only visual work platform — supporting Microsoft 365 Copilot at launch. With its Microsoft 365 Copilot integration, Mural is taking the next step to providing a seamless visual collaboration experience and saving organizations time as part of the central Copilot experience. With the integration, members can leverage simple, natural language prompts to streamline their daily tasks. Using Mural and Copilot, a sales representative can easily find the customer discovery mural for their account; a designer can quickly summarize a brainstorming mural with hundreds of sticky notes; and a product manager can efficiently retrieve a project kickoff mural template — and much more.
Mural AI Features
Mural's purpose-built AI features empower teams to kickstart their projects, broaden their horizons, and work more efficiently together. Mural AI features help teams automate redundant and routine tasks, quickly synthesize information, and generate new ideas so they can spend their time doing the higher-level thinking that humans do best.
Mind maps: Mind maps are a great visual tool for following ideas and seeing where they lead. Mural AI can generate mind maps automatically from a single prompt and allow users to keep following the thread, empowering teams to create and develop great ideas faster and more effectively than ever before.
Actions: Actions helps members save time and simplify workflows with natural language prompts to quickly and efficiently complete common tasks. Summarize a group of sticky notes, get ideas to jumpstart a brainstorming session, generate icebreakers and more from a single entry-point that's intuitive and easy to use.
Clustering: When teams are generating ideas together, it can take a lot of time and energy to find those common threads that are critical to moving forward with confidence. Mural's AI clustering makes finding and sorting ideas a breeze, paving the way to new insights and enabling a smoother, faster-decision making process so teams can focus on the bigger picture.
Mural's product is built to streamline workflows and allow knowledge workers to focus on the work that matters.
"The new AI features in Mural are a brainstorming game changer. Pushing people to really dig deep to be creative can be challenging. The ability to quickly generate a mind map to jumpstart thinking will be very powerful. Using AI to quickly group ideas will cut significant time out of a workshop normally spent just 'organizing' thoughts. Now we can focus on creating thoughts." - Cindi P., Operations Lead, Professional Services Company
The Future of AI
A recent study carried out by Mural found that nearly two-thirds of all knowledge workers are excited and optimistic about AI's ability to help teams work together more effectively. Specifically, they recognize the power of AI to reduce repetitive tasks and automate processes. Managers are even more optimistic about AI than individual contributors (88% vs 74%). Mural's AI features, along with its Copilot integration, empower teams to kickstart their projects, broaden their horizons and work more efficiently together, all while ensuring thorough security and privacy from start to finish.
We're thrilled to announce our integration with Microsoft Copilot, which brings AI-enabled collaborative tools to the ever-evolving workplace, said David Baga, CEO of Mural. Mural is committed to developing innovative solutions that address the pain points of teamwork, and this integration represents a significant milestone in that regard. Over the years, we've had a great partnership with Microsoft, and we are delighted to be one of the first plugins available at launch for Microsoft 365 Copilot. The future of work is AI-enabled, and Mural is proud to be leading the charge with Microsoft to bring innovative ways to collaborate to the workforce.
"We are at a major inflection point where AI is reshaping work and transforming how we collaborate," said Srini Raghavan, VP of Product Management for Microsoft Teams Ecosystem. "Through our expanded integrations our customers will be leveraging Microsoft 365 Copilot and Mural plugin, to improve efficiency, productivity, and collaboration within their teams."
Mural's products are built for the enterprise and take a proactive approach in addressing the security needs of its users when building and deploying its AI capabilities. The company maintains active SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certifications and complies with GDPR and CCPA regulations. In addition, Mural is Microsoft 365 Certified. Mural plans to continue to develop the Mural AI offering and further extend its integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot to improve how teams work together today and in the future. For more information, please visit mural.co/ai.
About Mural
Mural, the leading visual work platform for the enterprise, makes teamwork feel like less work. Our intuitive visual workspace enables teams to easily work together and collaborate better using proven design-thinking techniques. Built for enterprise teams, Mural meets the most stringent of IT and regulatory requirements. Industry leaders — including IBM, Microsoft, SAP, and Abercrombie & Fitch — choose Mural to help their teams accelerate innovation and problem solving at scale. Whether your team is fully remote, distributed, in the office, or still figuring it out, Mural brings teams across the enterprise together to do the work that matters most. Try it for free at www.mural.co.
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AI Tech, General AI, Software
Prnewswire | May 23, 2023
Mural, a leading visual collaboration company, today unveiled new AI-powered capabilities designed to make enterprise team collaboration even better. Mural's new AI capabilities, powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI, infuse efficiency into problem-solving and brainstorming to help teams synthesize ideas and reach consensus faster. With AI-generated idea clustering, AI-powered mind maps, and streamlined actions to complete common tasks and generate content, teams can spend more time analyzing results and driving the work that matters. By leveraging Azure OpenAI's scalability and ease of use, enterprises can unlock the full potential of their teams and drive exceptional outcomes using Mural's robust features –– safely and securely. Mural will demonstrate the new capabilities at the Microsoft Build conference in Seattle, Washington, on May 23, 2023.
"At Mural, we give teams the tools to work smarter and collaborate better," said David Baga, CEO of Mural. "We're excited to be releasing new features that will help teams work together more effectively, no matter when or where they work. Our new AI-powered features powered by Microsoft help teams save time while also boosting their potential for solving problems."
Mural is powered by Microsoft Azure, enabling the company to scale and operate on a secure cloud built to meet the needs of global enterprises. The new AI-powered capabilities will be built on Microsoft Azure OpenAI, enabling Mural to leverage Microsoft's capabilities and framework for responsible AI safely and securely.
In 2022, Mural was awarded the Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for its integration with Microsoft Teams and also earned Microsoft 365 Certification — the first application in the visual collaboration category to achieve this distinction. Today, Mural integrates with the Microsoft ecosystem to create connected collaboration experiences that eliminate context switching and improve workflows, saving teams hundreds of hours weekly. Most recently, Mural's integration with Microsoft Teams expanded to Microsoft 365 and Outlook. These integrations provide Microsoft users the ability to search, share, and collaborate on murals in real time from within Outlook or the M365 platform. Other integrations include Azure DevOps, OneDrive, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
Mural's AI-powered capabilities will allow members to get started quickly and conquer the blank page by generating ideas, finding common themes, and helping to expand on a concept. Specific AI-powered features to be available in the private beta will include:
Mind maps - Beginning with a central idea, users can leverage AI to suggest additional ideas based off of initial input. This enables collaborative teams to generate and expand on ideas faster and more effectively than before.
Clustering - Leveraging AI to identify patterns and similarities between ideas, while automatically moving related items together into named groups, this feature will empower teams to effectively synthesize ideas and quickly move forward with more accurate recommendations, insights, and consensus.
Actions - Harnessing AI capabilities, users will be able to save time by streamlining common meeting leader tasks in a mural like starting timers, voting sessions, and generating content for brainstorming.
As an enterprise-ready solution, the new capabilities are designed to be private and secure for the teams that use them. Alongside these new capabilities, Mural recently announced an updated user interface thoughtfully designed with a modern look to be simple for teams to begin utilizing right away.
"Conceptually, our priority was to inject a visual element to the AI technology that has been shaking up the workplace," said Matt Heying, head of product at Mural. "With this in mind, our AI capabilities are designed to leverage the uniquely human capabilities of creative problem-solving and collaborative teamwork all in one place with the benefits of AI. By freeing users from various laborious tasks and making the results collaborative and visual, the ability to invest in higher-order thinking becomes a path to formerly untapped productivity and ingenuity."
The company will discuss the new AI-powered capabilities in more depth in a session at Microsoft Build, titled: Slow Starts to Stellar Results: How AI Can Improve Team Collaboration. The session will be given virtually on May 23 from 5:15-5:30 p.m. PT and will be held live on May 24 from 11:30-11:45 a.m. PT. Participants can sign up for a private beta* waitlist after the live demo/session on May 23 to test these features and provide feedback to Mural's product and engineering teams. Mural plans to announce additional capabilities later this year.
For more information, please visit: https://bit.ly/4391mwm. To sign up for the private beta* waitlist, please click https://bit.ly/43gK1BP.
*AI-powered capabilities subject to testing and defects. Provided warranty free, "as is" and "as available" basis. Mural is not liable for any losses that may result from private beta.
About Mural
Mural is how teams work.
By combining technology and practice, Mural makes it possible for you to reimagine the way you meet, collaborate, and get things done.
Trusted by 95% of the Fortune 100, including Autodesk, IBM, Microsoft, and SAP, teams across every department use Mural to collaborate visually and do their best work — together.
Whether in real time or asynchronously, hybrid or remote, you'll see faster progress, happier teams, and remarkable results with Mural. Try it for free at www.mural.co.
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SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft has joined other tech giants working to deliver the internet in remote parts of the world, although it's taking a smaller-scale approach than some of its rivals.
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