Microsoft Research Builds Synthetic Enterprise Environments to Evaluate Copilot

What happened

Microsoft Research describes the Industry Evaluation Data Generation Platform, which creates synthetic enterprise environments for evaluating Microsoft Copilot without using customer data. The environments are grounded in public sources including O*NET data, online job postings and SEC filings, and simulate realistic organizational structures, work artifacts and workflows. Automated safety checks screen generated data for harmful or personally identifiable material.

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Microsoft Research has described its Industry Evaluation Data Generation Platform, which creates synthetic enterprise environments to evaluate Microsoft Copilot without using customer data. The platform simulates organizational structures, work artifacts and workflows, drawing on public sources including O*NET data, online job postings and SEC filings. Automated safety checks screen the generated data for harmful content and personally identifiable information. Microsoft Research said the system combines synthetic environment generation with automated query pipelines to establish what it calls the first standardized evaluation baseline for Microsoft Copilot.