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nara or Microsoft 365 Copilot

Copilot helps employees with their work. nara resolves their IT requests.

With the Employee Self-Service agent, Microsoft brings answers from your documents and ServiceNow tickets into Microsoft 365 Copilot. nara is the service desk itself: a complete ITSM and an AI that resolves requests in Teams, by phone and right on the laptop. Within one to two weeks, nara is working in your Teams, alongside Microsoft 365 Copilot.

The difference in brief

Microsoft 365 Copilot is the AI assistant for Outlook, Word, Teams and the other Microsoft 365 apps, at €26 per user per month, billed annually, plus VAT. [1] Microsoft now calls the product “Microsoft Copilot”; on the pricing page, the license is still called Microsoft 365 Copilot. [1][2] For IT support, Microsoft provides the Employee Self-Service agent: it answers questions from SharePoint and ServiceNow and, in Microsoft's words, acts as a front end for ServiceNow. [3][4]

nara is an AI-native ITSM with every module in one price. The AI takes requests in Teams, by phone and in the portal and resolves them itself: it unlocks the account, grants the permission, repairs the update on the laptop and closes the ticket. nara runs alongside your ticket system within one to two weeks and, if you want, replaces it in about six weeks.

Comparison at a glance


Information on Microsoft comes from Microsoft's public documentation and German pricing pages. The numbered sources are listed at the end of the page.

Feature

nara

AI-native ITSM

Microsoft 365 Copilot

With the Employee Self-Service agent

What you get

A ready-made service desk: ITSM and AI in one product

An AI assistant for Microsoft 365 and templates for HR and IT agents that you set up in Copilot Studio [3]

Ticket system, SLAs, CMDB

Yes, every module in one price

Not included; the prebuilt connection is to ServiceNow [3][4]

What the AI does in IT support

Resolves requests itself: unlocks accounts, resets passwords, grants permissions, repairs devices; every step in the ticket

Answers questions, guides troubleshooting, creates, reads and updates tickets in ServiceNow [3][4]

Channels

Teams chat, group chats and channels, Teams calls, phone number, portal, email, Slack and the nara app

Microsoft 365 Copilot on the web and on desktop; according to Microsoft, the current version doesn't support Microsoft Teams or the Copilot app for iOS and Android [6]

On employees' devices

Yes, through nara Edge on Windows, macOS and Linux

Troubleshooting guidance; Copilot in Intune supports administrators in the Intune admin center [3][8]

Systems in your own data center

Through nara Edge, outbound connections only

In the earlier version (custom engine agent), Microsoft says the connectors can't use on-premises gateways, with no plans to add this [6]

Language

German, English and many other languages

Other languages can be configured; so far formally validated only in English [3]

Billing

ITSM €2.50 per employee per month (€1.75 from the 1,001st), nara plan from €1,500 per month

Microsoft 365 Copilot €26 per user per month, billed annually, plus VAT; without a license, usage-based, on average 15 US cents per query in Microsoft's example; ServiceNow licenses on top [1][5]

AI data

Processing exclusively in the EU, no training on customer data

EU Data Boundary, with exceptions such as flex routing at peak load and Claude models [2][10]

Getting started

Alongside your existing system in 1–⁠2 weeks, full switch in about 6 weeks

Access rolling out in waves; Microsoft's playbook plans about 12 weeks to a pilot group as a guideline [3][7]

Where nara and Microsoft 365 Copilot overlap

Both work inside your Microsoft environment, and up to the point where a ticket is created, the paths look alike.

Requests where employees already work

The Employee Self-Service agent runs in Microsoft 365 Copilot on the web and on desktop. [3][6] nara works in Teams chat and Teams calls, in the portal, by email and in the nara app. Both sign employees in through Entra ID. [5]

Answers from your knowledge

Microsoft's agent answers questions from SharePoint, ServiceNow knowledge articles and Microsoft's own help content for Microsoft 365. [3][7] nara uses your knowledge from SharePoint and Confluence, writes new articles from solved tickets and shows where articles are missing.

Creating and tracking tickets

The agent creates tickets in ServiceNow, adds to them and reports their status. [4] nara manages tickets in its own ITSM or in your existing system, such as ServiceNow, Matrix42, Jira or Freshservice. Your IT team works right on the ticket with the same assistant that resolves employee requests.

HR, IT and new workflows

Microsoft provides templates for HR and IT with connections to Workday, SAP SuccessFactors and ServiceNow; you extend the agent in Copilot Studio with your own topics and connections. [3][5] nara automates workflows across HR, procurement and IT, such as onboarding from the signed contract to the ready laptop. You describe new workflows in your own words; nara builds them, tests them in a simulated run and only goes live after your approval.

Where nara leads

Resolved through to closure, by phone too.

An employee is locked out and calls in Teams or on a normal phone number. nara recognizes the caller, unlocks the account, resets the password during the call and closes the ticket. Anyone who prefers a person presses 0. Microsoft's agent creates and updates incidents in ServiceNow; they are then worked on in ServiceNow. [4] For a phone hotline, you build your own voice agent in Copilot Studio. [11]

Fixing the laptop is part of it.

An employee reports in Teams that their laptop no longer installs updates. nara checks disk space and the update service through nara Edge, clears the update cache, restarts the installation and records the result in the ticket. Copilot in Intune is aimed at administrators in the Intune admin center. [8] The Security Copilot agent for vulnerabilities is a preview and provides instructions that administrators carry out. [9]

Explore nara Edge

Any ticket system, including systems in your own data center.

nara works as your ITSM or alongside ServiceNow, Matrix42, Jira and Freshservice. nara reaches an ERP or line-of-business application in your own data center through nara Edge, with no open ports. Microsoft's agent comes with a ticket connection for ServiceNow; you connect other systems yourself in Copilot Studio. [3][4] According to Microsoft, the earlier version's connectors can't use on-premises gateways, with no plans to add this. [6]

Explore integrations

Your data stays in the EU.

nara is developed and hosted in Germany. AI processing takes place exclusively in the EU, and we don't use your data for training. Microsoft 365 Copilot processes requests from the EU within the EU Data Boundary. [2] With flex routing, the AI may also run in the US, Canada or Australia at peak load, on by default for eligible tenants created after 25 Mar 2026, and can be switched off. [10]

What it costs

Microsoft 365 Copilot costs €26 per user per month, billed annually, plus VAT, and requires a qualifying Microsoft 365 plan. [1] The Employee Self-Service agent is included under fair use. Without a license, a query costs 15 US cents on average in Microsoft's sample calculation. Licenses for ServiceNow, Workday or SAP SuccessFactors come on top. [5][11]

nara: ITSM at €2.50 per employee per month (€1.75 from the 1,001st) with every module and unlimited IT agents, plus a nara plan from €1,500 per month and migration at a fixed price per quote. All prices exclude VAT. The AI agent is available to every employee. As long as your old ITSM contract runs, for up to 12 months, you pay nothing for the ITSM.

nara works in your Teams.

Employees message nara in Teams chat or call it in Teams, and approvals happen in the same chat. The nara app for Teams is available in the Microsoft Teams Store. nara works with Entra ID, Exchange, SharePoint and Intune.

Product view: in Microsoft Teams, someone reports “VPN drops after sleep.” After approval, nara restarts the VPN services. The ticket shows every step and is resolved.
Product view: in Microsoft Teams, someone reports “VPN drops after sleep.” After approval, nara restarts the VPN services. The ticket shows every step and is resolved.

Your tickets show what nara takes on.

With read access to your ticket system, we show within one to two weeks which requests nara handles from day one and how much time your team gets back. It draws on more than 40 million tickets we have analyzed in customer projects.

Product view: example ticket analysis with around 35,000 tickets. For the five most frequent topics it shows whether nara resolves them itself, with approval or only after another connection.
Product view: example ticket analysis with around 35,000 tickets. For the five most frequent topics it shows whether nara resolves them itself, with approval or only after another connection.

Questions about nara and Microsoft 365 Copilot

  • The agent answers questions, guides troubleshooting and creates tickets in ServiceNow; Microsoft describes it as a front end for ServiceNow. [3][4] nara resolves the request itself: it unlocks accounts by phone, grants permissions after approval in Teams, repairs the laptop through nara Edge and closes the ticket. nara comes with the ticket system, SLAs and CMDB, and after one to two weeks it is working in your Teams, in your language. You keep Microsoft 365 Copilot for work in Outlook, Word and Teams.

Sources

  1. microsoft.com, KI für Unternehmensproduktivität | Microsoft Copilot, German pricing page, retrieved 19 Oct 2026.

  2. learn.microsoft.com, Data, Privacy, and Security for Microsoft Copilot, updated 18 Aug 2026; Anthropic models in Microsoft Online Services, updated 18 Sep 2026.

  3. learn.microsoft.com, Introduction to Employee Self-Service Declarative Agents, updated 13 Oct 2026.

  4. learn.microsoft.com, Integrate ServiceNow HR and IT with the Employee Self-Service declarative agent, updated 13 Oct 2026.

  5. learn.microsoft.com, Prerequisites to deploy the Employee Self-Service agent (custom engine agent), updated 22 Sep 2026.

  6. learn.microsoft.com, Known issues and limitations for Employee Self-Service declarative agents, updated 13 Oct 2026; Release notes, known issues, and limitations for the Employee Self-Service agent (custom engine agent), updated 18 Aug 2026.

  7. learn.microsoft.com, Deployment playbook for Employee Self-Service declarative agents and Deploy Employee Self-Service declarative agents, both updated 13 Oct 2026.

  8. learn.microsoft.com, Security Copilot in Intune features overview and Copilot in Intune shows device information and helps troubleshoot, both updated 28 May 2026.

  9. learn.microsoft.com, Change Review Agent Overview, updated 19 Aug 2026; Get Started with the Device Offboarding Agent, updated 1 Apr 2026; Vulnerability Remediation Agent Overview and Set Up, updated 28 May 2026.

  10. learn.microsoft.com, Flex routing (EU and EFTA), updated 29 Sep 2026.

  11. learn.microsoft.com, Use interactive voice response in your agents, updated 19 Aug 2026; Billing rates and management, updated 1 Oct 2026.