Cortana (discontinued) vs. Oracle Digital Assistant

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cortana (discontinued)
Score 7.5 out of 10
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Microsoft's Cortana was a general purpose productivity assistant, that has been deprecated as a standalone product.N/A
Oracle Digital Assistant
Score 7.9 out of 10
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Oracle Digital Assistant delivers an AI platform to create conversational experiences for business applications through text, chat, and voice interfaces.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Cortana (discontinued)Oracle Digital Assistant
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Cortana (discontinued)
Chose Cortana (discontinued)
IBM Watson Assistant has been early into this market and has improved a lot over time compared to Azure AI Cortana. More documentation related to the services. But Ease of integration Azure AI ranks over IBM Watson Assistant. And again in terms of services offered under the …
Chose Cortana (discontinued)
- Lower acquisition cost (my institution has other contracts with Microsoft which lowers the global cost of many tools and technologies)
- More learning and study material available (which facilitates learning by teams
- More intuitive technology
Chose Cortana (discontinued)
Have not evaluate any other similar products, we are a Microsoft Software house so it was a logical decision to use Cortana over other alternatives.
Oracle Digital Assistant
Chose Oracle Digital Assistant
Azure bot service we used to integration our platform over slack and found too difficult to integrate under that manner ODS is great and simple to inetgrate.
Chose Oracle Digital Assistant
I selected Oracle Digital Assistant against all other digital assistant platforms as this platform works like a charm with any Oracle application. It integrates well with Oracle Integration Cloud. The new beta version has an inbuilt conversation builder which can be used to …
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
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Score 8.5 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 10.0 out of 10

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Enterprises
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Score 10.0 out of 10

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User Ratings
Cortana (discontinued)Oracle Digital Assistant
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User Testimonials
Cortana (discontinued)Oracle Digital Assistant
Likelihood to Recommend
As a provider of software applications to the legal market there is not a huge amount that the Cortana Intelligence suite can be utilised for though at the speed that new features are being added I suspect that will change very quickly. However the current functionality is clearly really well suited for e-commerce companies or vertical markets where process is very prescriptive and linear.
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As mentioned in pros and cons, it depends on the use cases. Most of the normal chatbot use cases can be handled by ODA. If you want to build a chatbot with menu style or conversation style (it is not straight forward but it can be done), ODA can be perfect. If use cases are to also include AI with emotional intelligence to make conversational more interactive and also be able to detect through AI engine automatically what a person would like to do or perform or ask, then ODA may not fit for it. If you also are looking for virtual agents through tighter IVR integration then ODA may not be right. There are a few limitations around the number of words in the text to voice feature.
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Pros
  • Ease of Integration for all AI services.
  • Reduced time for development.
  • A one stop for all AI related services.
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  • Developing new and custom skills for chatbots.
  • Developing conversational style skills for chatbots.
  • Menu style skills for chatbots.
  • Lots of skills those are available out of the box.
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Cons
  • The language understanding service can be a little overwhelming at first trying to understand the differnces between intents and entities
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  • Our clients have reported that upon integration with Siri for voice commands, the results are pretty obvious (basic) Nd the conversation is unnatural.
  • The languages it supports are very limited.
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Alternatives Considered
IBM Watson Assistant has been early into this market and has improved a lot over time compared to Azure AI Cortana. More documentation related to the services. But Ease of integration Azure AI ranks over IBM Watson Assistant. And again in terms of services offered under the ecosystem, Azure AI precedes IBM Watson Assitant.
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I selected Oracle Digital Assistant against all other digital assistant platforms as this platform works like a charm with any Oracle application. It integrates well with Oracle Integration Cloud. The new beta version has an inbuilt conversation builder which can be used to build conversation without the YAML code.
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Return on Investment
  • We do not yet have measurements and impact indicators for the adoption of Azure IA. But I believe it will be of high impact in the years to come.
  • We can improve our analysis and optimize team time
  • We can improve our digitization
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  • We've had a good integration with our existing databases and applications.
  • Our customers are crypto traders and we've had more engagement with them, which means a lot to us.
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