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Cortana (discontinued)

Score7.6 out of 10

49 Reviews and Ratings

What is Cortana (discontinued)?

Microsoft's Cortana was a general purpose productivity assistant, that has been deprecated as a standalone product.

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What users are saying about Cortana (discontinued).
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Variety of applications

Incentivized
Fernanda MinisterioView profile
Especialista de Desenvolvimento Industrial in Information Technology at SENAI-DN (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Provide data scientists and data analysts with tools that give their processes more intelligence
  • Decrease software development time, bringing the intelligence structure out of systems
  • Azure has a lot of support documentation and excellent technical support services

Cons

  • More partnerships with colleges and schools to increase the workforce with technical knowledge (increase local workforce)
  • Have more online training and documentation in other languages
  • Have affordable prices for students

Most Important Features

  • Machine learning
  • Mining knowledge and information
  • Improving our processes by eliminating manual analysis activities

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

Alternatives Considered

IBM Watson AIOps

Other Software Used

Azure API Management, Microsoft Power BI, Amazon Deep Learning AMIs

Azure AI (Cortana) review

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Research & Development (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As part of a proof of concept, we tried using Azure AI services like Cortana, Cognitive Services, LUIS, etc. to actually enable our customers to search through vast records of data (Millions) very easily. The Azure AI ecosystem of different services covers all the areas like text, speech, and vision and has helped us in extracting all the information we need from the documents. And on top of that, we have used Cortana service as voice recognition software for our customers to fetch the data by speech as an input which improved ease of access.

Pros

  • Ease of Integration for all AI services.
  • Reduced time for development.
  • A one stop for all AI related services.

Cons

  • It struggles with customization for specific use-cases related to a particular domain.
  • As a beginner it is difficult to apprehend.
  • Doesn't provide an integrated free trial of services on their web.

Most Important Features

  • Machine Learning and AI.
  • Easy of Access.
  • Could easily help in digital transformation of any company.
  • A host of services all in one place.

Return on Investment

  • Eliminated the need of huge capex investment.
  • Able to analyze the type of requests the user makes and improve the solution.
  • Easy to track all the expenses based on subscription model offered by Azure AI.

Alternatives Considered

IBM Watson Assistant

Other Software Used

Apache MXNet on AWS, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Cognitive Search (formerly Azure Search)

Cortana - Could change the way companies work all over the world

Incentivized
Rich MephanView profile
Director of Research and Development in Research & Development at Peppermint Technology Ltd (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Being hosted in Azure solves a massive hosting problem
  • The language understanding system has the ability to revolutionize many vertical markets
  • Integrating with Cortana Analytics was really simple due to easy to understand documentation

Cons

  • The language understanding service can be a little overwhelming at first trying to understand the differnces between intents and entities

Return on Investment

  • Difficult to ascertain the ROI as we are a software house who have developed a module in our application using Cortana. However for companies that use our software I would say the use of sentiment analysis in our application could free up at least 1 full time resource to be used elsewhere in their organisation.