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    Azure AI Bot Service

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft offers the Azure Bot Service (replacing the former Microsoft Bot Framework), a managed bot building platform, which provides an integrated environment that is purpose-built for bot development, enabling you to build, connect, test, deploy, and manage intelligent bots, all from one place.N/A

    Microsoft Copilot Studio

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Copilot Studio is a low-code tool that empowers users to build their copilots or customize Microsoft Copilot. With its conversational capabilities, including custom GPTs, generative AI plugins, and manual topics, Copilot Studio is a platform that can be adapted to suit a range of use cases. Microsoft Copilot Studio provides an end-to-end lifecycle for standalone copilots and customizations through a single web-based experience. This allows users to build, deploy,…

    $200

    per month per month/tenant for 25,000 messages. You can purchase additional packs.

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    Azure AI Bot ServiceMicrosoft Copilot Studio
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    Azure AI Bot ServiceMicrosoft Copilot Studio
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFor building a copilot: $200 per month/tenant for 25,000 messages. Additional packs available. For customizing Copilot for Microsoft 365: Copilot Studio is included in the $30 user license.
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Azure AI Bot ServiceMicrosoft Copilot Studio
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    Azure AI Bot Service
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Oracle Digital Assistant
    Score5 out of 10
    Azure AI Bot Service
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure AI Bot ServiceMicrosoft Copilot Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    9.4
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    10.0
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    Usability
    7.7
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    9.4
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    Availability
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    Performance
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    10.0
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    Support Rating
    8.8
    (4 ratings)
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    Online Training
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    10.0
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    Configurability
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    10.0
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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    Product Scalability
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    Professional Services
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    User Testimonials
    Azure AI Bot ServiceMicrosoft Copilot Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    From personal experience, I can recommend the Azure AI service to reduce the burden on your customer service team, as we did. We created a customer service bot and automated our Frequently Asked Questions section, as well as an interactive platform for registering other complaints that the bot cannot handle, which are later addressed by our customer service team.
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    Microsoft
    It has performed exceptionally well where I have required deep contextual understanding , multi deimension analysis or web research. Recently it helped me in the implementation of SAP Project. It helped to prepare documentation like business blue prints, conduct workshops. Understand business requirement with the help of reviewing the information by summarizing.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Assembles conversational AI encounters for our clients
    • Adds regular language, discourse, and vision
    • Sends to well known channels with insignificant code changes
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    Microsoft
    • Agentic workflows
    • AI chatbots
    • Deploying via Teams
    • Multiple knowledge sources
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Limited Natural Language Understanding, especially in entertainment contexts where slang, humor
    • Works only with Azure platform only not compatible with other platforms
    • Complex customization as per organization need
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    Microsoft
    • Ability to combine multiple sources in one query (indexing)
    • SharePoint integration - word count limit detrimental
    • Clearer communication and understanding of features and limitations
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
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    Microsoft
    At first, it stands out in integrating with the Microsoft ecosystem like Teams, Word, and Outlook. It makes simple for creation and deployment of AI agents and tools with out heavy coding. Great for the purpose of creating AI chat bots for regular tasks. It is excellent for quickly running mock demos.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    Azure AI Bot Service comes with an Integrated Development Environment and Bot Framework SDK that simplifies development. Having a single codebase for multiple channels, such as MS Teams, Facebook, and Slack, makes it easier to target multiple platforms without requiring redevelopment. LUIS and OpenAI can be easily integrated with your Chatbot to provide a seammless chat bot expereince to customers.
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    Microsoft
    I would give 9 as it works well for us by utilizing the agentic part we are able to utilize the capabilities of copilot studio, If the billing structure and hallucinations can be corrected I would have given 10 as well. I would recommend everyone to give it a try if you want to up your game in Agentic AI with clients.
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    Performance
    Microsoft
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    Microsoft
    No performance issue till date.
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    Microsoft's customer service staff is friendly and extremely knowledgeable. They are always available to assist you with bot framework-related issues that you may be experiencing. They provide training sessions, manuals, and support personnel, among other things. Bugs were easily spotted and patched, which was one of my pet peeves about patching.
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    Microsoft
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    Online Training
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    Microsoft
    We had an excellent experience during the online training of Microsoft Copilot Studio. We were given training which included complete informations in the session. The session include the how we can use it. It gave us the complete guide. We had recorded sessions for future reference.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Bot Framework is much better and well more established without a lot of proprietary software/coding language. Lex is very limited with integration with standard hardware and network configurations. Lex has performance issues and was too slow to meet near real-time collaboration requirements. Bot Framework complements many other Microsoft communication products and this was key to implementing without a lot of new training required.
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    Microsoft
    It is worldwide accepted and we already have the workspace and other tools from Microsoft family which compels us to go for copilot rather than google as it gives you wide range to explore in other areas in the same workspace. Rating and worldwide acceptance is more for Microsoft when compared to any other tool with respect to Agentic AI platform.
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
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    Microsoft
    As it is low code it empowers everyone even with non technical person to create and deploy and publish the custom agents. Then agents can operate and plan, learn and scale the complex and challenging tasks across the entire business process. It helps to connect with data and take respective action.
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    Professional Services
    Microsoft
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    Microsoft
    Not used.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Azure Bot will only deliver according to the granularity of the FAQ it is feed. Otherwise, it has been a cost optimization tool for our organization.
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    Microsoft
    • Speed of delivery
    • Scale of deployment
    • Increase of access
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