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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

    Agentforce

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AAgentforce is a solution that provides intelligent bots created and customized via a low code builder. Agentforce agents operate autonomously by retrieving data on demand, building action plans for any task, and executing these plans without human intervention.N/A
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    Azure AI Bot Service
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    Oracle Digital Assistant
    Score5 out of 10
    Azure AI Bot Service
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    Azure AI Bot ServiceAgentforce
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
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    7.7
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    8.3
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    Azure AI Bot ServiceAgentforce
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    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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    Salesforce
    Agentforce has a lot of applications. We are using it in consulting to benchmark other clients, what they're doing, where we stand, how can we have better efficiencies coming in, et cetera. Those are the areas where it is doing exceptionally well. The area where we feel it can do much more better is maybe a market benchmark because it's been used across by so many players and it's a connected ecosystem. If Salesforce can have something where it gives me the market view of things, I can then benchmark rather than in my own universe to the broader university Salesforce and I know where I exactly stand and what more can I achieve, what's my final goalpost. So that would be something really great.
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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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    Salesforce
    • Which helps in creation of Autonomous AI agents to operate
    • Multi-System Integration with "Zero-Copy" Data Access
    • To built chatbots and copilot tools by utilizing the Atlas Reasoning Engine to function as an autonomous digital workforce
    • Order and Transactional Management
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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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    Salesforce
    • It is complex too, more help documentation or videos will help
    • AI assistance doesn’t work well for specific or detailed questions
    • So much configuration available it can put off new users
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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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    Salesforce
    The platform offers an intuitive overall experience and the expected strong integration with other Salesforce existent tools. It has a low learning curve for new users on the commom use cases, such as intent classification, routing and knowledge-based answers. It could be improved with more transparency regarding to the AI decision logic.
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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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    Salesforce
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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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    Salesforce
    We did evaluate the EVA bots, which are coming in market for Salesforce effectiveness. Those bots are good, but they're based out of very traditional use cases in the life sciences space. Agentforce is very, very advanced, right? Eva can talk about a typical sales rep coming in, logging in the day, log their entire day, and then probably having a simple text to reporting kind of a view. And that's it. Agentforce gives me a lot of insights, it gives me a lot of actionable insights. It uses its own brain. That's where Salesforce is an AI company. So we trust the Salesforce banner for it to innovate more and more, more and more. And that's where we chose Agentforce over.
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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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    Salesforce
    • We were able to assist customers with the self service option, without wasting effort from a real CS advisor
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