Azure AI (Cortana) vs SAP Predictive Analytics

Likelihood to Recommend

It's easy for anyone who is expecting some simple AI problems like fetching the keywords, understanding the intent, language translation, etc. to be solved from an existing database and all they need is to connect to their APIs via a subscription model. But for complex use cases, there is still room for improvement like customization of underlying AI models for a specific use case like identifying some unique identifiers with respect to industry.

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Verified User

Professional in Research & Development

Oil & Energy Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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It's a great tool to merge actual data analysis (which Lumira doesn't do that well) with visualization (which Lumira does well) - so it can be seen as Lumira for data analysts. However, a lot of the 'predictive' side is hidden/black box which can be frustrating for those analysts, so you could argue it is too complex for casual users, but too 'black box' for analysts.

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Josh Anderson

User Experience Manager

Procter & GambleConsumer Goods, 10,001+ employees

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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

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Rich Mephan

Director of Research and Development

Peppermint Technology LtdComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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It doesn't require you to have a Ph.D. to build models!
You can use it to address a very large and wide dataset without worrying about sampling.
Automation is in the product DNA. You can prepare your data, ingest it into the "Kernel", then get insights about what was found, decide to publish it and schedule scoring tasks or model refresh in the same product.

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Abdelhalim DADOUCHE

Freelance Consultant

Self EmployedComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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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

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Fernanda Ministerio

Especialista de Desenvolvimento Industrial

SENAI-DNNon-profit Organization Management, 10,001+ employees

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Working with this software is very simple and enjoyable for me as [an] IT consultant and expert, but it is a bit complicated for novice users.
Some big data takes more time‌to load, which I think could be faster

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Ali Kazempour

Information Technology Adviser

AZEREX LLC.Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

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SAP Predictive Analytics 6.0

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the UI is a bit dated and available as a desktop tool mostly.

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Abdelhalim DADOUCHE

Freelance Consultant

Self EmployedComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

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SAP Predictive Analytics 7.0

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The documentation provides an explanation about what features are available but not necessarily what's happening behind the scenes. On the other side, the "community" has grown since the acquisition and most questions are properly addressed by SAP folks. Since the "product maintenance" mode announcement was made, there wasn't much new content published except on the Smart Predict side (which is built by the SAP Predictive Analytics team)

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Abdelhalim DADOUCHE

Freelance Consultant

Self EmployedComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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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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Verified User

Professional in Research & Development

Oil & Energy Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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We have typically used Spotfire for data analysis but decided to move to SAP Business Objects due to its innate connection with SAP. I found Lumira to be good for visualizations but it is not meant for data analysis. Therefore, we have introduced Predictive Analytics to see if it can fill that gap. So far, it's been far less intuitive than Spotfire to get started, and as far as I am aware so far, it does not bring many additional capabilities. I do, however, like that it utilizes the Lumira look/feel and integrates very well.

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Josh Anderson

User Experience Manager

Procter & GambleConsumer Goods, 10,001+ employees

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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.

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Rich Mephan

Director of Research and Development

Peppermint Technology LtdComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Proper forecasting increases our credibility with partners and customers
Forecasting determines the amount of investment in each sector and reduces the cost of additional costs

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Ali Kazempour

Information Technology Adviser

AZEREX LLC.Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees

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Azure AI (Cortana) vs SAP Predictive Analytics

Azure AI (Cortana)

SAP Predictive Analytics

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Azure AI (Cortana)

SAP Predictive Analytics

Usability

Azure AI (Cortana)

SAP Predictive Analytics

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Azure AI (Cortana)

SAP Predictive Analytics

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Free Trial

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

Usability

Support Rating

Alternatives Considered

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