Excel Formulator vs. Cortana (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Excel Formulator
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Excel Formulator is a freemium consumer SaaS app that uses AI to help users generate excel formulas from plain English. The user describes what the formula should do and Excel Formulator will generate a Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, or Airtable formula in seconds.
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Cortana (discontinued)
Score 7.6 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
Pricing
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Small Businesses
IBM watsonx Orchestrate
IBM watsonx Orchestrate
Score 8.3 out of 10
IBM watsonx Orchestrate
IBM watsonx Orchestrate
Score 8.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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Genesys DX (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Genesys DX (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Genesys DX (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Excel FormulatorCortana (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
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User Testimonials
Excel FormulatorCortana (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
Open Source
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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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Pros
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  • 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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Cons
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  • 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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Alternatives Considered
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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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Return on Investment
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  • 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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