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    Cortana (discontinued)

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's Cortana was a general purpose productivity assistant, that has been deprecated as a standalone product.N/A
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    Cortana (discontinued)
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    Free Trial
    No
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Cortana (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
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    Chose Cortana (discontinued)
    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 …
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    Chose Cortana (discontinued)
    - Lower acquisition cost (my institution has other contracts with Microsoft which lowers the global cost of many tools and technologies)
    - More learning and study material available (which facilitates learning by teams
    - More intuitive technology
    Incentivized
    Chose Cortana (discontinued)
    Have not evaluate any other similar products, we are a Microsoft Software house so it was a logical decision to use Cortana over other alternatives.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Cortana (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cortana (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    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
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    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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