Cortana (discontinued) vs. Workelevate

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.

Incentivized

Well, as mentioned in the earlier. Workelevate has helped us streamline our workforce performance by cutting IT tickets by ~35%, not just that it also improved the Device Management by proactively patching the system anamolies. Which turned out be a game changer for our users, and it admins.

• 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

Incentivized

• IT Copliot Features of self services
• Endpoint Managment
• AI Root Cause Analysis
• Self Healing
• Experience Management
• OS Patch Management

• 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

• Can introduce Endpoint Security
• Should Introduce MDM
• Third Party Application Patching

Easy to use UEM Dashboard, IT copilots gets integrated with already exisiting Workspace - no need of rip and replace. Integrates easily with our exisitng ITSM(Freshworks).

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.

Incentivized

Evaluating all these platform were a ache due to tool sprawl.

• 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.

Incentivized

• ROI is still to be seen but it is on a positive path
• Employee statisfaction score with endpoints are really good.