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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

    Zoovu

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AZoovu is a product-discovery platform for B2C retailers and B2B sellers with complex catalogs. Its primary Search and Product Discovery function uses product data, search, guided selling, recommendations, and buyer inputs to help shoppers and specifiers find, compare, and select suitable products.N/A
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
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    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Algolia
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cortana (discontinued)Zoovu
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cortana (discontinued)Zoovu
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Zoovu
    When we researched similar tools out there, we decided to go with zoovu due to price and also felt it could do what we wanted it to do. But honestly not sure I would recommend as it's not very intuitive.
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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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    Zoovu
    • Able to make very specific, customized product solutions for customers
    • Decent customer support
    • Fairly easy to stylize each assistant for brand
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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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    Zoovu
    • Metrics are lacking in my opinion- sales attribution for every product clicked on (and don't have a way to truly track real conversion)
    • Learning the backend setup has a learning curve I've found - would recommend starting/learning with a very simple assistant. Ours was complex and took many, many months to complete.
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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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    Zoovu
    zoovu seemed to have the best price for the assistant we were looking to build.
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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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    Zoovu
    • The ROI metrics aren't very credible in my opinion - so can't say. Wish there were a valid way to connect click assistant click through to verified purchase.
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