Business Overview

Microsoft AI is a platform used to develop AI solutions in conversational AI, machine learning, data sciences, robotics, IoT, and more.

Microsoft AI prides itself on driving innovation through; protecting wildlife, better brewing, feeding the world and preserving history.

Its Cognitive Services is described as a comprehensive family of AI services and cognitive APIs to help you build intelligent apps.

Executives

Tom Bernard Krake is the Azure Cloud Executive at Microsoft, responsible for leveraging and evaluating the Azure platform. Tom is joined by a team of experienced executives to optimise the Azure platform and oversee the many cognitive services that it provides.

Notable customers

Uber uses Cognitive Services to boost its security through facial recognition to ensure that the driver using the app matches the user that is on file.

KPMG helps financial institutions save millions in compliance costs through the use of Microsofts Cognitive Services. They do this through transcribing and logging thousands of hours of calls, reducing compliance costs by as much as 80 per cent.

Jet.com uses Cognitive Services to provide answers to its customers by infusing its customer chatbot with the intelligence to communicate using natural language.

The services:

Decision - Make smarter decisions faster through anomaly detectors, content moderators and personalizers.

Language - Extract meaning from unstructured text through the immersive reader, language understanding, Q&A maker, text analytics and translator text.

Speech - Integrate speech processing into apps and services through Speech-to-text, Text to speech, Speech translation and Speaker recognition.

Vision - Identify and analyse content within images, videos and digital ink through computer vision, custom vision, face, form recogniser, ink recogniser and video indexer.

Web Search -Find what you are looking for through the world-wide-web through autosuggest, custom search, entity search, image search, news search, spell check, video search, visual search and web search.

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