Project Cortex applies AI to automatically organize your content. It delivers innovative experiences with Topic cards, Topic pages, and both knowledge and content centers across the productivity tools of Office 365 including Teams, SharePoint, Outlook and Office apps. It has features and tools that enhance the experiences you use everyday to connect experts to the data and capturing knowledge in innovative enhancements based on AI in ways never possible before.
If you’re one of the thousands of people looking to wrap your head around Project Cortex this is the right place. Maybe you understand it at a high level, but struggling with how to “sell” this transformative tool to the business. You know it’s a worthwhile investment, but can you say this is what you should be focusing on right now.
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7 Innovative Ways Project Cortex Delivers Business Value
1. Project
Cortex:
7 Ways Project
Cortex Delivers
Business Value
Joel Oleson, MVP & RD
Director of Perficient
@joel.oleson
Collabshow.com
Ross Leher
CEO
WAND
Wandinc.com
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2. 90% of data in existence was generated in last two
years!
There is still a majorgap between business
strategies and data strategies
• 500 billion Office documents
created last year with 16 billion
faxes sent last year 853 miles of
paper
Gartner says, “Organizationsneedto establish
specificuse cases”
Forbes: Barnard Marr – “How Much Data Do We Create Every Day? The Mind-Blowing Stats Everyone Should Read”
3. How much data is created in your
business?
In 2020, every person generates 1.7 megabytes per second
97.2% of organizations are investing in big data and AI
4. If HP knew what HP knOwS
We would be Three Times more productive…
Lew Platt
Former CEO, Hewlett-Packard 1987
5. Agenda
AI in the Enterprise in the Information Age
Understanding Project Cortex
Business Value of Project Cortex
Accelerate Project Cortex
10. There have been over 154,000 AI patents filed worldwide
since 2010
Machine learning dominates leading all categories of AI
patents including deep learning and neural networks.
11. Built on Azure Cognitive Services
Vision
• Facial detection
• Object detection
• Emotion
• Computer vision
• Content Moderator
• Custom Vision
Speech
• Speech to text
• Text to speech
• Speaker recognition
• Translation
• Bing Speech
Language
• Translation
• Language
Understanding
• Moderation
• Analytics
• Spell Check
Knowledge
• Q&A Maker
• Image Search
• Microsoft Graph
• Azure Search
Search
• Visual Search
• Video Search
• Connectors
• Visual Search
• Autosuggest
• Search APIs
28. Microsoft Search Graph Connectors
Cortex can connect to third-party repositories using 6 new Microsoft
Search connectors and to 100+ of others with partners:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/MicrosoftSearch/connectors-gallery
Graph Connectors
https://aka.ms/IWantConnectors (Preview)
Windows File
Shares
ServiceNow SQL Database
MediaWiki Azure Data
Lake Gen2
Salesforce
36. We Inform the Human Brain With
Knowledge Models
We Inform Project Cortex With
Knowledge Models
37. Seed Taxonomies for
Your Business Functions
Accounting
Customer
Service
Environmental
Human
Resources
Information
Technology
Intellectual
Property
Lean Quality Legal Logistics Procurement
Project
Management
Records
Retention
Sales and
Marketing
Sentiment Soft Skills
Workplace
Health and
Safety
40. What to Expect
“Taxonomies saved us a huge amount of time! We were able to deliver
value immediately!”
CTO - Fortune 500 Insurance Company
41. What to Expect
[Industry] Taxonomy is proving to
be very useful and will save us a
lot of time in our deployment
since we don’t need to create a
taxonomy from scratch."
CEO - Professional
Training Company
42. What to Expect
“We found that people are experts at what they do
yet are not experts in taxonomy building. Editing
pre-built taxonomies provides an easy contextual
reference”
CIO - Health Care Company
44. Call or Email Ross to Schedule a discussion on how
we can accelerate business value with Project
Cortex, SharePoint and Microsoft 365
Ross Leher
rleher@wandinc.com
(303) 623-7716
www.wandinc.com
Blog.wandinc.com
Joel Oleson, MVP & RD
Joel.Oleson@Perficient.com
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Linkedin.com/in/joeloleson
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