Project Cortex: AI Powered Knowledge Network What is Project Cortex? In this session we’ll deconstruct the new Microsoft Knowledge Network and dive into new demos just published by Microsoft. The more you understand AI the more you can understand the power of machine learning and machine teaching for business process automation for tagging, workstreams, digital transformation unlocking new scenarios never before available. AI for the masses. Democratizing AI. AI for the people!

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Project Cortex: AI Powered Knowledge Network for the Enterprise
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4. 5 Million
Taken more than
users to Microsoft Cloud Healthcare &
Life Sciences
Financial
Services
Automotive
2017 Partner of the Year
– Global Messaging
– Scorecard Performance
– Most Office 365 Seats Deployed
350+
Microsoft Focused
Consultants
125+
Certified Cloud
Consultants
50+
Key ISV Co-sell
Partnerships
$500M+
ANNUAL PERFICIENT
REVENUE
OCM
DRIVING CONSUMPTION &
ROI THROUGH ADOPTION
95%
REPEAT
BUSINESS RATEDigital CX Agency
Retail
85%
AZURE
CONSUMPTION
GROWTH
With more than
50% increase in FY18
A W A R D S & R E C O G N I T I O N
I N D U S T R Y T E A M S

5. 90% of data in existence generated in last two years!
Isanybodyputtingin theworktounderstandthedata?
“There’s still a major gap between business
strategies and data strategies”
Forrester reported that within the enterprise
73%of data still goesunusedfor analytics.
Gartnersays,“Organizationsneedtoestablishspecific
usecases”
Forbes: Barnard Marr – “How Much Data Do We Create Every Day? The Mind-Blowing Stats Everyone Should Read”

6. If HP knew what HP knOwS
We would be Three Times more productive…
Lew Platt
Former CEO, Hewlett-Packard 1987

7. Agenda
AI in the Enterprise in the Information Age
Understanding Project Cortex
Business Value of Project Cortex
Accelerate Project Cortex

8. Ai in the Enterprise in
the Information Age

9. What do Indiana Jones and Human
Categorization have in Common….

10. “90% of the data in
existence has been
generated in the last two
years”
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY
How much data do we create daily? –Forbes: Bernard Marr
500 billion office documents created last year
16 billion faxes sent last year 853 miles of paper
In 2020, every person generates 1.7 megabytes per second
97.2% of organizations are investing in big data and AI

11. SILOS OF
KNOWLEDGE
SEARCH & DISCOVER
KNOWLEDGE FAILURE
UNTAPPED
KNOWLEDGE
KNOWLEDGE DRAIN
Information Management Challenges

12. Unlocking Knowledge
http://www.knowledge-management-tools.net/different-types-of-knowledge.html

13. Connect People to Knowledge
and Knowledge to People

14. 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.

15. 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

16. Advanced AI to Harness Collective Knowledge
Automated
Object
Detection
Knowledge
Summarization
Forms
Processing
File
Classification &
Entity
Extraction

17. Understanding
Project Cortex

18. Project Cortex Visuals from Microsoft

22. Project Cortex Demo
https://aka.ms/projectcortex

23. Microsoft Search Connectors
Cortex can connect to third-party repositories using 6 new Microsoft
Search connectors and 100s by partners:
Ingestion API
• https://aka.ms/IWantConnectors (Preview)
Build Your Own Graph Microsoft Search API
• Indexing API (Private Preview)
• Query API (Public Beta)
Windows File
Share
ServiceNow SQL Database Intranet
Websites
MediaWiki Azure Data Lake
Gen2
Salesforce

24. Business Value of
Project Cortex

28. Join us! https://bit.ly/ProjectCortexWebinar

29. Accelerate
Project Cortex
“Seeding Taxonomies”

30. Where was that Star
Wars DVD?

31. Use Project Cortex Machine Teaching Content Center:
Streamline Business Processes with Security, Compliance
and Automation
Capture
Classifiers
Extractors
Tagging
Connectors
Labels

32. What will Project Cortex really be like?

33. If HP knew what HP knOwS
We would be Three Times more productive…
Lew Platt
Former CEO, Hewlett-Packard 1987

34. The Elephant
in the Room
No One Wants to
Manually Tag
Documents
A.I. Solves the
problem….
But it needs some help

35. Seed Taxonomies to Enhance Project Cortex

36. What to Expect
“Taxonomies saved us a huge amount of time! We were able to deliver
value immediately!”
CTO - Fortune 500 Insurance Company

37. 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

38. 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

39. Planning for Project Cortex
•Classic to Modern UI (SharePoint)
•Search Project: Populate Acronyms, Enable Microsoft Search
•Enterprise Information Architecture (Hubs and Teams)
•Trusted User Profiles – (Ph#, Department, Office Location, Building Maps)
•Data Cleanup: Retention, Archive, Delete, Expire, Lock
•Site & Team Classification, Unified (Sensitivity & Retention Labeling Plan & Strategy), DLP
Tactical Preparation Projects & Tasks
•Roles and Responsibilities – Define Ownership
•Data Policies, File Plan, Taxonomy, Managed Metadata, “Enterprise” Content Types
Plan
•Enterprise Retention and Information Policies
•Discover Departmental Structured & Semi Structured Documents and Processes (Kofax/Ephesoft)
•Discover Enterprise Forms, Digital Workstreams
•Align with Green Initiatives – Paper to Digital, Digitization, Consolidation, Migrations
Discover

40. •Coming this summer!
•https://aka.ms/ProjectCortex

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