With Microsoft 365, you have a lot of opportunities to extend your solutions for adding even more value. With Azure Cognitive Services, you get a set of APIs you can leverage for adding intelligence as a service with ease to your Microsoft 365 services. Therefore, this session is all about adding the top 5 Cognitive Services to M365 services like SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams or even Microsoft Forms. This session contains a lot of demos so everyone attending can see what's already possible in that field.

1. Top 5 Cognitive
Services for
Microsoft 365
Stephan Bisser @stephanbisser
Thomy Goelles @thomyg

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Gold sponsors
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6. AZURE AI PLATFORM

7. COGNITIVE SERVICES

8. • “QnA Maker is a cloud-based API service
that creates a conversational, question
and answer layer over your data.”
• Data - Aggregate and extract knowledge
from non structured data
• Architecture - The data and runtime
hosted in your Azure subscription.
• Data privacy and compliance. QnA data
is hosted within your Azure compliance
boundary
• Seamless chit-chat integration with
personalities like: Professional, Friendly,
Witty, Caring & Enthusiastic
QnA Maker

9. QNA MAKER CHEATSHEET

11. TRANSLATION
• Cloud-based open API service
• Supports 60+ languages
• Powers Bing, Edge, mobile apps, Office,
Yammer, VS, Skype, eBay, Etsy, HP, …
• XML-based API; supports detect, bulk
operations
• Pay-per-character (2M free)
Cet outil de traduction est
un moyen facile d'étendre la
portée de vos contenus
internes et externes.
Client app or webpage
此翻译工具是可以轻松
地扩展您的内部和外部
内容的覆盖范围。
WEB API

12. TRANSLATION

13. WORD: TRANSLATE SECTION/DOCUMENT

14. IMAGE DETECTION (OCR)
• Form Recognizer
• Image description (Demo)
• Face API
• Custom Vision
Receipt Type: Itemized
Merchant: Contoso
Address: 123 Main Street Redmond, WA
98052
Phonenumber:
+19876543210
Date: 2019-06-10
Time: 13:59:00
Subtotal: 1098.99
Tax: 104.4
Total: 1203.39

17. • Supports basic NLP scenarios
• Up to 1000 1K docs per request
• Call directly from Power BI & Data
Lake U-SQL; SDK supports .NET
Standard + Android
• Not PAYG: paid tier starts at $150 per
month with 100K txns
• Example
• I had a wonderful experience! The
rooms were wonderful, and the staff
was helpful.
"name": "English"
"score": 0.99979335069656372
wonderful experience",
"staff",
"rooms"
TEXT ANALYTICS

18. HEADLINE TITLE TEXT
TEXT ANALYTICS (DEMO)

19. Cognitive
Services
Your assistant
Your personality
Your brand
NLP
Speech
Image &
Video
QnA
Devices
Channels
Inputs
Skills
(Customizable)
3rd
Data sources &
systems
• Can be used in many
different channels and on
many different devices
• Integrate other systems
into the conversation
directly
• Customizable and
extendable through skills
CONVERSATIONAL AI

20. “a computer program designed to
have a conversation with a human
being, especially over the internet” *
• Solves the user’s needs in the
quickest/easiest way compared to
any other option...
• Introduce AI in a friendly way
WHAT IS A BOT?
* https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/chatbot

21. • Text, with optional media
attachments
• Traditional chat, can contain
media attachments
(e.g., image, video, audio,
file)
• Input prompts
• Suggested actions: Buttons,
numbered items in a list, etc.
• Rich cards
• Images, buttons, audio,
animations, etc within one
frame – Adaptive Cards
CONVERSATIONAL MECHANISMS

22. LUIS EXAMPLE
Book a hotel in Graz.

23. {
"query": "Book a hotel in Graz.",
"topScoringIntent": {
"intent": "BookHotel",
"score": 0.921233
},
"entities": [
{
"entity": "Graz",
"type": "Location",
"startIndex": 10,
"endIndex": 13,
"score": 0.7615982
}
]
}
LUIS EXAMPLE

24. Book a hotel in Graz.
Intent = BookHotel Entity = Graz
LUIS EXAMPLE

25. LUIS.ai CHEATSHEET

27. TOP 5 COGNITIVE SERVICES FOR
MICROSOFT 365
Stephan Bisser & Thomas Gölles
MVP & MCT at SOLVION, Graz, Austria
https://bisser.io | https://thomy.tech | https://solvion.net
THANK YOU!
MERCI & DANKJEWEL!