Cortana Intelligence Suite is a fully managed big data and advanced analytics suite that enables organizations to transform data into intelligent action.
Cortana Intelligence Suite includes following products and capabilities (also see the figure below):
- Preconfigured business scenarios: recommendations, forecasting, customer churn, etc.
- Personal digital assistant: Cortana
- Recognition of human interactions and intent: face, vision, speech and text analytics
- Dashboards and visualizations: Power BI
- Machine learning & analytics: Azure Machine Learning, Azure HDInsight (Hadoop-based system), Azure Data Lake Analytics (ADLA), Azure Stream Analytics (complex event processing)
- Big Data stores: Azure Data Lake Store (HDFS-based Big Data repository), Azure SQL Data Warehouse (elastic data warehouse; APS-PDW in Azure)
- Information management: Azure Data Factory (data orchestration), Azure Data Catalog, Azure Event Hubs (for event ingestion).
Details: Official site of Cortana Analytics Suite
Additional materials:
Business Excellence 