As AI technologies and deployments sweep through virtually every industry , a wide range of use cases are beginning to illustrate the potential business opportunities and inspire changes to existing business processes leading to newer business models .

The Microsoft AI platform off ers a comprehensive set of fl exible AI Services , enterprise-grade AI Infrastructure and modern AI Tools for developers and data scientists to create applications of the future . Microsoft AI platform consists of 3 core areas :

AI Services : Developers can rapidly consume high-level “ fi nished ” services that accelerate development of AI solutions . Compose intelligent applications , customized to your organization ’ s availability , security , and compliance requirements .

AI Infrastructure : Services and tools backed by a best-of-breed infrastructure with enterprisegrade security , availability , compliance , and manageability . Harness the power of infi nite scale infrastructure and integrated AI services .

AI Tools : Leverage a set of comprehensive tools and frameworks to build , deploy , and operationalize AI products and services at scale . Use the extensive set of supported tools and IDEs of your choice and harness the intelligence with massive datasets through deep learning frameworks of your choice .

Benefits of Microsoft AI platform :

• The Microsoft AI platform off ers fi nished AI services for rapid development , and provides data science tools to innovate and operationalize AI products and services at scale

• Rapidly compose intelligent applications with extensive APIs , customized to your enterprise ’ s security , compliance , availability , and SLA requirements

• Build immersive applications easily with intelligent features – such as emotion and sentiment detection , vision and speech recognition , language understanding , knowledge , and search – into your app , across devices such as iOS , Android , and Windows

• Leverage extensive deep learning frameworks of your choice - including Cognitive Toolkit , Caff e2 , TensorFlow , Chainer , MxNet , Torch , Scikit-learn , and more

• Explore the extensive choice of IDE and data science tools – Azure ML Studio , Visual Studio , Azure ML Workbench , Jupyter Notebooks , PyCharm , or Juno

• Deploy your solutions on infrastructure that can virtually scale infi nitely – all with enterprise-grade security , compliance , availability , manageability including dev-ops capabilities such as Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery ( CI / CD ) support for AI .

“ AI is going to disrupt every single business app – whether an industry vertical like banking , retail and healthcare , or a horizontal business process like sales , marketing and customer support .”

Harry Shum , Microsoft Executive VP , AI and Research MICROSOFT AI PLATFORM AZURE . MICROSOFT . COM / AI