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Microsoft Azure: Empowering the Innovators all over AI

At the core of this new development is the wish of Microsoft to make it easier for everyone to innovate using the software. It envisions helping everyone from data scientists to students move easily from an idea to a new product. Ihsan Anabtawi, Chief Operating and Marketing Officer of Microsoft UAE, said that they are waiting to see how the developers in UAE are going to use this innovation.

Most of the ideas shared in Build was about the improvements made to Azure AI. They include:

  • the Azure Bot Service. Developers could now ad speech and use telephone services using it.
  • Azure Metrics Advisor, which helps organisations to monitor their Growth engines, which enable a company to measure its sales and growth factors.
  • Video analytics that is powered by AI which is used to ensure safety at the workplace, enhance the in-store experience, monetisation of content etc. can be build using the Azure Video Analyser now.

Azure Cognitive Services also comes with new features like Document translation, text analytics. The first one helps companies to translate difficult documents into another language. The second one is mainly for the area of health where it helps to create structured knowledge from unstructured medical data like patients medical history, doctors notes, protocols followed in clinical trial etc.

The implementation of AI models can be made faster by using new machine learning capacities provided by Microsoft. Azure Machine Learning helps developers to create and implement AI more quickly. PyTorch Enterprise on Microsoft Azure provides the premier customers with added advantage like providing immediate support and solutions for bugs, hacking and similar security issues.

The cloud ecosystem of the Middle East is growing and Microsoft has tried to support its growth by providing various facilities. It has introduced two data centres in the UAE in 2019 specifically to serve the needs of the Middle East developers. Microsoft has helped to spread the strength and intelligence of the developers of the Middle East across organisations and industries. Its performance has also been enhanced to an enterprise-grade, with reduced latency and vast compliance.