Cortana has been unveiled for several iOS users. (Photo : YouTube)
Tech giant Microsoft recently announced the new Cortana Analytics Suite at the company's World Wide Partner Conference held in Orlando. With this new feature, Microsoft aims to integrate the company's big data analytics products and packages along with machine learning into one complete suite.
Microsoft corporate vice president and head of the Azure ML Joseph Sirosh told Tech Cruch, "Our goal was to bring integration of these pieces so customers have a comprehensive platform to build intelligent solutions."
Sirosh added that while the company's smart digital assistant Cortana plays a little role in this new feature, the suite was named after it since Cortana is a perceived symbol of contextualized intelligence. Cortana's role in the new feature will mainly focus on giving its users easy-to-understand solutions for a certain problem, according to Venture Beat.
Microsoft's Azure Machine Learning which is cloud-based predictive analytics tool will be included in the Cortana Analytics Suite along with Power BI. Some of the Azure products included in the new suite are Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Stream Analytics and Azure HDInsight.
Additionally, Microsoft announced on July 10 that it will release the public preview of Apache Spark which is integrated into Azure HDInsight. Apache Spark is an engine used by big companies that demands massive data processing needs.
Cortana Analytics Suite will be released later in fall. Microsoft did not specify whether it will be released alongside its upcoming operating system, Windows 10, which is set to debut on July 29.
As for the Cortana Analytics Suite's price, Sirosh did not comment but he said that buying the complete suite will be much cheaper than buying the individual features integrated on it separately.
