Summary

In this chapter, we have seen an introduction to Ocean Smart, with some of the reasons it is using AI for optimizing operations, improving the customer experience, and increasing sales. We also discussed why the company chose to build solutions using cognitive services rather than building applications from scratch, and why it is enhancing the ML models over time for better accuracy. We wanted to give an overview of the types of scenarios that are common in many organizations where cognitive services can be quickly and easily implemented for almost immediate business value. Of course, not all of the solutions will be identical to what you are facing in your organization, but the intent is to give you the ability to get an understanding of how the technology works for each of the scenarios and tailor this to your own situation.

In Chapter 2, Why Azure Cognitive Services?, we will elaborate further on the Azure cognitive services we have briefly discussed in the prior section, with more detailed examples and use cases for each service that are commonly helping organizations.