E-Books →Azure Bot Service Succinctly

The power of artificial intelligence may be intimidating, but Microsoft provides the Bot Framework Composer to simplify the process of building conversational AI bots. Conversational bots are especially useful in serving different segments of a business, like customer support, sales, and administration. In this ebook, author Ed Freitas gets you up and running with your first conversational bot with minimal code and shows you how to publish it. From the foundation provided, you'll be able to start building your own bots to satisfy your unique needs.
Microsoft describes Azure Bot Service as a comprehensive development environment that runs on Microsoft Azure, created for designing and building enterprise-grade, conversational AI. Azure Bot Service allows you to keep control of your data and simultaneously build multilingual conversational bots for different business scenarios, such as customer support, employee productivity, and sales.
Azure Bot Service delivers a comprehensive development experience by providing a visual canvas called Bot Framework Composer, based on an extensible open-source tool set, providing world-class conversational AI with high-quality natural language, speech, and other Cognitive Services capabilities.
When using Azure Bot Service, you keep control of your data while securely connecting to popular channels such as Skype, Microsoft Teams, Messenger, telephony, and many others. One of the critical characteristics of Azure Bot Service is that it is easy to get started. Furthermore, it comes with many prebuilt dialogs, components, and language models that empower you to create sophisticated conversational designs that include interruption handling, context switching, and cancellations in different languages and formats.
Azure Bot Service includes enterprise-grade security, high availability, compliance, and manageability backed by Azure's core services by being part of Azure. Another aspect of Azure Bot Service is that after you create a conversational bot, you will deploy it to multiple channels with minimal or no changes, enabling your organization to have a real-world, everyday platform experience.
Azure Bot Service is an exciting technology that allows you to create a bot with little or no code. At the same time, you could create a bot using code with some of the most popular programming languages, such as jаvascript, Python, and C#.
Throughout this book, we will take a low-code/no-code approach to develop bots with the Azure Bot Service, explore some of the critical features of Bot Framework Composer, and see how to deploy to Azure and some channels.
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