1. Boost Productivity with Azure-Powered Personal E-Assistant for Managing and Calling Contacts
“Pobuca uses Microsoft Azure cloud services to create Pobuca bot, which in fact is our USP. It works as a personal e-assistant for daily contact-related jobs, engaging our users to be more productive.” – Stavros Lagousis, CTO, Pobuca
SITUATION
Business communications typically involve three productivity pains. One has to find the right contact information, choose the communication channel and device (e.g., voice call, ), and finally manage to reach the person. Pobuca wanted to solve the first and last pain of business communications with its cloud-based solution, Pobuca bot.
MICROSOFT AZURE PARTNER:
Pobuca
WEB SITE:
LOCATION: London, UK
ORG SIZE: Fewer than 50 employees
MICROSOFT AZURE ISV PROFILE:
Pobuca is a contact management app for teams that helps organizations of any size to store and communicate with their business contacts more effectively. The company’s USP is the Pobuca bot, which acts as a personal e-assistant that imports, checks for updates, reminds users of calls they have to make, and calls contacts stored in Pobuca using physical language with the user (text or speech).
SOLUTION
Pobuca built its solution on Microsoft Azure. Pobuca bot uses many Azure services, including Microsoft Bot Framework, to help user interaction and act as an e-assistant, Language Understanding Intelligent Service to comprehend natural language, Bing Speech API to convert audio to text and vice versa, enabling communication with Pobuca bot using speech; Azure Machine Learning to deploy Pobuca advanced models into production; and Azure Search for fast and fuzzy logic search.
BENEFITS
Microsoft Azure is easy to deploy, has many integration options, and scales automatically with demand.
Azure boasts percent availability and 24/7 support to provide Pobuca’s SaaS solution with the reliability enterprises require.