At Microsoft Build, Teradata has announced ‘Teradata AI Unlimited,’ the company’s on-demand AI/ML (artificial intelligence/machine learning) workload, which is now available in private preview in Microsoft Fabric. Teradata AI Unlimited in Microsoft Fabric extends user freedom to innovate with frictionless, on-demand access to ClearScape Analytics, empowering exploration, discovery and building of new AI innovations and use cases. Users accessing Teradata AI Unlimited within the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem only pay for the time they use, alleviating concerns about cost overruns. This design streamlines the transition from conceptualization to testing and eventual deployment in real production environments.
“Teradata believes in a world where data scientists and developers are free to explore, experiment, and operationalize groundbreaking AI use cases,” said Daniel Spurling, Senior Vice President, Product Management at Teradata. “AI Unlimited in Microsoft Fabric continues our unwavering commitment to fostering AI innovation within the developer community. We first unveiled AI Unlimited at Microsoft Ignite in Q4 2023 as an original design partner, and since then, we’ve been working tirelessly with Microsoft Fabric to transform AI Unlimited into an integrated workload in Fabric. Today, we’re proud to deliver on this joint effort. As a workload in Fabric, AI Unlimited provides analytic explorers and developers with a comprehensive suite of AI/ML capabilities through ClearScape Analytics, all within a scalable and efficient environment.”
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Why is this News Important?
Teradata AI Unlimited makes it easy for users to adopt because of its low commitment and on-demand user experience. Its Unlimited workload in Microsoft Fabric reduces user-adoption friction even more as it eliminates the configuration steps an engine requires and instead provides the software on demand when the user is ready to engage. The Microsoft Fabric environment facilitates developer productivity using AI Unlimited capabilities in an easy-to-use and intuitive self-service interface. This gives users direct access to add new notebooks and enables them to explore analytic use cases and create new AI models and visualizations. AI Unlimited will be available alongside native Fabric engines and can leverage data in Microsoft Fabric OneLake.
“The availability of Teradata AI Unlimited workload in Microsoft Fabric enables organizations to deploy analytics from both providers in minutes and, through rapid AI experimentation and innovation, to deliver insights,” said Dipti Borkar, Vice President & General Manager at Microsoft.
Teradata AI Unlimited: Demonstrated Use Cases in Microsoft Fabric
AI Unlimited in Microsoft Fabric includes a prepopulated embedded notebook connecting seamlessly to ClearScape Analytics, showcasing various powerful use cases.
Financial customer journey
Teradata AI Unlimited workload in Microsoft Fabric empowers users to easily understand and enhance customer journeys with best-in-class data harmonization, machine learning, AI, and analytics capabilities.
- Quickly analyze millions of digital and in-person touchpoints
- Measure marketing effectiveness and performance across channels
- Identify prospective customers
- Accelerate customer conversions
- Create more relevant, authentic experiences
- Track and adapt to customer buying patterns
- Discover upsell and cross-sell opportunities
Customer behavior analysis
Customer data can be challenging to analyze because it’s stored in disconnected silos, or large volumes of data make timely, accurate analysis impossible. With AI Unlimited workload in Microsoft Fabric users can get critical insights on customer behavior.
- Increase revenue with more seamless conversions
- Drive sales through new leads
- Reduce costs by improving operational efficiencies
- Quickly identify and eliminate friction points
- Easily create proactive customer service and marketing outreach
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Customer segmentation
Teradata AI Unlimited workload in Microsoft Fabric users can leverage highly scalable native processing functions to create ideal customer segments using word embeddings and clustering algorithms.
- Combine embedded ClearScape Analytics functions with advanced AI/ML techniques to find the ideal number of customer segments
- Segmentation can be used on its own for marketing and other tasks, or used in further predictive analytics use cases
Data preparation
With Teradata AI Unlimited workload in Microsoft Fabric, users can leverage the massively parallel processing architecture of Teradata VantageCloud, combined with over 150 native functions to create rapid, seamless, and repeatable data transformation pipelines that will process a nearly unlimited amount of data at speed and scale.
- Prepared data can then be integrated directly with Azure services (e.g., Enterprise Feature Store, Azure
- Machine Learning or other development services) by staging data directly in Azure Data Lake Store or OneLake
- Native capabilities in AI Unlimited enable developers and other AI/ML practitioners to reduce data prep time by 70% or more
Conclusion
Teradata’s announcement of AI Unlimited in Microsoft Fabric represents a milestone in the democratization of AI innovation. This, combined with a user-friendly interface, empowers developers and data scientists to explore, experiment, and operationalize groundbreaking AI use cases. Teradata and Microsoft Fabric collaboration drives AI adoption and accelerates enterprise insights generation. With the private preview slated for June 2024, there is much to look forward to.
FAQs
1. What is Microsoft Fabric, and how does it relate to Teradata AI Unlimited?
Microsoft Fabric is a platform ecosystem offered by Microsoft. Teradata AI Unlimited is now available in private preview within Microsoft Fabric, providing users with seamless access to AI capabilities alongside native Fabric engines.
2. How does Teradata AI Unlimited differ from other AI/ML solutions?
Teradata AI Unlimited stands out due to its low commitment, on-demand user experience, and prepopulated embedded notebook connecting seamlessly to ClearScape Analytics, facilitating rapid experimentation and innovation.
3. What are the benefits of using Teradata AI Unlimited in Microsoft Fabric?
By leveraging Teradata AI Unlimited in Microsoft Fabric, users can explore analytic use cases, create new AI models and visualizations, and seamlessly integrate with Microsoft Fabric OneLake, all within a scalable and efficient environment.
4. How does Teradata AI Unlimited address concerns about cost overruns?
With Teradata AI Unlimited, users pay only for the time spent using the platform, eliminating the fear of cost overruns. This pay-as-you-go model makes it easier and faster to move from breakthrough ideas to testing to real production environments.
5. What use cases does Teradata AI Unlimited support within Microsoft Fabric?
Teradata AI Unlimited supports various powerful use cases within Microsoft Fabric, including financial customer journey analysis, customer behavior analysis, customer segmentation, and data preparation.
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