ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: ENTERPRISE

MICROSOFT AZURE AI

WINNER: OVERALL 

Microsoft’s Azure AI portfolio of artificial intelligence services brings vision, speech, language and decision-making AI models to developers and data scientists building AI solutions. Users can build machine learning models with Jupyter Notebooks, Visual Studio Code and other tools as well as TensorFlow, PyTorch and additional open-source frameworks. Recent updates to the portfolio include improved image classification, tagging and object detection in Azure Computer Vision image analysis, and the ability to generate automatic model training code and configure email notifications with Azure Machine Learning. Azure AI scored highest overall, highest in technology and tied in customer need. Subcategory Winner–Revenue and Profit: IBM Watson

Subcategory Winner–Customer Need: IBM Watson and Microsoft Azure AI (tie)

Finalist: Amazon SageMaker

Finalist: Google Vertex AI