First of all, the Cortana Intelligence Suite is not a new offer, but a special collection of all relevant Azure services (such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure Data Lake). With the suite, you get a complete set of tools for companies to help transform your data into intelligent actions (action requirements) by providing big data and advanced analytics functions.

The Cortana Intelligence Suite offers even more:

• With the Microsoft Team Data Science Process (TDSP) you get an agile, iterative, data science process for executing and delivering advanced analytics solutions
• The TDSP is a systematic method that describes a sequence of work steps (within the Cortana Intelligence Suite or the Azure platform) that are important for the development of predictive models or intelligent applications
• The individual work steps serve as a guide to defining the problem, analyzing relevant data, creating and evaluating prediction models, and then providing these models in intelligent applications

TDSP is iterative, which means the understanding of new or existing optimizations in the model generally develops continuously, and thus also requires the constant reworking of previously concluded work steps.

What else do you need to know? Your own existing processes, for example, project planning processes, can be easily integrated into the defined step sequence.

Not enough? So that you can start right away with your work, the so-called Cortana Intelligence Suite Industry Solutions are included in the offer. These are templates for industry-specific advanced analytics solutions (for example, predictive maintenance) and can be used as a starting point for your own solutions.

As I have already provided the description of the products, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Data Lake Analytics and Azure Time Series Insights,  in other sections of this chapter, I won't cover them again here.