Add Cortana

Imagine this chat conversation between two users:

Patrick : Sales is doing great now...
James : Yes but I wonder where we are growing?
Patrick: @Cortana Show me revenue by country in October 2016
Cortana: [Shows a graph with top selling countries with a link to the Power BI report]
James: @Cortana What product sells best in Sweden?
Cortana: [Answers with text] "Superduper Sport Shoe" has most revenue in Sweden for October 2016.

Now imagine adding in a bot that can answer questions about inventory or even a procurement bot...

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Warren responded · Sep 9, 2018

This feature request is still being worked upon.

I am still trying to get details on what we could expect for Cortana in Teams and will share examples once something is available.

-Warren

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Warren responded · Jul 25, 2018

This feature request is still being worked upon.

Please note, that Cortana will probably do many similar things to what it can today, but the example above is a bit of a stretch.
You may be able to request Cortana to open file or program but having it parse for the exact data you need and display that, is pretty far out.

I’ll work to get some details on what we could expect for Cortana in Teams and will share examples as soon as possible.

-Warren

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Warren responded · May 29, 2018

This item is being actively worked upon!

As we move along through the development I will keep this thread updated as I receive feedback from the feature team.

Thank you!
-Warren

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Warren responded · Mar 13, 2018

This item is under review.

Here is a link to the new request focusing on a bot that can pull inventory/procurement info. https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103/suggestions/33622000
Please feel free to up vote the new topic.

Thank you!
-Warren

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Warren responded · Feb 13, 2018

Correction to the last update.

This is currently under review. And these two asks need to be split apart.

Would someone be so kind as to create a Power BI bot ask and post the link in the comments, that would be helpful. I will update this item to only focus on the Cortana request.

Thank you all for the suggestions and feedback. We really appreciate it.

-Warren

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Warren responded · Feb 13, 2018

We are working on this item. No big details to share, but this item is underway.

Stay tuned for more updates as information becomes available.

-Warren

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Alan Rogger commented · July 9, 2018 2:43 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Your idea is really great. It would be great if Cortana supports all these conversation modes. Microsft is working on its feature update. To know more about Cortana visit
https://microsoftsupport.co/microsoft-support-uk and tell them about your suggestion.
Bill Richardson commented · November 17, 2017 12:54 PM · Flag as inappropriate

I think you should review how to create a custom bot. There's no reason to create a "Cortana" bot - just write a Teams bot (which is really just a bot that uses the same framework as Cortana) - call it whatever you want, and give it the functionality that you want. In other words - "@BIBot, what product sells best in Sweden?", and the BIBot queries a database and responds with "Superdupr Sport show has the most revenue in Sweden for October 2016"

A long way of saying that the ability already exists to do this. See https://aka.ms/microsoftteamsbotsplatform
Doug Powell commented · May 10, 2017 9:13 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I would like this added as a knowledge bot specific to my department's needs and expertise. A database of best match responses in Excel or Access would make this possible
Arden Shackelford commented · March 9, 2017 9:23 AM · Flag as inappropriate

This would be awesome! I would think that there could be a tie in so that the bot uses the Q&A portion of a dashboard or report to be able to answer the questions. This would really help to be able to gather data that is only needed in the moment that's not part of a pre-existing report.
Anonymous commented · March 9, 2017 4:22 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Tie reminders from Cortana with Teams as well as tracking packages and connected services like CRM or LinkedIn?
TG commented · November 3, 2016 1:12 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Step 1: Show cool off AI at Ignite conference
Step 2: Release new productivity and collaboration product that mimics slack in a lot of ways
Step 3: Sideline cool AI that could separate Teams from Slack and Discord
Step 4: Have users' first interaction with new latest product be with T-Bot, the window-licker of AI