Introduction to Azure and Bots

At the UC Analytics summit last week  @UCanalytics17 , our track included Jason Errett and Pete Roden of Microsoft speaking about Cortana and Bots.  They send along links to some introductory information for the Bot services:

 ...  overview/walkthrough on getting started with the Bot Service here 
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/bot-framework/azure/azure-bot-service-overview

 ... the various channels as well as Cortana and Skype for Business… 
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/bot-framework/channels/channel-cortana

Thanks again for their input, there was lots of enthusiasm for leveraging AI in this way.