Introducing Project CortexToday, we’re pleased to introduce Project Cortex, the first new service in Microsoft 365 since the launch of Microsoft Teams. Project Cortex uses advanced AI to deliver insights and expertise in the apps you use every day, to harness collective knowledge and to empower people and teams to learn, upskill and innovate faster.Project Cortex uses AI to reason over content across teams and systems, recognizing content types, extracting important information, and automatically organizing content into shared topics like projects, products, processes and customers. Cortex then creates a knowledge network based on relationships among topics, content, and people.New topic pages and knowledge centers—created and updated by AI—enable experts to curate and share knowledge with wiki-like simplicity. And topic cards deliver knowledge just-in-time to people in Outlook, Microsoft Teams, and Office.Project Cortex builds on intelligence from the Microsoft Graph, a variety of Microsoft AI technologies, and the leading content services of SharePoint, which recently surpassed 100 million monthly active commercial users as part of Microsoft 365. Cortex also lets you connect to external systems and repositories; use advanced AI to automate content capture, categorization, and management; and protect information with intelligent security and compliance.MicrosoftMSID-409f6556-90ef-41f1-9f8f-091f0b42a226Seth Patton Blog author - Microsoft_3b10c5fa-01e3-11ea-ab96-12a40e83ea00_3b10c7da-01e3-11ea-ab96-12a40e83ea00Knowledge OrganizationOrganize knowledge across your teams and systems_3b10c8fc-01e3-11ea-ab96-12a40e83ea001Project Cortex applies AI to reason over your organization’s structured and unstructured content, recognizing content types, extracting important information, and automatically organizing it into topics.Advanced cognitive services capture content, extract information, and automatically tag content.Image & Text RecognitionIdentify objects in scanned or uploaded images_3b10ca00-01e3-11ea-ab96-12a40e83ea001.1Image and text recognition identify objects in scanned or uploaded images based on an understanding of over 10,000 attributes, and extracts text from images and PDFs.Forms ProcessingPinpoint important information in forms and extract that information as metadata._3b10cafa-01e3-11ea-ab96-12a40e83ea001.2Forms processing enables you to pinpoint important information in forms and extract that information as metadata.Machine TeachingTrain the AI to recognize information in unstructured documents_3b10cbfe-01e3-11ea-ab96-12a40e83ea001.3Machine teaching, powered by LUIS, lets experts train the AI to recognize information in unstructured documents, such as contracts, proposals, or training materials, which might have varied content and formatting. Just as you might teach a colleague to dig through documents and tag them, now you can teach AI, creating a reusable model based on a small subset of sample documents.ContentCollect, categorize, and tag content._3b10cd16-01e3-11ea-ab96-12a40e83ea002Project Cortex securely collects content that is created and shared every day in Microsoft 365—including files, conversations, recorded meetings and video—and it categorizes the content based on its type, and tags it with extracted metadata.Topics & RelationshipsIdentify topics and relate content to them._3b10ce1a-01e3-11ea-ab96-12a40e83ea002.1AI then applies advanced topic mining logic—whether its content contained in Microsoft 365 or connected from external systems—to identify topics and relate content to those topics. Topics can reflect any knowledge that’s important, including customers, products, projects, policies and procedures. Technically, AI is creating knowledge entities, a new object class, in the Microsoft Graph. The relationships between those topics—those knowledge entities—and the experiences that connect this knowledge with people creates your knowledge network.Topic CardsShow descriptions, experts, resources, and other information about topics._3b10cf1e-01e3-11ea-ab96-12a40e83ea002.1.1Topic cards appear automatically when a topic is detected, showing you a description, experts, resources, and other information about the topic. Topic cards appear automatically in Outlook, Word, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams, and will appear in results in Microsoft Search.Topics make it easier to find people based on their skills, projects, and expertise. When you search for a topic through Microsoft Search or Bing, you’ll see a list of people who added the topic to their profile.People CardsShow topics in people cards._3b10d018-01e3-11ea-ab96-12a40e83ea002.1.2In addition, topics will be shown prominently in people cards across Microsoft 365, helping you easily identify who’s working on what inside your organization. And Project Cortex will automatically prompt you to add topics, based on work you’re doing, to help you keep your profile current.Topic PagesEnable exploration of topic and people information on topic pages._3b10d112-01e3-11ea-ab96-12a40e83ea002.1.3All this information can be explored in depth in a topic page. Project Cortex builds topic pages automatically from your content, using AI. But pages become better with experts, who can edit or create new topics with wiki-like simplicity, incorporating their knowledge and additional resources, and transparently training your knowledge network at the same time. AI also keeps your topic pages up-to-date alongside ongoing people-centric curation.Knowledge CentersRoll up topic pages into personalized knowledge centers._3b10d216-01e3-11ea-ab96-12a40e83ea002.1.4Topic pages roll up into your knowledge center, which delivers a personalized view of relevant knowledge across your organization, including trending relevant topics, and open questions. In addition, you can create additional, topic-specific knowledge centers—centers of excellence that support specific knowledge sharing scenarios in your organization, such as projects, products, policies and procedures, or customers. The knowledge center also supplies additional web parts to integrate knowledge and training from around your organization. These custom knowledge centers are built with and integrate seamlessly into your intelligent SharePoint intranet.With Project Cortex enabled, AI-powered capabilities that automate content capture and categorization will come to all SharePoint libraries, as well as to new content centers. Content centers are libraries with superpowers—where you can run reporting and analyses for how content is used. Content centers also enable you to create AI models for content processing and to automate content-centric processes using AI Builder and Power Automate which integrate with Cortex.MetadataManage metadata._3b10d388-01e3-11ea-ab96-12a40e83ea002.2The metadata that’s applied to content—by AI or by experts—is managed in an updated Managed Metadata Service (MMS) that’s been extended to support tagging content across Microsoft 365. Managed metadata allows you define common terms in a taxonomy, including synonyms and multilingual support, to allow for precise tag definitions. Organizations who have used MMS taxonomy will be able to mine those tags to recognize topics in their content. Synonyms also let you retrieve content by any of those tag synonyms. We’re also including new reports to let you analyze content and tagging activity.Information GovernanceGovern document templates and metadata._3b10d48c-01e3-11ea-ab96-12a40e83ea002.3MMS will also support enterprise content types, making it easy to govern document templates and metadata columns across your information architecture.TaxonomiesImport, export and integrate taxonomies._3b10d590-01e3-11ea-ab96-12a40e83ea002.4And we’re making it simpler to import, export and integrate custom taxonomy with third party systems.Privacy, Security & ComplianceMaintain privacy, security and compliance._3b10d77a-01e3-11ea-ab96-12a40e83ea002.5The boundary of your knowledge network is your organization. As it is built-in to Microsoft 365, it maintains the privacy, security and compliance you expect from Microsoft 365.For example, topics will be visible only to people with access to content and information related to the topic. And the information you see about a topic will reflect your access and permissions. In addition, administrators can control which scopes of content are included in Cortex, by excluding sites or documents with certain classification labels (like HBI). And administrators will be able to control whether topics are published for broader visibility, and there will also be a block list to exclude specific topic names.PoliciesAutomatically apply security and compliance policies._3b10d89c-01e3-11ea-ab96-12a40e83ea002.5.1Importantly, Project Cortex enhances your security profile by automatically categorizing and tagging content with metadata, which can then be used by Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) to apply security and compliance policies. And that same automatic categorization and tagging can be used to streamline business processes with Power Automate.ConnectorsConnect to content in third-party repositories and systems._3b10d9aa-01e3-11ea-ab96-12a40e83ea002.6Cortex can also connect to content in third-party repositories and systems using the new Microsoft Search connectors. These connectors already support:* Windows File Share* ServiceNow* SQL Database* Intranet Websites* MediaWiki* Azure Data Lake Gen2* Salesforce* 3rd party connectors through the ingestion API. And we’ll be adding more connectors in the coming months.Knowledge DeliveryDeliver knowledge and expertise._3b10dacc-01e3-11ea-ab96-12a40e83ea003Project Cortex delivers knowledge and expertise to people in the apps they use every day.Experiences & CurationPower knowledge experiences to curate knowledge._3b10df5e-01e3-11ea-ab96-12a40e83ea003.1It also powers new knowledge experiences that curate knowledge for your organization.2019-11-042019-11-07https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-365-Blog/Introducing-Project-Cortex/ba-p/966091?ranMID=24542&ranEAID=je6NUbpObpQ&ranSiteID=je6NUbpObpQ-J6lc6Gp22IgdBiX9NJN_5g&epi=je6NUbpObpQ-J6lc6Gp22IgdBiX9NJN_5g&irgwc=1&OCID=AID2000142_aff_7593_1243925&tduid=(ir__6z9vbpyfnwkfrk9ckk0sohznxu2xguurbsg1spxe00)(7593)(1243925)(je6NUbpObpQ-J6lc6Gp22IgdBiX9NJN_5g)()&irclickid=_6z9vbpyfnwkfrk9ckk0sohznxu2xguurbsg1spxe00OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net