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Build conversational experiences with Power Virtual Agents and Azure AI Bot Service
Azure AI Bot Serviceprovides an integrated development environment for bot building. Its integration withPower Virtual Agents, a fully hosted low-code platform, enables developers of all technical abilities build conversational AI bots—no code needed.
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Learn how Power Virtual Agents is evolving to enable better collaboration between professional developers and business users to build chatbots
Build bots quickly
Make, test, and publish bots using a low-code graphical interface.
Improve your bot applications over time
Automatically track critical bot telemetry and identify future topics.
Create multimodal and multichannel experiences
Connect to channels such as telephony and Microsoft Teams with minimal code changes.
Scale safely with centralized management
Deploy bots securely to maintain compliance and governance.
Collaboratively build bots with fusion teams
The integration ofAzure AI Bot Service and Power Virtual Agents enables a multidisciplinary team with a range of expertise and abilities to build bots inside a single software as a service (SaaS) solution. Fusion teams can easily extend bots for complex scenarios with Bot Framework Composer.
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Extend your reach with multiple channels and languages
Configure chatbots to engage with customers and employees in a wide range of languages and channels including websites, mobile apps, Facebook, and Microsoft Teams.
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A Developer's Guide to Building AI Applications
Learn how to create your first conversational AI application withAzure AI Bot Service and Power Virtual Agents.
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Azure AI Bot Service pricing
Azure AI Bot Servicepricing is based on the number of messages delivered using Premium channels. Standard channels are free.
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Customers building conversational AI with Power Virtual Agents andAzure AI Bot Service
PwC simplifies data retrieval
PwC adopted Power Virtual Agents to help non-technical teams easily spin up bots across the organization's repositories and automate content search and improve learning and development.
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Giving fans the info they want when they want it
The Miami Dolphins created a chatbot that has handled 40,000 conversations with fans, resolving 97 percent of inquiries, while increasing customer satisfaction.
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Helping employees to navigate the pandemic
The City of Ottawa was able to respond swiftly during a public health crisis to help employees stay connected, informed, and supported using Power Virtual Agents.
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"One of the great things about Bot Service is that, out of the box, we could use it to quickly put together the basic framework for our bot."
Matt White, Marketing Manager, Personal Lines Acquisition Experience, Progressive Insurance
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"We used Azure AI Services and Microsoft Bot Framework to deliver an instantly responsive, personal expert into our customers' pockets. Providing this constant access to help is key to our customer care strategy."
Paul Jacobs, Group Head of Operations Transformation, Vodafone
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Resources and documentation
Bot building with fusion teams
Learn more aboutPower Virtual Agents.
Read aboutthe future of bot building.
Please view theAzure AI Bot Service documentationhere.
Samples and learning modules
Learn how to build botsusing Power Virtual Agents.
Take aguided tourof Power Virtual Agents.
Read theDeveloper's Guide to Building AI Applications.
Community and support
Connect to the globalPower Virtual Agents community.
Ask questions and get support from Microsoft engineers and the open-source Bot Framework community onGitterandStack Overflow.
Frequently asked questions about Azure AI Bot Service
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Start with teams that fuse diverse experiences, skillsets, and responsibilities and collaborate to build bots across low-code and pro-code platforms with Power Virtual Agents. You'll also have access to the Azure Bot Framework Composer at no extra cost.
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Please view the Bot Framework SDK documentationhere.
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Power Virtual Agents empowers fusion teams to seamlessly build secure and scalable virtual agents. Whether it's a simple FAQ or a complex conversational requirement, accelerate bot building with an intuitive world-class designer to respond to both customer and colleague needs. Power Virtual Agents supports rapid development, enabling makers to build without limits with the option to extend the sophistication by allowing pro-code users to create dialogs using the Azure Bot Framework Composer.
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If the authoring canvases for Power Virtual Agents and Bot Framework Composer don't meet your needs, you can use Power Virtual Agents to call Bot Framework skills, extend them with bot applications built with Bot Framework, and leverage other Azure services.
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