"By leveraging Azure Machine Learning and the Recommendations API, we have launched a new Personalized Commerce Experience for retailers that grows shopper conversion and engagement on any channel."
– Frank Kouretas, Chief Product Officer at Orckestra
In the previous chapter, we covered the remaining language APIs. In this chapter, we will look at the Recommendations Solution template. This is a template for Microsoft Azure that contains the resources required to run Recommendations Solution. This is a solution well suited for e-commerce applications, where you can recommend different items based on different criteria. Recommending items in an online store is a process that can be very time-consuming if it is done by following a rule set. The Recommendations Solution allows us to utilize the power of machine learning to get good recommendations, potentially increasing the number of sales.
This chapter will cover the following topics...