Chapter 7. Building Recommendation Systems for Businesses

"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...