CluedIn has become the first Master Data Management (MDM) system to integrate with the Azure OpenAI service. As the most Azure-native MDM platform available, this latest development solidifies CluedIn’s position at the forefront of helping organizations to realize their data-driven ambitions on Microsoft Azure.

There are several benefits to integrating Azure OpenAI with CluedIn. The main advantages are speed and simplicity, as data management tasks like cleaning, standardizing, and enriching can be done in minutes - not days or weeks, and can be performed by anyone with a basic level of computer literacy. The reduction in manual work is also significant, as Azure OpenAI enhances CluedIn’s already significant automation capabilities. For example, with Azure OpenAI, CluedIn can perform proactive data cleansing and enrichment and suggest which business rules to create.

Additional benefits include automatic systems mapping and the ability to immediately enforce data governance policies as they are entered into the system. All of which will save organizations significant time, money and resources.

CluedIn is different because unlike other MDM platforms offering AI features, we have chosen not to develop our own AI engine but to partner with a general model that solves many diverse challenges. Azure OpenAI is currently showing results that radically outperform bespoke AI engines both in terms of reliability and results.

Also, because CluedIn is a Graph-based MDM platform that focuses on the relationships between the data as much as the data itself, this puts our customers in the best possible position to benefit from AI. AI can only give the right answer if the correct question is asked, and it needs context to deliver the level of accuracy required. For example, if you were searching for a particular individual with a common name, it’s unlikely that an AI engine would know which one you wanted. But if you could tell it that the individual is related to other people in the same organization, or once worked at a particular company, it is highly likely that the result will be correct.

Not at all. Azure OpenAI brings unprecedented speed and simplicity to the process of mastering your data, and it will give business users the power to perform tasks that would have previously only been possible with help from IT or Engineering teams. But it is not a replacement for these highly skilled roles, rather it will make their lives much easier and allow them to concentrate on other priorities and projects.

No. CluedIn is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, which means that your data remains in your own tenant. Azure OpenAI works by using a combination of deep learning, reinforcement learning, natural language processing, and other AI techniques to create powerful AI systems. Azure OpenAI does not use data submitted by customers via its API to train Azure OpenAI models or improve Azure OpenAI’s service offering.

The integration with Azure OpenAI is included in the latest release of CluedIn, available from early May 2023.

As with all CluedIn features, this integration is included in your license, the only extra cost will be Azure Consumption. During testing, we ran 100,000 queries at a cost of $112, which is pretty remarkable.

Yes, as of May 2023 the CluedIn Free Trial will include the Azure OpenAI integration. Find out more here: Free Trial of CluedIn on Azure Marketplace