Microsoft has been developing Project Sage for two years. The cloud-based recommendation service is now in a build-up phase as a product group. Sage should provide, among other things, recommendation services for publishers and for personalized advertising. The foundation is CloudML, which stands for cloud machine learning.

Microsoft is intensifying work on a cloud-based recommendation service. According to one job description , Project Sage is a "generic recommendation-as-a-service solution that enables customers to leverage a state-of-the-art recommendation engine in a simple and intuitive way".


Further details on Project Sage are unknown, but ZDNet.com author Mary Jo Foley believes it can be used as a publisher referral service. Google is supposed to be working on a similar service . She also expects an offer that recommends customized and personalized advertising.

Two years ago, Project Sage (CloudML Recommendations) started as an incubation project. It has now reached a build-up phase as a product group. The developer team works in Israel and has its roots in CloudML (cloud machine learning). For example, the CloudML Algorithms team at Redmond develops algorithms that are used by Microsoft product groups. It's part of Microsoft's cloud and enterprise space. This manages Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie.

Microsoft Research has been focusing on machine learning for some time . In addition, machine learning is one of the key technologies for CEO Satya Nadella's "Mobile and Cloud First" strategy.

One of the stated responsibilities of Microsoft's Research Center New England R & D (NERD) is to make cloud-based machine learning available to businesses, scientists, developers, consumers, and devices. Access to a machine learning platform should enable the development of web services based on cloud computing. In addition, NERD and Microsoft's research lab in New York are collaborating with the Bing team. Together, they want to use CloudML for predictive analytics. On May 13, NERD will host its third annual New England Machine Learning Day .