Microsoft, Wolfram and the Future of Computable Data—Wolfram Blog
With the recent addition of Wolfram|Alpha knowledge to Microsoft Office 365, Wolfram has now delivered computational knowledge integration projects to four of the five biggest tech companies in the world. Products central to the business of these big companies, such as Apple’s Siri and now Microsoft Excel, rely on Wolfram to deliver knowledge and computation, on demand and at scale.
Data is cheap, and there is no end to suppliers of data on every topic. But data alone isn’t enough. For data to be actionable—so that you can find meaningful insights and make better, informed decisions—it must be set up in a way that is immediately usable in a wide range of computations. Wolfram is the only company to make that a practical reality consistently across multiple domains.
Think of the places where you get information and consider the level that they reach on Wolfram’s computable data scale. You’ll quickly see that they typically fall far short of level 10: data suitable for repeated, systematic computations.
