Category: Alexa

With Alexa for Business, employees can use Alexa as their intelligent assistant to be more productive in meeting rooms, at their desks or at home. Alexa for Business has the capability to provide functionality to enrolled users (customers that have linked their personal account with their company’s Alexa for Business account) as well as shared […]

According to the last United States Census Bureau survey, over 139 million drivers in the US spent an average of 52 minutes per day commuting to their jobs1. We know that many commuters try to use this commute time to check work emails and calendar using their cell phones, which can put their safety at […]

Unexpected events such as traffic, or back-to-back meetings can sometimes cause us to be late to our next meeting. Informing meeting participants that we will be late can require multiple steps and we are often not in a position to send this simple message, for example, when we are driving. Starting today, you can ask […]

Alexa for Business Blueprints lets Alexa for Business customers create and publish private skills to their organization in minutes without writing a single line of code. Now anyone can choose from dozens of available Skill Blueprints to create custom Alexa experiences that remain private to members of their organization. This feature is available in the U.S. […]

This week, AWS will be at Enterprise Connect where we are excited to hear from customers and meet with our partners. We are also announcing new capabilities for our contact center and communications services – Amazon Connect, Amazon Chime, Alexa for Business, and Amazon WorkDocs. To learn more about these new capabilities – read on. […]

No matter where you work, you probably spend much of your office time in meetings. While an integral part of our work lives, there are a number of obstacles that can get in the way of an efficient meeting, like finding a room, wrestling with cumbersome hardware, and looking up the conference ID while dialing into the call. […]

I am from the Solutions Prototyping team. I build prototypes using AWS services for Global customers who use Alexa for Business, along with many other AWS Services within their organizations. Many of these customers build voice-enabled solutions in their organizations. This voice first design strategy makes securing Alexa Skills a top priority. This blog post […]

Alexa for Business launched a new feature called Usage Reports. These reports provide IT administrators a view of how Alexa is being used in their organization. IT admins can view usage metrics across all shared devices managed by Alexa for Business, as well as private skill usage across users and devices. This allows the IT […]

Alexa for Business launched at re:Invent in 2017 with the mission to help workers be more productive using Alexa. Thousands of customers, like Condé Nast, have deployed Alexa-enabled endpoints throughout their organizations in a wide array of scenarios. One of the most popular features is using Alexa to control conference room equipment and start meetings […]

Alexa for Business now allows organizations to setup and connect select Echo devices managed by Alexa for Business to their corporate WPA2 enterprise Wi-Fi network. This new feature, available in beta, uses AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority (ACM – PCA) to generate device certificates based on your corporate root certificate and then distributes them […]