Category: Business Productivity

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, which was available in Beta since October 2018 and is now generally available, uses AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority (ACM – PCA) to generate device certificates […]

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 […]

  It’s our favorite time of year at AWS! It’s the excitement of knowing that after the holiday dining is done, we fly to Las Vegas to meet with you! re:Invent provides us a great opportunity to hear from you and share with you what we’re working on. Amazon Chime is one of the newer […]

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 […]

Alexa for Business helps you simplify your conference room experience. It lets you use your voice to start meetings and control your conference equipment. You can say “Alexa, join my meeting” and Alexa starts your scheduled meeting. When there is no meeting on the calendar, Alexa prompts you for a meeting ID to start a […]

Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint files are some of the most commonly uploaded and shared files in Amazon WorkDocs. In the past, you had to use Microsoft Office desktop applications to create or edit Office documents and then upload and share the latest versions in WorkDocs. Now, the Open with Office Online feature […]

AWS has released a new feature in Alexa for Business that let you call your contacts from Amazon Echo devices located in meeting rooms, hotel rooms, or shared workspaces. You can already use Alexa for Business to join meetings or dial phone numbers. However, customers asked for the ability to call contacts from a central […]

We’re excited to announce that the redesigned Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) developer console allows you to publish and distribute Alexa for Business private skills as a developer. Previously, you needed to download and use the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) Command Line Interface (CLI) to submit and distribute private skills. For a description of the process, […]

Amazon WorkDocs is a secure, fully managed file collaboration and management service. In addition to direct user access from various devices, you can use the WorkDocs API to develop applications that offer more documentation functions to meet your business needs. In this blog post, we demonstrate how to use the WorkDocs API with the AWS […]