Amazon's digital assistant, Alexa has just acquired a new skill in the Smart Scheduling feature which allows the popular virtual assistant to cut the time needed in managing personal schedules in the office.
The Smart Scheduling makes it easier for enterprise users to manage personal schedules via Alexa voice commands, with the ability to engage appointments and schedule meetings based on the participants’ timing and availability.
While Alexa is quickly gaining traction among the consumers, the company is also aiming to replicate the success in the workplace by the launch of Alexa for Business service.
The new feature has invariably placed Alexa for Business a step ahead of the competitors such as Microsoft and Google, all of which are also working on voice-enabled task automation enhancements for their respective digital assistants.
Also, the integration with calendar applications is key for Amazon as its main competitors, Microsoft and Google, are already entrenched in the office collaboration space.
Alexa can potentially integrate with other workplace productivity tools, with calendaring as the first point of call; albeit expanding the integration to other productivity tools for the different workflows and tasks will definitely give Alexa more edge in the workplace.
Other productivity capabilities, Amazon is working on includes: recording and transcription of meetings, with providing ‘intelligent’ summary for actionable items and completion of tasks, among others.
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