For the Enterprise, Artificial Intelligence (AI) materializes into solutions that improve customers' experiences by optimizing, automating, and personalizing high-volume tasks while lowering cost and time to market, therefore accelerating innovation. Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) based solutions offer a promising future in the enterprise allowing engagement with data in innovative ways. In this session, we take a look at how AWS is democratizing AI, AR and VR to enable innovation in the enterprise by building applications quickly and easily without requiring specialized programming.
18. ““AI simply has to be part of the fabric of any modern
app from this point forward. It makes sense to work
with existing best-in-class AI services instead of trying
to invent them yourself, so it’s just tremendous that
AWS makes them available for us to just plug into.
Astrobot Voice Makes Email More
Efficient by Using Amazon Lex
To help workplace teams make
their communications more
effective and less time-consuming,
Astro wanted to build a voice
assistant for its Astro email app.
Astrobot Voice uses Amazon Lex
to provide high-quality capabilities
for speech recognition and
language understanding. The
Astro email app also uses Amazon
Aurora and Amazon S3.
• Built and deployed an enterprise-
grade production application
feature in only six weeks
• Needs only one employee to
manage server operations for an
application available on five
platforms
• Tripled new user signups the first
week Astrobot Voice was
available
SolutionChallenge Benefits
Andy Pflaum, Cofounder & Chief Executive Officer, Astro
Company: Astro
Industry: Computer Software &
Internet Software
Country: United States
Employees: 21
Website: www.helloastro.com
About Astro
Astro enables workplace teams to
focus on what’s most important by
using machine learning to make their
communications more effective.
Founded in 2015 and based in Palo
Alto, California, the company raised
$10 million in its Series A venture-
capital round.