The best use of an Amazon Echo is to connect it to your company's Salesforce account and allow high level executives to ask questions such as "Who was the best

The best use of an Amazon Echo is to connect it to your company's Salesforce account and allow high level executives to ask questions such as "Who was the best salesperson last month?" or "How many deals do we have in the pipeline with a 90% chance or better of closing?" Or so I thought. Me and a friend started a startup a year ago to do this, but we found the Amazon eco-system difficult to work with. I wrote about this a lot a year ago: http://www.smashcompany.com/business/i-believe-in-enterprise-software-for-the-amazon-echo http://www.smashcompany.com/business/i-believe-in-enterprise... http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/how-to-enable-the-salesvoice-skill-for-the-amazon-echo http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/how-to-enable-the-sal... But I eventually became a sceptic, for all the reasons I wrote about previously. You can see a recent comment of mine here: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=13214911&goto=threads%3Fid%3Dlkrubner%2313214911 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=13214911&goto=threads%... I now believe that voice interfaces for sales database could be useful, but the Android phone might be the better platform to target, and IBM Watson is likely to be the best service to use in the background.