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I wrote an internal Alexa skill for [large cola company] a few years back. It allowed them to ask for sales figures based on certain criteria (time frame, categ
by m0ngr31 9y ago
I wrote an internal Alexa skill for [large cola company] a few years back. It allowed them to ask for sales figures based on certain criteria (time frame, category, vendor, ect.)
They never told me explicitly what it was for, but I assumed it was for meetings where it was just easier to ask Alexa than look it up manually. Like the article says, I imagine this will be more popular going forward.
Some of the intents that were part of the skill they requested were just too long to say conformably. I'm guessing it was approved by someone just trying to impress their boss by busting it out during a meeting.
- sologoub 9y agoA lot of requests to BI teams are simply “what’s the <metric> for <some set of dimensions> for the last/next <timeframe>”. Literally, thousands of analysts just answer these one liners day in and day out. More diligent/experienced people will know to ask the “whys”, and recommend better insights, but generally it’s not much more than that and Alex can handle a lot of these provided there is a robust enough dataset/reporting API behind it.
- sgt101 9y agoNot convinced, these kind of asks can get mopped up with a web app if there is a robust dataset/API available. BI teams get used / needed when the data needs fixing and also when the question appears to be of the form above but in fact is of the form "I have a new metric I want to explore across dimensions that are not in the data set"
- mohi13 9y agoHow do protect business data? Are there private skills for Alexa ?
- m0ngr31 9y agoWe just left it as a 'dev' one so it never got published. You just have to have it on the Amazon account that the echo was setup on.