Mastering Alexa For Business

Learn Alexa for business to set up an Alexa powered organization

What you'll learn
You will be able to set up an Alexa powered environment
You will be able to develop and host private skills
You will be able to integrate Amazon SES with Alexa skills
You will be able to integrate AWS DynamoDB with Alexa skills
You will be able to integrate Slack along with an Alexa Skill
You will be able to integrate Amazon SNS with Alexa skills
You will be able to build flash briefing skills with Text and Audio feeds
Requirements
Basics of Alexa Skill development
Knowledge of using Alexa Skills Kit SDK for NodeJS
Description
Hello learners, this is the next course in the series of courses on Alexa Skills Development, which will help you get started with Alexa for business of AWS and build Alexa skills that will be suitable solutions for a business problem or improvements for already existing processes.
The course kicks off with the exploration of the features of Alexa for business, and then in the next section, we will develop a private skill that will help to improve the process of sending Emails within the organization. After that, in the next section, we will develop a private skill that will guide new recruits to get familiar with the places inside an organization and then, we will develop a private skill that will help everyone to send maintenance issues as slack messages and SMS alerts to the Maintenance team. Finally, In the last section, we will develop a private skill that will flash brief organization related announcements and news.
The course gives detailed explanations for all the coding involved in developing these Alexa Skills and also has few projects that can help you to practice and master the concepts by yourself. While doing the projects and going through the course, you can feel free to ask your doubts on the Udemy discussion forum. You will get a response within one working day. Thank you and have a nice time learning.


Overview

Section 1: Introducing Alexa For Business

Lecture 1 Introduction to the course

Lecture 2 Exploring Alexa For Business

Lecture 3 Setting up shared devices

Lecture 4 Managing Shared devices

Lecture 5 Hosting a private skill

Section 2: The Mail Skill

Lecture 6 Introduction to the Mail Skill

Lecture 7 Introducing Amazon SES

Lecture 8 Adding dialog interface to confirm slots in the skill

Lecture 9 Integrating SES to the skill

Lecture 10 Hosting the skill as Private skill and Testing the skill

Section 3: The Directions Skill

Lecture 11 Introduction to the Directions Skill

Lecture 12 Setting up the DynamoDB Tables

Lecture 13 Integrating the dynamoDB tables to the skill

Lecture 14 Hosting the skill as Private skill and Testing the skill

Section 4: The Maintenance Skill

Lecture 15 Introduction to the Maintenance Skill

Lecture 16 Setup of Incoming Webhooks app in Slack

Lecture 17 Testing the incoming webhooks app

Lecture 18 Integrating Slack with the skill

Lecture 19 Adding SMS alerts to the skill using Amazon SNS

Lecture 20 Hosting the skill as Private skill and Testing the skill

Section 5: The organizational news skill

Lecture 21 Introduction to the organizational news skill

Lecture 22 The flash briefing skill with text feed

Lecture 23 Feed updates using a lambda function

Lecture 24 Extending the flash briefing skill with audio feed

Lecture 25 Conclusion

Anyone who wants to set up an Alexa powered environment,Anyone who wants to explore Alexa for business,Anyone who wants to develop and host private skills,Anyone who wants to integrate Amazon SES with Alexa skills,Anyone who wants to integrate AWS DynamoDB with Alexa skills,Anyone who wants to integrate Slack with Alexa skills,Anyone who wants to integrate Amazon SNS with Alexa skills,Anyone who wants to build flash briefing skills with Text and Audio feeds