Enhance your productivity with new extensions and integrations in Amazon Q Business

Today, we're announcing a new capability from Amazon Q Business to seamlessly access your assistant within popular web browsers and productivity tools. This helps you save time and complete your work and tasks more efficiently without having to leave your preferred applications.

Now, you can use Amazon Q Business directly from your web browser and other supported messaging and collaboration applications. You can quickly gather insights, review information, and ask questions. For example, you can effortlessly analyze and summarize content, get explanations on complex topics, or create meeting summaries without switching between applications.

Let's get started
Let me walk you through how to get started with the new browser extensions and integrations. First, let's look at the browser extensions. The following screenshot shows how it looks.

As an administrator, I need to enable the browser extensions for users of my Amazon Q Business application. To do that, I navigate to my Amazon Q Business application dashboard and select Integrations under the Enhancements section in the left navigation pane.

Then, on the Integrations page, select Edit in the Browser extensions section.

I select the available options in the Browsers section and choose Save. After I've enabled these options, my users will receive notification emails prompting them to install the extension.

Now, I'm switching to a user perspective of the Amazon Q Business application. I've received an email with a link to the Amazon Q Business web application. I visit the link and sign in to the Amazon Q Business web application. Here, I see a banner with information and a link to install the extension for my browser. I select the Install extension button.

Then, I navigate to the Chrome Web Store and install the browser extension.

After I have installed the browser extension, I sign in to my Amazon Q Business application using the same URL and credentials I use to access the web application.

Now, I can chat with Amazon Q Business apps whenever I visit any webpage. For example, I can ask it to summarize the current website for me.

The following image shows the result.

Application integration with Amazon Q Business
With Amazon Q Business, you can get AI-powered assistance and information not only when browsing, but also when collaborating with your teams. Now, you can integrate Amazon Q Business with supported third-party applications, making it an always-ready productivity and creativity teammate in your conversations.

To add third-party applications to Amazon Q Business, I need to navigate to the Integrations page and choose Add integration.

Here, I find all available integrations that I can use. For this demo, I select Slack.

I fill in all the required details, including the Slack workspace team ID, which you can obtain by following the steps outlined on the Slack documentation page.

After the integration is successfully created, I need to deploy this integration as a Slack bot. From the Integrations page, I select the integration and complete the integration process in the Slack platform. With all the required steps completed, now I can now add the app into my Slack workspace.

Here's a quick video showing how I use this integration to interact with Amazon Q Business on Slack.

As someone who juggles multiple tools and platforms daily, this new capability unlocks various possibilities for me to improve my productivity. The ability to access AI assistance and perform cross-application tasks without leaving my current workspace helps me save time and maintain focus.

Additional things to know

• Supported browser extensions - At launch, the Amazon Q Business browser extension supports Chromium-based web browsers such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. It also supports the Mozilla Firefox web browser.
• Application integration support - For third-party applications, at launch, Amazon Q Business integrations support Slack and Microsoft Teams.
• Availability - This new capability is available in AWS Regions where Amazon Q Business is available.

Get started today and experience an exciting opportunity to enhance your productivity and streamline cross-application workflows. Learn more on the Amazon Q Business page.

Happy building,
- Donnie

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