A new skill for Amazon Alexa-enabled devices gives you access to the Atlassian-owned HipChat platform, a first for the enterprise team chat app.
The enterprise team chat app space has been pretty active in the past month.
The announcement comes a day before Microsoft is widely expected to release its Skype Teams messaging app. Slack has also been busy in recent weeks, making moves to integrate with Microsoft Bot Framework and IBM Watson artificial intelligence services.
The Amazon Alexa skill created by SoftServe is named VoiceMyBot and can connect to a specific HipChat room, build and deploy source code, and play recent messages from a boss or colleague.
Add-ons from the Atlassian Marketplace can be made that allow VoiceMyBot to interact with Twitter, GitHub, Trello, Asana, or several others. Since VoiceMyBot code is open-source, custom integrations and other versions of VoiceMyBot can also be made.
