Amazon, Smartsheet team up to provide AI tool for businesses

Smartsheet (NYSE:SMAR) said on Tuesday that it is collaborating with Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) AWS to launch a connector that synchronizes data from Smartsheet into the tech giant’s AI assistant Amazon Q Business.

Amazon Q Business is a generative AI-powered assistant which can answer queries, provide summaries, content, and complete tasks based on data in customers’ enterprise systems.

The connector will enable Amazon Q Business customers to ask the AI assistant information about their projects, programs, and processes managed in Smartsheet, the company noted.

The companies added that the connector combines customers’ Smartsheet data with other data sources they have enabled in Amazon Q Business, such as Salesforce, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and AWS (Amazon Web Services).

“By integrating our flexible data model with Amazon Q Business, we’re unlocking access to work management data for our mutual customers so they can focus on driving business outcomes without worrying about where their data lives,” said Ben Canning, SVP, product experiences at Smartsheet.