Amazon takes shots at ChatGPIT with Quicken Suite – your new AI ‘teammate’ at work

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ZDNET Highlights

• Amazon Quick Suite is an agentic AI experience for enterprises.
• Quick Suite uses conversational language to find what you need.
• In some cases, it may even act on your behalf.

Knowledge workers have important data spread across multiple applications, from their email inboxes to company databases and beyond. To help them find what they need more quickly, AWS has launched an AI agent-based solution that can also take actions on behalf of workers using natural language prompts.

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Amazon QuickTime Suite, released Thursday, is an “agent AI experience that reimagines the way people work,” AWS said in an announcement. Director of new product Jose Kunnakkal John described it in a briefing as, “Everything you want to do with ChatGPIT at work, but can’t.”

In practice, the app acts as a hub that pulls data from a variety of sources, including files, enterprise systems, databases, the web, and more. Here, users can use natural language to discuss questions, create personalized agents, and complete tasks while taking advantage of data security.

“Amazon Quick Suite is something that gives you the answers you need quickly, but formats all your data,” John said. “Think of it as an agentic teammate you have at your disposal to help you with your work.”

how it works

A workplace administrator can link the QuickTime suite to a variety of applications, including personal repositories like Google Drive, Office 365 apps, Slack, and email, as well as company-wide data repositories like Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Databricks, and Oracle. Additionally, Quicken Suite can be integrated with systems such as Salesforce and Jira.

Once the application is connected, users have the option to interact in a number of ways, including creating custom agents, asking queries that reference and pulling data from relevant sites, and generating detailed research reports.

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To give context to how AI agents can be helpful, John mentioned that a reporter could create an agent that uses all the feedback previously provided by an editor to provide assistance on future articles, helping the reporter anticipate what edits will be made and saving time. Another way a reporter can use it is for quick research, gathering all of their articles into one workspace and then asking questions based on their own coverage.

I am trying this myself

In a hands-on demo, I had the opportunity to use QuickTime Suite at different workplaces suitable for different professionals such as a salesperson, an IT manager, and a journalist. After spending some hands-on time with the tool, it became clear that Quicken Suite has incorporated every helpful feature of consumer AI tools already available on the market into one enterprise solution.

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For example, the Quick Research tool functions almost identical to Deep Research, available on both ChatGPT and Google Gemini, and takes less time to work in the background and produce higher quality reports. The main difference is that this time, it can pull information specific to your company and role.

While Gemini and ChatGPT both offer data connectors, they are not as extensive as the suite of tools that can be added through the Quick Suite, which gives users access to MCP to connect to more than 1,000 apps, according to the post. Another example is Quicken Site, an agentic experience that allows you to analyze data from different sources and even create visualizations.

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Again, the Quick Flow and Quick Automate features are where the Quick Suite takes advantage of its agentive capabilities. The Quick Flow feature enables users to create automated workflows for repetitive tasks, similar to how Gems works in Gemini. Again, Quick Automate allows users to automate more complex processes. For example, Amazon said its finance team uses it to reconcile thousands of invoices every month.

How to try it

AWS offers a 30-day free trial of QuickTime Suite, but for more specific pricing and getting started information, go here this page,