FinancialForce debuts voice-activated ERP assistant at Dreamforce

Amazon Echo devices are primarily thought of as consumer devices for the home, but the cloud enterprise resource planning company Financial force has developed a new way to make the voice-activated assistant Alexa useful for work. FinancialForce, which runs entirely on Saleforce's platform, demo'd its new ERP intelligent assistant at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco this week. FinancialForce customers can use Alexa to do things like to check the status of deliverables, run reports and respond to business information through simple voice commands. They can also build their own use cases without having to code anything, FinancialForce CTO Andy Fawcett explained. "I got away with writing a very small amount of code," he explained at Dreamforce -- specifically, just over 130 lines of NodeJS code.