Amazon Lex vs. AppSheet vs. Microsoft Copilot Studio

If you wish to quickly deploy multilingual chatbots without having to worry about infrastructure and model training, go for Amazon Lex. It is one of the best general-purpose conversational AI solutions in the market. The cherry on the cake is that it also seamlessly integrates with other AWS services, so you would be good there. Performance monitoring is very easy with AWS. It has support for both text and integration. If you are not a pro-NLP expert, Amazon Lex will make your job really easy.

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If you need to manage special assets with unique characteristics and keep data in spreadsheets, Appsheet is ideal for replacing these sheets with a system. Once you start using it, you find yourself trying to move everything into Appsheet. It is perfect for generating internal software that would otherwise never be developed due to programming costs.

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Where you have a very finite and specific use case, that matches well with the intended use case of the product, it tends to be a great fit. For example we created a plain language chatbot which can rewrite any given piece of text into plain language, referring to specific internal standards.

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• Calculations - I have several apps that do some pretty complicated calculations, and decision making to build things like Shopping Lists for a Kanban assembly team, where the app will help a stocker determine whats low in a kanban assembly line stock box.
• Document generation and record keeping - I have an app that users digitally sign and receive PDF contracts, and the system automatically records all records from the transaction. Everything is held in files on YOUR OWN DRIVE (Google Drive) so when you're done with the project or AppSheet you DONT loose your data.
• Client/Customer Management - I follow the old school "Swimming with Sharks" model for client retention and customer engagement, and have built several small customer tracking tools for local businesses. This tool is limited ONLY by your imagine and desire to learn.

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• Agentic workflows
• AI chatbots
• Deploying via Teams
• Multiple knowledge sources

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• Once the tables / UX Views get way too many in number, it can become a little daunting to manage. This part of the UX may need something really smarter.
• Ability to Undo.
• Could provide more UI Look and Feel options. BTW, the new Graphs look great, but have some bugs, while the new INPUT() feature is a great addition too.

• Ability to combine multiple sources in one query (indexing)
• SharePoint integration - word count limit detrimental
• Clearer communication and understanding of features and limitations

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We are still less than 10 users and probably may continue to be so. But, this being a franchisor set up, could be of use to other users like us.

Easy to deploy and very easy to integrate with other AWS services. Automating simple tasks is also very easy with Amazon Lex. We never had NLP experts in our team, but we were still able to deploy chatbots for our support functions with minimal issues. Native integration with other AWS services like S3 and Lambda has been of paramount importance.

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It's just great. The usability is the best thing about Appsheet. You must choose which things will really be used later. You have to be careful of not generating something too big and then it feels like something that need to be learned. This is something that resolve problems, but you had to be able to think before doing. It will not solve problems itself. You need to find the problem, think a solution, and then use appsheet to make this solution a reality

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Microsoft Copilot Studio is very easy to design new chatbot agents and deploy them to users, it revolutionises the ability to develop and deploy these types of solutions at scale. It does something similar to Power Automate - where it is a low/no code solution that enables tech capabilities not easily possible prior.

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Community support for Amazon Lex is good. Also, since it is an AWS service, the support has a similar standard as other AWS services. We have had a couple of instances of our bots weren't able to interact with our web apps. We reached out to the support team, and they were able to resolve our issue in no time. The documentation from the Amazon Lex team also makes creating chatbots a breeze.

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AppSsheet has a support group and they show videos to help app builders. Though I have truck drivers' hours and can't join the webinars. Support groups with better assists me on a Saturday evening or a Sunday that I have time off. It's hard to watch videos driving down the highway.

I did everything on my own

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The ease that AppSheet provides to the developer is limitless. Before starting with AppSheet I used other software, but they didn't give me the tools at my fingertips.
When I learned about AppSheet and everything it could do, I understood that it was what I was looking for, the ease with which everything is related within the app with a few clicks is impressive.

Really there is no other solution for enterprises than Microsoft Copilot Studio, as every business in New Zealand is already using MS licensing and backend infrastructure. This addition is game changing for those who otherwise would be locked out of solutions that would require new licensing structures to enable these capabilities.

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• Support satisfaction has increased
• Time to resolve customer concerns has seen a major improvement
• Amazon Lex can quickly automate repetitive simple tasks for us
• Our organization has built NLP capability without having to hire language experts/linguists
• Since the integration with AWS services is natively supported, our existing DevOps team can manage our Amazon Lex deployment

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• A good impact in general at the beginning since the free version allows great development so the investment in the implementation is of knowledge and time.
• As a consultant I have expanded my services through this platform including new low code application building services.

• Speed of delivery
• Scale of deployment
• Increase of access

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