# Enhancing an Amazon Q Business application environment
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After you finish configuring your application environment, you can optionally choose to enhance it.

You can choose from the following available enhancements:
+ **Data sources** – Connect data sources to your application environment.
+ **Admin controls and guardrails** – Customize blocked topics and choose the knowledge sources your web experience uses for responses.
+ **Response customization** – Configure how Amazon Q Business generates and formats responses to user queries, including style, tone, and length.
+ **Amazon Q Apps** – Create lightweight, purpose-built apps within your broader Amazon Q Business application environment. Using enterprise data, users can create a generative AI-powered app that streamlines their tasks.
+ **Plugins** – Enable your end users to perform specific tasks related to third-party services from within their web experience chat—like creating Jira tickets.
+ **Document enrichment** – Control document attribute ingestion and build customized data solutions.
+ **Metadata boosting** – Use document attributes to boost response generation from specific content within your application environment.
+ **Metadata controls** – Enable document attributes for end user search.

**Topics**
+ [Connecting Amazon Q Business data sources](data-sources.md)
+ [Admin controls and guardrails in Amazon Q Business](guardrails.md)
+ [Customizing responses in Amazon Q Business](response-customization.md)
+ [Share your enterprise data with data accessors using Amazon Q index](data-accessors.md)
+ [Amazon Q embedded](embed-amazon-q-business.md)
+ [Integrations](integrations.md)
+ [Creating purpose-built *Amazon Q Apps*](purpose-built-qapps.md)
+ [Document enrichment in Amazon Q Business](custom-document-enrichment.md)
+ [Extracting semantic meaning from embedded visual content with Amazon Q Business](extracting-meaning-from-images.md)
+ [Tuning the query results based on document attribute relevancy](relevancy-tuning.md)
+ [Boosting chat responses using metadata boosting](metadata-boosting.md)
+ [Configuring metadata controls in Amazon Q Business](mapping-doc-attributes.md)