AWS Contact Center
Category: Contact Center
Just Energy powers up their contact center innovation with Amazon Connect
Introduction In this blog post, Just Energy will share why they moved to a cloud-based contact center with Amazon Connect and how the change helped them overcome challenges they faced with their legacy contact center platform. Just Energy is a leading North American distributor of electricity and natural gas. With over 20 years of experience, […]
How to analyze Amazon Connect Voice ID metrics using Amazon CloudWatch
Join us for AWS Contact Center Day, a free virtual event where you’ll learn about the future of customer service, how machine learning can optimize customer and agent experiences—and more. Register now » Today, contact centers adopting Amazon Connect Voice ID are seeking insights from aggregated metrics such as number of successful enrollments and authentications over […]
Best practices for Amazon Connect step-by-step guides
Traditionally, contact center agents required several disconnected applications to handle simple customer interactions. For example, this includes: contact control panels, customer profile information, knowledge articles, and wikis. Amazon Connect agent workspace offers a unified experience for contact center agents to access the tools they need to address customer calls effectively. Within the agent workspace, step-by-step […]
Getting started with step-by-step guides for the Amazon Connect agent workspace
Join us for AWS Contact Center Day, a free virtual event where you’ll learn about the future of customer service, how machine learning can optimize customer and agent experiences—and more. Register now » One of the biggest challenges contact centers face is training new agents to get up to speed with their agent application. Until agents […]
Event based outbound campaigns with Amazon Connect
Organizations use contact centers to answer inbound calls and initiate outbound communication to their customers. Use cases for outbound communications include appointment reminders, telemarketing, subscription renewals, billing reminders, and follow-up calls. Customer preferences determine the communication channel (voice, messaging, or email) used in outbound campaigns. Contact center managers often use different applications for each channel […]
Routing contacts based on performance objectives in Amazon Connect: Agent Occupancy (part 2)
Enterprise contact centers have performance objectives (service levels, agent occupancy, average speed to answer) to ensure a high-quality customer service. The methods used to route incoming contacts have a direct influence on these performance metrics. Amazon Connect makes it possible to route contacts based on objectives that are important to the business. Part 1 of this […]
Using SMS to accept alphanumeric entry for voice calls with Amazon Connect
Organizations are increasingly using speech recognition to create powerful conversational interfaces in the contact center, enabling self-service, user identification, and caller authentication based on users’ spoken natural language. These capabilities create delightful experiences for the user and improve containment rates and customer satisfaction scores. Oftentimes, in order to authenticate callers, organizations typically must collect alphanumeric […]
Route inbound Salesforce email using Apex triggers and Amazon Connect Tasks
Several organizations today integrate Amazon Connect with Salesforce within their contact centers for voice and chat interactions. They also use Salesforce to handle inbound email communications. While Amazon Connect Salesforce CTI adapter provides a seamless integration between the two, some companies prefer a single routing mechanism for all channels and a unified reporting view for […]
Create, update, and check the status of Amazon Connect Cases using Amazon Connect Contact Flows
Often, contact center agents need to handle complex issues that require multiple interactions, research, and detailed tracking and notation of next steps and status. For example, IT organizations need to be able to track troubleshooting steps, milestones, actions taken, and results of actions. Case management tools provide a solution that consolidates history of a specific […]
Leverage conversational analytics for chat interactions using Contact Lens for Amazon Connect
In many contact centers, a large amount of invaluable communication resides in chat interactions that can dictate the image of an organization. Deriving conversational analytics from these chat interactions can help identify crucial product feedback, improve agent enablement, and boost overall customer experience for a business. Contact Lens for Amazon Connect recently announced general availability […]