Category: Management Tools

Maintaining a comprehensive audit trail and centralized visibility into contact center operations is crucial for security, compliance, and operational best practices. In our previous blog post, “Investigate Amazon Connect API activity across your organization using AWS CloudTrail and Amazon Athena“, we explored how customers can leverage AWS CloudTrail and Amazon Athena to gain visibility and […]

Callback mechanisms play a crucial role in modern contact centers as they allow callers to reserve their position in the queue without having to remain on hold. This not only enhances customer service by reducing wait times but also optimizes telephony costs and agent utilization. When a callback is requested by a caller, it remains […]

Contact centers have performance objectives (service levels, agent occupancy, average speed to answer) to ensure a high-quality of 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 […]

Many organizations utilize Amazon Connect to run their contact centers and integrate custom applications through Connect APIs. These APIs are used to streamline and customize various aspects of contact center operations, such as managing agent states, retrieving real-time metrics, automating contact center processes, and customizing the overall customer experience to meet specific business requirements. However, […]

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 […]

Following AWS’s best practices on multi-account strategy, customers launch and maintain their Amazon Connect instances across multiple accounts and Regions depending upon their products, groups, departments, etc. This allows individual business owners, developers, engineers etc. to make changes to their own independent Amazon Connect environments. In such a scenario, customers need a central mechanism to […]

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 […]

Introduction Organizations want the ability to monitor operational and system level metrics of their Amazon Connect instances. Right sizing Service Quotas is important to deliver satisfactory contact experiences, meet service level targets, and optimize AWS resources. Amazon Connect provides operational metrics at the instance level. Amazon Connect automatically sends instance and queue metrics to Amazon […]

Overview of the solution Corporations today can accumulate hundreds or even thousands of telephone numbers, making it difficult to keep an accurate inventory or know the treatment for each number. Sales and marketing departments can have a different number for every marketing campaign, or customer service may have numbers for every support center. Businesses want […]