AWS Contact Center
Category: Amazon Connect
Optimizing your knowledge base for Amazon Q in Connect
A solid knowledge base has always been a crucial piece in effectively aiding agents in the contact center. Now with generative AI, well-structured, straightforward, and up-to-date knowledge bases are key to support generative AI assistants like Q in Connect in easily and effectively synthesizing your content. In this blog post, you will learn about Amazon Q in Connect, how it works, and how to optimize your knowledge base to maximize impact using our generative AI capabilities.
Retaining caller ID for external call transfers in Amazon Connect
In the context of a transfer call scenario from a contact center, the company’s provisioned phone number is typically the outbound caller ID. However, certain scenarios require preserving the original caller ID throughout the transfer process, allowing the receiving party to identify the initial caller. Amazon Connect provides flexible outbound calling capabilities through queues. The […]
Getting started with third-party applications in the agent workspace
Agents play a crucial role in providing an exceptional customer experience. In a high-performing contact center, agents are superhuman — they get where the customer is coming from, know their stuff, and fix issues right away. When this happens, customers feel valued and stay loyal. Agents make up more than 70% of contact center operating […]
Securely pass the customer information to agent using Amazon Connect in-app, web, and video calling
Companies often add self-service capabilities to their websites or mobile applications, such as frequently asked questions (FAQs) or knowledge articles, to help customers address their queries. When that customer escalates to a live agent for help, they are often asked to repeat the same information they may have entered or browsed on the app or […]
Sneak peek: Upcoming AWS sessions on generative AI at Enterprise Connect
As we gear up for an exciting time at Enterprise Connect, scheduled for March 25 – 28, 2024, we look forward to the fantastic lineup of presentations and demos we have in store for attendees. The sessions will be more enlightening and engaging than ever before, showcasing how over a decade of AI and machine […]
Real-time data export of Amazon Connect Customer Profiles to Salesforce using Amazon Kinesis
Introduction Amazon Connect Customer Profiles helps companies deliver faster and personalized customer service in contact centers. This is achieved by providing agents and automated experiences (e.g., IVR) instant access to customer information without the latency and costs of integrating data from multiple systems (SaaS apps, databases, etc). Companies can bring data from over eighty application […]
Deter spam callers using Amazon Connect
Contact centers often receive illegitimate phone calls where the caller is pretending to be someone else by using an existing customer’s phone number. While you might simply fail a check on a web site because you don’t have the right credentials, contact center agents are trained to be polite even when something seems amiss, so […]
Transforming contact center teams when using Amazon Connect
The decision by a business to transform their contact center platform should not be made solely through a technical improvement lens, but also through a people lens. Amazon Connect is an industry-leading solution for any business that wants to transform their contact center operations. Gartner, an American technological research and consulting firm, has published the […]
Automatically evaluate agent interactions using Amazon Connect APIs
Introduction Contact center managers are frequently challenged with accurately identifying coaching needs for agents in order to improve agent-customer interactions. In order to address this issue, Amazon Connect provides set of a set of performance evaluation capabilities that allow automating both form creation and evaluation processes to further reduce manual processes required in evaluating agents. […]
AWS re:Invent recap: New Amazon Connect innovations shape the future of customer experience
AWS re:Invent 2023 showcased some of the most promising innovations and concepts for a future that will be shaped by generative AI. AWS services continue to be central to that future, and they are evolving to support it. At re:Invent 2023, we announced new generative AI features communication channels that are directly integrated into Amazon […]