Category: Messaging

Gartner, a company that delivers actionable, objective insight to executives and their teams, has published the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS). Amazon Web Services (AWS) was named a Leader for the first time since Amazon Connect, our flexible, AI-powered cloud contact center, was launched in 2017. We believe this […]

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 […]

Introduction Contact centers use prompts to interact with customers, to obtain information from customers and to provide updates to customers. Prompts are recorded audio files played in call flows. Contact center administrators need to react quickly to the business needs by adding new prompts or changing existing prompts. Tracking and managing large numbers of prompts […]

Introduction Agents play a critical role in a company’s customer experience strategy. They are often the primary point of contact for customers when they have questions, concerns or complaints. The quality of customer service provided by agents can have a significant impact on customer satisfaction and loyalty. Moreover, agents are not identical and perform at […]

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, […]

Introduction Contact center supervisors, managers, compliance, workforce analysts, and others monitor the real-time performance of their contact center, including agent, queue, and routing profile performance, using the real-time metrics dashboard in the Amazon Connect console. Furthermore, as mentioned in the previous blog post, organizations today are challenged by an evolving privacy and regulatory landscape, which […]

Introduction Organizations often struggle to gain a complete view of their agents’ performance. This is due to the large volume of interactions and the various channels through which they communicate with customers. Additionally, filtering relevant data points for performance analysis can be a difficult task. Fortunately, Contact Lens for Amazon Connect offers agent performance evaluation […]

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 […]

Customer satisfaction (CSAT) is one of the top metrics used to measure the customer’s perceptions after an interaction in your contact center. CSAT post-call surveys are important as a diagnostic tool to fine-tune the experience and service delivered in a contact center. They not only assess perceptions of experiences, but also help an organization understand […]

Contact centers aim to provide consistent, high quality customer experiences. However, this requires agents to be aware of the relevant customer information and business rules in order to deliver the best service. Traditionally, agents used multiple applications to handle customer interactions. Amazon Connect agent workspace is a unified experience for contact center agents to access […]