AWS Contact Center
Category: Messaging
Assist agents and enrich system metrics with Amazon Connect
Agents are a core part of a contact centre. At peak times, they manage long queues and look through multiple systems for the information requested by their customers. During a call, agents may need to reconfirm information with the customer that they already gave in the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system. This may include the […]
Create and update agents in bulk with Amazon Connect
Contact center managers must often add and remove agents quickly, or manage agents as a group. The ability to do so efficiently and in bulk is essential to the timely management of contact center agents. Amazon Connect currently offers methods to perform bulk user (agent) creation and bulk user updates within the User Management functions […]
Provide real-time customer sentiment analytics to agents using Contact Lens API for Amazon Connect
A contact center has a large amount of valuable customer data that supervisors and quality assurance managers can use to easily understand the sentiment, trends, and compliance risks of customer conversations. These insights allow companies to effectively train agents, replicate successful interactions, and identify important customer feedback. This said, many companies find it difficult to […]
Use Contact Lens for Amazon Connect to streamline call transfers with real-time AI powered insights
In the contact center world, agents frequently transfer calls, whether it is because the customer is routed to the incorrect department, or the customer’s situation requires an escalation. In some of these cases, the contact information collected by the first agent is not always available when a second agent or supervisor is talking to the […]
Unify and organize customer information with Amazon Connect Customer Profiles with the pre-built Amazon S3 connector
When a customer contacts your contact center, understanding their context is key to providing a great experience. To help you deliver more efficient and personalized customer service, Amazon Connect Customer Profiles helps you create a unified view of a customer’s profile with the most up to date information, to provide more personalized customer service. With […]
Automate agent workflows with the Salesforce CTI Adapter
Automate agent workflows with Salesforce CTI Adapter CTI Flows Many applications offer the ability to automate the agent workflows, however, this is an esoteric task that requires specialized coding skills. Starting with version 5, the Amazon Connect CTI Adapter for Salesforce introduced the concept of CTI flows. CTI flows is a graphical user interface similar to […]
Canadian Customers dialed in to the benefits of Amazon Connect
At this time last year, AWS saw more than 5,000 new cloud-based contact centers spring up to deal with the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. Customers chose Amazon Connect because it is easy to set up, use, and scale. One of those customers was the Government of Canada, launching a cloud-based call center for its […]
Measure latency for validation testing and troubleshooting in Amazon Connect
Setting up a contact center for your business is an important step in the direction of offering an enhanced customer experience to your end users. In such a scenario, it is vital that one should follow best practices as a part of the planning phase for your contact center to ensure smooth execution of deployment. […]
Creating a secure IVR solution with Amazon Connect
Creating a secure IVR solution with Amazon Connect The contact flows in Amazon Connect can be used to create dynamic Interactive Voice Response (IVR) solutions. With Amazon Connect, organizations can gather appropriate personal information to customize the customer experience when they interact with their IVR. The personal information can include social security numbers, credit card […]
Managing queues with a new API in Amazon Connect
Contact center administrators managing skills-based routing profiles often struggle to keep up with rapidly changing business requirements. New queues, labeled as skills traditionally, are required to meet changing routing and reporting needs. Adding or updating queues, associating or disassociating quick connects, and updating hours of operation for queues are some of the most frequently performed […]