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Today, consumers can pick from a range of rich digital messaging apps to communicate with friends and family. Some example include: Facebook Messenger, iMessage, WhatsApp, WeChat, Viber, Line, Telegram and more. These digital channels are pervasive and widely used: eMarketer estimates that over 3 billion people will use at least one of them in 2021. […]

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 » Thousands of companies use Amazon Connect to solve millions of customer issues daily via calls and chats. Many of these companies also want […]

Introduction In our previous blog, we discussed how Amazon Connect customer profiles provides a simple, consistent way to manage customer’s experience for repeat callers with features like personalized prompts, last agent, and last queue routing. For customers looking to personalize the experience of repeat callers, but are unable or not wanting to use customer profiles, this […]

Long wait times in contact center queues are a key driver for customer frustration. They also increase costs to companies. Typically, the workforce management (WFM) teams forecast and adjust staffing to minimize the time a customer waits in queue before they can speak to a contact center agent. However, resource management is an optimization between […]

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of Amazon Connect Voice ID, a Machine Learning (ML) powered voice authentication feature for Amazon Connect. Amazon Connect is an easy-to-use omnichannel cloud contact center that helps companies of any size deliver superior customer service at lower cost. Amazon Connect Voice ID offers both real-time caller […]

In the medical field, cardiologists rely on heart monitoring devices to capture patient baselines and trends that enable them to predict and treat heart disease and defects. Similarly, in the contact center field, the ability to monitor and detect anomalies is essential in maintaining a healthy contact center environment. With Amazon Connect and Amazon CloudWatch […]

Chat is becoming a preferred channel for customer interactions. Salesforce Experience Cloud (SEC) helps companies create websites, storefronts, and mobile apps. SEC can personalize customer engagement with pre-built templates. It offers self-service capabilities, and integrates with customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. Adding Amazon Connect chat to SEC allows you to experience high-quality digital interactions. SEC […]

As customer engagement expectations become increasingly advanced, contact center managers find themselves in need of granular visibility of their contact center usage. For example, customers seek to understand usage patterns by agent, business division, caller intent, routing queue, or customer segment. Amazon Connect provides a real-time performance dashboard so that you can monitor the overall health of […]

In a busy contact center, agents can often be routed contacts back-to-back, making it difficult for agents to go offline or on a scheduled break. Amazon Connect now offers the ability for agents to set a next status while on a contact. An agent can pause new contacts from being routed to them while finishing […]

With Amazon Connect, contact center agents can either use the Contact Control Panel (CCP) soft phone or send calls to a desk phone (a PSTN or mobile number) when answering calls. Sending a call to the desk phone is considered an outbound call from Amazon Connect and comes with additional cost.  If there are a […]