Category: Technical How-to

In many contact centers, a large amount of invaluable communication resides in chat interactions that can dictate the image of an organization. Deriving conversational analytics from these chat interactions can help identify crucial product feedback, improve agent enablement, and boost overall customer experience for a business. Contact Lens for Amazon Connect recently announced general availability […]

Overview Businesses and enterprises that offer customer service are often required to support their customers 24/7. This makes it possible for businesses to handle urgent and important calls, and provides customers the option to call in at their convenience.  When support services aren’t available or they fall offline, businesses are at risk of customers getting disconnected, or […]

Introduction Customers expect multiple channel options when contacting customer service departments. Amazon Alexa smart speakers have become increasingly popular in households globally. Contact center innovators can exceed customer expectations by enabling Alexa as an additional channel with Amazon Connect. Adding Alexa as a channel will provide customers with additional choice and convenience, resulting in a […]

Introduction Amazon Connect Cases allows your agents to track and manage customer issues that require multiple interactions, follow-up tasks, and teams in your contact center. As an organization, it becomes important to define performance metrics for resolving cases and identifying any bottlenecks. Amazon Connect supports Cases events streams which provide you with near real-time updates […]

Introduction Organizations today strive to provide increasingly personalized customer journeys. For example, up-selling new products based on history of interest in related products. Data collection drives the ability for businesses to personalize – data is valuable and the more collected, the more impact a personalized experience can have. Businesses must be able however to balance […]

Single sign-on (SSO) enables users to access multiple applications securely via a single ID and password. This reduces the headache of remembering multiple username and passwords for users in an organization. Contact Centers are no different and the ability to utilize SSO for contact center applications is a common requirement. Amazon Connect support’s identity federation […]

Introduction A prior understanding of customers’ journey and their engagement with a business is essential for contact center agents to deliver personalized customer service experience. Businesses want to improve their customer satisfaction scores (CSAT). To do so, they need to equip their agents and automated experiences with information about customers, e.g., previous transactions and call […]

Today’s end-user expects speedy and personalized customer service and does not wish to spend time waiting on a call while an agent is searching for information about the case. When customer service agents need access to information to assist a customer, they lose time trying to navigate various data sources in silos: frequently asked questions, […]

Missed appointments result in thousands of dollars in lost revenue per year across industries. No shows waste precious time for subject matter experts waiting for customers. Some businesses manually remind their customers before the appointments; however, this is inefficient, not scalable, and costs productivity and money. An agentless outbound dialing campaign for appointment reminders is […]

Customers can try to find answers on company websites or mobile app before contacting customer service. Customer experience executives have struggled to carry that web or mobile click-stream behavior and context into the contact center interaction. The idea of creating a continuation of customer journey from web/mobile into the contact center for personalization, automation, and […]