Tag: Amazon Connect

Introduction For NatWest Group, one of the UK’s largest banks, delivering consistent customer experience consistently is both a business priority and a regulatory requirement. Maintaining uninterrupted service across customer experience operations is fundamental to the bank’s ability to meet its business continuity and disaster recovery obligations. NatWest originally deployed its customer experience platform on Amazon […]

Introduction Siemens Global Business Services (GBS) provides shared services and business process support across more than 80 countries, handling finance, procurement, HR, sales operations, and digital services for all Siemens business units. Their inbound contact operations manage a wide range of topics — from order and delivery management to employee lifecycle queries and technical support […]

Organizations across industries struggle with labor-intensive verification and data collection processes that require manual follow-ups, phone calls, and email exchanges. These workflows consume time and resources, often taking days to complete verification tasks while generating high operational costs. Manual processes involve multiple touchpoints, repeated attempts to reach contacts, and documentation requirements that create operational bottlenecks […]

If you are running outbound campaigns or making manual outbound calls, agent time can be occupied leaving standard or customised messages on calls answered by voicemail systems. This presents two challenges that impact contact center operations: Loss in Agent Productivity – when agents must wait for voicemail systems to complete their greetings and manually leave […]

Introduction Modern contact centers face a persistent challenge: traditional callback systems force a tradeoff between customer convenience and agent efficiency. When agents are reserved for scheduled callbacks, they sit idle waiting, and when customers don’t answer, that capacity is simply wasted. Amazon Connect Customer now natively supports customer first callback architecture that eliminates this tradeoff. […]

We’re Willing to Be Misunderstood  At Amazon, one of our leadership principles is Customer Obsession and sometimes that means making decisions that feel counterintuitive in the short term but deliver exponential value over time. We’re willing to be misunderstood for long periods if it means building the right foundation for our customers’ future. If you’re […]

1. Introduction When you manage a contact center schedule, you face a recurring challenge: fitting non-phone activities (coaching sessions, team meetings, training blocks, and one-on-one reviews) into agent schedules without degrading service levels. These activities support agent development, compliance, and operational goals, but every minute an agent spends in a coaching session is a minute […]

Maintaining compliant calling operations to China (country code +86) presents significant challenges for global businesses as telecommunications regulations continue to evolve. If your organization relies on Amazon Connect Customer for customer communications to Chinese destinations, understanding and implementing compliance best practices helps you avoid service disruptions and protect your customer relationships. A global travel services […]

Introduction When you publish a contact center schedule, you assume the people it affects will see it. In practice, that assumption creates operational risk. Agents miss shifts, arrive late to training sessions, or create unplanned coverage gaps because a schedule change was communicated through a bulk email or a channel post that never surfaced in […]

1. Introduction Amazon Connect supports voice/video and chat as separate channels, each with its own APIs. Using native or custom widgets, these channels operate independently. This works for most contact center scenarios. But what happens when a customer and an agent need more than just talking and seeing each other? For example, a customer calls […]