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Tag: Amazon Pinpoint

Using SMS to accept alphanumeric entry for voice calls with Amazon Connect

Organizations are increasingly using speech recognition to create powerful conversational interfaces in the contact center, enabling self-service, user identification, and caller authentication based on users’ spoken natural language. These capabilities create delightful experiences for the user and improve containment rates and customer satisfaction scores. Oftentimes, in order to authenticate callers, organizations typically must collect alphanumeric […]

Automate appointment reminders using Amazon Pinpoint and Amazon Connect

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 […]

Creating a Secure Emergency Outage Message in Amazon Connect

In the contact center space, there is often a need for management to invoke a temporary message that is situationally driven. Common use cases could be weather-related closures, fire alarms, or other facility issues. During these incidents contact center management wants to enable customers to hear up to date information on extended wait times and […]

Create a mobile chat solution with the Amazon Connect mobile SDK

With the growth in smartphone usage, more and more customers are using phones as their primary means of communication. Given people are frequently using apps, customers may prefer to interact with a company via chatting through an app compared to calling customer service. By providing customers with an option to chat directly from an app […]

Using Amazon Pinpoint to send text messages in Amazon Connect

Taking advantage of SMS text capabilities in your contact center provides another medium to improve your customers’ experience. Amazon Pinpoint lets you manage all facets of an SMS/email campaign, and now lets you send text messages from Amazon Connect. The instructions in this post help you enable text messages from your Amazon Connect contact flows […]