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Getting started with ML-powered Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling

Contact centers represent one of the most important touch points for businesses to resolve customer issues. When customers need assistance, it is critical for contact centers to have the right agents available to provide a positive customer experience. Ensuring the right agents are staffed at the right time requires contact center managers to consider an […]

Build a multi-region resilient contact center with Amazon Connect global resiliency

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 […]

Your guide to Amazon Connect at re:Invent 2022

Amazon Connect has an amazing lineup at re:Invent this year, with over 30 sessions spanning Business Applications, Industry, and Partner tracks! With new launches, leadership sessions, breakouts, workshops, and an in-person customer reception, there will be something to do for everyone. Here is a guide to help you build your agenda and get the most […]

Caller Scheduled Callback in Amazon Connect

Introduction Contact center managers are always looking for ways to reduce the time callers spend in a queue waiting for available agents. Providing a callback option significantly improves the customer experience and optimizes the operational costs of your contact center. Callback capabilities are offered natively with Amazon Connect. Callers leave their phone number so the […]

Amazon Connect adds new capabilities to improve contact center productivity and customer experiences

Amazon Connect Cases (Available in GA) Amazon Connect Cases is a new case management feature built into Amazon Connect that makes it easy for contact center agents to track, collaborate on, and resolve customer cases quickly. Case management is an essential aspect of customer service operations that enables contact center agents to reduce resolution time […]

Analyze Amazon Connect Chatbot performance using Contact Trace Record, Amazon Lex logs, Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight – Part 4

Note: This is the fourth blog in the Amazon Connect reporting blog series. If you haven’t read “Analyze Amazon Connect Contact Trace Record with Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight–Part 1”, we strongly recommend you do before proceeding further. Introduction Many organizations want the ability to generate chatbot performance reports for their digital customer experience offering. […]

Three signature Amazon Connect moments from 2021

At the outset of 2021, businesses and customers looked forward to returning to ‘normal’ business operations and customer interactions. For contact center leaders, anticipating and responding to ever-changing customer needs remains a top business priority. Along with continuous change, continuous innovation has also become the norm – thanks in a big way to cloud-driven digital […]

Create action item reminders with Amazon Connect Tasks and Contact Lens for Amazon Connect

Contact center agents are frequently asked to document customer conversations by logging the interaction reason (or the issue), the outcome of the call, and in many cases, and follow-up action items. The data collection is essential for tracking the customer satisfaction and agent performance, but it takes a toll on the agent average handling time […]

Ingesting content to power real-time recommendations and search with Amazon Connect Wisdom

Contact center agents often encounter questions from customers that require them to reference knowledge documents such as frequently asked questions (FAQs), wikis, product manuals, and how-to guides. Many contact centers use knowledge management systems and document repositories that are siloed and not well-integrated with the applications that contact center agents use when interacting with customers. […]

Programmatically manage contact flows with new Amazon Connect APIs

Amazon Connect, an easy to use contact center service, allows contact center managers to build contact flows in a single user interface. Typically, contact centers have more than one contact flow that serve a number of different purposes. However, there are often cases in which certain aspects of one contact flow must be replicated in […]