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How contact center leaders can evaluate using generative AI for customer experience

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is an area of interest for many businesses. Gartner estimates that by 2024, 40% of enterprise applications will have embedded conversational AI. In 2020, this number was less than 5%. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), our customers are often asking about how they can use generative AI across various business segments. […]

Multiple SAML identity providers for a single Amazon Connect instance

Identity management is a framework of policies and technologies to ensure that the right users have the appropriate access to technology resources. Identity management for an Amazon Connect instance can be configured in one of the three ways: By storing users in Amazon Connect By linking to an existing directory By using SAML 2.0-based authentication […]

How contact center leaders can prepare for generative AI

The widespread interest in generative artificial intelligence (AI) has created a renewed focus on the power of AI to solve for business challenges, especially for customer service. Generative AI is a type of AI that can create new content and ideas, including conversations, stories, images, videos, and music. According to McKinsey, customer experience (CX) is […]

AWS recognized as a Leader in 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service with Amazon Connect

Gartner, a company that delivers actionable, objective insight to executives and their teams, has published the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS). Amazon Web Services (AWS) was named a Leader for the first time since Amazon Connect, our flexible, AI-powered cloud contact center, was launched in 2017. We believe this […]

How to analyze Amazon Connect Voice ID metrics using Amazon CloudWatch

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 » Today, contact centers adopting Amazon Connect Voice ID are seeking insights from aggregated metrics such as number of successful enrollments and authentications over […]

Best practices for Amazon Connect step-by-step guides

Traditionally, contact center agents required several disconnected applications to handle simple customer interactions. For example, this includes: contact control panels, customer profile information, knowledge articles, and wikis. Amazon Connect agent workspace offers a unified experience for contact center agents to access the tools they need to address customer calls effectively. Within the agent workspace, step-by-step […]

Routing contacts based on performance objectives in Amazon Connect: Agent Occupancy (part 2)

Enterprise contact centers have performance objectives (service levels, agent occupancy, average speed to answer) to ensure a high-quality customer service. The methods used to route incoming contacts have a direct influence on these performance metrics. Amazon Connect makes it possible to route contacts based on objectives that are important to the business. Part 1 of this […]

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 […]

Configure granular access controls using resource tags in Amazon Connect

Introduction Organizations today are challenged by an evolving privacy and regulatory landscape, which can vary by geography, industry, or business need. To comply with these privacy regulations, contact center administrators are often required to enforce least-access privileges to sensitive resources used within their contact centers. With the tag-based access controls in Amazon Connect, you can […]

Supervisor barge for voice calls with Amazon Connect

To build a customer centric culture many organizations have altered their efforts to focus on differentiating their customer experiences. Wowing your customers through the contact center will make it easy for your customers to continue to do business, engage, and build loyalty with you. Amazon is excited to announce Supervisor Barge for Amazon Connect Voice […]