Tag: Contact Center

Often, contact center agents need to handle complex issues that require multiple interactions, research, and detailed tracking and notation of next steps and status. For example, IT organizations need to be able to track troubleshooting steps, milestones, actions taken, and results of actions. Case management tools provide a solution that consolidates history of a specific […]

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 […]

Gartner, a company that delivers actionable, objective insight to executives and their teams, has published the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS). Amazon Web Services (AWS) was named a Visionary for the third consecutive year. We believe this placement speaks to the innovative contact center capabilities AWS is offering customers […]

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 […]

Often contact center agents struggle to locate customer information that is stored in disparate locations. As a result they end up asking the customers to repeat their details, resulting in longer average handle times (AHT). These interactions, also need to be tracked along with detailed notes, next steps, and status of the issue at hand. […]

Enterprise contact centers have performance objectives (service levels, agent occupancy, average speed to answer) to deliver a high-quality customer service experience. The strategies 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. This is […]

A contact center solution and a contact center career, on parallel trajectories Today, customer experience (CX) is the fate of the business. In a more virtual world where customers and sellers interact less often in person, the contact center is the CX. The cloud has driven a dual paradigm shift, elevating not only what customers […]

Michael Goligorsky, Sr. Solutions Architect, Amazon Connect As organizations increasingly compete on the basis of great customer experience, contact center performance has become a critical business focus. Contact centers rely on agents to provide great customer service with every interaction. Without productive agents, you risk losing your customers, reputation, and revenue. Given this, it is […]

Several businesses require dynamic management of their contact center’s Toll free or Direct inward dial (DID)  phone numbers. This need may arise because of use cases such as rapid publishing of marketing hotline numbers, or releasing a new line of sales product or even to set up a brand new area of support. Additionally, associating […]