Tag: Customer Engagement

Picture a summer thunderstorm in July that grounds flights across a major hub. Hundreds of travelers are stranded overnight. At most hotels, the calls start coming in. People wait on hold to extend a stay, move a checkout, or rebook a room they can no longer reach in time. Lily doesn’t call. The hotel texts […]

You’re on vacation and your card gets declined. You’re at dinner with your family in a country you’ve never been to, staring at a bill you can’t pay. You’re wondering if it will work for the cab ride home. No text comes through, no notification, no call. You call your bank. The IVR asks how […]

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 […]

Introduction Contact center administrators face a persistent challenge: efficiently testing and validating contact flows without disrupting live operations. Traditional approaches—manually calling systems, building custom validation tools, or investing in third-party solutions—are time-consuming and expensive. Large enterprises often allocate significant annual budgets to automated testing tools alone, while manual validation can require days or weeks of […]

Introduction Smartphones have become the standard method of communication for consumers, with an estimated 6.8 billion users worldwide in 2023. The World Health Organization reported an estimated 1.3 billion people living with a disability. A portion of this population may not be able to use smartphones easily in their daily lives. This results in the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]