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Shift management using Amazon Pinpoint’s 2-way-SMS

Businesses with physical presence such as retail, restaurants and airlines need reliable solutions for shift management when demand fluctuates, employees call in sick, or other unforeseen circumstances arise. Their linear dependence on staff forces them to create overtime shifts as a way to cope with demand. The overtime shift communication between the business and employees […]

Create a serverless feedback collector application using Amazon Pinpoint’s two-way SMS functionality

Introduction Two-way SMS communication is used by many companies to create interactive engagements with their customers. Traditional SMS notifications are one-way. While this is valid for many different use cases like one-time passwords (OTP) notifications and security notifications or reminders, some other use-cases may benefit from collecting information from the same channel. Two-way SMS allows […]

Send SMS messages at scale using 10DLC and Amazon Pinpoint

This week, we’re adding support for 10DLC phone numbers to Amazon Pinpoint. You can use 10DLC phone numbers to send SMS text messages at scale quickly and affordably. What is 10DLC? The abbreviation 10DLC stands for Ten-Digit Long Code. 10DLC phone numbers are intended specifically for sending Application-to-Person (A2P) messages—that is, messages that are sent […]

Creating a Seamless Handoff Between Amazon Pinpoint and Amazon Connect

Note: This post was written by Ilya Pupko, Senior Consultant for the AWS Digital User Engagement team. Time to read 5 minutes Learning level Intermediate (200) Services used Amazon Pinpoint, Amazon SNS, AWS Lambda, Amazon Lex, Amazon Connect Your customers deserve to have helpful communications with your brand, regardless of the channel that you use […]

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Creating custom Pinpoint dashboards using Amazon QuickSight, part 3

Note: This post was written by Manan Nayar and Aprajita Arora, Software Development Engineers on the AWS Digital User Engagement team. This is the third and final post in our series about creating custom visualizations of your Amazon Pinpoint metrics using Amazon QuickSight. In our first post, we used the Metrics APIs to retrieve specific […]

Learn About Amazon Pinpoint at Upcoming Events Around the World

Connect with the AWS Customer Engagement team at events around the world to learn how our technology can to help you better engage with your customers. Get demos on recent feature releases, discover how you can use Amazon Pinpoint for your specific use case, and attend informative sessions to hear how companies around the world […]

Exciting New Email Features Available Now in Amazon Pinpoint

Yesterday, we launched several exciting new email-related features in Amazon Pinpoint. The biggest of these features is the ability to send transactional emails. Transactional emails are a great way to send one-to-one emails to your customers without creating segments or campaigns first. For example, when a customer makes a purchase in your app, or requests […]

The intersection of Customer Engagement and Data Science

On the Messaging and Targeting team, we’re constantly inspired by the new and novel ways that customers use our services. For example, last year we took an in-depth look at a customer who built a fully featured email marketing platform based on Amazon SES and other AWS Services. This week, our friends on the AWS […]

The End of Google Cloud Messaging, and What it Means for Your Apps

On April 10, 2018, Google announced the deprecation of its Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) platform. Specifically, the GCM server and client APIs are deprecated and will be removed as soon as April 11, 2019.  What does this mean for you and your applications that use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) or Amazon Pinpoint? First, […]