Amazon Connect is a simple to use, self-service, cloud-based customer contact center service. You can set up an Amazon Connect contact center in minutes and then easily configure the service using a self-service graphical interface to design contact flows, manage your agents, and track performance metrics.
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Get started with Amazon Connect for freeReceive twelve months of access to the AWS Free Tier and enjoy 90 minutes of Amazon Connect usage, a direct inward dial (DID) number and a toll-free number, 30 minutes of inbound DID calls, 30 minutes of inbound toll-free calls and 30 minutes of outbound calls per month for one year.
To minimize wait times and ensure an end customer gets the answer they need, it is important to route them to the right agent. With skills-based routing, Amazon Connect ensures contacts are sent to the right agent based on their availability and appropriate skill set to efficiently resolve the issue.
Sound quality in a call impacts productivity and can lead to wasted time and frustrated end customers. With Amazon Connect, calls are made over the Internet from a computing device like a PC, using the Amazon Connect softphone. The Amazon Connect softphone delivers high-quality sound, is resistant to packet loss, and provides 16Khz audio to ensure a high quality call experience. Amazon Connect also comes with integrated call recording for agent performance assessment.
Operational efficiency for a contact center is driven by factors like the number of calls taken per month, average time on hold, the number of calls in the queue at one time, and more. Amazon Connect provides customizable real-time and historical metrics, so your contact center manager can make data-driven decisions to increase agent productivity and reduce customer wait times. Historical metrics can also provide longer-term insights to identify common trends with customer issues and overall operational performance.
Amazon Connect comes with pre-built integrations to popular Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems. There is also an API that can be used to build custom integrations. You can use Amazon Connect with Workforce Management (WFM) suites for agent performance tracking, staffing forecasting and management. Amazon Connect also works with other AWS services like Amazon S3 and Amazon Kinesis for storing recorded calls or streaming detailed contact records in real-time to a data warehouse to merge with business intelligence systems for further analysis.
As a non-technical user, you can easily create customer interactions, or “contact flows”, using the Contact Flow Engine – accessed via the graphical interface. You can identify information such as past purchases, contact history, and customer tendencies, which can be used to anticipate end-customer needs and deliver answers to questions before they are even asked.
You can build natural language contact flows using Amazon Lex, an AI service that has the same automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology and natural language understanding (NLU) that powers Amazon Alexa.
