AWS Contact Center

Amazon Connect, our cloud contact center on demand, allows playing prompts uploaded to the Amazon Connect instance, or playing dynamic TTS prompts (Text to Speech) using Amazon Polly. This works well for the majority of customers; however, some need to use prompts without going through the Amazon Connect admin user interface for various reasons. For […]

Agent experience is a crucial aspect of contact centers and their interactions with end consumers define the customer experience of a business. In such a scenario, providing agents the right tools and information in a timely fashion is key to ensuring first call resolution, decreased average handling times and increased customer satisfaction score. Call sentiment […]

When managing your contact center, call quality has a significant impact on the customer experience. If your agents take calls on Amazon Connect using the softphone over the internet, the audio quality is typically high. However, changes in networking conditions can result in varying audio quality from factors such as increased latency or packet loss.

By capturing and storing real-time call metrics, you can proactively monitor call quality. In this blog, we describe a solution which captures real-time metrics from the Amazon Connect softphone, creates easily understandable dashboards from the metrics, and makes this data searchable for further analysis.

The dashboards give your contact center supervisors and operators insights into the customer experience from both a business and operational lens. They can help you answer questions like how many calls are abnormally short, how many calls experience poor audio quality, and other common operational questions. This allows your business to take actions to improve the customer experience.

Contact centers represent one of the most important touch points for businesses to resolve customer issues. When customers need assistance, it is critical for contact centers to have the right agents available to provide a positive customer experience. Ensuring the right agents are staffed at the right time requires contact center managers to consider an […]

Introduction Many organizations want the capability to perform analytics on the contact center data for an extended period and build custom reports for different business needs. Since Amazon Connect is an open platform and offers APIs and mechanisms to integrate with third party reporting application, organizations can stream CTRs to Amazon Kinesis for extended retention […]

Amazon Connect customers can configure click-to-dial functionality on their website using the StartOutboundVoiceContact API. This enables agents to reach out to callers located in a much wider global area, without requiring Amazon Connect customers to provision numbers in several regions. This provides a frictionless experience where customers provide a phone number and Amazon Connect initiates […]

Today, contact centers managers that are adopting Amazon Connect also have to migrate their existing business applications such as Contact Center Intelligence, Chat, Outbound Communications, and more to Amazon Connect. Additionally, if a contact center was using biometrics previously, contact center managers must re-enable that functionality on Amazon Connect using Voice ID to avoid any […]

In some scenarios, Amazon Connect agents may need to look up nearby point of interests quickly to assist their end customers. For example, in a car accident, the driver of the car might call into the auto insurance company for assistance and request contact information for a nearby repair shop or car rental company. This […]

At the outset of 2021, businesses and customers looked forward to returning to ‘normal’ business operations and customer interactions. For contact center leaders, anticipating and responding to ever-changing customer needs remains a top business priority. Along with continuous change, continuous innovation has also become the norm – thanks in a big way to cloud-driven digital […]

Contact centers face a challenge of having to constantly improve on the contact center experience based on customer feedback. In order to so, it is important that contact centers collect reliable and measurable data. Contact centers can implement post chat customer satisfaction surveys that allow for actionable feedback on user experience and agent performance. Customer […]