AWS Contact Center

Category: Customer Solutions

Integrate your AI-powered IVR-IVA for seamless customer interactions with Amazon Connect

Integrate your AI-powered IVR/IVA for seamless customer interactions with Amazon Connect

Introduction If your business has a contact center, you may be looking to leverage the power of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance user experience and agent productivity. Features such as agent assist or intelligent bots have been gaining traction as a result of this push towards contact center AI-assisted modernization. Many of our customers […]

Standard Bank optimizes operational efficiency with Amazon Connect

Standard Bank optimizes operational efficiency with Amazon Connect

Standard Bank is one of the largest banks in Africa, with over 50,000 employees serving more than 18 million customers across 20 countries. Founded in 1862, the bank has grown to be a leading financial services organization, providing personal and business banking, wealth management, advisory services, and more. Standard Bank’s contact center operations underpin its customer […]

Scale and optimize staffing based on performance objectives in Amazon Connect (part 3)

Scale and optimize staffing based on performance objectives in Amazon Connect (part 3)

Contact centers have performance objectives (service levels, agent occupancy, average speed to answer) to ensure a high-quality of customer service. The methods 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. Part 1 of […]

Real-time data export of Amazon Connect Customer Profiles to Salesforce using Amazon Kinesis

Real-time data export of Amazon Connect Customer Profiles to Salesforce using Amazon Kinesis

Introduction Amazon Connect Customer Profiles helps companies deliver faster and personalized customer service in contact centers. This is achieved by providing agents and automated experiences (e.g., IVR) instant access to customer information without the latency and costs of integrating data from multiple systems (SaaS apps, databases, etc). Companies can bring data from over eighty application […]

Event based outbound campaigns with Amazon Connect

Organizations use contact centers to answer inbound calls and initiate outbound communication to their customers. Use cases for outbound communications include appointment reminders, telemarketing, subscription renewals, billing reminders, and follow-up calls. Customer preferences determine the communication channel (voice, messaging, or email) used in outbound campaigns. Contact center managers often use different applications for each channel […]

Provide WhatsApp messaging as a channel with Amazon Connect

EDITOR NOTE: This blog is an example starter project designed to provide a demonstration and basis for builders to create their own solutions. It should not be considered Production-ready. If you plan to deploy and use this in a Production environment please review Using this in Production for additional guidance. If you need additional support […]

Web application for managing Amazon Connect contact center custom prompts

Introduction Amazon Connect contact center allows you to create dynamic voice prompt playback using Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). All the custom prompts are stored as audio files on Amazon S3. As the number of files increase, it becomes challenging to manage these files and audit changes. Business users would need access to AWS Management […]

Redacting sensitive data in the chat message streaming API for Amazon Connect

Introduction Organizations today strive to provide increasingly personalized customer journeys. For example, up-selling new products based on history of interest in related products. Data collection drives the ability for businesses to personalize – data is valuable and the more collected, the more impact a personalized experience can have. Businesses must be able however to balance […]

Combine data from multiple sources using Amazon AppFlow and build unified Amazon Connect Customer Profile for contact center agents

Introduction A prior understanding of customers’ journey and their engagement with a business is essential for contact center agents to deliver personalized customer service experience. Businesses want to improve their customer satisfaction scores (CSAT). To do so, they need to equip their agents and automated experiences with information about customers, e.g., previous transactions and call […]

Click to Call in Amazon Connect

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 […]