AWS Architecture Blog
Category: Amazon Connect
Channel deflection from voice to chat using Amazon Connect
This post was co-written with Sagar Bedmutha, senior solutions architect at Tata Consultancy Services, and Rajiya Patan, AWS developer at Tata Consultancy Services Service excellence helps cultivate customer satisfaction and brand loyalty. According to Gartner, one service excellence challenge is long wait times on interactive voice response (IVR) systems. Long wait times can translate into […]
Automating adverse events reporting for pharma with Amazon Connect and Amazon Lex
Every pharmaceutical company manufacturing medicine must provide customers nationwide with a method to report adverse events following medicine usage as well as emergency assistance as needed. To comply with regulatory policy and enable an Adverse Events Reporting System (AERS), pharma companies must provide dedicated, toll-free phone numbers and contact center agents to handle inbound calls. […]
Integrating Salesforce with AWS DynamoDB using Amazon AppFlow bi-directionally
In this blog post, we demonstrate how to integrate Salesforce Lightning with Amazon DynamoDB by using Amazon AppFlow and Amazon EventBridge services bi-directionally. This is an event-driven, serverless-based microservice, allowing Salesforce users to update configuration data stored in DynamoDB tables without giving AWS account access from AWS Command Line Interface or AWS Management Console. This […]
How ERGO built an on-call support solution in a week
ERGO’s Technology & Services S.A. (ET&S) Cloud Solutions Department is a specialist team of cloud engineers who provide technical support for business owners, project managers, and engineering leads. The support team deals with complex issues, such as failed deployments, security vulnerabilities, environment availability, etc. When an issue arises, it’s categorized as Priority 1 (P1) or […]
Serverless architecture for optimizing Amazon Connect call-recording archival costs
In this post, we provide a serverless solution to cost-optimize the storage of contact-center call recordings. The solution automates the scheduling, storage-tiering, and resampling of call-recording files, resulting in immediate cost savings. The solution is an asynchronous architecture built using AWS Step Functions, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), and AWS Lambda. Amazon Connect provides an […]
Automate Amazon Connect Data Streaming using AWS CDK
Many customers want to provision Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud resources quickly and consistently with lifecycle management, by treating infrastructure as code (IaC). Commonly used services are AWS CloudFormation and HashiCorp Terraform. Currently, customers set up Amazon Connect data streaming manually, as the service is not available under CloudFormation resource types. Customers may want to […]
Enhance Your Contact Center Solution with Automated Voice Authentication and Visual IVR
Recently, the Accenture AWS Business Group (AABG) assisted a customer in developing a secure and personalized Interactive Voice Response (IVR) contact center experience that receives and processes payments and responds to customer inquiries. Our solution uses Amazon Connect at its core to help customers efficiently engage with customer service agents. To ensure transactions are completed […]
Field Notes: Build Dynamic IVR Menus with Amazon Connect and AWS Lambda
This post was co-written by Marius Cealera, Senior Partner Solutions Architect at AWS, and Zdenko Estok, Cloud Architect and DevOps Engineer at Accenture. Modern interactive voice response (IVR) systems help customers find answers to their questions through a series of menus, usually relying on the customer to filter and select the right options. Adding more […]
Integrating Amazon Connect and Amazon Lex with Third-party Systems
AWS customers who provide software solutions that integrate with AWS often require design patterns that offer some flexibility. They must build, support, and expand products and solutions to meet their end user business requirements. These design patterns must use the underlying services and infrastructure through API operations. As we will show, third-party solutions can integrate […]
NLX is Helping Travelers Amid Disruption with AI-Powered Automation
This post was co-written by Andrei Papancea and Vlad Papancea of NLX and Sekhar Mallipeddi Travel impacts brought by the global pandemic left several airlines experiencing frequent flight disruptions, which increased flight scheduling change notifications being made to affected travelers. Every month, tens of thousands of passengers and related flight crew have to be contacted […]