Posts Tagged ‘Amazon Connect’

Amazon announced several new and exciting features for Amazon Connect in Q4 2017. They’ve added support for contact flow import and export, contact flow logging, the Login/ Logout report, agent event streams, etc. In this video, I show you how to enable the new contact flow logging feature, find a specific customer interaction and read […]

Companies providing customer care often require multiple supporting IT systems to achieve the high standards they strive for. This implies usage of telephony services, contact center platforms, CRM and WFM solutions, etc. Using 5 – 10 separate solutions to handle a single client interaction may become confusing and time-consuming for agents. How many times a […]

One of Amazon Connect’s strengths is the ability to use Amazon Lambda in contact flows to access other AWS services and external systems. Some common use cases are looking up accounts in an external CRM, storing contact data in Amazon DynamoDB or sending emails using Amazon SES or Amazon SNS. To keep contact flows responsive, […]

When configuring the call center experience administrators should keep in mind that long wait times will invariably lead to dropped calls and frustrated customers. An easy way to make sure your callers don’t have to wait on hold for a long time when no agents are available is to make use of the callback feature. […]

In this blog post, we process data collected through a self-service Amazon Connect Contact flow and deliver results in an email. My previous article shows how to configure Amazon Connect and Amazon Lex to create a Self-service Contact Center experience. Assuming the first part is done, it is time to process the data using a Lambda function. As the […]

Within Amazon Connect we can build engaging contact flows that use Amazon Polly to prompt callers with text to speech utterances. Amazon Polly produces natural sounding speech using deep learning technologies. This is not your old-school and often cringe worthy “robot” voice. With that said, let’s look at a few scenarios where we can delight […]

Quick post here to describe the various JavaScript libraries that you may run into doing custom Amazon Connect development. Lily CCP When you load the Amazon Connect Contact Control Panel (CCP), it loads a JavaScript library called Lily CCP that contains all the code needed to work with the Amazon Connect CTI Web Service and […]

In a previous post on the connect-rtc.js library for Amazon Connect (https://blogs.perficient.com/integrate/2017/10/26/implementing-a-mute-button-in-amazon-connect/), I mentioned that this library needs the “softphone media info” from the Streams API to be able to establish a WebRTC call between the agent and the caller. Let’s take a look at what this softphone media info is and why connect-rtc.js needs […]

When your agents are handling calls in Amazon Connect and need a quick break to look something up for the caller or tell “Disco” Dan to turn the music down in the next cube over, the agents can put the call on hold using the Contact Control Panel (CCP). The caller hears some music from […]

In this blog post we show you how to integrate Amazon Connect with Amazon Lex to provide a self-service call center experience. Amazon Connect is a cloud-based contact center solution, very quick to deploy, configure and simple to use. The following 80-second recording illustrates a call to an Internal Help desk, to automatically open a service ticket […]

Depending on the use case call centers can rely on very different KPI’s for reporting. What can be a key metric for an inbound call center often turns out to be merely a nice-to-have if the call center focuses on quick outbound calls. In the end probably the most important reporting feature for a call […]

Welcome back! This is second part of an introduction to the Amazon Connect Streams API. The first post is at:  https://blogs.perficient.com/integrate/2017/10/05/intro-to-amazon-connect-streams-api-part-1/ Source code from this post is on GitHub at: https://github.com/phmiller/streams-examples Source code and documentation for Streams is on GitHub: https://github.com/aws/amazon-connect-streams   2. Subscribing to Streams Events You can see the full code for this […]