Posts Tagged ‘Amazon Connect’

The AWS Summit took place in Toronto on Thursday, October 3rd. AWS Summits are generally free to attend and take place in many different cities around the world. Positioned as a learning conference, they’re a fantastic way to connect with other people in the AWS world, learn about upcoming releases, chat with vendors, and more. […]

A common scenario for a customer calling into a call center is for a customer wishing to change their delivery time or date. Using AWS Services, it’s possible to automate this, reducing wait time and the cost of having a person look up dates and relay these to a customer. In this tech tutorial we’ll […]

Previously, I outlined roles and responsibilities necessary for optimal support of a cloud-based contact center. This blog explores the added benefits many organizations gain when choosing a managed service provider to assist in fulfilling these roles. Upgrading from an on premise solution to a cloud-based contact center comes with a wide range of optimizations. Cloud-based […]

Introduction to SSML tags – what are they? We’ve all had that experience of phoning into a contact center and hearing a robotic, impersonal voice on the other end. SSML (which stands for ‘synthesized speech mark-up language’) tags can be added into your Amazon Connect Contact flows to customize your speech prompts, adding a more […]

In the past, call centers worked like this: A customer with an issue would phone into a support line, never knowing how long they’d be on hold for. It could take multiple calls to resolve the issue, creating a less-than-ideal experience for the caller. In today’s digital-first world, the traditional call center is undergoing a […]

Last week, our content center team partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide a comprehensive Amazon Connect Immersion Day for users in Kansas City. Taking You from “What If” to “What Now” The Amazon Connect Immersion Day events empower organizations to unleash the full potential of their AWS services. The goal of the event […]

We’ve previously detailed the steps necessary to build a holiday calendar  and looked at how we can easily upload all your holidays at once. However, so far we’ve only worked with JSON, which is an easy to understand format for Node.js, but not necessarily the most intuitive for a human reader. To avoid making mistakes […]

We’ve looked before at the steps necessary to build a holiday calendar in DynamoDB. One of the advantages of keeping all your closure times tracked in a database is that you can easily update when the call center should be available, modify the closure reasons or add a new holiday with minimum effort and no […]

What is a “dynamic” configuration? Amazon Connect contact flow editor allows you to configure IVR settings easily through a graphical interface. Dynamic configuration comes in handy for more complex use cases. That way, it’s possible to manage the setup through a central place, usually a database. A good example of that is international contact flows. […]

Amazon is continuing to release new features for Amazon Connect at a rapid clip. In this blog post I will take a deeper look at a new change to the contact flow configuration page that can make integrating with Lambda significantly easier. I will also detail some of the downsides you should be aware of […]

In a previous blog post we looked at the steps necessary to set up a custom agent console. We walked through uploading a page to S3 and configuring a CloudFront distribution which can be whitelisted and then used with Amazon Connect. To keep things simple we didn’t dive into CloudFront settings, many of which can […]

Amazon Connect provides basic outbound calling capabilities out-of-the-box. The Outbound Contact API is an extension of that functionality that allows for more flexibility with automating outbound calling. You can implement click-to-dial from the web, based on a voice notification, a scheduled payment reminder, a scheduled post-work survey, etc. For more information, please see the official […]