Posts Tagged ‘amazon’

In my prior post, A Short Experiment with the Amazon Connect User API, I created an Express web application to explore using the Amazon Connect User API. Since then, Amazon has released new API methods for updating contact attributes and viewing queue metrics. In this post, I update the Express app to demo these new methods. […]

At the end of July, Amazon introduced the User Management API to Amazon Connect. The User API opens the door for customers and partners to start scripting user setup and maintenance actions, create custom user management applications and modify user data from Lambda functions. For this post, I took a few hours to code up […]

Amazon Connect Streams API (Streams) allows developers to create custom agent experiences for Amazon Connect. The code for Streams is hosted in GitHub and open for community contributions in the form of pull requests. This is the fourth installment of my running series covering changes to the Streams API. Prior installments can be found here: […]

Amazon Connect Streams API (Streams) allows developers to create custom agent experiences for Amazon Connect. The code for Streams is hosted in Github and open for community contributions in the form of pull requests. This is the third installment of my running series covering changes to the Streams API. Prior installments can be found here: […]

Last week Amazon announced the release of a new node for Amazon Connect: Get Metrics. It is available from the Set menu in regular contact flows, customer queue, hold and even whisper flows and allows us to dynamically query queue data. While the Check Queue Status node (available under the Branch menu in some contact […]

On March 30, 2018, Amazon announced the general availability of Amazon Connect federated single sign-on using SAML 2.0, stating, “You can enable federated access and controls via any SAML 2.0 compliant identity provider, such as Microsoft Active Directory Services, Okta, Ping Identity, and Shibboleth. Once this is done, agents and managers can sign in to […]

In my last post, I reviewed the recent changes (approved pull requests) to the Amazon Connect Streams API (Streams). In this post, I’m taking a look at the open pull requests, i.e., changes suggested by Amazon and community members. As of June 1, 2018, there are four open pull requests: PR #21: Corrects the name […]

Amazon Connect Streams API (Streams) allows developers to create custom agent experiences for Amazon Connect. Since my introductory posts back in late 2017 there have been several changes to Streams, some from the community, some directly from Amazon. These changes are managed as pull requests. This post will review approved pull requests from November 2017 […]

I was reading an article about “Amazon using its MultiDimensional Datasets”. The news never gets old to me that Amazon Retail leveraging its Big Data Ecosystem to access 1,000,000,000 GB of data on more than 1,400,000 servers to increase sales through predictive analytics does personalized recommendations, price optimization, and anticipatory predictions on what the customer […]

A look at how one of the nation’s largest video, high-speed internet, and phone providers came to be shows just how far the communications (i.e., cable, satellite, telecommunications) sector has come. After all, the rich histories and legacies of many companies have made the industry what it is today. Brian Roberts, chairman and CEO of […]

CloudFormation is a tool from Amazon used to automate the deployment of AWS services. In this post, we’ll cover some tips and tricks for using CloudFormation to automate deploying Amazon Lambda functions for Amazon Connect. This automation is repeatable, testable and far less error prone than asking a person to do it all by hand. […]

Online retailers around the world agree that shopping cart abandonment is a big problem. An average of nearly 75% of shopping carts were abandoned in the United States during Cyber Week last year, according to eMarketer. Cart abandonment factors such as indecision and wanting to shop around more are leading consumers to walk away during […]