Posts Tagged ‘amazon’

One of the most powerful features available within Amazon Connect is the visual contact flow editor. Within Amazon Connect contact flows are not just used for interactive menus, they allow supervisors to dynamically update the settings for each call entering the system and make sure callers hear personalized and relevant options. This is an area […]

Austin Carr just published “The Future of Retail in the Age of Amazon,” in Fast Company on the 24th of November. In it, he outlines four key takeaways for how successful retailers are innovating and evolving to remain competitive with their brick-and-mortar experiences. “Retail is under huge pressure, but the death of stores is greatly […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Amazon Connect Streams (Streams) is a JavaScript API that enables browser-based integrations with the Amazon Connect contact center. This series of blog posts covers three basic scenarios using Streams: Embedding the Contact Control Panel (Part 1) Subscribing to Streams Events (Part 2) Creating a Custom User Experience (Part 2) Source code from this post is […]

Amazon Connect integrates with CloudWatch to provide monitoring capabilities for various contact center metrics.  Here is an article providing more details: Monitoring Cloudwatch In this blog post we add more details on some contact center metrics that are not yet documented, and how to trigger them. As noted in the article, Amazon Connect integrates with CloudWatch […]

These are challenging times for brick and mortar retailers. With malls struggling and bankruptcy victims piling up, where do retailers turn? Nine months into the year and just a few months out from Christmas, these are the stores that have filed for Chapter 11 so far: The Limited (January 17) Wet Seal (February 2) Eastern […]

Amazon Connect makes use of queue specific hours of operations to route callers based on the time and day of the week.  It’s an excellent feature to use for any call center that has regular operation hours or dedicated shifts. However, a preconfigured calendar doesn’t work very well for unpredictable events. In case your supervisors […]