Posts Tagged ‘AWS’

Intro This week, Amazon released Chat for Amazon Connect. It’s very exciting to see Amazon Connect now natively supports omnichannel capabilities. Our team was thrilled to try out the new functionality and are we happy to share it with you! We’ve created a series of blog posts to help you adopt chat: Create a simple […]

Yesterday, Amazon announced their newest feature: web and mobile chat for Amazon Connect. This functionality allows your customers to start a chat with an agent or Amazon Lex bot, step away from it, and resume it up to 24 hours later. It’s an asynchronous interaction and your customers can even switch devices and continue the […]

As a member of the Amazon Web Services Partner Network, Perficient combines cloud expertise with the power of AWS to enable quick access to innovative technologies. Clients can spend more time on their core business competencies and less time worrying about the technology behind it. A product within the Amazon Web Services platform, Amazon Connect creates powerful customer service […]

The following is the seventh blog in a series about why businesses are moving to the cloud to modernize and improve business performance. In our last blog in this series, we examined how security improves with cloud. In this blog, we will look at how cloud enhances disaster recovery (DR) practices and provides a better […]

Released in 2017, Amazon Connect makes building a contact center easy and affordable. In this video demo you will learn: What AWS and Amazon Connect are The benefits of using Amazon Connect for your contact center How to set up a basic inbound contact center Watch the video below: For more information on how Perficient […]

Cloud offers undeniable benefits when it comes to building cost-effective agile solutions. Enterprise-wide pushes to modernize application stacks have added fuel to cloud migration initiatives. As more and more monoliths are decomposed and redesigned using a distributed microservices architecture, the large portfolio of cloud-native services makes developing and deploying in the cloud faster and economical. […]

As a member of the Amazon Web Services Partner Network, Perficient combines cloud expertise with the power of AWS to enable quick access to innovative technologies. Clients can spend more time on their core business competencies and less time worrying about the technology behind it. A product within the Amazon Web Services platform, Amazon Connect […]

As a member of the Amazon Web Services Partner Network, Perficient combines cloud expertise with the power of AWS to enable quick access to innovative technologies. This allows our clients to spend more time on their core business competencies and less time worrying about the technology behind it. A product within the Amazon Web Services […]

Migrating or changing any platform to a new type of software comes with its own set of unique challenges and contact centers are no different. Having worked with a number of clients to successfully implement or migrate to Amazon Connect’s cloud-based, pay-as-you-go technology contact center technology, we’re faced with a lot of questions. Here are […]

The following is the fifth blog in a series about why businesses are moving to the cloud to modernize and improve business performance. Thus far in this series, we’ve examined the state of cloud and how cloud enables innovation, including with a case study in cloud automation, with speed and agility. In this blog, we’ll […]

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 […]

Objective Automatic installation and configuration solutions for WordPress, Drupal, and Magento applications using AWS CloudFormation infrastructure orchestration and content management tools like Puppet, Ansible, or Chef. The infrastructure as code (IaC) solution should follow architecture best practices such as setting up the database in a private segment, secure authentication, and provisioning. It should also have […]

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 […]

The following is the fourth blog in a series about software containers and Kubernetes, and their importance in modern application delivery. In our last blog in this series, we examined the importance of utiziling a container management platform. In this blog, we’ll go further in depth on the multiple options you have when adopting 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 […]

I hate looking for clothes to wear, especially if I’m in a hurry.  Sometimes life gets crazy and my favorite shirt may still be in the dryer, or I can’t find the match to a sock I already have in my hand.   Something easy can turn into a chore very quickly when things aren’t organized. […]

In 2016, when I did my first in-depth comparison, the resulting TCOs were usually very close. Usually, the OpEx was slightly higher for the cloud TCO versus the on-prem TCO required substantial capital investment. However, our most recent estimate was eye-opening to our client.  We were assessing a green-field implementation for a Data Warehouse at […]

Nowadays mostly everyone probably knows what Amazon Web Services (AWS) is, right? AWS is a secure cloud services platform offering compute power, database storage, content delivery, and other platform services such as infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, and software as a service functionalities to help fulfill business needs. AWS itself provides a […]

What is Kubernetes? In simple words, it is an open source tool for managing high-scale containerized environments, deployments, auto scaling, etc. It was originally created by Google engineers to manage their billions of application containers and auto-deployment processes. After a while, it was given to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), part of the Linux […]