Tag: HAQM Connect

Using data to create dynamic experiences is a great way to enhance the customer journey with HAQM Connect. Sometimes though, managing that data across HAQM Connect contact flows or AWS Lambda functions can require a level of data persistence that can lead to unnecessary attributes in the HAQM Connect contact trace records(CTRs). Examples of such […]

In the contact center world, agents frequently transfer contacts to other agents or queues. They also transfer calls to external Direct Inward Dialing (DID) or toll-free numbers. This may mean scanning hundreds of numbers to find the correct one to dial. Transferring the customer to the wrong destination also leads to inefficiency and frustration. Maintaining […]

Customer service departments where specialists answer incoming calls as well as perform back-office or offline duties (case processing, follow-ups, research, and troubleshooting), require different mechanisms for routing incoming contacts. Examples include mortgage originations, complex sales, and IT helpdesk to name a few. Most of these involve complex, multi-day, multi-step interactions with customers. The specialist workload […]

HAQM Connect costs less to operate than any other contact center Including a 26% price reduction on HAQM Connect telephony prices for U.S. customers. Here at AWS, we’re always trying to save our customers money, and on May 24, we did it again by reducing HAQM Connect telephony prices for our US customers by 26% […]

Join us for AWS Contact Center Day, a free virtual event where you’ll learn about the future of customer service, how machine learning can optimize customer and agent experiences—and more. Register now » Two-way contact center communications are a powerful tool with which modern businesses can convey information, make inquiries, and report issues to customers—and vice […]

If a caller ID is local, customers are more likely to answer an incoming call. Because it’s unlikely that contact center agents are always local, our partners wanted to use HAQM Connect to place outbound calls using a local number, picked dynamically by the agent. This post presents a simple way to accomplish this, using […]

If you don’t have an SAML 2.0–compliant identity provider available for your contact service, it can take significant effort to set up a new one. HAQM Connect supports SAML 2.0–compliant identity providers (IdPs) for single sign-on (SSO). AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) makes it easy to centrally manage SSO access to multiple AWS accounts and […]

Taking advantage of SMS text capabilities in your contact center provides another medium to improve your customers’ experience. HAQM Pinpoint lets you manage all facets of an SMS/email campaign, and now lets you send text messages from HAQM Connect. The instructions in this post help you enable text messages from your HAQM Connect contact flows […]

HAQM Connect’s native integrations with other AWS services like AWS Lambda allow you to create dynamic, personalized experienced for your callers. In this blog post we will use AWS Lambda and HAQM DynamoDB to: Create an AWS Lambda function from the sample provided. Integrate your Lambda function with your HAQM Connect instance, letting you perform […]

Securing access to your IT resources is paramount. As the number of web-based applications that your employees access increases, so does the difficulty for them to remember their login credentials. Many companies have turned to single sign-on with a variety of identity providers to streamline access to resources and simplify their employees’ routines. With HAQM […]