Real-time metrics are used to check on agent statuses, inbound calls, and calls waiting in the queue.
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Real-time insights have reduced call wait times and support fast routing decisions
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Multiple configurations within the real-time metrics of Amazon Connect Analytics can be used to fetch real-time data, making day-to-day work easier.
Amazon Connect Analytics has positively impacted the organization by enabling call routing changes based on real-time data and allowing decisions to be made immediately.
These decisions have improved operations by reducing call wait times.
What needs improvement?
For how long have I used the solution?
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
How are customer service and support?
How would you rate customer service and support?
What other advice do I have?
Analytics have boosted customer satisfaction and now reduce returns through detailed shoe insights
What is our primary use case?
My main use case for Amazon Connect Analytics involves one of our retail companies who is ordering several shoes, where customers order several shoes for them. We have to build a dashboard on how many return customers, how many customers are returning the shoes, how many customers are buying the shoes, what age group they buy the shoes, and what's the demographic of every customer. It can be very region specific; for instance, let's say they're buying shoes only from Boston. Therefore, we try to put some analytics in place to say which region is servicing or ordering the most, and then we stay focused on those markets with the help of that analytics.
What is most valuable?
The best features Amazon Connect Analytics offers include the granularity of the calls that we upload into the system, so if we upload more than 10,000 customer interactions in a day, it provides us the information back.
Amazon Connect Analytics has positively impacted my organization 100% as the results are phenomenal; now my operations team can actually see how many orders are getting rejected so that they can work on those cases and satisfy the dissatisfied customer.
I can share that our CSAT scores have increased from a 70% baseline to around 85% today, and the returns have reduced from approximately 1,000 returns we get in a month down to almost 50%.
What needs improvement?
I believe Amazon Connect Analytics can be improved, especially regarding the interface, as it would be helpful for us since we have to do a lot of development work to make sure the interface looks exactly the way our customers want. I'm talking about the user interface.
Further about the needed improvements, the UI does give us the entire pattern, but you have to customize that pattern. What we prefer is that if those patterns or designs can be pre-built or available in the form of stencils, allowing us to leverage each stencil one by one instead of recreating from scratch every time.
I choose an eight because, as I said, it gives us a lot of benefits, but the journey to reach that level is a little painful. It took us roughly two months to fine-tune a particular analytics dashboard, and once it's fine-tuned, then it works great. That is the process we have to go through, and that's the reason I suggest maybe we could implement a little bit more stencil-based or pre-ready designs into the analytics dashboards, which would be helpful.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Amazon Connect Analytics for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Amazon Connect Analytics is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We haven't tested more than 400 users, but I hope it will work fine even for 4,000 or 10,000 users as well.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support for Amazon Connect Analytics is phenomenal; we get support from NAMER SIs services very quickly, typically receiving a response back in just 15 minutes.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before switching to Amazon Connect, we used Avaya, which was not able to offer us any cloud-based platform, prompting our full switch from Avaya to Amazon.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment with around 22 use cases on Amazon Connect Analytics, as almost every use case is benefiting in terms of reducing our attrition by 10%, which is helpful for a call center.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Amazon Connect Analytics, we evaluated a platform called Jolika, which is a relatively new platform.
What other advice do I have?
We receive information from Amazon Connect Analytics through various formats, including dashboards, which will be shown to our operations people. The contact center operations will look at these dashboards and then decide the outcome or the journey and what's their next action based on that.
Regarding the features, I would say that dashboards are difficult to build but easy to use. We have a specialist whose job is to build those dashboards and ensure that they meet all operational requirements. Once it meets that, it's very easy to use, but going through that journey is a little bit of a pain. We have to go back and forth with the operations and the system a lot. It typically takes us one to two months to fine-tune a report, but once it's fine-tuned, then it just keeps working.
I would advise others looking into using Amazon Connect Analytics to do good due diligence and meet customer expectations and operational demands before starting to build the dashboard, ensuring they gather the requirements first. I have given Amazon Connect Analytics a rating of 8 out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Custom dashboards have provided deeper contact insights and help prevent recurring fraud calls
What is our primary use case?
Amazon Connect Analytics allows customers and users to gain insights into their contact center data, understand their volume, and build dashboards to achieve visibility.
What is most valuable?
The best features Amazon Connect Analytics offers are the custom dashboarding capabilities, which allow me to build, cut, and slice the data according to my specific needs rather than relying solely on the out-of-the-box dashboards.
The custom dashboarding helps me and my clients in day-to-day work by providing visibility based on custom attributes on the contact, enabling us to build reports tailored to our requirements.
Thanks to the visibility and flexibility of the dashboards in Amazon Connect Analytics, I can act upon the actual events occurring in the solution. We now have more operational insights into what is happening in our environment.
What needs improvement?
Amazon Connect Analytics could be improved by being even more flexible, particularly in allowing dashboard embedding in third-party applications. If we want to embed the dashboards in another tool, that capability would be valuable.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have used Amazon Connect Analytics on some projects a few years back.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Amazon Connect Analytics is stable and performs well in my experience.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability of Amazon Connect Analytics is performing well.
How are customer service and support?
The customer support for Amazon Connect Analytics is sometimes not as responsive and helpful as we would prefer, but it is not the worst. We have had a few occasions where we received great help from their support team.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before Amazon Connect Analytics, we used Calabrio, but we wanted a more cost-effective solution. Amazon Connect Analytics data analytics seemed to be a better option for our needs.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Amazon Connect Analytics has been satisfactory so far.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Amazon Connect Analytics, I evaluated Calabrio, which we had used previously.
What other advice do I have?
We identified that too many fraud calls were coming to our contact center. Thanks to the identification of those calls through Amazon Connect Analytics, we were able to make changes to our flow, adjust the experience, and prevent long-lasting fraudulent calls.
My advice for others looking into using Amazon Connect Analytics is to deploy it to your account and ensure the data resides within your organization under your control, allowing you to customize your reports. I would rate this product an 8 out of 10.