AWS has announced that post-contact summaries will now be accessible to agents immediately after interactions are concluded.
Available within Amazon Connect, the company has confirmed that the enhancement to its Contact Lens solution will allow it to deliver summaries within seconds, whereas previously, it had taken minutes.
The improvements will also see summaries being connected to specific calls, allowing information to pass between agents more fluidly, thus refining AWS’ omnichannel capabilities.
In order to craft these summaries, Amazon Connect Contact Lens leverages generative AI (GenAI) to condense lengthy customer conversations into “succinct, coherent, and context-rich" reports.
AWS believes that these GenAI-powered post-contact summaries boost the overall customer experience by streamlining quality and compliance reviews, identifying ways to enhance agent performance, and equipping supervisors with faster insights.
The significant improvements to the speed at which the post-contact summaries are being delivered to agents were discussed by Michael Wallace, Solutions Architecture Leader for Customer Experience at AWS:
What we’ve done is taken the Gen AI summary and made it available at the agent layer, what we call the Contact Control Panel [CCP].
"The reason it took minutes before had nothing to do with the Gen AI summary [which was] published as part of the entire call record. There's a lot more in [the record] than just the Gen AI summary."
Wallace emphasized that what’s changed is that the Gen AI summary is now "pushed right to the agents with near immediacy after the call concludes."
So, let’s take a closer look at how companies will benefit from a speedier post-contact summary process and how it will benefit AWS’ omnichannel offerings.
Amazon Connect Contact Lens Under a Microscope
First and foremost, Contact Lens post-contact summaries are efficiency boosters and time-savers.
Whereas previously agents would have had to manually take notes for each customer interaction and upload the information to a system, now, they can instantly access the summary for review and edit, before it is "seamlessly attached to the customer record," as seen in the below graphic from the AWS website:
By minimizing post-contact tasks, AWS claims that agents will be able to dedicate more time to delivering excellent customer service.