Amazon Connect vs. Twilio

Amazon Connect is a powerful collaboration tool allowing us to contact our customers through incoming and outgoing calls, email, and SMS with direct dialing, toll-free numbers, predictive dialer, and task management all from one place without the need to migrate to another application. Is the most comfortable and intelligent way to provide a rewarding experience to our customers with clear audio calls attending to their requests in record time.

If you have a business page on Facebook, having Twilio’s chat not feature is a must! No more missed chat messages or clients getting upset because of a delay in replies. Twilio has helped on several occasions answer simple questions, so I didn't even have to answer the chat message manually. It also enables you to recognize when spammy messages are trying to get through.

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• Amazon Connect provides a complete telephony service with automated toll-free numbers and direct phone numbers, with audio quality so that customers can hear clearly, immediate connection and cloud storage, calls are addressed in a professional and secure manner, offering customers safety and trust in start to finish.
• We use Amazon Connect in my organization to interact with customers from anywhere creating unique experiences through chat and voice communications, it is a platform that facilitates the way we connect with customers and increase sales without having to go from one place to another.

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• Easy to see my team in one place, when they log in and out and what call status they are in.
• Twilio is a simple, user friendly way to log in and out of work activities.
• Excellent services and support.
• The omnichannel feature which allows agents to get request from all channels.

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• The support line always has a long wait time.
• There is no single point of contact to help me with my issues.
• The interface is always changing, so sometimes difficult to find the same features.

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• Setting up response sequences should be more intuitive like an email sequence software or a chatbot service where you can send users through flows based on actions.
• Less code setup or having a graphical user interface to set it up would be nice then to be able to just export the code of what we need and send it over to developers.
• Easier multi-media sending for images, videos, or files needed.

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Twilio has well documented APIs and examples. There are several tutorials, videos and Q&As regarding their services. So, usability is very good. I must say that advanced knowledge of telephony, API/Programming and error-handling is essential to make good use of Twilio. It's not just plug-and-play unless you are integrated with a system that has all of the programming built for it.

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I have not had to communicate with Twilio support in the last 3 years but my past experience with them has been very positive. They replied to my previous requests promptly and kept me well informed to resolve my inquiries. With their documentation that's available, I hardly imagine why anyone would need to contact support since it's all there in a concise and easy to understand format. It would probably take you longer to type out a support ticket than to just open their doc websites.

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Amazon Connect has lots of free training available for partners and in general. So many demos are available to practice. It's free to test and gain more confidence before deploying in real world scenarios. You can use other AWS features to be integrated with Amazon cloud. Features like lense is amazing

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I receive regular unsolicited communications from Twilio competitors but I do not have the time to review them, given there is no reason for me to switch. Twilio works great and its pricing is acceptable for our situation. Investigating point solutions for text only or voice only would complicate our infrastructure and vendor management and would require some expensive system changes.

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Being in South Africa, direct local currency support would be nice

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• Through customer survey, we acquire primary hand information about our product, which is a mark in marketing.
• Further, the cost of running Amazon Connect is very assertive and controlled, solving issues with our audience.
• The call and chat options are affordable and no extra bailing that is done.

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• Twilio WebRTC allowed us to move a bulk of our communication to the cloud, giving us a lot of visibility on how we were communicating with our customers.
• It also gave us analytics on how much time users spent on communicating with each other over calls and helped us build features around it.
• Twilio became the center of all communication on our platform. From chat messages to phone calls, it powered everything.

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