Forecasting in Amazon Connect
Forecasting is the starting point for any scheduling and capacity planning activities. Before you can generate a schedule or capacity plan, you must create a corresponding forecast.
A forecast attempts to predict future contact volume and average handle time. We use historical metrics to create the forecast.
Short term forecasts are automatically updated every day. When you come into work, you can review the forecast that was updated overnight with the most current data. You can publish the forecast to make it available to schedulers whenever you want. The Forecasting page displays when a forecast was last updated and published. Use published short term forecasts for scheduling.
Long term forecasts are automatically updated every week, based on the day you created the forecast. For example, if you created the forecast on a Monday, it is updated every Monday. Use published long term forecasts for capacity planning.
Important
Only the most current forecast is available. Because the forecast is updated every day, if you want to keep the current day's forecast, you must download it before Amazon Connect overwrites it.
Getting started with forecasting
Use the following steps to create a forecast and then share it with other people in your organization.
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Set the forecast and scheduling interval: This is a one-time activity typically set up by forecasters. It cannot be undone.
There are other things you can do with a forecast, such as download to a .csv file for offline analysis or override it, but these steps will get you started.
