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Amazon Connect: Up and Running

By : Jeff Armstrong
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Amazon Connect: Up and Running

By: Jeff Armstrong

Overview of this book

Amazon Connect is a pay-as-you-go cloud contact center solution that powers Amazon’s customer contact system and provides an impressive user experience while reducing costs. Connect's scalability has been especially helpful during COVID-19, helping customers with research, remote work, and other solutions, and has driven adoption rates higher. Amazon Connect: Up and Running will help you develop a foundational understanding of Connect's capabilities and how businesses can effectively estimate the costs and risks associated with migration. Complete with hands-on tutorials, costing profiles, and real-world use cases relating to improving business operations, this easy-to-follow guide will teach you everything you need to get your call center online, interface with critical business systems, and take your customer experience to the next level. As you advance, you'll understand the benefits of using Amazon Connect and cost estimation guidelines for migration and new deployments. Later, the book guides you through creating AI bots, implementing interfaces, and leveraging machine learning for business analytics. By the end of this book, you'll be able to bring a Connect call center online with all its major components and interfaces to significantly reduce personnel overhead and provide your customers with an enhanced user experience (UX).
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Planning
6
Section 2: Implementation

Section 1: Planning

Welcome to Amazon Connect: Up and Running. I designed this book to take you from idea inception to the implementation of your Amazon Connect deployment. To help you better absorb the information, the book has been split into two parts. The first part, comprising the first four chapters, focuses on some of Connect's planning items. The second part consists of the implementation.

I have seen many IT projects fail over my career. Most often, this is due to a lack of planning at the beginning of the project. I don't want to tell you cliches, such as if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. But then again, I guess I just did. We also won't go in-depth about how to plan and manage a project. We will cover in part 1 the planning aspects that are unique and directly related to Connect.

One of the most important things to understand when you're kicking off a new project is why you're doing it. Figuring out what and how is the easy part. Where...