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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)
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Section 1: Planning
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Section 2: Implementation

Implementing the callback contact flow

Based on our original design, we opted for setting all of the queues within the departmental flows. We created specific settings for each department, such as hours of operation and hold messaging. There are two ways that we can implement our callbacks in our current design.

The first option we have is to copy the flow that we just created for each department. This option would allow us to create different messages and hold music when callers are on the phone. For instance, the billing department might want a message telling callers to pay a bill online. In contrast, the oncology department might wish to have some messaging around a cancer support group in the area.

By separating the departments, you give your stakeholders a lot more flexibility. Personally, this is the way that I would implement the system. After all, your internal stakeholders are your customers, and you want them to be satisfied just as much as an external client. A compromise...