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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

Chapter 10: Implementing Voicemail

With all the capabilities and advanced features that Amazon Connect possesses, I am quite surprised that voicemail isn't a native feature. I assume that this is primarily since the Connect service is geared toward enterprise deployments. After all, the service was created to support Amazon's own retail business. However, given the ease of use and deployment, many smaller organizations have used Connect.

In smaller organizations, the utilization of voice would be more prevalent. The possibility of there being only one person who could answer any given question is greater. Large enterprises have whole departments of people with specialized knowledge.

Amazon has partially addressed the needs of smaller organizations with a voicemail implementation. The capability itself is not a native integration but rather a bolt-on functionality. In this chapter, we will walk through the implementation and configuration of voicemail for your call center...