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Amazon Connect: Up and Running

By : Jeff Armstrong
Book Image

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

Dashboarding with QuickSight

We are going to create a quick visualization that shows the number of calls per agent and queue. To do this, we need to locate the necessary fields on the left-hand side Fields list menu (Figure 11.36). We are first looking for the agent.username field. This field will show how many calls have been taken per agent. To add this to the visualization, follow these steps:

  1. Drag this field name to the visualization:

    Figure 11.36 – Available fields

  2. It will scan the data and automatically choose the best way to display the data. In this case, it's a bar graph, as shown in Figure 11.37:

    Figure 11.37 – Agent list

  3. We only have one dimension at this stage. We also want to include a grouping. It would be more useful to see from which queue callers were taking calls. To do this, locate the queue.name field in the Fields list menu on the left (Figure 11.38). Drag this field to the visualization:

    Figure 11.38 – Queue

  4. QuickSight...