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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 2: Reviewing Stakeholder Objectives

Before you can start deploying your call center or even move on to the planning process costs phase, you will have to gather your stakeholders' objectives. Establishing what your call center contact flows will look like is an essential step in the planning process. By establishing a rough draft of what the overall call structure will look like, you will have a better idea of what additional AWS services you will use and where. This would be impossible without meeting with your stakeholders and learning about their needs. It's essential to establish this upfront as it helps you determine the costs of operating your call center. We will cover costs in depth in Chapter 4, Connect Costing. This chapter will focus on the conversations that need to be had with stakeholders and how to convert their objectives into contact flows.

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