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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

Deployment influencers

Integrations were the last of the contact flow influencers that we are going to discuss. Now we are going to move on to deployment influencers. These items influence the deployment in a more general and overarching way. They do not have any direct effect on the customer's experience but rather the experience and capabilities of agents and managers.

Management

We have just finished covering all the items that directly affect the contact flows and how they are laid out. Now you will need to consider a few more items that are relevant to your deployment but around administration. Amazon Connect comes with four default security profiles to attach users to. These profiles are as follows:

  • Admin: Grants full admin rights
  • Agent: Grants access to the Contact Control Panel (CCP)
  • Call Center Manager: Grants permissions for user management, routing, and more
  • Quality Analyst: Grants access to metrics

In my experience, these permissions...