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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

Voicemail solution overview

Amazon's solution offers a unique and completely serverless implementation of voicemail. The serverless aspect is an excellent advantage over other possible solutions on the market. Using a serverless model, you continue the model of not having to manage any servers for your call center.

In addition to being serverless, the solution offers other capabilities to increase ease of use. For instance, the solution uses Amazon Transcribe to transcribe voicemails and include the content in emails. Transcription of voicemails reduces employee overhead by removing the need to listen to long-winded or slow-speaking voicemail messages.

The voicemail solution is based on extensions that are assigned to your agents. This design doesn't seem to fit very well with a call center and sounds more like a conventional phone system. This assumption is correct. The best implementation for a full call center is callback, which would allow multiple agents to respond...