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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

Creating Contact Lens rules

One of the ways in which Contact Lens can help you improve your customer experience is to utilize rules. Connect rules allow you to create criteria in the form of rulesets to identify specific things in your call center—for instance, you might want to specifically identify and track callers wanting to cancel their account. A Contact Lens rule will identify and tag specific calls based on the criteria of that rule.

A rule consists of a number of words and parameters that are found in the customer or agent communication streams. We will now create rules to identify when a caller wants to cancel their account, to demonstrate this capability. This demonstration doesn't align very well with our Mega Mercy Hospital scenario, but it is so common a request that I wanted to cover it anyway.

To begin creating a rule, follow these steps:

  1. Find the Rules menu item on the Connect management menu, on the left-hand side. It's located under...