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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)
1
Section 1: Planning
6
Section 2: Implementation

Contact flow influencers

We need to extract two different kinds of information from the stakeholders. The first kind of information that we are going to cover is the contact flow influencers. These are items that directly influence the way that the contact flows are created. They are tightly coupled with the customers' experience. In this section, we will cover the following:

  • Business hours
  • Queues
  • Transfers
  • Callbacks
  • Voicemail
  • Integrations

Let's dive deep into each of these categories.

Business hours

The first and probably most important item to cover is business hours. Business hours are necessary because they can dictate how queues will operate when the center is or is not staffed. It's obvious that we will cover how the stakeholder wants calls to be answered during business hours. However, there are several ways you might want to handle calls outside of regular business hours. The stakeholder might want to have the system ask...