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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

Reframing the conversation

Congratulations on making it this far in the process. You've collected all the necessary information from the stakeholders, and you have a good mental picture of what it would take to implement their needs in Amazon Connect. This is where we need to spice things up a bit. I'd venture to guess that you have received conventional answers for everything you have asked your stakeholders. They probably didn't throw any ideas your way that would leverage any of the more advanced capabilities of Amazon Connect. To reframe the conversation, you will have to have a new conversation and introduce some new possibilities.

I suggest that you let the information you have gathered sit and stew in your mind for a couple of days. This time gives you the ability to think about more what if scenarios. The next time you talk to the stakeholder, you want to bring the art of the possible to the table. Some of your ideas might not be achievable, but it will get...