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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

Chapter 3: Sketching Your Contact Flows

Since you have discovered all your call center's objectives from the business stakeholder, it's now time to sketch out your contact flows. The reason that I recommend defining them now is that it will help you with estimating costs. With a conventional call center, all your costs will be related to minutes on the phone. However, with Connect, there are many more services at your disposal. The costs for these additional services should be included in your financial analysis for the overall project. In addition to helping you with cost estimation, sketching out your contact flows now helps you to demonstrate the actions callers will take visually. This picture will help people within your company understand the project better as a whole.

Before we can cover how to sketch out the contact flows, we must cover some basics about contact flows themselves. There are several types of contact flows and several components that create the flows...