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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 a contact flow

Since we are getting deeper into call center deployment, it would probably be an excellent time to set the stage a bit more about what my demonstration call center will look like. To do this, we will need to cover some of the business objectives to be accomplished. These objectives will be some of the items that would be uncovered by the processes we discussed in Chapter 2, Reviewing Stakeholder Objectives.

In my scenario, I'm creating a call center for a hospital. It has been a common theme so far, so it seems fitting to continue with it. We will not work with any advanced features such as integrations or sentiment analysis for this phase of the implementation, but will add those features as we progress through the book. For this chapter, these are the criteria that we will be working with to deploy contact flows:

Feel free to use these criteria or invent your own. Try to stay close to the preceding design, as a significant...