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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 7: Creating AI Bots

For me, using Lex artificial intelligence (AI) bots is a game changer for the call center world. Interactive voice response (IVR) gets the job done, but it just doesn't mimic the human experience enough to make you feel like you're not talking to a machine. With IVR, the system can only understand a few options that you configure, and the response has to be in the form of a button press. Lex can change all of that and give your call center a more human feel without burdening your staff.

The recent COVID pandemic has caused an unseen burden on clients using IVR systems. Everyone was, and may still be, wearing masks. These masks prevent a facial recognition system from unlocking your phone. Imagine how annoying it is for your callers to enter their unlock code when their screen locks by typing a number rather than speaking their answer. Using AI, you can eliminate not only the machine-like feeling but also the customer's wasted time.

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