Amazon’s customer contact center handles millions of requests every day using technology that enables them to consistently provide world-class customer service.
And now you can leverage that same technology to transform your own contact center with Amazon Connect! Your customers demand a great experience and a high level of service – and you can give it to them with only minutes of set up.
Amazon Connect is a cloud-based contact center service that simplifies the delivery of exceptional customer service by offering a quick, scalable deployment, easy integrations with many CRM and ticketing systems, and simple navigation and usability.
Learn more about Amazon Connect, including:
-Taking advantage of key features
-Designing a personalized experience for your callers
-How to take Amazon Connect beyond the classic contact center
-How to manage risk related to implementation and adoption
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Amazon Connect: 4 Steps to Transforming Your Customer Contact Center
1. Amazon Connect: 4 Steps to
Transforming Your Customer Contact
Center
February 2018
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About Perficient
Perficient is the leading digital transformation
consulting firm serving Global 2000 and enterprise
customers throughout North America.
With unparalleled information technology, management consulting,
and creative capabilities, Perficient and its Perficient Digital agency
deliver vision, execution, and value with outstanding digital
experience, business optimization, and industry solutions.
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Perficient Profile
Founded in 1997
Public, NASDAQ: PRFT
2017 revenue ~$500 million
Major market locations:
Allentown, Atlanta, Ann Arbor, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago,
Cincinnati, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Fairfax,
Houston, Indianapolis, Lafayette, Milwaukee, Minneapolis,
New York City, Northern California, Oxford (UK), Southern
California, St. Louis, Toronto
Global delivery centers in China and India
3,000+ colleagues
Dedicated solution practices
~95% repeat business rate
Alliance partnerships with major technology vendors
Multiple vendor/industry technology and growth awards
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Agenda
• Introduction
• Contact center industry
• Amazon Connect
• Four steps
–Simple setup
–Personalize the experience
–Go beyond
–Manage implementation risk
• Q&A
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Get More Out of Your Contact Center
• In our customer care practice, we often talk with
customers who are “locked in” to a certain way of
doing things on their current call center systems
(clumsy voice recognition or DTMF menus, overly
rigid queueing logic, etc.)
• Amazon Connect allows you to break free of these
constraints and make customer care work the way it
should, while keeping setup simple and costs low
• Because Amazon Connect is a cloud-based contact
center as a service that runs on AWS, we can easily
integrate with other native AWS services such as
Amazon Lex, Amazon DynamoDB, and AWS
Lambda to do the right thing for the customer
experience
IAM
Amazon
S3
AWS
Lambda
Amazon
Redshift
AWS KMS
Amazon
Kinesis
Amazon
Lex
Amazon
Polly
Amazon
Machine Learning
Amazon
API
Gateway
Amazon
Connect
Amazon Connect
7. “Our mission is to be the
Earth's most customer
centric company.”
– Jeff Bezos, Amazon
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What is Amazon Connect?
100% Cloud-based contact center
Reliable
Simple
Scalable
Open
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Amazon Connect: 100% Cloud-based
Globally available
Scalable in minutes
Availability zones/DR
No external telephony provider
No hardware
No software installations
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Poll: What type of contact center are you currently
using?- On premises contact center solution
- Cloud contact center service
- Amazon Connect
- Other
- Not currently operating a contact center
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Amazon Connect
Ease of use
• Start taking calls in minutes using only
browser and headset
• Spend less time on agent training
• Reduce agent stress level and allow
them to focus on the customer
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Amazon Connect
Key differentiators
• Pay-as-you-go model
• Powerful IVR engine
• Self-service and natural language
conversations
• Deployable and scalable in minutes
• Based on Amazon’s internal contact
center platform
• Advanced customization
15. “Good ideas are always
crazy, until they are not.”
-Elon Musk, Tesla
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Amazon Connect
Go beyond the basics
• Intelligent routing and prioritization
• SMS and email alerts
• Callback
• Survey
• Advanced metrics
• Self-service and AI
IAM
Amazon
S3
AWS
Lambda
Amazon
Redshift
AWS KMS
Amazon
Kinesis
Amazon
Lex
Amazon
Polly
Amazon
Machine Learning
Amazon
API
Gateway
Amazon
Connect
Amazon Connect
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Amazon Connect - Dynamics
Embed/integrate contact center workloads
into Microsoft Dynamics 365
• Data dip to identify caller
• Push call record back into CRM
• Agent console embedded in Dynamics UI
• Answer and control calls via Dynamics
• Screen pop – automatically show
relevant record
• Enable self-service tasks in an IVR
using data in Dynamics
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Manage Implementation Risk
Plan for/avoid outages
• Use security profiles
• Configure a test instance
• Have a plan B
Simplify integrations
• Create unified experience
• Pull in data/push out data
• Track call context
Understand the new system
• Evaluate
• Have a clear plan
• Set realistic timelines
• Account for testing
• Focus on caller satifaction
• Organize trial run
• Migrate in phases
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Manage Implementation Risk
Report smart
• Focus on a few Key Performance
Indicators (KPI)
• Measure KPIs consistently
• Identify trends
• First Call Resolution
• Repetitive calls
Keep agents happy
• Reduce agent turnover rates
• Adequate training and trial calls
• Simplified software usage and
integrations
• Automation
Automate
• Natural language conversational bots
• Automate repetative actions
• Pass coversation context
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Perficient Offerings
Pilot Rollout
- Assess requirements
- Determine how best to meet with Amazon Connect
- Configure Connect and perform some basic
customization (custom agent console, simple CRM
integration, etc.)
- Testing and cutover support
Pilot to Production
- Create a plan for rollout to additional groups
- Perform additional configuration and customization
- Train agent and supervisor population
- Testing and cutover support
Adoption Management
- Provide customized change management plans for
a smooth migration to Amazon Connect
- Implement change management plan including
communication and training
- Customize training content and materials
- Collect feedback at critical junctures and
recommend adjustments to stay on track
Custom Development / Integration
- Integrate Amazon Connect with third-party systems
using a combination of prepackaged tools and
custom development
- Make Connect work with in-house systems to
increase agent efficiency and create new
opportunities for innovative customer care and
engagement
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What’s Next?
• Twitter.com/Perficient
• Facebook.com/Perficient
Next Webinar:
Communicate in the Cloud with Skype for Business and
Clarity Connect
Wednesday, March 28 - 1:00 p.m. Central
• Visit us at Enterprise Connect 2018
March 12-15 in Orlando
• Amazon Connect Blog
blogs.perficient.com/integrate/tag/amazon-connect/
• Amazon Connect Partner Website
www.perficient.com/partners/amazon-connect
Notas do Editor
Agenda for today
Start with quick overview of where AC fits into trends in the CC industry
We’ll discuss Amazon Connect, how it was created, and four steps we see clients go through in implementing it
Time at the end for Q&A
Why AC? Why perficient focus
Over the last decade or so there have been some huge shifts in contact centers and how organizations use them. We feel AC is the best CC tool to fully harness those changes instead of simply reacting to them / working around them.
Call centers used to be very siloed and about performing very specific work very efficiently.
First call centers were created around the early 20th century to help large groups of people efficiently handle the work of manually connecting massive volumes of phone calls.
All about efficiency, minimizing cost, and was a very specialized domain. Call center employees, call center manager, full time job
Expensive tech
Either you worked in a call center, or you didn’t.
CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENT AND CLOUD CC
Expansion beyond the bounds of traditional contact center department
Reduced operating costs – UC, IP telephony, cloud
Focus on proactive customer engagement – keeping a finger on the pulse, anticipating needs and offering solutions proactively – bring in more business or collect actionable insights
Cloud contact centers eliminating capital costs
Flipping the contact center to be a feature within a LOB app (CRM etc.)
Amazon and others raising the bar
New challenges – simple UI (b/c part-time ppl using it), reliability and customization vs. cost tradeoffs – democratize good service
What’s missing? Ease of customization, tight integration, issues w/ reliability vs. cost tradeoffs
Democratizing customer care & good service
Flipping the contact center – embed in CRM etc. companies starting to buy CRM and then use the CRM’s embedded CC as a tool – CC becomes a commodity feature of other products
In the old days call centers required lots of expensive hardware, were mostly limited to the true call center environments. Cloud CCs started to open that up
CRM, WFO, CC
Brad Cleveland – 3 levels of value – efficiency, customer sat, strategic
Contact center – modalities
Phone
Email
Video
Chat
Cobrowsing
SMS
Social media
As much as tech has enabled this, the tech hasn’t completely caught up to the new opportunities
Locked in to traditional CC practices, or just the way this platform works
Common with cloud solutions – can’t customize or innovate once beyond basics
If they keep or move to on premises solution, high maintenance costs and specialized tech knowledge
Security, reliability, privacy, data retention limitations
The point of this slide is that Amazon Connect is a 1. a gateway into all of the other services within AW.S. 2. Through standards based programming languages (.Net, Java, Python), anyone can develop customer care solutions. AWS breaks the proprietary model that the legacy systems were built on
AC – solution to democratize both the basic table stakes CC functionality, AND the ability to innovate on top of that base, AT THE SAME TIME.
Explain Amazon’s reasoning behind customer obsession and how it has helped them to drive a sucesfull business
10 years ago, looked for a scalable, open, reliable, simple solution
Marketplace solutions didn’t fit needs
difficult to integrate
lots of specialized PS
reliability issues
pricing extremely complex
cumbersome and limiting
What is Amazon Connect? 100% Cloud-based contact center. Deploy and configure in minutes. Pay as you go model. Scale up or down.-(Pay as you go Scalable Simple to use Reliable)
(scalable, open, simple, reliable)—based on how amazon presents it
CORE FEATURES
You literally click on two buttons to start deploying amazon connect from the AWS admin interface. Ye, it is just that simple!
Show call context, lookup caller’s info
Matured in high call volume enviornment (Amazon support, holiday season)
Customizable->open for integrations; Streams and outbound api
How to innovate for your customers with amazon connect
Using Amazon Connect data in combination with Lambda gives us a lot of options. Not only can we route calls better, but we can automate many tasks that would traditionally require additional overhead.
One use of these capabilities would be automatically generating e-mails for all help desk calls, maybe an automated notification to the caller and a message with issue details for the support team. Integrating an e-mailing system with your call center may seem difficult, but using Lambda this task becomes just a matter of collecting the appropriate address and deciding what will be in the body of the e-mail. No need to provision additional servers or set up complex code.
Sending a text message confirmation is even easier since we already have the caller’s phone number. We can even use a Lambda call to an external API and verify if the phone number can receive texts before we hang up.
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Show an image of a custom CCP with attributes, add popular CRM icons
Amazon focused on best customer service
MS focused on productivity tools
By partnering with Amazon, we want to help you build a customer focused call center all while improving your reliability and making life easier for your agents and managers
Pilot is important
Plan for outages in dependencies, incl. network infra, audio devices, etc.
Know what to do!
Use AWS as much as possible
Pass context that was gathered though an automated experience- don’t make customers repear their problems.
Reporting is a key part of CC
Astonishingly it’s often not considered until late in the process
Collect feedback and adjust/iterate
Believe this is an inherent part of process
Training in bits and pieces
Easy UI
Connect to their job needs and satisfaction
You can set up the basics yourself
Avoid dependence on our services
But can do everything if desired
Our goal is to work with the organizations that want to get the most out of their investments in AWS / Connect, to differentiate on customer care
These map to the four steps we just outlined