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Call On Behalf
When using the interceptor The Interceptor is a service installed on Anywhere365. It monitors all calls during set-up on endpoints of active Agents. By intercepting that call set-up and redirecting it to an Anywhere365 UCC it lets you manage the direct inbound and outbound dialogues of the contact center agents., the Caller ID presented for calling out can be configured with the Caller ID of an Unified Contact Center SIP The Session Initiation Protocol, or SIP, is a protocol for multimedia communication (audio, video and data communication). SIP is also used for Voice over IP (VoIP). SIP has interactions with other Internet protocols such as HTTP and SMTP. URI, selected by the Agent.
Call Park
Call park is a feature that can be utilized via Dialogue Studio that allows a person to put a call on hold at one telephone set and continue the conversation from any other telephone set, Learn More
Caller ID control
When using the interceptor or the Direct Call Interceptor (DCI), the Caller ID presented for calling out can be configured with the following options.
Options:
- The Caller ID of an Unified Contact Center SIP URI, selected by the Agent
- The Caller ID presented is taken from the Agent SIP URI.
- An alternative Caller ID selected by the Supervisor. This alternative ID can be specified per Agent.
Consultative Transfer
During a consultative transfer the contact center agent can start a conversation to another agent before the call gets transferred, to ensure they are able to take the call.
Direct Transfer
A direct transfer is when a call or conversation gets directly transferred to another contact center agent, without contacting the other person first. This feature is fully supported by all Anywhere365 applications, including the UCC A Unified Contact Center, or UCC, is a queue of interactions (voice, email, IM, etc.) that are handled by Agents. Each UCC has its own settings, IVR menus and Agents. Agents can belong to one or several UCCs and can have multiple skills (competencies). A UCC can be visualized as a contact center “micro service”. Customers can utilize one UCC (e.g. a global helpdesk), a few UCC’s (e.g. for each department or regional office) or hundreds of UCC’s (e.g. for each bed at a hospital). They are interconnected and can all be managed from one central location. and Reception Attendant.
Discharge Duration / Wrap up
Anywhere365 makes it possible to wrap up a call before the next call is offered to a call agent by setting the discharge duration. The discharge duration is the time needed after a call to finalize the administration. During this time call agents will not be hunted for new calls, though it's presence status will be available.
Integrate Mobile
Anywhere365 supports both mobile phones (PSTN Agents - Enterprise). With this feature you can fully integrate mobile users into your contact center.
Skill Transfer
An agent can transfer the customer to a Skill. This will put the Customer in that Queue or forward when a Forward Skill is chosen.
Take the Call
Anywhere365 offers an innovative addition to the standard function of taking a call from a colleague; this is only possible if you have the same necessary skills as your colleague. In this way an Agent is able to serve only customers that he actually can help.
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Trainer Trainee
Helping new Agents learn the tricks by using the Trainer Trainee feature. Trainers can invite their Trainees to interesting conversations.
Federation
The architecture of Anywhere365 is based on a distributed environment. Most contact center agents will be set up from the UCC within your organization. When using Anywhere365 in combination with Federation When using Anywhere365 in combination with Federation you can add agents working with a Skype for Business or Teams account to your UCC. you can easily add agents working with a SFB or Microsoft Teams account by adding the SIP address to the list of existing agents in your UCC Settings. This allows you to add anyone with an Office365 account to your UCC, for example your ICT partner as a second line help desk.
Formal and Informal Agents
Anywhere365 distinguishes two different contact center agents: (1) Formal Agents A Formal Agent is able to sign in and sign out of the UCC. This can be achieved when the Agent sends a start or stop command to the Skype for Business client of the UCC. and (2) Informal Agents When you create an 'Informal Agent' in the agent list, then this agent will be part of the agent circle as soon as he signs in to his Skype for Business or Teams client. In contrast, by marking the checkbox 'Formal' upon creating a new agent, the agent first has to actively sign in to the UCC to be available for call distribution.. An informal agent is connected to the UCC once he/she is signed in, while a formal agent needs to sign in for an UCC in order to collaborate. The use of formal agents makes it easy to switch between different UCCs by
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PSTN Agents
PSTN Agents are a new feature in 6.3 that allow you to use a lineURI (e.g., tel:+31612345678) instead of a sipURI as the primary contact for agents (e.g., sip:agent@example.com).
Reason Codes
With Reason Codes Supervisors have more insight on their Agents presence than with the default
Remote Presence Change
With the Remote Presence Change feature, a supervisor in a UCC is capable to change the presence state (available, busy, away) of an Agent in the UCC. Since an Agent can be in more than one UCC and his/her presence is universally applied, the altered presence status affects all other UCCs that this agent might be subscribed to.
Supervisor
Supervisors of a UCC have the opportunity to generate a list of current calls and monitor them, intervene, whisper to an agent, talk as a conference, take over the call and give back the call to an agent. With reporting from a compliance point of view, all supervisor actions can be made visible in the dialogue timeline.
Toggle agent forward settings
You can control of the client forward settings like CallForwarding, Delegates and Simultaneous ring should be used when Anywhere365 is contacting the agent.
Classifications
With classification you can tag the call during the session, so the manager is able to get more information about each category of call classifications.
Pincode
To add extra security to a private UCC, it is possible to enter a pin code before connecting. By adding the setting "PinCode" to the Settings list, the caller will be asked to enter the set of numbers before continuing after the Welcome Message. [For example 1234] Anywhere365 will ask the caller for a pin code, and only if the pin code is entered correctly, the caller can proceed with Interactive Voice Response Interactive Voice Response, or IVR, is a telephone application to take orders via telephone keypad or voice through a computer. By choosing menu options the caller receives information, without the intervention of a human operator, or will be forwarded to the appropriate Agent..
Real-time Management
Anywhere365 uses SharePoint as its configuration panel in order to manage one or more UCCs. In this way it's possible to make changes to your UCC at any time, without the need for technological skills. And because it is real-time there is no downtime while improving your UCC. You can add call agents, change the status of the UCC, and optimize the IVR Interactive Voice Response, or IVR, is a telephone application to take orders via telephone keypad or voice through a computer. By choosing menu options the caller receives information, without the intervention of a human operator, or will be forwarded to the appropriate Agent. and its texts while staying available for customers. Furthermore, both SharePoint Server as well as SharePoint Online (from Microsoft 365) can be used in combination with Anywhere365.
Timezones
Within the new UCC settings it is possible to set the Time Zone of a specific UCC. So that on one platform with different UCC, running in different areas in the world, but with one server clock time, the UCC is able to correct its own time. A very useful feature for situations like Business Hours, Holidays and Reporting.
Co Browsing
Provide better and effective customer support by getting a real-time look on your customer’s screen. Support agents can work together with customers to fill in forms, change account settings or purchase items online.
This feature is available with the additional third party license.
Advanced Dialogue Intelligence
Powerful and actionable Dialogue intelligence capabilities to extract previously hidden dialogue patterns.
Real-time translation during audio
When deploying an international contact center, language can always be a bit tricky. Integrate real-time translation of the audio files and speaking a different language will no longer be an issue.
Chat Recording
Besides the feature to add the Chat modality, Anywhere365 also provides the feature to log the chat sessions for future references.
Real-time translation during chat
Break the language barrier by expanding the current chat experience (Chat, WebChat, GridChat, botframework or any other chat based dialogue) with real-time translation. Define the default language of the Agent and the customer and let Azure services do the translation. Languages can be switched during the dialogue simply by switching to a new language.
Direct Call Recording
With Anywhere365 it is possible to record direct incoming end-to-end conversations (Customer to Agent).
Inbound Call Recording
With Anywhere365 it is possible to record end-to-end conversations (Customer to Contact Center).
Outbound Call Recording
With Anywhere365 it is possible to record end-to-end outbound conversations (Agent to Customer).
Interuser Call Recording
With Anywhere365 it is possible to record end-to-end conversations (Agent to internal colleague).
Quality Monitoring
To improve the quality of the contact center, it is possible to add Quality Monitoring to the Call flow. This way customers can give feedback on the received service.
Real-time Information Provider
The Anywhere365 Inflight Wallboard visualizes the status of a UCC. It lists the incoming calls, along with the choices that are made within the IVR and the wait time of the caller. Furthermore it shows which agents are connected to the UCC as well as their Presence state. Learn More
Recording Aggregate
In Anywhere365 it is the possibility to aggregate the Recordings. This creates a sub folder for each Agent Recordings. By giving the Agent access to their sub folder, they can listen and learn from their own conversation. The Supervisor can have access to all sub folders and can easily find back the right recording.
Screen Recording
Ideal for training purposes or incident and crisis management situations where the sequence of events can be re-played. Based on the incoming call or hunted agent, it might be helpful to record the full engagement between the agent and the caller, including the exact sequence of events; the full screen of the caller is recorded for the duration of the call and stored in SharePoint for easy access. This is ideal for training purposes or incident and crisis management situations where the sequence of events can be re-played.
Survey
With Anywhere365 Questionnaires it is possible to rate quality after the call is finished. Anywhere365 uses SharePoint Surveys to let the user complete a predefined set of questions regarding the dialogues.
Automatic Answering
The Anywhere365 Snapper let the users choose whether they want to automatically pick-up a call or not.
Automatic Occupation Forecast
Erlang Erlang (E) is a (dimensionless) unit that is used in telephony as a measure of offered load or carried load on service-providing elements such as telephone circuits or telephone switching equipment. The Erlang formula is used to calculate the average queue time to determine the number of agents that are required for the desired service level. is a dimensionless unit that is used in classic telephone systems as a measure of supply and demand on telephone circuits or telephone switching equipment. Along similar lines, Anywhere365 uses data mining techniques based on historical dialogue data to forecast expected call center loads.
Availability Check
The routing of the UCC can be based on the presence of the Agents. By adding an Availability Skill the customer can be rerouted to a new location if no agents are available.
Business Hours
Business hours are the configurable times, which set the availability of the UCC. With the Anywhere365 platform, it is possible to set the Business hours of each separate UCC. Outside business hours an alternative message (Message Closed) will be played and customers can be given the opportunity to leave a voicemail. One day can have multiple Business Hours, for example the morning from 08:00 to 12:00 and the afternoon from 13:00 to 17:00. If the UCC is closed one day, the business hours can be edited, but it is easier to use Holidays instead.
Bot
By adding a bot to the dialogue, you can decrease the number of unnecessary dialogue. By letting the bot answer the simple answers and letting the advanced questions move to your agents.
C-Level Routing
Reroute calls that were directly sent to an Agent (a director for example) to influence who and who cannot call someone directly.
Content Moderator
Anywhere365 can filter out explicit or offensive content directly before it is shared with the agent.
Countdown
With the Skill Countdown feature value of Anywhere365 it is possible to lower the skill value of those Agents, which are present during a short period of time in seconds measured. During that time period the skill value will go from 100% to 1% in steps of the average time period. After the countdown the call can be automatically transferred to another skill, the same skill, or to reach voicemail.
Dialogue Pattern Recognizer
Holiday
A holiday is a selected date/time range when the UCC is closed during holidays. In this case, the Business hours will be overruled. It is possible to configure Holidays for each individual UCC. During a Holiday the UCC will play the message closed or an alternative message (Holiday Question) and the customer has the option to choose an action (CallBack CallBack, an IVR menu feature for voice, enables the customer to leave his / her number to be called back by an available agent during business hours., Voicemail or Forward).
Interactive Dialogue Response (IDR)
Interactive Dialogue Response Interactive Dialogue Response (IDR) is an application to take orders via keypad or button through a computer. By choosing menu options the contact receives information, without the intervention of a human operator, or will be forwarded to the appropriate Agent. (IDR Interactive Dialogue Response (IDR) is an application to take orders via keypad or button through a computer. By choosing menu options the contact receives information, without the intervention of a human operator, or will be forwarded to the appropriate Agent.) allows customers to interact with a host system via WebChat, after which they can service their own inquiries or will be redirected to an Agent by following the IDR dialogue. All texts within the IDR will be loaded dynamically based on the browser language of the customer. Scripts build according to conversational design principles can be easily created.
Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
Interactive Voice Response (IVR) allows customers to interact with a host system, after which they can service their own inquiries or will be redirected to a call agent by following the IVR dialogue. Traditionally input is required via the telephone keypad, modern Voice User Interfaces rely on speech recognition, both of which are supported. All texts within the IVR will be loaded dynamically and can be managed real-time by means of text-to-speech and/or audio files. Scripts build according to conversational design principles can be easily created.
Jukebox
Adding a jukebox to the queue or hold to make the waiting time for the customers as pleasant as possible. With the jukebox feature you can add your own announcements and music.
Prompt Keypad / Database connector
The Prompt functionality can be used to trigger specific behavior. If specific information has to be looked up in a database (e.g., customer account number, incident number, etc.) before transferring a dialogue towards a group, skill or specific Agent, the Prompt functionality can be used to trigger specific behavior based on the given information.
Key Phrase recognition
Instead of using the DTMF tones the contact can also use key-phrase speech to make a selection in the IVR.
Lowest Presence Hunt
Available even when the person is busy or offline. This feature makes it possible for a person signed in to a UCC to be available in certain cases, even when the presence is busy or offline. Think about a Role Model for medical support, with every person with a First Aid (EHBO) certificate into a UCC. When a call comes in out of context of First Aid, the person in a call, will be hunted and get the
Queue Escape
Anywhere365 offers different escape actions while the contact is waiting in the queue. For example the contact can switch queue or leave a voicemail.
Queue Management
With the WebAgent of Anywhere365 it is easy to manage the queue and determine the positions of callers within the queue. Callers waiting in the queue are updated frequently about their position and might be informed with other relevant information. The maximum length of the queue is configurable and once the limit is reached customers are offered to leave a voice mail or disconnect the call. All notifications can be managed by means of text-to-speech or audio files.
Queue Sized Based Routing
With Queue Sized Based Routing you can redirect the caller if the queue size exceeds a specific volume.
Routing
Anywhere365 supports a Routing table in the SharePoint settings. With this table it is possible to regulate, based on a regular expression the number(s) to a specific skill. With this feature you are able to route specific numbers or number plans to specific skills. This feature can be used together with a SharePoint workflow, or an Anywhere365 Timer Job, to schedule a specific situation when specific routing can work. Example: If you expect a customer to call, you would like to route that customer only, based on LineURI of SIP address to a VIP skill. Routing can be managed in the Routing library.
In each line in the Routing a Match criteria can be set, following the order the Match lines will be used. When there is a match, the address will be forwarded to either the Skill or the Parent Question. When forwarded to a Skill the caller will directly enter the queue. When forward is to a Parent Question, the customer will enter the IVR at that point. Since the Skill can be a forward skill too, Anywhere365 is able to redirect a call from a specific number directly to another outbound number like mobile, SIP or PSTN.
Side Instep to main IVR
A Side instep to main IVR makes it possible to use an additional phone number for the same callflow.
Side Instep to IVR
A Side instep to IVR makes it possible to skip IVR-steps and fulfill customer needs even faster.
Side Instep to Queue
A Side instep to Queue makes it possible to skip IVR-steps and fulfill customer needs even faster. Besides that it is possible to define contacts that will skip the entire IVR (and its associated queue) and will be redirected to the first available call agent.
Standard Music on Hold
Adding a default music on hold to the queue or hold to make the wait for the customers as pleasant as possible.
Timerjobs
The UCC can behave differently depending on the time of day. A simple example is that the IVR will greet a caller with “Good morning”, “Good afternoon” and “Good evening” at appropriate times. More advanced time-related changes are thus also supported via the SharePoint template of the UCC.
Unlimited IVR Dept
With Unlimited IVR Dept you can create multiple layers in the IVR.
Group Voicemail
In case the UCC is closed or the queue is too long to serve new customers, it is possible for them to leave a voice mail and send these voice mails to SharePoint automatically. This makes it possible to playback voice mails and serve customers at a later stage.
Automatic Call Distributor
There are different strategies to connect a caller to a call agent automatically (so called automatic call distributor Automatic Call Distributor (ACD), also known as Automated Call Distribution System, is a component that redirects incoming calls to Agents. (ACD Automatic Call Distributor (ACD), also known as Automated Call Distribution System, is a component that redirects incoming calls to Agents.) strategies). With Anywhere365 it is possible to choose your own ACD strategy.
(1) Longest Idle - Agent that is idle for the longest period.
(2) Longest Available - Agent that is available for the longest period.
(3) Round Robin - Agent that accepted the least calls.
(4) Serial - Agent based on an ordered list.
(5) Least Calls - Agent that has handled the least calls today.
(6) Least Occupied - Agent that has the lowest handle time.
(6) Parallel - Multiple Agents (Max 4)
(7) Last Agent - Last Agent that had a call with the customer.
(8) Forward to Mobile - Redirect the conversation using the Routing Settings
(9) Countdown - Expand the group based on Skill score and time
(10) Availability - Route the conversation based on Agent availability.
CallBack
With CallBack the customer can leave his / her number to be called back by an available agent during business hours.
Call Me
You can now add a button to your website. When somebody clicks that button, they can enter their number or Skype address. The UCC will then directly and automatically call the website visitor on the number (or SIP address) of the device he appointed and at the same time hunt for an agent with the proper skill and dials the caller to connect the two parties. All other functionality, such as reporting and call recording are still available.
Chat
Start a chat with a person from a group of (federated) Skype for Business users. Chat functionality is one of the most widely used features of standard Skype for Business. However, in order to establish the connection, the two persons need to be linked. Anywhere365 makes is possible to chat with a group of (federated) Skype for Business users, by initiating a chat with a group instead of a person. The presence status of the group is determined by the individual members. Once a group chat is started, Anywhere365 hunts an available group member and offers the chat to that person.
Device Capability Based Routing
Anywhere365 is aware of the client capabilities of an Agent and will behave differently based on the provided functionality. Not all devices or applications are able to interact via voice, video, chat, email, etc. As an example, an Agent using a Skype for Business client on a mobile device will have a different set of capabilities compared to an Agent logged in from a desktop computer with the Skype for Business client. Anywhere365 will automatically recognize the agent’s hardware skill set.
Presence Based Routing
The integration between Anywhere365 and
Queued CallBack
With QueuedCallback The QueuedCallBack feature enables the customer to leave his / her number while waiting in the queue in order to get called back by an available contact center agent. customers can leave their number and disconnect the call, but remain in queue. As soon as it is their turn in queue, an Agent with the appropriate Skill will be hunted. Once the Agent answered he will hear a dial tone and the UCC calls the Customer.
Skill Based Routing
One of the major advantages of Anywhere365 is Skill Based Hunting. This makes it possible to select call agents based on their skills. This means that customers will be connected to only those call agents that are actually able to help them. This way of hunting is used for Voice, Chat and WebChat. Learn More
Machine Learning Based Routing
When offering a webchat dialogue to your customers, you want your customer to get to the right person as fast as possible. An organization contains employees with a variety of skillsets and routing the customer appropriately can be done by a human distribution (first analyzing the question and then forwarding to the specialist) or let the customer make a selection from a menu to get to the right person. In both cases this can lead to unnecessary dialogue or making it complex and customer unfriendly.
Specific information about the webchat dialogue is already being collected.
- Chat Transcript
- Initial Agent
- Skill Chosen
- Classification
If you combine this with Machine Learning, you can predict with a certain amount of probability what the correct Skill or the preferred agent should be. You can then route the conversation to the right destination based on the customer’s input. Eliminating the need for an unnecessary menu or a whole team of operators just routing the customers. Get rid of unnecessary dialogues and free up resources.
WebChat
Start a chat from a website. Chat functionality is one of the most widely used features of standard
Web FileShare
Let the customer directly share files with agents during a web-session.
Web PhotoShare
Let the customer directly share photos with agents during a web-session.
Standard CRM connector in WebAgent
Anywhere365 is developed with information sharing in mind. Therefore, it is possible to create an interface between a UCC and any other system. One of the most important interfaces is the one with CRM Customer Relationship Management, or CRM, is (usually) a software-based, data management method to deal with interactions with customers and potential customers. software. Once a call agent answers a call, and CRM is integrated with Anywhere365, an additional screen pops up and contains all available information of the caller. This might significantly improve the service provided to the caller.