
CMS Terms
Key words and phrases used in CMS are defined below,
Abandoned | A call that comes into CMS but is disconnected by |
Call | the caller before being serviced by an agent. |
Abandoned | The minimum number of seconds an agent must |
Call Threshold | be connected to a call for it to be considered a |
| serviced call. Calls that are disconnected before |
| reaching this threshold are considered abandoned |
| calls. |
ACD
(Automatic Call
Distributor)
ACD Call
ACW (after-
The general term for systems such as CMS that automatically answer incoming calls and distribute them to available agents.
An incoming call on a CMS line.
An
Agent Position | The |
| for the voice terminal assigned to an agent. |
Agent Split | A team of agents who handle the same types of |
| incoming calls. |
Alert | A signal, either a beep from the supervisor’s PC |
| or a |
| CMS supervisor that an exception threshold for an |
| agent, split, or a line group has been exceeded. |
| Alarm beeping, if turned on by the administrator, |
| also occurs for system errors and other screen |
| messages. |
A CMS mode in which any call coming into an | |
Operation | agent split rings simultaneously at the voice |
| terminals of all agents in the split. |
Answer Delay | The initial period of ringing in which an incoming |
| call continues to ring if no agent is available. If an |
| agent still is not available by the end of the |
| answer delay period, the call is connected to the |
| voice announcement unit. |