292 Glossary
AW. See Admin Workstation.
Basic Rate Interface (BRI)
One of two levels of ISDN service. The BRI provides two bearer
channels for voice and data and one channel for signaling (commonly
expressed as 2B+D). See also Primary Rate Interface (PRI).
Boolean expression
An expression that evaluates to TRUE or FALSE; for example:
*.ExpectedDelay < 50
BRI. See Basic Rate Interface.
Business entity
A subset of the ICR enterprise that contains its own scripts, enterprise
services, enterprise skill groups, enterprise agent groups, and schedules.
A business entity may, for example, represent a division within a large
corporation or a single customer within a service bureau. You can limit
the access of individual users and user groups to specific business
entities.
By default, the ICR enterprise consists of only one business entity. If
you enable partitioning, you can define multiple business entities.
Busy label
A routing label that causes the routing client to play a busy signal to the
caller.
Call-by-call routing
A strategy by which each incoming call is processed separately to
determine the optimum destination. The decision for each call can be
based on real-time information about the state of each call center as well
as historical data. By contrast, simple allocation routing statistically
distributes calls among call centers based on historical patterns.
Call center
A single site at which incoming phone calls are received and answered.
Typically, each call center can provide several services and is staffed by
agents from one or more skill groups.
Call control variables
A set of variables used by a peripheral to hold information related to a
call. For example, an Aspect ACD defines variables A through E. When
you define a routing client you can establish how the client’s call control
variables map to ICR variables such as dialed number, caller-entered
digits, and calling line ID.
Call details
Data saved by the ICR about every call it routes and calls that terminate
at each peripheral. Route call detail describes how the ICR processed the