The Call Center Enterprise 31
1. Overview
Call Types
A call type is a category of incoming calls. Calls are categorized based
on dialed number (DN), caller-entered digits (CED), and calling line ID
(CLID). Each call type has a schedule that determines which routing
script or scripts are active for that call type at any time. In reports, you
might want to display data such as the number of calls of a certain call
type that used default routing during a specified interval.
Peripherals
A peripheral is the switch (for example, ACD, PBX, or VRU) that
receives the calls routed by the ICR. In the course of managing the call
center enterprise, you might want to view switch-specific hardware and
software status data along with call and agent information. You can view
this type of data for any supported peripheral in the call center
enterprise.
Routing Clients
A routing client is an entity that sends routing requests to the ICR. A
routing client typically corresponds to a subsystem within an
interexchange carrier or to a peripheral (ACD, VRU, PBX) that is
performing Post-Routing. You can report on statistics for the different
routing clients defined in the ICR system. For example, you might want
to report on the maximum delay of route responses to the routing client
for a specified interval.
Schedules
The GEOTELSchedule Link option allows the Intelligent CallRouter to
import schedule data from an external workforce management system.
The Intelligent CallRouter can then use the workforce scheduling data to
make call routing decisions.
You can also generate reports on staffing schedule data that has been
imported from a third-party workforce management system. The ICR
Workforce Management System is an optional tool for the AW that
allows you to import schedule data and store it in Schedule_Import
tables in the ICR database. For example, you might create a report that
compares scheduled agent states to actual real-time states monitored by
the ICR (for example, Logged In, Ready, Closed Key). You can also
export data for use in ACD reports.