cisco unified contact center express update and...

Cisco Unified Contact Center Express Update and Roadmap

BRKCCT-1011

Girish Variyath

Product Manager, Collaboration Business Applications BU

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Agenda

• Introduction

• Overview of Unified Contact Center Express

• Unified CCX 10.0(1)

• Unified CCX Priorities

• Q&A

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Overview of Unified Contact Center Express

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Cisco Unified Contact Center Express

All in One Solution

Easy to Deploy

Easy to Use

Contact Center Express

Voice

IVR

API

Reporting

Chat, Email

Social Media

Application Platform

Unified Communications Manager

Business Edition 6000 and 7000, Spec-based HW

SocialMiner

Options

High Availability

ASR/TTS

Outbound IVR Workforce Management

CRM Connectors

Quality Management

Desktop Application Finesse

Cisco Agent Desktop

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Unified CCX 10.0(1)

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Unified CCX 10.0 – Key Themes

User Experience Simplification Customization

• Finesse

• Reporting

• Workforce Optimization

• Virtualization

• Prime Collaboration

• E164

• Home Agent

• APIs

• Finesse Desktop APIs

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User Experience

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Unified CCX 10 User Experience: Cisco Finesse

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Cisco Finesse Overview

Agent State Controls

Supervisor Reports

Web 2.0 Browser Based Desktop

Customizable Gadgets

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Cisco Finesse

• Finesse Cockpit View

• Inbound Voice

• Customizable per team

– Gadget layout

– Phonebook

– Wrap-up

• Live Data Reports

• Integrated Gadgets

• Automatic Redirection Upon Failover

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Agent Features

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Cisco Finesse

• Team Management

– Agent State

– Silent Monitoring

– Barge and Intercept

– Playback recordings

• Live Data reporting

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Supervisor Features

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Cisco Finesse Silent Monitoring

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• Agent in ‘Talking’ state, Supervisor in ‘Not Ready’ state

• Silent Monitored call established between Supervisor and Agent phone

• Supervisor can Barge In or Intercept the call

• Supervisor can Silent Monitor other agents once current call completed

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Cisco Finesse

• Recording using Workforce Optimization

– with MediaSense as an option for the capture platform

• Workflow based recording

– using WFO or MediaSense

• On-demand recording

– available with CAD

Recording Options

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Cisco Finesse Workflow based recording with MediaSense

• Flexible server options

• Recording licenses required on CCX

• Workflows dynamically activate recording

• MediaSense Gadget

UCS-E / ISRG2

UCS-C / UCS-B

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Cisco Finesse

• Finesse Workflows activate recording

• Finesse Workflow configuration enables

– HTTP Request Action to Start Recording

– HTTP Request Action to assign Metadata

to a recording

• Search and play of recordings performed from QM application

– Finesse Gadget in CCX 10.5

Workflow Based Recording with Workforce Optimization

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Cisco Finesse

• Browser based – zero touch deployment

• Co-resident on CCX

• Gadgets

• Desktop Virtualization

– Citrix Xen and VMWare View

• E.164

• Desktop customization

• High Availability

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Deployment

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Cisco Finesse Administration

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• Integrated with App Admin

• Backup and Restore

• Customizable

– Gadget Layout

– Call Variables

– Phonebook

– Reason Codes • Not-Ready

• Sign-Out

• Wrap-Up

• Workflows

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Cisco Finesse Workflow Use Cases

Browser-

based CRM

Agent receives a screen when a call is

delivered

Wrap-Up data is automatically written to a

DB or CRM when the call ends

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Cisco Finesse CRM Integration

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CRM Gadget CRM Gadget

Cisco Finesse API

3rd Party CRM

Cisco Finesse API

CRM iFrame or Screen Pop 3rd Party Gadget 3rd Party Application

CRM iFrame

Simple, easy, cheap, but no deep CRM

integration

Achieves full CRM integration but requires custom development

Out-of-the-box connector

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Cisco Finesse

• Connectors from Bucher+Suter

– Salesforce.com

– Microsoft Dynamics

CRM Connectors

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Unified CCX 10: User Experience: Reporting

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Unified CCX Reporting

• CCX 9

– Historical Reporting Client or Cisco Unified Intelligence Center

• CCX 10

– Single Presentation layer for both Real-time and Historical reporting

– CUIC Reports and Finesse gadgets

• New Capabilities

– Service Levels

– Thresholds and Alerts

– Short Term and Long Term views

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Unified CCX Reporting

• Agent Statistics

– How am I doing

Live Data Agent Reports

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• Agent State Log My state log since midnight

• Agent CSQ Statistics Details of CSQs to which I belong

• Agent Team Summary What are the others in my team doing

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Unified CCX Reporting Supervisor Live Data: Team Reports

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Team State: What is my team doing ?

Team Summary: How is my team doing ?

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Unified CCX Reporting Supervisor Live Data: CSQ Reports

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CSQ Summary: What’s happening now, in the short term and since midnight

CSQ Agent Detail: What are the agents in my CSQ doing

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Customization and Custom Reports

• Live Data

– Visual Customization by Administrator

– Select which fields are to be part of report

– Set thresholds and associated alerts

• Historical Reports

– Visual customization by reporting user

– Custom reporting requires CUIC Premium (available in lab kit) on a separate server

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Live Data and Historical Reports

Unified CCX 10: User Experience: Workforce Optimization

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Unified Workforce Optimization 10.0(1)

• Platform Changes

– User level localization selection

– Scheduled report execution and email delivery

• Quality Management

– Agent: Customizable widgets to track average quality scores and overall performance

– Supervisor: Search, Play and Evaluate in one place

– Local recording storage in distributed environments

– A real time recording status application

• Workforce Management

– Intraday reforecasting

– Shrinkage

• Licensing changes

– WFO 10.0 can be ordered with CCX Enhanced as well as Premium

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Simplification

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Simplification

• Virtualized deployments

– VM template changes

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100 Agent 300 Agent 400 Agent

vCPU 2 2 4

vRAM 8 GB 8GB 16GB

HDD 146 GB 2 x 146 GB 2 x 146 GB • Historical Reports and Live Data via CUIC

– HRC support dropped

• Prime Collaboration

– Deployment: Upgrades from CCX 9

– Assurance: Support for CCX 10

• New licenses:

– Demo: 60 days, 25 CCX Premium licenses with all options is default option

– Customer Non Production Systems (CCX-10-NPS-K9=) for lab testing/training

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Unified CCX : E.164

• E164 Supported with Finesse only

• Agent Desktop

– Agent extension

– Display of Incoming call

– Phonebook and Keypad

• Configuration

– Route point

– Configuration API for Route Point

• Reporting

– DB schema, Intelligence Center

• Script Editor

– Call control steps

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Home Agents

• ‘Extend and Connect’ for Home agent

– Call Termination on PSTN/Mobile phone

– All Call Control operations

– Persistent Connection (nailed up) call

– Basic Supervisor capabilities

– Roadmap features • Recording and Silent Monitoring

• Barge-in and Intercept with Finesse

• Requisites

– VPN

– Jabber Windows Client in Extend mode

– CUCM 10

Using CUCM Extend and Connect

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Customization

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Unified CCX 10: Customization: REST APIs

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REST APIs

• Provisioning

– Call Control Group, Grammar, Prompt and Documents, Trigger

• Configuration

– Agents, Skills, CSQs, Resource Groups, Teams

• Outbound Campaign Management

– Get, Create, Modify, Delete

• Finesse Desktop APIs

http://developer.cisco.com/web/uccxapi

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Unified CCX 10: Customization: Web Application Integration

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Accessing Web Applications

• “Make REST Call” Step from a CCX script

– Access internal or external web services

– Leverage existing CCX APIs for configuration

– Integrate external APIs (CRM, Google, Twitter etc)

Schedule Callback?

•Find out if the customer wants a call back

Find Suitable Time

•Use IVR prompts to get the time of call back.

Schedule Callback

•Use the REST Call step to inject the contact into a running campaign.

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Unified CCX 10.5

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Unified CCX 10.5

• Predictive and Progressive Outbound Agent

• Enhanced Web Chat

• Prime Collaboration Deployment

• Finesse Phase 2

• WFO 10.5

• IPv6

New Features

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Outbound Agents

• Direct Preview, Predictive and Progressive dialer

– Preview , Progressive and Predictive mode with Finesse

– CAD is Preview only (existing)

• Call Progress Analysis

• E.164

• Finesse Gadget

• Outbound reports

• Campaign Management with API support

– Partner products available on CDN

• Available with Outbound Licensing

Predictive and Progressive

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Outbound Agents Finesse Gadget

Agent Reserved for Outbound

Live Voice detected

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Outbound Agents Scheduled Callback

Available

• On an outbound call

• In wrap-up after an outbound call

• On hold on an outbound call

Option to edit the phone number

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Web Chat Enhancements

• Finesse Gadgets

• Multi-Session

• 75 concurrent Web Chat sessions

• Predefined Responses

• Audible Alert

• Agent Alias

• Transcript Download

• Live Data and Historical Reporting

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Live Data Outbound and Web Chat Reports

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CCX 10.5 Desktops

• Finesse

– Direct Preview, Progressive and Predictive Outbound agent

– Multi-session Web Chat

– Multiline

– Extension Mobility

– QM Gadget

– Localization

• Option of CAD or Finesse (not mixed)

• CAD-BE dropped from Unified CCX

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Unified CCX 10.5 Prime Collaboration

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Prime Collaboration Deployment

CCX 10 CCX 10.5

Upgrade from CCX 9.0(2) Upgrade from CCX 9.0(2)

Fresh Install for CCX 10.x

IP address change

Hostname Change

Prime Collaboration Assurance

CCX 10 CCX 10.5

Supported Supported

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Workforce Optimization 10.5

Quality Management

• Finesse Gadgets for recording controls

• Live Screen and voice monitoring

• Eliminate Java Dependency

Workforce Management

• Multi-Channel Forecasting

• Agent Schedules on Mobile

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IPv6 Support

• Dual stack support

• Finesse deployments

• High Availability

Caveats:

• IPv4 for

– ASR/TTS

– MediaSense

– WFO

VVVV

Admin CUIC

CAD Finesse

Editor

S

M

Pure IPv4

Dual Stack

Pure IPv6

ASR/TTS/MediaSense/WFO

Not supported

Supported

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Session Summary

Unified Contact Center Express

Customization

Simplification

User Experience

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Resources

• Selecting the Right Desktop for Your Cisco Unified Contact Center Express: Cisco Finesse or Cisco Agent Desktop

– http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/customer-collaboration/unified-contact-center-express/white-paper-c11-730883.html

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