Nortel Contact Center Manager Instruction Manual

Nortel Contact Center
What’s New in Release 6.0
Product release 6.0 Standard 4.01 July 2007
297-2183-903

Nortel Contact Center
What’s New in Release 6.0
Publication number: 297-2183-903
Product release: 6.0
Document release: Standard 4.01
Date: July 2007
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Revision history
July 2007 The Standard 4.01 version of Nortel Contact Center What’s
New in Release 6.0 is released. This version is updated to
include support for CS 1000 Release 5.0.
September 2006 The Standard 4.0 version of Nortel Contact Center What’s
New in Release 6.0 is released.
May 2006 The Standard 3.0 version of Nortel Contact Center What’s
New in Release 6.0 is released.
December 2005 The Standard 2.0 version of Nortel Contact Center What’s
New in Release 6.0 is released.
November 2005 The Standard 1.0 version of Nortel Contact Center What’s
New in Release 6.0 is released.

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Contents
1Introduction 9
What is a contact center? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
About this document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2About Contact Center 6.0 13
Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Software delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Components in Release 6.0. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Installation configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
System operations and supported platforms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Documentation suite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
How to get help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
3New in this release 41
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Contact Center portfolio rebranding. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Upgrading from a previous release. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Product changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
AAcronyms in Contact Center 61
Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Glossary 67
Index 81

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What’s New in Release 6.0 9
Chapter 1
Introduction
In this chapter
What is a contact center? 10
About this document 11

10 Contact Center
Introduction Standard 4.01
What is a contact center?
Contact centers are constantly evolving to meet existing needs. Once an
environment designed to process telephone calls, call centers have evolved to
become customer contact centers, processing all types of media transactions.
The contact center is now seen as the core of a business due to its critical role in
maximizing customer satisfaction, while at the same time realizing efficiency.
The integral parts of a contact center consist of
representatives who handle customer transactions (also called agents)
management personnel
technology to handle each customer contact, including routing to the best
qualified agent, treatment, and fulfillment of the contact
A contact center is often a department in a company, or it can be the sole
business unit in a company. Frequently, the contact center is the only point of
contact between a company and its customers or suppliers. Regardless of the
size and complexity of a contact center, its objectives and goals remain
consistent:
to deliver customer satisfaction through prompt, professional contact
handling
to control costs by using resources and technology more efficiently
to help staff work more productively
to increase profitability
Contact centers are accessed globally with customer satisfaction support
becoming increasingly important. Cohesive contact center presence requires
multiple contact centers with different switch platforms.
Some contact centers use Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) technology to enhance
the capabilities of their agents. SIP is the latest development in contact center
technology, and enables converged voice and multimedia services such as voice-
enriched e-commerce, Web page click-to-dial, and instant messaging with buddy
lists, personalized music, forms, and customized video clips.