8x8 Quality Management and Speech Analytics 5.1 Release Notes

We have introduced the following enhancements and improvements in the 8x8 Quality Management and Speech Analytics 5.1 release:

Reporting Improvements

This release includes several reporting improvements, which are highlighted below.

Enhanced Experience when Saving Reports

When you make minor changes in the Edit panel, you can use a new Preview button to refresh just the data table instead of the whole page.

New "N/A" Answers in Reports

In reports where answers to questions are displayed, N/A is a valid count answer to some questions.

Ability to Collapse and Expand Top Bar in Reports

To make more room for the content of a report, you now have access to a control that allows you to collapse or expand the search bar in the report.

Ability to Use “Group By,Then By” Sub-Grouping for Average and Trending Reports

• You now have the ability to use sub-groups in addition to using single-level groups in an Average or Trending report. This enables you to add a third layer of hierarchy for grouping evaluation data in reports. Sub-grouping is displayed on the Excel export as well. When you are grouping by evaluator or sub-grouping, and there is no evaluation, the evaluator is listed as None.

• If you use custom data fields, you now have the ability to use these data fields to organize reports. For example, a customer number or some special data might be populated from an additional system, such as a CRM system. Reports now have the capability to include these in the “Group By, Then By” structure.

New Link to Evaluations Page from Reports

When you select a Subtotal cell in a Summary or Trending report, there may be more than one evaluation included in the average calculation. These evaluations can be viewed as a group in the Evaluations search page by clicking a new link, which appears in cases where more than one evaluation is considered.

Improved Speech Topic Trends Report

• The Speech Topics Trends report now has the ability to report hourly or daily. When hours and days are selected, the report will be limited to a window of 48 hours or 14 days, respectively.

• Minor grammatical improvements have been made to the reporting options available to you.

Quality Management Improvements

This release includes several Quality Management improvements, which are highlighted below.

Ability to Auto-Fail Sections of an Evaluation

The new Auto-Fail Section feature simply sets all the question points in that section to 0, similarly to the function of the Auto-Fail Evaluation feature; this allows you to auto-fail a specific portion of the evaluation, rather than all of it. Auto-Fail Evaluation continues to function in the same way as before. The descriptions for auto fail functions have also been improved, and now display a message when evaluation question answers result in auto-fail behavior.

New Column and Filters for Auto-Fail

You now see a new column in the Evaluations search page if an evaluation was failed on a specific section or completely. In addition, these evaluations can be filtered using the search filter under the new field Evaluation Auto-Fail.

New Messages for Auto-Failed Evaluations

New messages help guide you when an evaluation question is answered in a way that causes an auto-fail in a specific section, or for the entire evaluation. These messages can show up per question, as well as when the evaluation is saved.

Ability to Set Consistency Goals

As a manager, you now have the ability to measure how consistent a question response is. Consistency is counted based on how often an agent met their goal, divided by the number of evaluations in the consideration period. For example, if Agent A has 10 evaluations and met their goal on 5 of those, Agent A’s consistency is 50%. Consistency can now be configured along with other Goal settings. Consistency is calculated for subtotal columns and grand totals, as well as row totals for each row item. Additionally, exports to Excel now contain this information.

Enhanced Bonus Configuration Options

Bonuses are calculated in two ways:

• Bonus by points: To calculate bonuses based on points, clear the check box labeled as “Ignore bonus point values and increase the actual point values given to the agent by % if one or more bonus responses are given”.
  When unchecked, each question type now supports bonuses. This includes Yes/No, Multiple Choice, Scale, and Single Answer questions. The bonus option is only presented if the question meets 100% of the possible points, preventing users from being given bonuses on questions which do not meet 100% of the points required. There is no limit on how many questions can be awarded bonuses when they are calculated based on points.
  

• Bonus by percentage: To calculate bonuses based on percentage, select the check box labeled as “Ignore bonus point values and increase the actual point values given to the agent by % if one or more bonus responses are given”.
  By default, this option is disabled, as it changes the mathematical calculation for specific use cases.
  

Ability to Add Bonus on Evaluation Editor Page

From the evaluation editor page, you have the option to add a bonus to any type of question. Evaluations with bonuses added are indicated by a Bonus icon. Bonuses are also indicated on the Single Evaluation report.

New Search Field to Filter by Evaluations that Contain Bonuses

You can now use filters in the Evaluations search page and in evaluation reports, based on which evaluations were or were not scored with bonuses.

Improved Template Editor

• You can now toggle allow comments even if the template has already been scored.

• Coaching hints now display a maximum character counter as you write coaching hints.

• Abnormalities no longer appear in template editor sizing on-screen.

Bug Fixes

The following bug fixes have been applied in this release: