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Cisco® Unified Communications Solutions unify voice, video, data, and mobile applications on fixed and mobile networks, enabling easy collaboration every time from any workspace.
Product Overview
The Cisco Unified Communications platform allows customers to move beyond simple transactions to provide a unique, content-rich and customer-centric service through a variety of channels, including voice, web, email messaging, and video - extending customer care beyond the traditional contact center. With these new forms of communication, accurate reporting is vital to ensuring customer service levels are maintained. Having access to the right data when and where you need it is critical.
The Cisco Unified Intelligence Suite is an optional advanced reporting platform that is as flexible as it is intuitive. Customers can report on the details of every contact across all channels from a single interface, regardless of the resources involved.
Built on a robust and extensible Web 2.0 framework, Cisco Unified Intelligence Suite allows customers to extend the boundaries of traditional contact center reporting to an information portal where data can be easily integrated from virtually any source and shared throughout the organization.
Features and Benefits
Cisco Unified Intelligence Suite is a state-of-the-art, open platform offering a secure and unique 360o view of the enterprise with the ability to drill into individual contact details at any level.
The suite comprises two components, Intelligence Center Premium and the Archiver data repository.
Intelligence Center Premium
Intelligence Center Premium is the web-based graphical user interface that forms the cornerstone of the intelligence suite. It provides real-time and historical reporting in an easy-to-use, wizard-based application. You can select from a variety of presentation formats such as interactive grids, XML Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLTs), charts, gauges, and Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds (Figure 2). Further, you can select the report content by choosing the columns to be displayed, specifying the order, applying filter criteria, formatting values, and renaming columns to suit your needs.
Dashboards provide a canvas for grouping multiple objects together to give you a comprehensive view of the contact center statistics with a single glance (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Cisco Unified Intelligence Suite
Administrators can control access to features, reports, and data by granting privileges to individual users or groups of users. Administrators default values to users or groups that define which time zone the data is presented in, language, and other interface preferences.
Several features in this product allow you to extend the Cisco Unified Intelligence Suite platform beyond traditional contact center reporting and into an enterprisewide information portal. You can use data from nontraditional sources to improve business efficiency and effectiveness. Examples include using RSS feeds to subscribe to real-time streams of industry-relevant data or publishing data from anywhere in your network to provide real-time data on changing conditions in the contact center. You also can use HTML post to include live external webpage content or design your own webpage showing a schematic layout with real-time statistics for every resource in your enterprise (Figure 1).
These tools are just a few that are available with the Cisco Unified Intelligence Suite. Table 1 gives a complete list of advanced features.
Table 1. Cisco Unified Intelligence Suite Features and Benefits
Figure 2. Use of XSLT and Internet Feeds
Archiver
The Archiver is an external Microsoft SQL Server data repository that adds significant scalability and flexibility to Cisco Unified Intelligence Suite. Features include the ability to integrate data from multiple sources, including third-party automatic call distributors (ACDs) or proprietary customer databases, as well as the ability to summarize the integrated data by week, month, and year intervals. These features allow you to use a single interface for all your reporting needs and report on a greater amount of data with the most efficient use of disk space.
The Archiver framework allows connections to multiple data points so you can either "connect and report" directly from the third-party data source or "import and transform" data through the Extract Transform and Load (ETL) layer. Data that is integrated through the ETL layer is linked and aggregated with Cisco contact center data to provide consolidated reporting.
When a data source is defined, all of the features of Cisco Unified Intelligence Suite apply to it as well, including the ability to create custom select lists and control access to reports, dashboards, and individual rows of data.
Drill-down features are also extended to allow you to define links between reports. You can move between reports through hyperlinks providing drill-up, drill-down, and drill-across capabilities so that you can link reports from two different sources.
Product Feature Comparison
Table 2 compares features of Cisco Unified Intelligence Suite and Cisco WebView. It is important to understand the differences in these product offerings when considering contact center reporting.
Table 2. Product Feature Comparison
Please note: Areas shaded in gray are advanced integration features. Cisco fully supports these functions, but it is up to the customer using them to provide support for the integration and ensure performance is not adversely affected.
System Requirements
Cisco Unified Intelligence Suite requires two servers, as outlined in Table 3.
Table 3. System Requirements
Ordering Information
To place an order, visit the Cisco Ordering Home Page at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/ordering/index.shtml and refer to Table 4.
Table 4. Ordering Information
Cisco Unified Communications Services
Cisco Unified Communications Services allows you to accelerate cost savings and productivity gains associated with deploying a secure, resilient Cisco Unified Communications Solution. Delivered by Cisco and our certified partners, our portfolio of services is based on proven methodologies for unifying voice, video, data, and mobile applications on fixed and mobile networks. Our unique lifecycle approach to services can enhance your technology experience to accelerate true business advantage.
For More Information
For more information about the Cisco Unified Intelligence Suite, visit www.cisco.com/go/ccreports or contact your local Cisco account representative.