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Glossary
This is a auto-generated Article of all your definitions within the glossary.
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ACW
After Call Work. Time granted to complete tasks that are necessary after an incoming call, e.g. CRM updates, closing Conversation Context, adding Task or Sales completion Codes to the My Sessions view.
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Adaptive Card
Used to display call information in a shared teams channel. The cards can be updated (adaptive) to reflect status updates or provide further functionality such as a link to a recorded call voice message.
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Administrator Role
Refers to either Tenant Admin or Service Admin. This role is required to access the Admin backend of Nimbus.
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Agent
In Nimbus context, agents are a subset of Nimbus users which have specific skills and responsibilities assigned. These skillsets are used for grouping users in skill-based distribution policies during incoming calls.
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Assistant
Nimbus extension also available as separately installed client app, allowing you to get call information or trigger actions without the need to keep Nimbus open in your browser.
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Attendant Console
Additional option to Nimbus used by receptionists for individual call distribution.
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Azure
Cloud platform and services hosted by Microsoft. Used to host Nimbus infrastructure and services.
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Azure Active Directory - AAD
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is a Microsoft identity and access management solution that helps organizations securely manage identities.
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Caller
Generally refers to a customer calling (inbound) to a Nimbus Service or User.
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Codes
Used to complete after-call work, e.g. indicate Sales or Task resolutions. Codes can be applied individually within Service Settings.
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DAX
Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) is a library of functions and operators that can be combined to build formulas and expressions in Power BI, Analysis Services, and Power Pivot in Excel data models.
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Distribution Policy
A ruleset/requirement set of skills and responsibilities required that a Nimbus user must fulfill in order to receive a task.
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DTMF
Dial-tone multi-frequency signaling. Used in Nimbus Workflow Activities.
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Duty/Off Duty
State that signals if a user is ready and capable to receive calls.
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E.164
Phone number format used in some parts of the system (for example PSTN Numbers, contact details).
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Fact
Facts are business process events and metrics gathered with appropriate measures. A fact table is a table that keeps numeric data that might be aggregated in the reporting visualizations.
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KPI
Key Performance Indicator. Data calculated from facts gathered during a session/call. Examples for KPI are "% of lost calls" or "Time that a customer spent in queue".
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MSFT
Abbreviation for Microsoft. In this context generally used when referred to services provided by Microsoft, such as Azure.
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Multimodality
Multimodality is the application of multiple modalities within one medium. A multimodal contact center supports any means of contact (chat, call, email, etc.)
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OData Connector
The means to connect Nimbus Odata sources to other systems for large historical data retrieval. Also see Microsoft Power Automate Connector or Power BI.
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OU
Organization Units (OU) are used to organize teams of people with same background for definition in programming rule sets (e.g. for call-routing or access management).
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Portal
The general graphical interface of Nimbus for all users, requiring authentication to interact with.
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PSTN
Public Switched Telephone Network. Synonymous with the telephone numbers we know of today.
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RONA
Redirect on No Answer. Ensures that the call doesn't get lost and is instead redirected to the queue (or handled otherwise via the workflow). A Nimbus user in MS Teams is given RONA status if they ignore a service call or do not answer it within a set period of time.
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RTC
Real-time Communication (RTC) is a category of software protocols and communication hardware media that gives real-time guarantees. In Nimbus context, this protocol enables to establish sessions between customers and service (agents).
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SDK
A Software Development Kit (SDK) is a collection of software development tools in one installable package. They facilitate the creation of applications by having a compiler, debugger, and sometimes a software framework.
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Short Abandons
Calls that are abandoned on or after the short abandon threshold time.
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Single sign-on (SSO)
Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication scheme that allows a user to log in with a single ID to any of several related, yet independent, software systems
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SIP
Session Initiation Protocol. Also used as short descriptor for "SIP-address". Peer-to-peer protocol standard developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), used for initiating—and also managing and terminating—voice call sessions over the internet.
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SLA
The Service Level Agreement (SLA) is a threshold value that defines whether a fact calculation formula is meeting business criteria.
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Snippet
A small piece or brief extract of a larger data entity (e.g. Service). Can also refer to a code or HTML snippet to be included in your website.
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STT
Speech to text (STT) is a technology that transcribes spoken audio to text.
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Tags
Tags are individual descriptive words used in My Sessions to describe and distinguish call sessions for reporting purposes.
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Tenant
A tenant is a group of users who share a common access with specific privileges to the software instance.
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TTS
Text to Speech (TTS) is a technology to translate written text into speech sounds imitative of the human voice.
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UPN
A User Principal Name (UPN) is an internet communication standard for user accounts. It consists of a prefix (e.g. user account name) and a suffix (domain name), joined by the separator (@ symbol), e.g. john.doe@example.com.
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URI
A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a string of characters that unambiguously identifies a particular resource. All URIs follow a predefined set of syntax rules, but also maintain extensibility through a separately defined hierarchical naming scheme (e.g. "http://").
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Virtual Assistant
Speech recognition feature allowing to transcribe caller voice during service sessions.
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Workflow
A sequence of steps (or Activities) that describes how an incoming caller is processed.