Genesys Cloud - Main

Hi All, 

Is there a way to live monitor agents in PureCloud without having to watch for then click on the interaction? 

Most of my customers are moving from Avaya CM environments and are very accustomed to the service observe feature for live monitoring. It's not very flashy, but it does allow a supervisor to initiate a monitor and then go on to other tasks and listen to conversations as they come up. So they don't really have to pay attention to what the agent is doing, whether or not they're on a call... they just hear it. 

Anyone else running into this or come up with a workaround? 

Thanks
Dean.
#PlatformAdministration
#QualityManagement

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Dean Thames
Koch Business Solutions
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That's basically a "continuous monitor". Sorry, no, it is not a feature of PureCloud.

The only matching entry I could find on the Ideas Lab has just one vote:  https://purecloud.ideas.aha.io/ideas/PCV-I-55

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George Ganahl CCXP, GCA
Principal Technology Consultant
Genesys
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Well I voted for it!

Thanks George. I feel like there could be an alert option that could tell a supervisor when an agent is on a call, but it looks like all the alerts are metric thresholds as opposed to status based. Is there anything that can generate a toast for a supervisor saying "this agent is on an acd call"?

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Dean Thames
Koch Business Solutions
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-02-2019 12:00
From: George Ganahl
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

That's basically a "continuous monitor". Sorry, no, it is not a feature of PureCloud.

The only matching entry I could find on the Ideas Lab has just one vote:  https://purecloud.ideas.aha.io/ideas/PCV-I-55

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George Ganahl CCXP, GCA
Principal Technology Consultant
Genesys
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Hi Dean,
Have you had a look at the Dashboard options ? Granted the alarms therein does not send a notification to the supervisor, but it comes with the possibility of knowing the number of agents who are interacting, idle, busy, on queue, off queue etc etc.
Regards
Samuel

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Samuel Effange
Nissan North America, Inc.
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-02-2019 12:39
From: Dean Thames
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

Well I voted for it!

Thanks George. I feel like there could be an alert option that could tell a supervisor when an agent is on a call, but it looks like all the alerts are metric thresholds as opposed to status based. Is there anything that can generate a toast for a supervisor saying "this agent is on an acd call"?

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Dean Thames
Koch Business Solutions
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-02-2019 12:00
From: George Ganahl
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

That's basically a "continuous monitor". Sorry, no, it is not a feature of PureCloud.

The only matching entry I could find on the Ideas Lab has just one vote:  https://purecloud.ideas.aha.io/ideas/PCV-I-55

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George Ganahl CCXP, GCA
Principal Technology Consultant
Genesys

Hi Sam, 
Yes.. those are good for interval and daily aggregates. The use case here is for training though. The supervisor is interested in live monitoring one specific agent at a time. And as it stands, i'm not seeing a way to generate an alert or a toast or something that says "agent suzie just got an acd call..." so that the supervisor knows to go listen to it. 
Thks
Dean.

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Dean Thames
Koch Business Solutions
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-02-2019 13:44
From: Samuel Effange
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

Hi Dean,
Have you had a look at the Dashboard options ? Granted the alarms therein does not send a notification to the supervisor, but it comes with the possibility of knowing the number of agents who are interacting, idle, busy, on queue, off queue etc etc.
Regards
Samuel

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Samuel Effange
Nissan North America, Inc.
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-02-2019 12:39
From: Dean Thames
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

Well I voted for it!

Thanks George. I feel like there could be an alert option that could tell a supervisor when an agent is on a call, but it looks like all the alerts are metric thresholds as opposed to status based. Is there anything that can generate a toast for a supervisor saying "this agent is on an acd call"?

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Dean Thames
Koch Business Solutions


Original Message:
Sent: 04-02-2019 12:00
From: George Ganahl
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

That's basically a "continuous monitor". Sorry, no, it is not a feature of PureCloud.

The only matching entry I could find on the Ideas Lab has just one vote:  https://purecloud.ideas.aha.io/ideas/PCV-I-55

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George Ganahl CCXP, GCA
Principal Technology Consultant
Genesys

------Original Message------

Hi Sam, 
Yes.. those are good for interval and daily aggregates. The use case here is for training though. The supervisor is interested in live monitoring one specific agent at a time. And as it stands, i'm not seeing a way to generate an alert or a toast or something that says "agent suzie just got an acd call..." so that the supervisor knows to go listen to it. 
Thks
Dean.

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Dean Thames
Koch Business Solutions
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------Original Message------

Unfortunately, Sam, I think you will find that the Alert will continue constantly after the agent answers their first interaction of the day. This alert looks at the total number of interactions answered, which is always >0 after the first answer.
Let us know if you find it to work differently.

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George Ganahl CCXP, GCA
Principal Technology Consultant
Genesys
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-02-2019 15:54
From: Samuel Effange
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

Hi Dean & Amanda,
I tried setting an alarm for a particular user to be notified when the agent receives a call, and It was successful. I don't know if this is what your colleagues might be looking for. Have a look at the attached document

Regards

Sam

 

 

 

 

 

Original Message------

Having the ability to monitor a specific agents line without having to click on each interaction would be a good training tool for supervisors.  As stated, it gives the supervisor the ability to work on other tasks while still being able to hear what is happening as calls are pushed to the agent.

For our particular use case, we are a 100% telecommuting team and supervisors don't have the ability to live listen by sitting next to an employee. This would make it easier to monitor their work and provide instant feedback/support.  This would also be helpful in training new employees.  Due to all employees being remote, we do not have the ability for new employees to sit in person next to another agent to hear calls live.  If this was available, we could temporarily assign that permission to a new employee and allow them to hear calls as they come, again without having to catch each interaction and click on it to monitor.

Are there others out there with a 100% telecommuting team that have found "work arounds" for these types of situations?  

Amanda Keeton Contact Center Manager Baker College Contact Center P: 800-469-3165

Sam I saw that one too and had George's thought, but I'm going to test it anywho. We were on the same track there. ​

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Dean Thames
Koch Business Solutions
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-02-2019 16:00
From: George Ganahl
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

Unfortunately, Sam, I think you will find that the Alert will continue constantly after the agent answers their first interaction of the day. This alert looks at the total number of interactions answered, which is always >0 after the first answer.
Let us know if you find it to work differently.

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George Ganahl CCXP, GCA
Principal Technology Consultant
Genesys
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-02-2019 15:54
From: Samuel Effange
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

Hi Dean & Amanda,
I tried setting an alarm for a particular user to be notified when the agent receives a call, and It was successful. I don't know if this is what your colleagues might be looking for. Have a look at the attached document

Regards

Sam

 

 

 

 

 

Original Message------

Having the ability to monitor a specific agents line without having to click on each interaction would be a good training tool for supervisors.  As stated, it gives the supervisor the ability to work on other tasks while still being able to hear what is happening as calls are pushed to the agent.

For our particular use case, we are a 100% telecommuting team and supervisors don't have the ability to live listen by sitting next to an employee. This would make it easier to monitor their work and provide instant feedback/support.  This would also be helpful in training new employees.  Due to all employees being remote, we do not have the ability for new employees to sit in person next to another agent to hear calls live.  If this was available, we could temporarily assign that permission to a new employee and allow them to hear calls as they come, again without having to catch each interaction and click on it to monitor.

Are there others out there with a 100% telecommuting team that have found "work arounds" for these types of situations?  

Amanda Keeton Contact Center Manager Baker College Contact Center P: 800-469-3165

Hi Dean,
The Only issue is that, this is the same information that you have under  Performance then Agent. So the question is, does one want to duplicate the task by creating an Alert for something that PureCloud has already done ?
Regards
Sam

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Samuel Effange
Nissan North America, Inc.
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-02-2019 16:09
From: Dean Thames
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

Sam I saw that one too and had George's thought, but I'm going to test it anywho. We were on the same track there. ​

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Dean Thames
Koch Business Solutions
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-02-2019 16:00
From: George Ganahl
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

Unfortunately, Sam, I think you will find that the Alert will continue constantly after the agent answers their first interaction of the day. This alert looks at the total number of interactions answered, which is always >0 after the first answer.
Let us know if you find it to work differently.

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George Ganahl CCXP, GCA
Principal Technology Consultant
Genesys


Original Message:
Sent: 04-02-2019 15:54
From: Samuel Effange
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

Hi Dean & Amanda,
I tried setting an alarm for a particular user to be notified when the agent receives a call, and It was successful. I don't know if this is what your colleagues might be looking for. Have a look at the attached document

Regards

Sam

 

 

 

 

 

Original Message------

Having the ability to monitor a specific agents line without having to click on each interaction would be a good training tool for supervisors.  As stated, it gives the supervisor the ability to work on other tasks while still being able to hear what is happening as calls are pushed to the agent.

For our particular use case, we are a 100% telecommuting team and supervisors don't have the ability to live listen by sitting next to an employee. This would make it easier to monitor their work and provide instant feedback/support.  This would also be helpful in training new employees.  Due to all employees being remote, we do not have the ability for new employees to sit in person next to another agent to hear calls live.  If this was available, we could temporarily assign that permission to a new employee and allow them to hear calls as they come, again without having to catch each interaction and click on it to monitor.

Are there others out there with a 100% telecommuting team that have found "work arounds" for these types of situations?  

Amanda Keeton Contact Center Manager Baker College Contact Center P: 800-469-3165

Hi George,
Yes it does. However, I noticed that if I go to the Alert and click on the agents name, It will give me a detail record of what that agent has done. I don't know if this helps our friends.
Regards
Sam

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Samuel Effange
Nissan North America, Inc.
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-02-2019 16:00
From: George Ganahl
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

Unfortunately, Sam, I think you will find that the Alert will continue constantly after the agent answers their first interaction of the day. This alert looks at the total number of interactions answered, which is always >0 after the first answer.
Let us know if you find it to work differently.

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George Ganahl CCXP, GCA
Principal Technology Consultant
Genesys
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-02-2019 15:54
From: Samuel Effange
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

Hi Dean & Amanda,
I tried setting an alarm for a particular user to be notified when the agent receives a call, and It was successful. I don't know if this is what your colleagues might be looking for. Have a look at the attached document

Regards

Sam

 

 

 

 

 

Original Message------

Having the ability to monitor a specific agents line without having to click on each interaction would be a good training tool for supervisors.  As stated, it gives the supervisor the ability to work on other tasks while still being able to hear what is happening as calls are pushed to the agent.

For our particular use case, we are a 100% telecommuting team and supervisors don't have the ability to live listen by sitting next to an employee. This would make it easier to monitor their work and provide instant feedback/support.  This would also be helpful in training new employees.  Due to all employees being remote, we do not have the ability for new employees to sit in person next to another agent to hear calls live.  If this was available, we could temporarily assign that permission to a new employee and allow them to hear calls as they come, again without having to catch each interaction and click on it to monitor.

Are there others out there with a 100% telecommuting team that have found "work arounds" for these types of situations?  

Amanda Keeton Contact Center Manager Baker College Contact Center P: 800-469-3165

Hi Guys... late to this thread -  but what I have found is that the new filters on interactions work for our Supervisors I Use the filters ENDED "no" and LIMIT INTERACTIONS "ACD-Routed" or combination of these filters PLUS refresh - I know this is low tech but it works for us <g class="gr_ gr_210 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling" id="210" data-gr-id="210">non</g> API dudes.... :-)

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Matt Calton
Grove & Dean Ltd
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-02-2019 15:47
From: Amanda Gebhardt-Keeton
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

Having the ability to monitor a specific agents line without having to click on each interaction would be a good training tool for supervisors.  As stated, it gives the supervisor the ability to work on other tasks while still being able to hear what is happening as calls are pushed to the agent.

For our particular use case, we are a 100% telecommuting team and supervisors don't have the ability to live listen by sitting next to an employee. This would make it easier to monitor their work and provide instant feedback/support.  This would also be helpful in training new employees.  Due to all employees being remote, we do not have the ability for new employees to sit in person next to another agent to hear calls live.  If this was available, we could temporarily assign that permission to a new employee and allow them to hear calls as they come, again without having to catch each interaction and click on it to monitor.

Are there others out there with a 100% telecommuting team that have found "work arounds" for these types of situations?  

Amanda Keeton Contact Center Manager Baker College Contact Center P: 800-469-3165

Original Message------

Hi Sam,
Yes.. those are good for interval and daily aggregates. The use case here is for training though. The supervisor is interested in live monitoring one specific agent at a time. And as it stands, i'm not seeing a way to generate an alert or a toast or something that says "agent suzie just got an acd call..." so that the supervisor knows to go listen to it.
Thks
Dean.

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Dean Thames
Koch Business Solutions
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Thanks Matt... I'll give that a try. 

George, I think a custom api is a bet heavy for this.

ps... I knew that sooner or later I'd post something that generated some activity!

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Dean Thames
Koch Business Solutions
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-03-2019 03:59
From: Matthew Calton
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

Hi Guys... late to this thread -  but what I have found is that the new filters on interactions work for our Supervisors I Use the filters ENDED "no" and LIMIT INTERACTIONS "ACD-Routed" or combination of these filters PLUS refresh - I know this is low tech but it works for us <g class="gr_ gr_210 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling" id="210" data-gr-id="210">non</g> API dudes.... :-)

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Matt Calton
Grove & Dean Ltd
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-02-2019 15:47
From: Amanda Gebhardt-Keeton
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

Having the ability to monitor a specific agents line without having to click on each interaction would be a good training tool for supervisors.  As stated, it gives the supervisor the ability to work on other tasks while still being able to hear what is happening as calls are pushed to the agent.

For our particular use case, we are a 100% telecommuting team and supervisors don't have the ability to live listen by sitting next to an employee. This would make it easier to monitor their work and provide instant feedback/support.  This would also be helpful in training new employees.  Due to all employees being remote, we do not have the ability for new employees to sit in person next to another agent to hear calls live.  If this was available, we could temporarily assign that permission to a new employee and allow them to hear calls as they come, again without having to catch each interaction and click on it to monitor.

Are there others out there with a 100% telecommuting team that have found "work arounds" for these types of situations?  

Amanda Keeton Contact Center Manager Baker College Contact Center P: 800-469-3165

Original Message------

Hi Sam,
Yes.. those are good for interval and daily aggregates. The use case here is for training though. The supervisor is interested in live monitoring one specific agent at a time. And as it stands, i'm not seeing a way to generate an alert or a toast or something that says "agent suzie just got an acd call..." so that the supervisor knows to go listen to it.
Thks
Dean.

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Dean Thames
Koch Business Solutions
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Sorry, no, there is no way in the interface to set up an alert or toast pop when an agent answers an interaction.

You might look at creating your own custom app using the API.

For example, https://developer.mypurecloud.com/api/rest/v2/users/#get-api-v2-users--userId- cab be used with the conversationSummary expansion to get a list of whether the agent is Active on a call. You could parse out the response to check and see if "active" is something other than 0, then use your custom app to alert the supervisor somehow. Just ideas...nothing I've tried to create. Purely custom, and you would have to create the app, probably in a web page.

"conversationSummary": {
"call": {
"contactCenter": {
"active": 1,
"acw": 0
},

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George Ganahl CCXP, GCA
Principal Technology Consultant
Genesys
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-02-2019 12:39
From: Dean Thames
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

Well I voted for it!

Thanks George. I feel like there could be an alert option that could tell a supervisor when an agent is on a call, but it looks like all the alerts are metric thresholds as opposed to status based. Is there anything that can generate a toast for a supervisor saying "this agent is on an acd call"?

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Dean Thames
Koch Business Solutions
------------------------------


Original Message:
Sent: 04-02-2019 12:00
From: George Ganahl
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

That's basically a "continuous monitor". Sorry, no, it is not a feature of PureCloud.

The only matching entry I could find on the Ideas Lab has just one vote:  https://purecloud.ideas.aha.io/ideas/PCV-I-55

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George Ganahl CCXP, GCA
Principal Technology Consultant
Genesys

Thanks to everyone for adding comments around this feature.  I have recently joined the PureCloud Product Team and have Monitor/Coach/Barge as a project I am currently gathering requirements for.

While we support monitoring now, I understand the desire for a constant connection to an agent so as to avoid needing to reconnect each time the agent starts a new call.  Additionally, we'd like to be able to provide coach and barge functionality to round out the offering. 

My initial reaction is that this functionality should be delivered at the agent level versus the interaction level and it sounds like you all agree.  We are considering introducing this functionality in the presence bubble to the left of the agent's name on the Agent-Performance dashboard.  

I'd love to get your feedback on this and any other needs you might have in relation to these features.

Thanks,
Chris

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Chris Bohlin
Genesys - Employees
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------Original Message------

Thanks to everyone for adding comments around this feature.  I have recently joined the PureCloud Product Team and have Monitor/Coach/Barge as a project I am currently gathering requirements for.

While we support monitoring now, I understand the desire for a constant connection to an agent so as to avoid needing to reconnect each time the agent starts a new call.  Additionally, we'd like to be able to provide coach and barge functionality to round out the offering. 

My initial reaction is that this functionality should be delivered at the agent level versus the interaction level and it sounds like you all agree.  We are considering introducing this functionality in the presence bubble to the left of the agent's name on the Agent-Performance dashboard.  

I'd love to get your feedback on this and any other needs you might have in relation to these features.

Thanks,
Chris

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Chris Bohlin
Genesys - Employees
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Another feature that some find quite useful is the ability to continuously monitor a Queue. So, every time a new call enters a specific Queue the supervisor is connected and can monitor the call. This would include the ability to disconnect from a specific call, but continue to monitor the queue and be connected to the next call that connects to an agent.

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George Ganahl CCXP, GCA
Principal Technology Consultant
Genesys
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-03-2019 13:46
From: Chris Bohlin
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

Thanks to everyone for adding comments around this feature.  I have recently joined the PureCloud Product Team and have Monitor/Coach/Barge as a project I am currently gathering requirements for.

While we support monitoring now, I understand the desire for a constant connection to an agent so as to avoid needing to reconnect each time the agent starts a new call.  Additionally, we'd like to be able to provide coach and barge functionality to round out the offering.

My initial reaction is that this functionality should be delivered at the agent level versus the interaction level and it sounds like you all agree.  We are considering introducing this functionality in the presence bubble to the left of the agent's name on the Agent-Performance dashboard.

I'd love to get your feedback on this and any other needs you might have in relation to these features.

Thanks,
Chris

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Chris Bohlin
Genesys - Employees
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I see this thread hasn't had much activity since Spring 2019.  Wow, this would have been really helpful if it had been available during this past 15 months.  Since you said your project was gathering requirements in April 2019, I am wondering if there's been an update.  Was the project approved to move forward?

From Chris:
While we support monitoring now, I understand the desire for a constant connection to an agent so as to avoid needing to reconnect each time the agent starts a new call.  Additionally, we'd like to be able to provide coach and barge functionality to round out the offering.

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Brenda Wynne
Alcon Vision LLC
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-03-2019 13:46
From: Chris Bohlin
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

Thanks to everyone for adding comments around this feature.  I have recently joined the PureCloud Product Team and have Monitor/Coach/Barge as a project I am currently gathering requirements for.

While we support monitoring now, I understand the desire for a constant connection to an agent so as to avoid needing to reconnect each time the agent starts a new call.  Additionally, we'd like to be able to provide coach and barge functionality to round out the offering.

My initial reaction is that this functionality should be delivered at the agent level versus the interaction level and it sounds like you all agree.  We are considering introducing this functionality in the presence bubble to the left of the agent's name on the Agent-Performance dashboard.

I'd love to get your feedback on this and any other needs you might have in relation to these features.

Thanks,
Chris

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Chris Bohlin
Genesys - Employees
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Hi Chris,

Is there any update on this project?

Regards

Sam

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Sam Small
IP Integration Ltd
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-03-2019 13:46
From: Chris Bohlin
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

Thanks to everyone for adding comments around this feature.  I have recently joined the PureCloud Product Team and have Monitor/Coach/Barge as a project I am currently gathering requirements for.

While we support monitoring now, I understand the desire for a constant connection to an agent so as to avoid needing to reconnect each time the agent starts a new call.  Additionally, we'd like to be able to provide coach and barge functionality to round out the offering.

My initial reaction is that this functionality should be delivered at the agent level versus the interaction level and it sounds like you all agree.  We are considering introducing this functionality in the presence bubble to the left of the agent's name on the Agent-Performance dashboard.

I'd love to get your feedback on this and any other needs you might have in relation to these features.

Thanks,
Chris

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Chris Bohlin
Genesys - Employees
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@George Ganahl @Chris Bohlin ​​ , do you have any update?

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Vincent Sabolboro
ATB Financial
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-21-2021 05:32
From: Sam Small
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

Hi Chris,

Is there any update on this project?

Regards

Sam

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Sam Small
IP Integration Ltd
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Original Message:
Sent: 04-03-2019 13:46
From: Chris Bohlin
Subject: Live Monitoring Agents

Thanks to everyone for adding comments around this feature.  I have recently joined the PureCloud Product Team and have Monitor/Coach/Barge as a project I am currently gathering requirements for.

While we support monitoring now, I understand the desire for a constant connection to an agent so as to avoid needing to reconnect each time the agent starts a new call.  Additionally, we'd like to be able to provide coach and barge functionality to round out the offering.

My initial reaction is that this functionality should be delivered at the agent level versus the interaction level and it sounds like you all agree.  We are considering introducing this functionality in the presence bubble to the left of the agent's name on the Agent-Performance dashboard.

I'd love to get your feedback on this and any other needs you might have in relation to these features.

Thanks,
Chris

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Chris Bohlin
Genesys - Employees