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Glossary
This is a auto-generated Article of all your definitions within the glossary.
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ACW
Short for "After-Call Work". Additional time granted to Users to complete Tasks following a call, such as: complete CRM tickets or adding Tags and Codes to the Session for Reporting purposes.
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Adaptive Card
Flexible, open-source format for displaying interactive content. Used in Nimbus to display Task information in MS Teams channels. Cards can be updated (adaptive) to reflect updates or provide the user with functionality (e.g. Access Recordings, Open context, Answer, etc.).
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Administrator Role
Refers to either Tenant Admin or Service Admin. This role is required to access the Admin Portal of Nimbus.
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Agent
In Nimbus context, Agents are a subset of Users which have specific Skills and Responsibilities assigned. Nimbus uses skill-based Distribution Policies to route incoming calls according to the best-matching or preferred Agents.
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Assistant
Nimbus extension also available as locally installed App. Allows to show call/task context or trigger actions without the need to keep Nimbus open in a browser.
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Attendant Console
Addon for Nimbus used by receptionists. Offers powerful search and call handling features as well as templates for call forwarding, consultation and conferencing.
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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
In Nimbus this refers to a Customer calling (inbound) to a Nimbus Service or User.
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Calling Bot
Handles all Nimbus call related Workflow Activities and their actions during a call (e.g. Answer, Play Prompts, Decline, Hang-up, Invite)
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Codes
Used to complete After-Call Work, e.g. indicate Sales Codes or Task resolutions. Codes can be individualized per Service.
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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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Entra
Also Entra ID. Identity and access management solution by Microsoft that includes Azure AD (AAD) as one of its core components. Entra expands upon Azure AD by adding more advanced security and governance features.
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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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Flexible Dashboards
Collective noun for personal and non-personal dashboards.
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Interact
Addon for Nimbus allowing customers to use their browser to directly interact with Nimbus users and services via website widget.
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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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Media Bot
Handles text and voice related call actions during a session (e.g. Record Voice Messages, Transcribe Calls)
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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" refers to an data-isolated instance of Azure Active Directory (Entra ID) that an Organization receives when they sign up for a Microsoft Cloud Service. Nimbus leverages Tenant features (e.g. User directory, Authentication and Access management) to provide its own services.
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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.