The release notes cover all functionality improvements and additions between SmartAssist v2.1 and v2.2.
v2.1 November 12, 2022
Minor Release
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CHANGES TO QUEUEING AND ROUTING | |
Queue-Based Routing | Based on feedback from customers and internal teams, SmartAssist will now allow route conversations through traditional contact center queues.
Admins can now also specify whether they want agents to manually accept a conversation or if a conversation should be automatically assigned to them. With this change, the following settings for skills will also be deprecated:
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Agent Console – Functionality Improvements | Version 2.1 brings in a host of functionality improvements to the SmartAssist Agent Desktop, designed at improving agent efficiency and performance. |
Conversations Tray |
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Add a “Send” button to standard responses | Agents can easily send/copy standard responses just like AgentAssist recommendations for faster use. |
Updates to the User Info Widget | 2.1 features a newly designed user info widget for an improved agent experience.
Details for customizing the user info widget can be found at https://docs.kore.ai/smartassist/agent-console/agent-assist/#User_Info |
Support for Sharing WhatsApp-friendly Templates (Media Files) | The SmartAssist Agent Console now includes native support for rendering media files received over the WhatsApp channel. |
Copy Message Text | Agents can now copy the conversation transcript for compliance, documentation, and other related use cases.
This option is available under the extended menu options under the live chat window. |
Agents Will Know When a Manager is Observing Their Interaction with the Customer | Agents will now be able to know that a manager is observing their interaction with a watching icon. |
Layout Management | Managers and admins can now define multiple layouts and assign these layouts to agents based on permissions.
This allows a prescriptive and uniform approach to agent layouts in an organization without the agents having to manage this individually. |
Call Back Options When a Call Drops/Ends | Agents can now call a customer back if they determine that the call dropped due to a network error |
Settings for Controlling Peer-to-Peer Messaging | Admins can now specify if agents will have the ability to send/receive messages on the internal chat capability.
Access to this can be controlled through a set of permissions. |
Agent Audio Chat | Agents can now audio-call other agents for discussion/help on an existing issue. |
Shortcuts and Tooltips | Agent Desktop now has shortcuts for most of the common interactions. A detailed list can be found in the documentation. |
Message – Read Receipts | Agent Desktop now includes support for read receipts. These events, if passed by the originating channel, will be recorded on the agent desktop. |
Monitor Console – Functionality Improvements | Version 2.1 now includes the ability for managers to mark agents as offline, assign specific conversations and change their profile settings from within the monitor console.
The new monitor console also includes a new ‘Queues’ view where managers can see waiting and in-progress conversations by queues. Monitor console now also supports more metrics (Average Response Time, Average Wait Time, Max Wait Time, Drop Off %, and Average Speed to Answer (ASA) and also separates views by live and historical numbers. The drop-off conversations metric has been removed from the agent view. With the new release, we have also removed the ‘Skills’ tab and the Agent Group view under the ‘Agents’ tab. These sections may come back in a later release based on customer feedback. |
Secure Forms | Admins can set up forms as available in the XO platform for SmartAssist instances. These forms can be used by agents as part of customer interactions.
Form data can also be viewed by a specific set of users as defined by admins. |
Experience Flows | With the introduction of the new routing logic, a new node called ‘Set Queue’ has been added to the experience flow.
Flow developers can now also specify if agentassist should trigger a specific dialog once an agent accepts a conversation. This release also includes updated icons for all nodes. |
Configurations |
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Usability Improvements |
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Audit Logs | SmartAssist now includes detailed audit logs for all user events. Audit logs for SmartAssist actions are available in the Admin Console. |
Configuration APIs |
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ANALYTICS AND REPORTING | |
Reports Creation and Management | SmartAssist has a new tab “REPORTS”. This will empower our customers to use historical data to understand how effectively the contact center is accomplishing business objectives.
These reports will be available in PDF and CSV formats. They will run at scheduled intervals, or based on need. Some of them are:
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Data Extract APIs | SmartAssist will also be supporting, beginning this release, APIs to extract data that downstream reporting tools may use.
Currently, we support:
To access data, you will need to register your client app with API scope “SmartAssist Analytics”, and use the client id and secret to generate the access token. |