EM for IEX WFM Integrated

For IEX WFM Integrated, you can:

Organizational Entities

EM organizes all contact center business using these entities:

  • Line of business is the highest-level unit. Typically, each EM client has one line of business.

  • Agent data group stores information such as phone numbers, addresses, and supervisor assignments for each agent. This is specific only to IEX WFM Integrated.

  • Scheduling units organize employees into groups with common scheduling requirements.

  • Management unit (MU) is a group of agents and supervisors within a contact center location. A location can have more than one management unit, such as a group of similarly skilled agents or a group for each floor in the building. Each program has at least one management unit. You can only assign a management unit to one program.

  • Skill is a type of interaction that agents can handle, such as emails, inbound calls, or a specific language.

  • Contact type (CT) is a type of contact handled in one or more management units. Think of contact type as a skill an agent can use to address issues for customers. Types of contacts include emails, chat sessions, inbound calls, French. Each program has at least one contact type.

  • A program is a collection of contact types and management units that share agent resources across one or more sites. In IEX WFM Integrated, a program is an enterprise group. Each line of business has only one program.

  • Site is the location where the agents work.

  • Capacity defines the number of agents each site can have.