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KnoahSoft, Inc.
701 N. Green Valley Parkway, Suite 200
Henderson, NV 89074 USA
http://www.knoahsoft.com
Tel: 702 990-3022
Fax: 650 779-9899
Product Overview
KnoahSoft Harmony is a web-based suite of tightly integrated tools, designed to
enhance and improve all aspects of your contact centers operations and
performance. It is easy to implement, maintain, and manage in a variety of diverse
contact center deployment modelsfrom centralized contact centers, to
distributed branches, to work-at-home agents.
Harmony is a flexible and comprehensive solution that empowers contact center
staff and businesses with scalable applications that synchronize and unify the
entire workforce, regardless of VoIP architecture.
Harmonys sophisticated yet easy to use monitoring, recording, quality assurance,
reporting, and analytic features provide contact center management and agents
alike with all the tools necessary to effectively manage the entire agent life cycle
process.
Logging In
To log into Harmony:
Step 1 Open your internet browser and enter your Harmony URL.
Step 2 The login page appears. Enter your System Administration user ID and password.
Step 3 Click Login. The Harmony Dashboard appears.
The Organization page is where you define the structure of your organization
your company, sites, clients, departments, and designations.
The Company page lists the clients and sites for your company.
Adding a Site
To add a site:
Note Select Status Active or Inactive to activate or de-activate any component of your
companys hierarchysites, clients, departments, etc.as your business
conditions require.
Adding a Client
To add a client:
Adding a Department
You can create as many departments as required to resemble your business model.
Once created, departments are available to assign to designations.
To add a department:
Adding Designations
Harmony is organized around employee designations typically found in contact
center operations. (Refer to the Designation Hierarchy Example topic, below,
for a sample listing.)
To add a designation:
Note You must select Report Templates from the Reports section of the Set Feature
Permissions screen in order to set report feature permissions (below).
Note If you have uploaded custom reports, they will also be displayed here and
available for designation permission assignment.
Note Use caution when deleting system data, as this will affect related data settings.
Always consider de-activating data (i.e., change its status to inactive), in case you
want to re-use it in the future.
For example:
Work Types define the specific business operations and tasks that an organization
performs: customer support, chat, etc. A Work Type has finer levels of detail, with
channel, transaction type, and queue settings.
Work Types are used by the system to run the searches and reports that provide
insight into the quality and performance of a site.
In this chapter, you will learn how to:
Create queues
Create transaction types
Create Work Types
Creating Queues
Queues provide an additional level of tracking and support for the transaction
types within your Work Types. For example, an Internet service provider may
want to create two separate queues, broadband and dial-up, for their technical
support transaction type. (Harmony has two default queues, Inbound and
Outbound).
The Queue page is used to edit, view, and create queues.
Step 1 Click Work Type > Queue. The Queue screen appears, along with a list of all
previously created queues at the bottom of the screen.
Step 2 Enter a name, Skill/Hunt Group ID (if applicable), and description for the queue,
then click Save. The queue is now available for use in a Work Type.
Step 1 Click Work Type > Transaction Type. The Transaction Type screen appears,
along with a list of all previously created transaction types at the bottom of the
screen.
Step 2 Enter a name and description for the transaction type, then click Save. The
transaction type is now available for use in a Work Type. (Note that Harmony has
one default transaction type, Support.)
Step 1 Click Work Type > Work Type. The Work Type screen appears, with a list of all
previously created Work Types at the bottom of the screen (not shown).
Step 4 Click Save to save the Work Type, or click Save & Add New to save the current
Work Type and create another one, as required.
The Employee Management page is used to manage employee records within the
Harmony system, and to set the rules and permissions of system features for
employees and designations.
In this chapter, you will learn how to:
Add a new employee in a fixed or free seating environment
Manage voice configuration settings, including on-demand recording
Search for an employee
View your license information
Step 1 Define the employees reporting profile by entering their name, email, network
ID, and so forth. You can also upload a JPEG image of the employee, if one is
available, by clicking Browse and navigating to locate the file.
Note Refer to the Adding Employees in a Free Seating Environment topic, below, if
you want to configure a phone extension for free seating.
Step 2 Select the Is a Harmony User? checkbox if the employee will be using Harmony
(i.e., they are a supervisor or manager). You must select this checkbox in order to
assign User Feature Permissions and Report Feature Permissions.
Step 3 Select the employees location, department, supervisor, client, and designation.
Note Clicking Reset Password sets the employees login password to password.
This is useful when an employee has forgotten their password and needs you to
reset it for them. Clicking Release Lock allows the user to login again if your
password policy has locked the employee out after a certain number of invalid
login attempts.
Step 4 Select the clients and groups (including custom groups) you want to assign to the
employee. (Refer to Chapter 5, Custom Groups, for information on how to create
a custom group.)
Step 5 Select the groups you want the employee to have access to from the Access to list.
Step 6 Click Recording Rules.
Note If you have uploaded custom reports, they will also be displayed here and
available for designation access assignment.
Step 13 Click Save to add the employee and their rules and permissions to the Harmony
system, or click Save & Add New to save the current employee and create another
employee, as required.
Step 1 From the Dashboard, click the Employee Management tab. The Reporting
Profile screen appears.
Step 2 Enter the extension number of the free seating phone in the Employee First Name
text field, using the following syntax: EXTN_AGENT_<extension number>.
Step 3 Enter dummy (i.e., inconsequential) information in the Email text entry and other
required fields, then click Recording Rules.
Step 4 Select Enable Recording then click Save & Add New. The phone extension is
now configured for free seating, and the text fields are cleared.
Step 5 Return to the Recording Profile page and add new employees, as previously
described.
Note (Avaya environment only) Agents must be added to a hunt group if you are using
free seating.
Note Refer to the On-Demand Recording via Web Application topic, below, for
information on the On-demand selection of the No of Calls (Recording)
pull-down menu, illustrated in Figure 4-5, above.
Step 6 Enable Speech Analytics for the employee then select the Speech Language
Pack to be used for both the agent and the customer. (Note that when you select
Enable Recording then the Speech Analytics checkbox will be enabled for
selection.)
Note A license is required for every user that you wish to use on-demand recording for.
Normally, the call is recorded when you click Record Call Now during Silent
Monitoring. If you want to start recording from the beginning of the call, you must
modify the recorder.ini file, located in the C:\ProgramFiles\KnoahSoft\Recorder
directory:
MonitorAllCalls=TRUE
Note You must restart the recorder service after modifying the file.
To add the Record Call Now link to a users Dashboard, you must also (in addition
to the steps above) enable the On-demand Recording permission for the user via
the Organization > Designation > Set Feature Permissions page. (Refer to the
Adding Designations topic in Chapter 2, Organization, for more information.)
Speech Configuration
Harmonys Speech feature is a powerful analytical tool that enables you to
perform precision search and analysis of recorded calls using keywords and
phrases found in actual conversations between agents and customers.
The Administration module is used to set the following speech parameters for
employees, as shown in Figure 4-7, above:
Speech AnalyticsSelect to enable speech analytics for employee.
Speech Language Pack(s) - AgentLanguage used for employees in calls, as
selected in the Employee Management > Recording Rules screen.
Speech Language Pack(s) - CustomerLanguage used for customers in calls,
as selected in the Employee Management > Recording Rules screen.
Refer to the Speech chapter in the Harmony User Guide for more information
on creating speech-based searches of recordings.
Step 1 Select a search variable from the Search By pull-down menu (e.g., name, alias,
email).
Step 2 Enter search criteria in the Look For text box, then click Go.
Step 3 Search results are displayed, providing the employees code and name. (If you do
not enter search criteria, a list of all employees in the organization is returned.)
Step 4 Click the employees name to launch their profile.
Note You can use partial entries as search criteria. For example, entering G and
selecting Employee Name from the pull-down menu will return a list of all
employees whose name begins with the letter G.
Harmony Licenses
At the top of each employee record is a Harmony licence status indicator. This
tells you how many employees are currently using the licenses available to you,
on both an individual agent and a seat basis. For example, if you add a new
employee, the user number will increase by one.
If multiple extensions are configured on a single phone line, that configuration
uses one seat license. For example, if there are 30 phones and two extensions per
phone, a total of 60 extensions could be configured. 30 seat licenses would be
required and 30 simultaneous call recordings would be available.
The Custom Groups page is used to create and manage employee groups within
the Harmony system, as your business conditions require.
You use the Employee Management page to assign employees to your groups, and
configure which employees have access to which groups. (Refer to Chapter 4,
Employee Management, for more information on creating and managing the
employees in your system.)
Step 1 Click the Custom Groups tab. A list of all previously created custom groups
appears at the bottom of the screen.
Step 2 Enter a name and brief description for the new group.
Step 3 From the Assigned Employees section, select a search variable from the Search
By pull-down menu of (e.g., name, alias, email).
Step 4 Enter search criteria in the Look For text box then click Go.
Step 5 Search results are displayed in the Available Employees list. (If you do not enter
search criteria, a list of all employees in the organization is returned.)
Step 6 Select the employees you want to add to the group from the Available Employees
list, then click Move to transfer them to the Selected Employees list.
Note You can use partial entries as search criteria. For example, entering G and
selecting Employee Name from the pull-down menu will return a list of all
employees whose name begins with the letter G.
Step 7 Click Save to add the group to the Harmony system, or click Save & Add New to
save the current group and create another one, as required.
The Message Thresholds page is used to set the parameters that trigger alerts in a
users Dashboard Inbox.
Alerts are triggered by real-time contact center data (e.g., the agent has put the
caller on hold too many times) and provide mission-critical information about
contact center conditions.
A users inbox also has Notifications, which are user-configured and provide
information to their Inbox about system conditions that do not necessarily require
immediate action. For example, notifications are used to inform a user of when a
new Coaching is available or an Evaluation is pending.
The Rules page is used to set the rules and parameters for the following Harmony
features:
LDAPconfigure for Microsofts Active Directory or manual upload
Password Policyconfigure login password settings for users
Clarifyselect user-level permissions for the Clarify module
LDAP Settings
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is used to access information
stored in an information directory. It is often used as a shared repository for user
identity information, to define permissions that allow only certain people to
access the LDAP database and its contents, thereby enhancing system security.
Harmony can be configured to import Microsofts Active Directory (ADS)
LDAP-like database so you can track usernames, passwords, and other employee
information. You can also manually upload employee information using an Excel
spreadsheet.
Note Before uploading employees, you must create clients, sites, departments, and
designations, as described in Chapter 2, Organization.
ADS Services
In order for Harmony to read and upload data, the ADS directory must contain a
user without any account options assigned. If such a user does not already exist,
you must create one (e.g., KnoahSoftADUser). See figure below for account
options setting screen.
Note If you select Manual Upload, proceed to the Manual Upload section and click
Browse to locate your Excel spreadsheet.
Step 3 Enter the connection parameters for the LDAP directory, as follows:
Base Provider URLURL of server hosting the LDAP directory.
Base DNThe Distinguished Name (DN) of the base provider directory root.
PrincipalThe DN of the LDAP user used to connect to the LDAP server.
Note that the directory must contain a user without any account options
assigned. If such a user does not already exist, you must create one (e.g.,
KnoahSoftADUser).
CredentialsPassword for the principal.
Step 4 Click Test Connection to test the connection to the base provider URL.
To map the users in your LDAP database for import into Harmony:
Step 1 Enter your default LDAP admin name (i.e., sAMAccountName) in the
Authentication Search Filter text field of the User section of the screen.
Step 2 Enter the desired hierarchical level of users you want to import (as they appear in
the LDAP database) in the Import Search Filter text field of the User section of
the screen. Enter criteria with the prefixes below followed by company,
department, or single employee name, specifically:
DC=company name (e.g., DC=knoahsoft)
OU=department name (e.g., OU=Administration)
CN=single employee name (e.g., CN=johnsmith)
Step 3 Select the LDAP to Harmony user mappings you want to import from the User
Mapping drop-down menus. For example, Harmonys employee management
database has a field for VOIP extension; so, if this field is ipPhone in your LDAP
database, select ipPhone from the VOIP Extension drop-down menu.
Step 4 Select all the user mapping criteria you wish to map for import, then click Test
LDAP Users.
Note You must select user mappings for Distinguished Path, Network ID, Client, Site,
Department, and Designation.
Step 5 Click the schedule icon in the Import section of the screen. A new screen appears.
Step 6 Enter when and how often you want Harmony to import and sync the LDAP
database and directory file with Harmony.
Step 7 Select Use LDAP Authentication from the Password Policy section of the screen
(see Figure 7-4) if you want to bypass Harmonys password policy (see topic
below) and use LDAP login authentication.
Step 8 If you selected Manual Upload from the ADS Services section, click Browse to
upload your LDAP directory file.
Step 9 Click either Save to save your changes, or Save & Import to import the selected
LDAP directory file information (either ADS or manual) into Harmony.
Password Policy
The Password Policy screen allows you to set system-level rules for all Harmony
users and their login credentials.
Note Your Harmony password policy configuration will be over-ridden by your LDAP
settings if you use LDAP authentication (see LDAP Settings topic, above).
Step 3 Select Changeable to give the user the ability to change their password.
Step 4 Select Change Required to require that the user change their password upon
initial login.
Step 5 Select Syntax Check Enabled to enforce syntax rules for a new user password:
SyntaxType of password character syntax allowed:
Alpha Only
Numeric Only
Alpha & Numeric
Alpha, Numeric & Special
Minimum Length [in Characters]The minimum required character
length of the password, alpha or numeric.
Step 6 Select Password History Enabled to enforce that a certain number of unique
passwords must be associated with the user before an old password can be reused.
If selected, enter the number of unique passwords in the History Count text field.
Step 7 Select Expiration/Lockout Enabled if you want to have a users password expire
after a certain time, and you want to lock a user out of login after a pre-defined
number of failed login attempts.
Expiration
Validity [in Weeks]Number of weeks the password is valid.
Warning Time [in Days]Number of days in advance that users will be
prompted to change their password.
Grace Limit [in Days]Number of days past the expiration date that the
users password will remain valid.
Lockout
Maximum Failure AttemptsNumber of invalid login attempts a user
is allowed before they are locked out of the login process.
Reset Failure Count [in Mins]Duration, in minutes, when the
maximum failure attempts counter is reset to zero, after the specified
invalid login attempts.
Lockout DurationSelect how long lockout is enforced, either Until
Unlock by Administrator or 1 to 24 hours.
Step 8 Click Save to save your password policy selections.
Clarify
The Clarify page is used to assign the clarify parameters for all users in the
Harmony system.
The clarify module allows an agent to ask for clarification about an evaluation
from an evaluator, after the evaluation has been performed. An evaluator may
either accept or decline the clarification request, and an agent may escalate a
clarification if the evaluator has declined it.
Step 2 Search for the users you wish to assign clarify parameters to, from the Search By
and Look For text field, then click Go. A list of employees who meet the search
criteria appears.
Note Only those employees who have clarify permissions set in the Designation menu
of the Organization screen with be returned. Refer to Chapter 2, Organization, for
more information.
Step 3 Select the checkboxes for the clarify permissions you wish to assign to the user:
Create
Review
Accept/Decline
Escalate
Final Accept/Final Decline
Step 4 Enter the number of days that a clarification can remain open in the Clarification
Threshold (days) text field.
Step 5 Click Save.
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