8x8 Quality Management and Speech Analytics 5.1 Release Notes
We have introduced the following enhancements and improvements in the 8x8 Quality Management and Speech Analytics 5.1 release:
Reporting Improvements
This release includes several reporting improvements, which are highlighted below.
Enhanced Experience when Saving Reports
When you make minor changes in the Edit panel, you can use a new Preview button to refresh just the data table instead of the whole page.
New "N/A" Answers in Reports
In reports where answers to questions are displayed, N/A is a valid count answer to some questions.
Ability to Collapse and Expand Top Bar in Reports
To make more room for the content of a report, you now have access to a control that allows you to collapse or expand the search bar in the report.
Ability to Use “Group By,Then By” Sub-Grouping for Average and Trending Reports
- You now have the ability to use sub-groups in addition to using single-level groups in an Average or Trending report. This enables you to add a third layer of hierarchy for grouping evaluation data in reports. Sub-grouping is displayed on the Excel export as well. When you are grouping by evaluator or sub-grouping, and there is no evaluation, the evaluator is listed as None.
- If you use custom data fields, you now have the ability to use these data fields to organize reports. For example, a customer number or some special data might be populated from an additional system, such as a CRM system. Reports now have the capability to include these in the “Group By, Then By” structure.
New Link to Evaluations Page from Reports
When you select a Subtotal cell in a Summary or Trending report, there may be more than one evaluation included in the average calculation. These evaluations can be viewed as a group in the Evaluations search page by clicking a new link, which appears in cases where more than one evaluation is considered.
Improved Speech Topic Trends Report
- The Speech Topics Trends report now has the ability to report hourly or daily. When hours and days are selected, the report will be limited to a window of 48 hours or 14 days, respectively.
- Minor grammatical improvements have been made to the reporting options available to you.
Quality Management Improvements
This release includes several Quality Management improvements, which are highlighted below.
Ability to Auto-Fail Sections of an Evaluation
The new Auto-Fail Section feature simply sets all the question points in that section to 0, similarly to the function of the Auto-Fail Evaluation feature; this allows you to auto-fail a specific portion of the evaluation, rather than all of it. Auto-Fail Evaluation continues to function in the same way as before. The descriptions for auto fail functions have also been improved, and now display a message when evaluation question answers result in auto-fail behavior.
New Column and Filters for Auto-Fail
You now see a new column in the Evaluations search page if an evaluation was failed on a specific section or completely. In addition, these evaluations can be filtered using the search filter under the new field Evaluation Auto-Fail.
New Messages for Auto-Failed Evaluations
New messages help guide you when an evaluation question is answered in a way that causes an auto-fail in a specific section, or for the entire evaluation. These messages can show up per question, as well as when the evaluation is saved.
Ability to Set Consistency Goals
As a manager, you now have the ability to measure how consistent a question response is. Consistency is counted based on how often an agent met their goal, divided by the number of evaluations in the consideration period. For example, if Agent A has 10 evaluations and met their goal on 5 of those, Agent A’s consistency is 50%. Consistency can now be configured along with other Goal settings. Consistency is calculated for subtotal columns and grand totals, as well as row totals for each row item. Additionally, exports to Excel now contain this information.
Enhanced Bonus Configuration Options
Bonuses are calculated in two ways:
- Bonus by points: To calculate bonuses based on points, clear the check box labeled as “Ignore bonus point values and increase the actual point values given to the agent by % if one or more bonus responses are given”.
When unchecked, each question type now supports bonuses. This includes Yes/No, Multiple Choice, Scale, and Single Answer questions. The bonus option is only presented if the question meets 100% of the possible points, preventing users from being given bonuses on questions which do not meet 100% of the points required. There is no limit on how many questions can be awarded bonuses when they are calculated based on points.
- Bonus by percentage: To calculate bonuses based on percentage, select the check box labeled as “Ignore bonus point values and increase the actual point values given to the agent by % if one or more bonus responses are given”.
By default, this option is disabled, as it changes the mathematical calculation for specific use cases.
Ability to Add Bonus on Evaluation Editor Page
From the evaluation editor page, you have the option to add a bonus to any type of question. Evaluations with bonuses added are indicated by a Bonus 
icon. Bonuses are also indicated on the Single Evaluation report.
New Search Field to Filter by Evaluations that Contain Bonuses
You can now use filters in the Evaluations search page and in evaluation reports, based on which evaluations were or were not scored with bonuses.
Improved Template Editor
- You can now toggle allow comments even if the template has already been scored.
- Coaching hints now display a maximum character counter as you write coaching hints.
- Abnormalities no longer appear in template editor sizing on-screen.
Bug Fixes
The following bug fixes have been applied in this release:
| Fix request | Description |
|---|---|
| ROC-3290 | Speech Discovery cannot create topics because no phrase is assigned. |
| ROC-3263 | Retention information is not synchronizing with 8x8 Contact Center. |
| ROC-3121 | Keyboard navigation selects different filters than what is highlighted. |
| ROC-3094 | After a call is ended, the label that was added is deleted. |
| ROC-3031 | The date range selector does not work. |
| ROC-2505 | Columns should hide when an outside element is scrolled to. |
| ROC-2978 | The label input and buttons are not centered. |
| ROC-2915 | The expand/collapse button in the report header does not work on Internet Explorer or Firefox. |
| ROC-2900 | New templates do not show up until role modifications or updates are complete. |
| ROC-2889 | Topics report two # signs for each matched phrase. |
| ROC-2854 | The Overall Emotion column in search results is not displayed correctly. |
| ROC-3228 | Some voice interactions remain in the metadata-ready state, and cannot be played back. |
| ROC-3203 | A deleted column is still visible as an empty placeholder in the application. |
| ROC-3123 | The "audio not available" message is randomly triggered while playing back voice interactions. |
| ROC-3015 | Snipping calls does not work for some customers. |
| ROC-3005 | Retention profile fields are reported as empty. |
| ROC-3000 | Search displays an error if no template authorizations are checked in roles. |
| ROC-2996 | Demo data is not available after adding a brand-new customer instance. |
| ROC-2993 | When application features are purchased, the application does not install them. |
| ROC-2985 | QA Template editor visual elements are not aligned properly. |
| ROC-2853 | Visual elements of the single-date picker are misaligned. |
| ROC-2848 | The same template can be saved several times. |
| ROC-2829 | When loading the next page of data, modifications are reverted for selections. |
| ROC-2821 | When the waveform is opened from the timeline for voice interactions, the waveform soon disappears. |
| ROC-2781 | OR operator behavior is not consistent. |
| ROC-2766 | Additional filters and operators do not display text correctly on reports. |
| ROC-2583 | Labels may be duplicated when saving multiple times. |
| ROC-2549 | The report edit panel does not open consistently. |
| ROC-2548 | The search suggestion list is not attached to the search bar. |
| ROC-2526 | Searching for a specific result in a drop-down list does not work when the list is scrolled away from a matching result. |
| ROC-2511 | The selected interface language is only applied after the page is refreshed. |
| ROC-2504 | When scrolling through page results as the results are loading, the search crashes. |
| ROC-2381 | Matches for topics do not show up on transcripts. |
| ROC-2077 | Users cannot edit evaluations when they are created with a brand-new template. |
