Advanced Work Assignment dashboard for messaging

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated January 30, 2025
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    Summary of Advanced Work Assignment dashboard for messaging

    The Advanced Work Assignment (AWA) dashboard for messaging enables managers to monitor conversation-based work items, helping agents better support customer needs. Available through the Performance Analytics - Content Pack - Advanced Work Assignment plugin, this dashboard provides a comprehensive view of customer service messaging interactions and agent availability to optimize work routing and assignment.

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    End users and roles

    • AWA administrator (awaadmin): Configures Advanced Work Assignment to align with business needs.
    • AWA manager (awamanager): Identifies issues in routing and work item assignment across channels.
    • Agent manager (sncustomerservicemanager): Oversees agents or groups, ensuring customer needs are met through real-time workload visibility.
    • Performance Analytics administrator (paadmin or paviewer): Supports business managers in effectively leveraging Performance Analytics solutions.

    Use case

    The dashboard offers support managers insights into incoming messaging work items and agent availability to handle them. By monitoring daily trends, managers can make informed decisions about adjusting routing criteria, agent capacity, and other parameters that influence how work is assigned to agents.

    Key indicators and data visualizations

    Indicators track essential performance metrics at regular intervals to measure business activities related to messaging work items. The dashboard features the following key indicators and visualizations, mostly presented as single score metrics:

    • Abandon Rate: Percentage of conversations abandoned by the requester.
    • Active Conversations: Messaging chats that are ongoing and not closed, abandoned, or cancelled.
    • Unassigned Conversations: Conversations pending acceptance or queued.
    • In Progress Conversations: Chats on hold, new, or actively being worked on.
    • Average Wait Time - Last 24 Hours: Average time agents take to accept chats queued today.
    • Consumer Average Response Time - Past Month: Average requester response time for closed conversations within the last month.
    • Time To First Response - Last 24 Hours: Time taken to provide the first response for inbound messaging conversations created in the last 24 hours.
    • Customer Satisfaction - Past Month: Customer satisfaction score over the previous month.
    • Service Level: Measurement of service quality per service channel queue.
    • Agent Presence & Capacity: Current agent presence state, channel capacity in use, maximum capacity applied, and universal capacity metrics.
    • Average Handling Time - Last 24 Hours: Average duration of interactions handled in the past 24 hours.
    • Agent Average Response Time - Last 24 Hours: Average agent response time over the last 24 hours.

    These indicators help managers evaluate workload distribution, agent responsiveness, customer satisfaction, and overall service efficiency to optimize messaging interaction management.

    Enable managers to monitor Conversation [interaction] work items so that their agents can better support customer needs.

    This dashboard is available in the Performance Analytics - Content Pack - Advanced Work Assignment plugin. For information on activating the content pack, see Platform Analytics Solutions for Advanced Work Assignment.

    Figure 1. AWA dashboard for Messaging
    The dashboard displays indicators and reports to track agent messaging with customers.

    End users and roles

    End user and goal Required role
    AWA administrator: Configures Advanced Work Assignment to best fit the business needs of customer service. awa_admin
    AWA manager: Identifies the areas of concern for routing and assignment of work items across service channels. awa_manager
    Agent manager: Manages agents or agent groups. The agent manager needs to know what agents are working on to make sure customer needs are being met. sn_customerservice_manager
    Performance Analytics administrator: Ensures that business managers are making the best use of Performance Analytics solutions. pa_admin or pa_viewer

    Use case

    This dashboard provides support managers with an overview of incoming work items and the availability of agents to handle them. Managers can monitor these daily trends to determine if adjustments should be made to the routing criteria, agent capacity values, and other settings that determine how work is pushed to agents.

    Indicators

    Indicators define a performance measurement taken at regular intervals of a business service, an activity, or organizational behavior.

    Indicator Description
    Abandon Rate Percentage of conversations that have been abandoned by the requestor.

    Data visualizations

    Title Type Description
    Active Conversations Single ScoreSingle score report Agent Chat messaging conversations that are not Closed Complete or Closed Abandoned and are not cancelled.
    Unassigned Conversations Single ScoreSingle score report Agent Chat messaging conversation that is in a pending accept or queued state.
    In Progress Conversations Single ScoreSingle score report Agent Chat messaging conversation that is on hold, new, or work in progress.
    Average Wait Time - Last 24 Hours Single ScoreSingle score report Average time it takes for an agent to accept a chat in the queue today.
    Consumer Average Response Time - Past Month Single ScoreSingle score report Messaging conversation that is Closed Complete or Closed Abandoned and is assigned and the requester average response time is not empty and it was created after one month.
    Time To First Response - Last 24 Hours Single ScoreSingle score report Inbound messaging conversation where the first response wait time is not empty and it was created after 24 hours.
    Customer Satisfaction - Past Month Single ScoreSingle score report Customer satisfaction score over the past month
    Service Level Single ScoreSingle score report
    • Type
    • Service Channel
    • Queue
    • Service Level
    Agent Presence & Capacity
    • Agent
    • Current presence state
    • Updated
    • Channel
    • Capacity in use
    • Applied Max Capacity
    • Universal Capacity In Use
    • Max Universal Capacity
    Average Handling Time - Last 24 Hours Single ScoreSingle score report Average time of the interactions handling duration in the last 24 hours.
    Agent Average Response Time - Last 24 Hours Single ScoreSingle score report Average agent response time in the last 24 hours.