Aspect Software, Incorporated

Aaron Beshears

Donald C Lewis

Darrell Burkhead

Diane Wight

Methods and systems in a contact center for estimating staff levels expected to meet service quality goals are described. In one embodiment, a required staff simulator controller utilizes an event-based simulator to execute staff calculations. The required staff controller reconfigures the simulator for different staff levels and repeatedly runs the simulator to test if the configured staff level is likely or not likely to meet configured service goals using selected confidence levels. The required staff controller determines and presents for each agent type a least upper bound and a greatest lower bound for required staff.

Systems and methods in an electronic contact management system to estimate required staff levels for multi-skilled agents

An apparatus and method are provided for scheduling calls. The method includes the steps of providing a calling period with a plurality of sub-periods and determining a set of historical call completion ratios associated with the plurality of sub-periods. The method further includes the steps of exponentially scaling the respective determined call completion ratios and placing a number of calls during each sub-period of the calling period where the number of calls placed during each sub-period is based upon the respective exponentially scaled call completion ratio.

Method of scheduling calls

Method and system of estimating a number of agents to service contacts arriving on multiple chat channels in an automatic contact distribution system. In some embodiments, estimated average times that agents and contacts spend, respectively, composing a single chat message and an estimated average time of a chat session are used to derive an inflated handle time for any selected number of chat channels, an effective number of agents is computed for the inflated handle time, and that effective number of agents is divided by the selected number of channels.

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Franklin, TN, United States of America

Aaron Beshears