Introduction

This document provides information on:

  • the Altitude product evolution
  • the concepts used in a contact center with Altitude
  • the architecture and components of an Altitude contact center
  • high-availability solutions

See the sections below to better understand the contents of this document.

Product Evolution Guide

This section guides you in the process of applying an update in Altitude systems, by describing the product changes that may have an impact on your project.

Each section of the Product Evolution Guide is an update, containing all the features and improvements made to the Altitude product in the context of the update.

Contact Center Concepts

This section explains the main concepts of a contact center and presents operational and configuration tasks.

What you should know

To better understand the contact center concepts, you should attend one of the following Altitude training courses:

  • Team leader
  • Contact center management.

Contents

Section

Description

Agent work

Describes the types of interactions agents can handle.

Agent campaigns

Describes the concepts related to agents and campaigns.

Customer data

Describes the entities that store the information of contact center customers.

Universal queue

Describes how the Altitude uCI Server places interactions in a queue.

Pacing modes

Describes how the Altitude uCI Server places outbound calls. Details predictive dialing.

Outbound rule

Describes how the Altitude uCI Server handles scheduled outbound contacts.

System Architecture

This section describes the Altitude technical requirements, limitations, and configuration scenarios.

Contents

Section

Description

Contact center components

Lists and describes the contact center components.

Architecture scenarios

Describes how the contact center entities can be connected in several architecture scenarios.

Certified and supported components

Includes technical documentation related to the installation and configuration of a contact center with Altitude.

Installation Guide

This section explains how to install the Altitude solution components.

What you should know

You should be familiar with installation of software, virtualization, network connections, and Altitude components.

Contents

Section

Description

Components

Altitude components.

Virtualization

Contains guidelines on installing in virtual environments.

Update to 8.7

Describes how to update Altitude components to the 8.7 version.

HTTPS configuration

Contains guidelines on how to configure HTTPS.

Agent applications

Describes the prerequisites and installation of Altitude agent applications.

Channels

Describes the prerequisites and installation of Altitude components related to media channels.

Connectors

Describes the prerequisites and installation of Altitude connectors.

Development

Describes the prerequisites and installation of Altitude development applications.

Server components

Describes the prerequisites and installation of Altitude server components.

Supervisor applications

Describes the prerequisites and installation of Altitude supervision applications.

Troubleshooting

Contains common troubleshooting scenarios.

GDPR

This section describes the GDPR concepts, and provides a guide for using the GDPR Portal.

Intended audience

This section is intended for Data Protection Officers (DPOs), supervisors, and administrators, who need to configure the GDPR settings of an Altitude contact center using the GDPR Portal.

Contents

Section

Description

GDPR overview

Contains an overview of GDPR and the Altitude Software interpretation of GDPR.

Altitude data deletion

Describes what data is deleted for each delete operation in the Management Portal and the GDPR Portal.

Altitude and GDPR Portal

Describes how to login to the GDPR Portal, and the first access to the GDPR Portal.

How to configure the GDPR permissions by role

Contains tasks on how to configure permissions related to GDPR operations for administrators and agents.

Protected data configuration

Describes what privacy categories are, how you can configure protected customer fields, and see the changes in the Management Portal and Agent Portal.

Customer consents management

Explains what granted and denied consents are, and how you can see protected and consented data in the Agent Portal and the Management Portal.

Forget requests management

Describes the new and failed forget requests in the GDPR Portal.

Portability requests management

Describes the new and failed portability requests in the GDPR Portal.

Audit

Explains the audit tab of the GDPR Portal, which allows searching for consents and requests.

Prerequisites

Before starting with GDPR, ensure your contact center has the following entities created and configured:

  • One or more services.
  • One or more directories.
  • One or more campaigns.

High Availability

This section describes solutions that maximize the availability of an Altitude contact center operation in the event of unpredictable software and hardware failures.

Contents

Section

Description

Interaction flow and fallback basics

Presents diagrams of the flow of interactions in Altitude.

High Availability concepts

Presents the overview to high availability, and describes the approach to High Availability for Altitude.

High availability cluster architecture

Describes the clusters for high availability.

Failure Scenarios

Describes the failure scenarios for each Altitude component.

Configuration tasks

Contains tasks to create a failover cluster in Windows and install Altitude components in high-availability.

Third-party solutions

Presentation of third-party solutions that may provide higher availability on Altitude contact centers.

System administration

This section contains high-level system configuration tasks to get your Altitude contact center running, and also examples of how to implement single sign-on.