Genesys Knowledge Center allows you to make the best use of your enterprise knowledge by capturing, storing, and distributing it wherever it is needed.
Added Article Content Type, allowing Authors to create content using the Article content type in addition to the FAQ content type.
Added Health Monitoring where the server exposes a set of key performance metrics which help to monitor the health of the solution.
Improved Language Support
The experience and process around managing languages with documents has been improved.
Added International Data Support, providing the ability to enter data in non-Latin based languages.
System improvements
Localization Kits now include Context Information, enabling improved translation and simplifying verification testing by allowing the tester to know where to look for effects of translated content.
Added login time language selection, enabling the system to determine which localized resources to load at startup time.
Added the use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) Message Server and Solution Control Server.
The following new features were added in the 8.5.1 release:
Knowledge Center Plugin for Workspace Desktop Edition
Workspace Desktop Plugin localization for French, German, Portuguese, Spanish
Enables agents to:
work with knowledge bases in multiple languages
view attachments within found answers
post comments to documents that don't match their questions, allowing documents to be improved
Added browsing capability, allowing navigation through the content of knowledge bases
Added support for formatted content in the documents
Multiple minor improvements to interfaces around the agent experience for the Workspace Desktop integrations
Improved Language Support
Content Management System (CMS) support for authoring of content in any language that is UTF-8 compliant
NLP search available for content authored in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish (keyword-based search is already supported for any UTF-8 compliant language.)
Security Improvements
Mutual TLS (Transport Layer Security) for the Knowledge Center Server and the CMS.
Pulse Reporting Improvements
Expanded dashboards in Pulse enable deeper dives into knowledge events analysis
GEO location tracking and reporting of questions/searches based on IP address
Reporting API: access to data around events such as search, content viewed, content feedback and others
Keyword clouds
Role-Based Access Control: When you add qualifying skills to a knowledge base, only agents with those skills may access that knowledge base.
Ability to secure ElasticSearch API from data modification requests
Integrations
Configurable web integration with:
Genesys Email Forms
Genesys Web Engagement
Genesys Web Callback
Search Tuning Enhancements
System can use customer implicit feedback (such as navigation through result provided) to improve search precision over time
Confidence score: Question and answer matching boosted when a customer opens an answer and keeps answer open for a long period of time
Knowledge Center CMS
Rich text editing capabilities available for content authoring in CMS
Ability to setup regular, automatic synchronizations of changed and approved content from CMS to Knowledge Center Server
Other Improvements
Indexer:
imports documents with all allowed fields (including custom fields and attachments) from XML files
applies XSLT transformation to provided XML files to align structure
The following new features were added in the 8.5.0 release:
Indexing and Federated Search
Index knowledge from a variety of data sources and expose them via a single search interface
Search for knowledge using simple natural language–like sentences
Search content quickly with an auto-complete feature that provides suggestions as you type your search phrase
Collects user feedback in order to promote or demote a given knowledge article's relevance for future searches
Supports keyword search for multiple languages
Index structure optimized for international content
Agent Empowerment
Exposes knowledge seamlessly via a plugin to Workspace Desktop Edition, the app where agents spend most of their time interacting with customers
Gives agents customer search history so that they know what the customers have searched, reviewed, and ignored online before they escalated to human-assisted service
Allows agents to search knowledge bases for any content that may not have been exposed to public websites and filter the results based on context and metadata to find the right answer quickly
Transfer the resulting knowledge to the interaction response with a single click
Leverage your agent’s subject matter expertise and allow them to contribute content to the knowledge base—administrators can review the content before publishing it for customer consumption
APIs and Integrations
Genesys Knowledge Center comes with a rich set of APIs for:
Session Management
Knowledge Base Operations
FAQ Retrieval
Feedback Management
Reporting
Proactively offer Chat or Callback or Call Us (phone number) with the help of Genesys Proactive Engagement, when there is negative feedback or no answer was found
Easily customizable widgets that can be exposed to the external website and intranet sites are available out-of-the-box
Content Management
Configure knowledge base structure, custom tags, visibility, and other properties
Create content with or without rich media attachments
Predefined approval workflow allows administrators to approve content before publishing
Administration, Deployment, and Management
Role-based access for Agents, Administrators, Content Managers and Reporting Users
Simple and easy-to-use user interfaces for configuration
Allows you to store data in an external RDBMS system
Data structure is optimized for international content
Allows you to export knowledge bases into the default language configured for Knowledge Center Server
Allows you to configure additional languages for a knowledge base
A separate metadata file which allows access to the Administrator plugin
Installation includes pre-integrated Pulse dashboards
This component must be used with the 8.5.000.20 versions of the other components of Genesys Knowledge Center
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This product includes LibTIFF software developed by Sam Leffler at Silicon Graphics
The Genesys Knowledge Center Plugin for Pulse has been discontinued, as of version 8.5.000.19 of the Genesys Knowledge Center software. The Pulse functionality is now incorporated into the Genesys Knowledge Center Plugin for Administrator.
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