{"id":31391,"date":"2022-04-18T17:25:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T11:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/?p=31391"},"modified":"2022-04-18T17:25:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T11:55:58","slug":"customer-service-historical-analytics-report-in-dynamics-365-customer-service-part1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inogic.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/customer-service-historical-analytics-report-in-dynamics-365-customer-service-part1\/","title":{"rendered":"Customer Service Historical Analytics Report in Dynamics 365 Customer Service – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In today\u2019s competitive world, customer satisfaction is very important. Providing appropriate and timely service lets you earn your customer\u2019s trust for life. Also, knowing your customer enables you to provide better service and optimize your agent\u2019s productivity.<\/p>\n

\u2018Customer Service Insights<\/strong>\u2019 is now embedded in Dynamics 365 customer service with the inbuilt AI capabilities. The AI-driven technology lets customer service agents decide on how to improve resolution rates, reduce wait times, and decrease customer service costs by looking at the overall case resolution insights, backlog trends, and historical comparisons. It helps to evaluate performance, business impact and also to identify inefficiencies in the system.<\/p>\n

This experience allows you to view the historical analytics directly within Customer Service. Several AI-driven reports and dashboards are available which can be reviewed by service agents and managers. In Dynamics 365 2021 release wave2, you will observe there is out-of-the-box report available named \u201cCustomer Service Historical Analytics\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

To view the report, open \u201cCustomer Service hub\u201d–>under the \u201cService\u201d area–> navigate to \u201cInsights\u201d–>open the \u201cCustomer Service Historical Analytics\u201d.<\/p>\n

When you try for the first time to view the report, you might get the below warning \u201cYour reports are being provisioned. Please allow up to 24 hours for the process to complete\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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NOTE<\/strong>: While I was exploring, it took hardly 1-2 hours for completing the provisioning. Remember that provisioning time may vary for you.<\/p>\n

Navigate to the \u201cService Management\u201d area–>under Insights–>Settings, the \u201cCustomer Service historical analytics\u201d setting is available.<\/p>\n

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If you click on manage, you will observe that this feature is enabled by default.<\/p>\n

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NOTE<\/strong>: If you disable this feature then this report will no longer be visible on the sitemap under \u201cInsights\u201d.<\/p>\n

Once provisioning is completed, the report can be seen in 3 dashboard formats \u201cSummary<\/strong>\u201d, \u201cAgent<\/strong>\u201d and \u201cTopics<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n

The following dashboard reports are available for \u201cCustomer Service historical analytics\u201d reporting:<\/p>\n

1. Summary Dashboard<\/strong> – By default, the user will see the \u201cSummary\u201d dashboard. The Summary dashboard provides the overall summary and displays case topics or the emerging case topics generating a high volume. For more details, refer to this doc<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Topics to watch<\/strong>–<\/strong> At the rightmost corner of the above \u201cSummary\u201d dashboard, you will find the \u201cTopics to watch\u201d area where there is flexibility available by which customer service managers can quickly have a look at top issues.<\/p>\n

Need-<\/strong> New cases that match the topic will be automatically added to the topic group. This can help customer service managers to identify areas for improvement that can have the greatest impact on system performance.<\/p>\n

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Topic clustering is enabled by default when you enable historical analytics. You can refer to this doc<\/a> for more details. To enable it, you have to navigate to the \u201cService Management\u201d–> Insights–> Settings, where the \u201cTopic clustering for case\u201d setting is available.<\/p>\n

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You can click on Manage and can configure as per your need. You can also change the attribute from your case entity where your organization provides the best description of the customer’s issue.<\/p>\n

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NOTE:<\/strong> By default, \u201cCase Title\u201d will be used by the AI model to generate topics.<\/p>\n

KPIs <\/strong>– KPIs displayed in the report are Incoming Cases, Active Cases, Escalated Cases, Avg. resolve time, Avg. CSAT, Avg. survey sentiment.<\/p>\n

Metrics <\/strong>– Metrics displayed in the charts are Case volume by status, Open cases by priority, Incoming cases by channel, Open cases by age, Average CSAT trend, Average survey sentiment trend, Top 10 volume topics, and Emerging case volume by topic, Case metrics by channel, Case Metrics.<\/p>\n

Filtering <\/strong>– You can filter information by selecting values from Duration, Channel, Queue, Agent, and Timezone. By default, the duration is set for the last 30 days.<\/p>\n

2. Agent Dashboard- <\/strong>The Agent dashboard shows charts and KPIs for individual agents and overall agent performance. For more details refer this doc<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Navigate to the \u201cAgent\u201d dashboard as shown below:<\/p>\n

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3. Topics Dashboard- <\/strong>The Topic dashboard shows a detailed breakdown of cases and their assigned topics. For more details refer this doc<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Navigate to the \u201cTopics\u201d dashboard as shown below:<\/p>\n

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NOTE<\/strong>: With more appropriate data, the more accurate visibility\/insights you will get in terms of KPI values and metrics on the dashboard.<\/p>\n

Few things to keep in mind:<\/strong><\/p>\n