This latest release provides significant new features and capabilities in Oracle. RightNow Cloud Service in the areas of
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ORACLE SERVICE CLOUD AUGUST 2013 RELEASE CAPABILITIES & BENEFITS
KEY FEATURES • Knowledge Syndication
Enhancements • Moderation and Permissioning • Social Monitor Enhancements • Oracle ATG eCommerce Agent
Console Integration • Mobile Agent App – Profiles,
Search, Admin and Language Support • Survey Enhancements • Analytics Enhancements • SmartAssistant AutoTuner
This latest release provides significant new features and capabilities in Oracle RightNow Cloud Service in the areas of web customer service, crosschannel contact center, knowledge management, policy automation and the service cloud. In this release, customers will now have the unified power of Oracle ATG Web Commerce and Oracle RightNow Cloud Service to enable service organizations to create a seamless shopping experience. A successful customer service experience provides the opportunity for customer service representatives to act as a trusted advisor and offer upsell and crosssell suggestions. Oracle’s Policy Automation Cloud Service combined with Oracle RightNow Agent Desktop addresses the need to resolve complex decisions instantly and consistently. And, with new functionality in the areas of knowledge at the point of need, personalized customer feedback interaction, and better understanding of your social customers, this release will empower greater customer satisfaction across both self and assisted service channels.
• Policy Automation – Agent Desktop • Policy Automation – Rule Assistant
WEB CUSTOMER SERVICE
• Policy Automation – Interview
Debugger, Regression Testing and Whatif Analysis • Custom Process Models • Custom Configuration Settings and
Localized Messages
Knowledge Syndication Enhancements
Lower abandonment rates with proactive knowledge delivery to any page within your website. Additionally, the ability to redirect customers back to your support portal or show answer details in context to the page puts knowledge where the customer needs it; on a product page or a shopping cart page. This will reduce abandonment and improve conversion rates. Moderation and Permissioning
Improve community experiences with enhancements for the effectiveness of community managers and provide greater control of community interactions. New moderation queues support the need to identify and manage content and users with streamlined tools and workflows. Moderation planning tools provide community managers with resource planning by tracking their moderators’ efforts. The functionality of independent groups allow business to business communities in particular, the ability to segregate different user profiles from each other while still enabling moderators to manage the community holistically. Social Monitor Enhancements
Better understand your social customers with enhancements to Social Monitor. Updates to Social Monitor enable you to personalize the service process. Social profile data serves to augment customer profiles by capturing social network information. With this rich social context, you can prioritize support interactions
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KEY BENEFITS • Lower abandonment rates • Improve community experiences • Better understand your social
customer • Unify commerce with excellent
service • Adapt to unique needs of your
support process • Increase response rates • Understand usage & add visual
appeal • Maximize selfservice rates • Make agile cross channel
decisions • Model policies faster • Find, fix and avoid policy errors • Event handler enhancements • Leverage site configuration
RELATED PRODUCTS The following related products are available from Oracle: • Oracle Web Customer Service • Oracle CrossChannel Contact
Center • Oracle Policy Automation • Oracle Knowledge Management • Oracle ATG Web Commerce
by filtering for customer social profile attributes such as number of followers and number of friends. Additionally, reduce duplicate contact records by identifying the correct contact at the time of incident creation, based on social identifiers such as “social network handle”, and quickly find existing contacts that match the consumer posting the social message. CROSSCHANNEL CONTACT CENTER Oracle ATG Web Commerce Agent Console Integration
Unify commerce with excellent service through the integration of Oracle ATG Web Commerce and Oracle RightNow Cloud Service. Offer agent assistance to online shoppers during the buying process to reduce cart abandonment by answering questions to help complete orders. Unify agent tasks into a single console with an integrated commerce and support UI and synchronized contact data to improve agent efficiency by maintaining context when moving between support and commerce tasks. And, stay informed with visibility to real time commerce information with uptodate information on order status, cancellation, refunds. Mobile Agent App Profiles, Search, Admin and Language Support
Adapt to the unique needs of your support process. With the August 2013 release, we continue to enhance the functionality of the Mobile Agent App. New functional enhancements include the ability to customize the mobile incident UI layout of standard and custom fields and control the shuttle menu. Better access to historical information with enhancements to local cache automatically fetches historical data on Contacts, Organizations, Incidents, and Tasks. Supervisor administration is improved with password reset and the ability to modify lock status. And, language support now includes: German, Spanish, French, Italian and Japanese. Survey Enhancements
Increase survey response rates with improved survey functionality through enhancements designed to increase participation and completion rates for online surveys. Increase the amount of insights you receive by providing more opportunities to provide feedback by placing a syndicated survey link directly on the Customer Portal or syndicating it to other Web pages with options to display or pop an invitation message to participate in a survey. Enhancements to the reminders allow for the option of multiple reminder notices to unstarted or incomplete survey responses and control over the content that is included in the reminders with merge field capabilities and proof/preview functionality to increase message accuracy. To improve the user experience and increase completion rates, a new back button feature will make it easier for customers to change and view previously submitted answers so that the information collected is more accurate. Analytics Enhancements
Increase productivity and performance by easily identifying where reports are referenced. This new functionality empowers report designers to determine where the reports are being used so that they have an understanding of the impact of modifying or deleting that report. A new button called “References” is now available in the designer, and the users can view which workspaces, navigation set, or dashboard in which the report is being used. KNOW LEDGE MANAGEMENT SmartAssistant AutoTuner
Maximize selfservice rates with SmartAssistant AutoTuner by leveraging machine learning, agentspecified best answers, and implicit answer/incident linking 2
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information. SmartAssistant is automatically tuned to improve the relevancy of suggested answers to reduce the effort to tune and maintain while, ultimately, improving selfservice rates for consumers or customers. POLICY AUTOMATION Agent Desktop
Improve customer satisfaction and reduce appeals with personalized and transparent advice. Policy Automation helps organizations make consistent and effective decisions across heavily regulated industries. This release extends the power of Policy Automation to the Agent Desktop, providing dynamic questionnaires in the Agent Desktop that interact directly with case data so that agents can assist a consumer or constituent in the most effective personalized way. Responsive Interview Design
Configure interviews for every context. Provide an optimal experience on every device to improve customer satisfaction for any service interaction. Easily and quickly configure desired interview appearance, which can be delivered across multiple channels from a single source. Rule Assistant
Model policies faster. A popup rule editor that provides realtime assistance with writing rules in Microsoft Word makes it easier to learn how to write accurate policy rules. The capability for automatically filtering lists allows users to easily choose relevant rule elements to eliminate errors caused by using incorrect field names, functions, and logical structures. And, the Rules Assistant provides the ability to create new or restructure existing rules. Expert modelers can use the Rules Assistant as a quick reference tool to hone their policy models, while first time users have ready access to hints on how to create rules with useful examples of rules and their structure. Interview Debugger, Regression Testing and Whatif Analysis
Find, fix and avoid policy errors. Interview debugger allows you to tune the interview behavior and appearances prior to deployment. This ensures that you can easily identify the root cause of incorrectly behaving screens or controls and ensure screen translations are correct. Leverage Excelbased regression testing to easily create, run and update policy test cases. With this functionality you can verify policy models and rules to confidently update automated policies as policy documents change as well as fine tune policy development by tracking the outcomes of sample data over time. Whatif analysis will help you measure and report on the impact of policy changes by modeling the different policy scenarios and comparing outcomes sidebyside. The analysis and results are designed to be shared with key stakeholders via standard documents and presentations. CLOUD SERVICE Custom Process Models – Phase II
Improve application performance by enabling existing processes to continue to run while waiting for an asynchronous response. Custom Configuration Settings & Localized Messages
Leverage site configurations. Enhancements to the Custom Process Model Custom improve development efficiency by accessing common configuration metadata. Develop consistent custom extensions through public APIs by leveraging common metadata in RightNow such as language strings and pick lists. 3
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