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A
- Tender
- Offered Call
- Abandoned Call (inbound)
- Abandonment Rate (inbound)
- Abandonment Rate (outbound)
- ABC – Always Be Closing
- ABN – General Civilized Dutch
- Subscriber information service
- ABU
- Accent translation technology
- Acceptance test
- Accepted Call
- Access charge
- Account takeover (ATO)
- Accounts Receivable
- ACD – Automated Call Distributor
- ACD Group
- ACD Login
- ACD Report
- ACDC
- ACM
- Acoustic shock
- Activity Code
- ACW
- ACW camping
- Adherence to Schedule
- Adoption
- Advanced Mobile Location (AML)
- Handling time
- Cooling-off period
- After Sales
- Absence
- Agent
- Agent assist
- Agent collision detection
- Agent console
- Agent Experience Optimization (AXO)
- Agent Functionalities
- Agent ID
- Agent Occupancy
- Agent Out Call
- Agent Performance Report
- Agent Position
- Agent Selection
- Agent Status
- Agent to agent (A2A)
- Agent Utilization
- AgentView
- Agent group
- Agentic AI
- Agentic commerce
- Agentic Context Engineering
- Agentic web
- Agentless contact center
- Agile
- AHT
- AI alignment
- AI Act
- AI agent
- AI-as-a-Service (AIaaS)
- AI assistant
- AI literacy
- AIDA
- Emergency center
- Alexa
- Alphanumeric
- General Binding Declaration
- Algorithm
- All Hands On Deck (AHOD)
- All Trunks Busy (ATB)
- Alt tab
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
- Amazon Q
- Analog
- MEMOIR
- ANNA
- Announcement
- Anomaly detection
- Answer Supervision
- Answered Call
- Anthropomorphism
- AUGUST
- API
- Endpoint API
- API call
- App Foundry
- APP fraud (Authorized Push Payment)
- Application management
- Application Based Routing and Reporting
- Application Programming Interface (API)
- Application Service Provider (ASP)
- Application to person services (A2P services)
- AQT
- Architecture
- Arrival Rate (Call arrival rate)
- ARS
- Artificial general intelligence (AGI)
- Artificial Intelligence.
- Artificial stupidity
- ARU
- SO
- ASCII
- Ask for the business
- Assessment
- Assessment Center
- Assisted customer contact
- Association Française de la Relation Client (AFRC)
- Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)
- Asynchronous channel
- assistant
- Audio Response Unit
- Audiotex
- Auditory anchoring
- Augmented reality (AR)
- Auto Available
- AutoReply
- Car Wrap Up
- Automated Attendant
- Automated wrap up
- Automatic Call Sequencer (ACS)
- Automatic Route Selection (ARS)
- Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
- Automatic Greeting
- Automatic Number Identification (ANI)
- AUX abuse
- Auxiliary Reason Code
- Auxiliary Work State
- Availability
- Availability
- Availability level
- Available Status
- Available Time
- Avatar
- Average Call Value
- Average Delay
- Average Delay or Delayed Calls
- Average Delay to Abandon
- Average excess
- Average Handling Time (AHT)
- Average Holding Time on Trunks
- Average Number of Agents
- Average Out Time
- Average Queue Time
- Average Speed of Answer (ASA)
- Average Talk Time (ATT)
- Average Time to Abandonment (ATA)
- Average Wait Time
- Average Work Time (AWT)
- AVG
- AWC
B
- B Corp
- B channel
- B2C, BtC
- Back-channeling
- Back Office
- Backsourcing
- Backup and recovery
- Bad Payers
- Balanced outcome score (BOS)
- TAPE
- Bard
- Barge-in (voice recognition)
- Barge-in (supervisor)
- Baseline Information Security Government (BIO)
- Basic Rate Interface (BRI)
- Basic staffing
- Answer Call
- Beep Tone
- Behavioral targeting
- Do not call register
- Caller tolerance
- Call attempt
- Benchmarking
- Result
- Range
- Directions
- Accessibility research
- Message box
- Availability
- Best and final offer (BAFO)
- Best in Class
- Best of breed
- Best Practice
- File enrichment
- Turn detector
- Occupation
- Occupancy rate
- Busy signal
- Busy signal
- Delivery fraud
- Bid
- bid manager
- Bidding window
- Big data
- Special personal data
- Bila (bilateral conversation)
- blended learning
- blending
- Blind transfer
- Blocked Calls
- Bloctel
- Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
- Bluetooth
- Bodies in Chairs
- Boots
- Botshit
- BPO
- Industry certificate
- Branded calling
- Broadband
- Bricks and Mortars
- Briefing
- Brii Award
- Bring your own CCaaS
- Bring your own Device (BYOD)
- Bring Your Own Model (BYOM)
- Source code
- brushing
- Budget
- Extraordinary leave
- Business continuity management
- Business continuity management systems (BCMS)
- business hours
- Business intelligence (BI)
- Business Process Management (BPM)
- Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
- Business Rules
- Business to Business (BtB)
- Business to business to consumer (BtBtC)
- Business to Consumer (BtC)
- Busy
- Butt-in-seat
- Butts-in-seats police
- Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL)
C
- Emergency plan
- Call
- Call Agent
- Call avoidance
- Call back
- Call Back Messaging
- Call Blending
- Call Center Verband Deutschland (CCV)
- Call Center Management Association (CCMA UK)
- Call Control Variables
- Call deflection
- Call Detail Recording (CDR)
- Call Disposition
- call driver
- Call flushing
- Call Forcing
- Call forward
- Call History
- Call Load
- Call Logging
- Call Management System (CMS)
- Call Me Back Button
- Call Me Now Button
- Call Mix
- Call reason
- Call reasoning
- Call Recording
- Call reduction
- Call Selection
- Call Statistics
- Call Taping
- Call Treatment
- Call Volume
- Call whispering
- Call-by-Call Routing
- Call/screen recording
- Call center
- Call Center Management
- Caller Entered Digits (CED)
- Caller ID
- Caller Line Identity (CLI)
- Calls Accepted
- Calls Answered
- Calls Handled
- Calls In Queue
- Calls Offered
- Calls Per Agent
- Campaigns
- Canned response
- Collective Labor Agreement (Collective Labor Agreement)
- Capacity plan
- Captive
- Care
- Carrier
- Carrier Preselect
- Case deflection
- Case-Based Reasoning
- CCaaS
- CCM (Customer Contact Magazine)
- CCMA
- CCMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration)
- Center of excellence
- Centrex
- Centum Call Seconds (CCS)
- CES
- Chain of thought (CoT)
- Channel management
- Chaos Mentality
- Chat
- Chatbot
- ChatGPT
- Chatham House Rules
- Choose your own device (CYOD)
- chunks
- Churn
- CISO
- Civility reminder
- Clanker
- class service
- Classroom training
- ClawBot
- Clean Desk Policy
- Click Through Rate
- Click to cancel
- Clickjacking
- Client
- Client/Server
- Closed loop action
- Closed Loop Feedback
- Cloud
- CLOUD Act
- Cloud application
- Cloud bill shock
- Cloud migration
- Cloudnative
- CNIL
- NVC
- Co-Browsing
- Co creation
- Co-sourcing
- Co-sourcing
- Coaching
- Code Telemarketing
- Code of responsible market conduct
- Codec
- COIN
- cold calling
- Collective labor agreement (CAO)
- Collection
- Command and control
- Common Ground
- Communication skills
- Communications Platform as a Service (CPaaS)
- Communications Server
- Competences
- Complaint's paradox
- Completed Call
- Compliance
- Composable software
- Computer Based Training
- Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT)
- Computer Telephony Integration (CTI)
- Concentrated Shift
- Concierge service
- Concurrent agent
- Competitive dialogue
- Conditional Routing
- Conference Call
- Configuration
- Configureerbaar
- Congestion
- Congestion tone
- Connected call
- Connection
- Connectivity
- Consignment
- Contact
- Contact Center Maturity Assessment (CCMA)
- ContactHistory
- Contact Rate
- Contact or communication channels
- Contact center
- Contact Center Agent
- Contact Center Positioning
- Contact center platform
- Contacts Handled
- Containment rate
- Content Management
- Content Management System (CMS)
- Context engineering
- Context overflow
- Context rot
- Context window
- Continuers
- Control plane
- Control questions
- Controlled buses
- conversational
- Conversational AI
- Conversational automation
- conversational commerce
- Conversational Designer
- Conversation intelligence
- Conversational IVR
- Conversational user interface (CUI)
- XNUMX Conversion
- COPC
- Copilot
- Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
- Cortana
- Cost of Delay
- Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ)
- Cost per Call
- Cost per Minute
- Cost per value
- Costcenter
- country code
- CRM
- Cross-selling
- Cross-Training
- CSAT
- CSR
- CSV file
- cubicle
- Customer acquisition cost (CAC)
- Customer Advocacy
- Customer Care Center
- Customer Data Platform (CDP)
- Customer Effort Score (CES)
- customer engagement
- Customer experience (CX)
- Customer-facing
- Customer journey
- Customer journey mapping
- Customer Lifecycle
- Customer lifetime value
- Customer Loyalty
- Customer outcome quality (COQ)
- Customer Profiling
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Customer Satisfaction (CSAT)
- Customer Service
- Customer Service Representative (CSR)
- Customer Success
- Customer survey
- Customer Value
- CustomerFirst
- Cyber
- Cybercrime
- Cybersecurity
D
- D channel
- Daily planning
- Day mirror
- Day management
- Daily Arrival Sheet
- Daily standup
- Off-peak hour
- Date
- data analytics
- Data Directed Routing
- data driven
- Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA)
- data protection officer
- Data security
- Data warehouse
- data-entry
- Database
- Database Marketing
- data breach
- Data minimization
- Data mining
- Day of Week Routing
- DDMA
- DDoS attack
- Dead On Arrival (DOA)
- Decibel (dB)
- Dedicated Agents
- Deep learning
- deepdive
- Delay
- Delay Announcement
- Delay Before Answer
- Delivery center
- Demand organization
- Design thinking
- Desktop Telephony
- Deterministic software
- Dial-up Internet
- Dialed Number (DN)
- Dialed Number Identification Service (DNIS)
- Dialer
- Dialog Manager
- DIBABA
- Service
- Digital beetle
- DigiD
- Digital native
- Digital Operations Resilience Act (DORA)
- Digital Trust Center (DTC)
- digital twin
- Digital twin of the customer (DToC)
- Digital transformation
- Digitization
- Direct Mail
- direct marketing
- Direct-to-Consumer
- DirectWriter
- disaster recovery plan
- Distributed Call Center
- Diversity
- DMAIC methodology
- Do Not Call Me (DNCM)
- Document Management
- Document-oriented work
- Domain Specific Language Models (DSLM)
- Transfer
- Double Exponential Smoothing
- DoubleJack
- Downtime
- doxing
- Drip marketing
- Driver Based Forecasting
- Dual Tone MultiFrequency (DTMF)
- Double-tasking
- Devil's Triangle
- Dumb Switch
- Duty Manager
- Dynamic Answer
- DynamicScript
E
- E-commerce
- E-Learning
- Email management
- E-mail marketing
- e-wallet
- E.164
- eavesdropper
- eCall
- Echo Cancellation
- EENA
- Unique customer view
- First line
- First-line care
- eRecognition
- Eisenhower Principle
- Emergent behavior
- Emotional intelligence
- Employee engagement
- Employee Experience (EX)
- Employee Satisfaction
- empowerment
- end of life
- End of service/end of support
- End-to-end
- ENPS
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- Envelope Strategy
- Equivalent Days
- Ergonomics
- Erlang
- Erlang B
- Erlang C
- Erlang X
- Erlang, AK
- Error Rate
- Errors and Rework
- Escalation
- Escalation plan
- Escalation ping-pong
- ESG policy
- European Accessibility Act (EAA)
- European Confederation of Contact Center Organizations (ECCCO)
- European Customer Contact Alliance (ECCA)
- European Item Numbering (EAN)
- European Digital Identity (EUDI)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- Evals
- Event Driven Forecasting
- Exchange Line
- Exit Interview
- Exit strategy
- Expected Wait Time (EWT)
- eExperience Level Agreement
- Expert System
- Extensible Markup Language (XML)
- Extract, transform, load (ETL)
- Extrapolate
F
- Facility Contact Center
- fallback
- Fast Clear Down
- Fax
- Fear of Better Options (FOBO)
- Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI)
- FEDMA
- FedRamp
- Feedback loop
- Field Service
- File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
- Fine Tuning
- Fire Wall
- First Call Resolution
- First Come, First Served
- Flat Rate Service
- Flex Time Scheduling
- Flexible shell
- Flexible Audio Recording Unit (FARU)
- Flexpool
- Flushing Out The Queue
- FNV
- FOBO (fear of becoming obsolete)
- Follow the sun
- Forced Calling
- Forecast
- Forecast accuracy
- Forecasting
- Forecasting methods
- Format Adjustment
- Formative assessment
- Errors and Repeat Traffic
- Fault tolerance
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Friction
- Frictionless
- Frontier Intelligence
- front office
- FUE (Full User Equivalent)
- Fulfilment
- Full Time Equivalent (FTE)
- Full-duplex
- Function Calling Accuracy
- Function creep
- Functional management
- Fundraising
G
- GAIA benchmark
- Gaia-X
- Gain sharing
- Gamification
- Gantt Chart
- Gartner Research
- GDPR
- Event-Driven Forecasting
- Corrected Number of Calls per Agent
- Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA)
- Gemba walk
- Average Response Speed
- Average Call Time (AHT)
- Average Call Value
- Gemini:
- Generation X (Gen X)
- Generation Y (Gen Y)
- Generation Z (Gen Z)
- Generative AI
- Geopatriation
- Planned Occupancy vs. Current Occupancy
- Scheduled Call Back
- Closed questions
- Split Services
- Staggered Shifts
- Call duration
- Call quality
- Conversation models
- Call control
- Sensitive information
- Ghost calls
- GibberLink
- GigCX (Gig Customer Experience)
- Golden record
- Goods dominant logic (GDL)
- Google Assistant
- Golden Ear
- Graphical User Interface (GUI)
- Toll Free Number
- Grounding
- GrXML
- Guardrails
H
- Hallucination
- Handled Call
- Handling Time
- handover
- Happy calling
- Hard coded
- Hard skills
- Hard selling
- Hashtag
- headcount
- Headless agent
- Headset
- Helpdesk
- Helpdesk fraud
- Repeat traffic
- Right of Withdrawal
- Hiring for promise
- Historical data
- Hitrate
- holacracy
- .
- Holding Time
- HomeAgent
- Homeshoring
- Hotline
- Hotseat
- Household Supplies Inc.
- HR analytics
- HR Tech
- Human Digital Twin
- Human in the loop
- Hunt Group
- HVAC
- Hybrid cloud
- Hybrid work
- hyperautomation
- Hyperpersonalization
I
- like servers and storage without the need to
- ICR
- ICT
- Identified Ringing
- Identity access management (IAM)
- Idle time
- IM
- In call consent
- In-band Signaling
- Inbound
- Inclusivity
- Increments
- Induction
- Inference
- Inference costs
- Influencer marketing
- Info filter
- Busy tone
- Inhouse Contact Center
- Incoming Traffic
- Login time
- Input sanitization
- insourcing
- Instant Messaging (IM)
- Integrated Reporting
- Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)
- Intelligent Routing
- Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
- International Access Code
- International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
- International Access Code
- Internal Response Time
- Internet
- Internet Protocol (IP)
- Internet Service Provider (ISP)
- Internet Telephony
- interpolate
- Interval Based Accuracy
- Interval Based Accuracy
- Intervals
- Interval planning
- Intraday Forecast
- Intraday forecasting
- Intraday management
- Intraday reporting
- Intraday scheduling
- Intraday statistics
- Intraflow
- Intranet
- Intraweek Forecast
- Inverse Real Time Factor (RTFx)
- Invisible Queue
- IP Telephony
- ISO 10001
- ISO 10002
- ISO 10003
- ISO 10004
- ISO 18295
- ISO 19770-1
- ISO 19770-2
- ISO 20000-1
- ISO 22301
- ISO 22301
- ISO 27001
- ISO 27017
- ISO 27018
- ISO 27701
- ISO 29115
- ISO 31000
- ISO 9001
- ISO / IEC 24760-1: 2025
- ISO / IEC 42001-2023
- ISO
- ISP
- IT asset management system (ITAM)
- IT Debt
- IT security
- IT service management (ITSM)
- Iter-RetGen
- ITO
- IVR
K
- Calibrate
- Channel strategy
- Channel control
- Kanban
- Knowledge management
- Knowledge management system
- knowledge worker
- Choice menu
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Keyboard warrior
- Dial tone
- Complaint
- Client
- Customer advisor
- Customer image
- Customer experience
- Customer contact
- Customercontact.nl
- Customer Contact Center (KCC)
- Customer contact employee
- Customer contact professional
- Customer contact strategy
- Customer Support
- Customer Service Federation (KSF)
- Customer centricity
- Customer panel
- Customer profile
- Customer journey
- Customer Relationship Score (CRS)
- Customer segmentation
- Customer satisfaction
- Customer satisfaction research
- Customer expectations
- Customer value
- Know your customer (KYC)
- Knowledge graph
- Contact
- Buying signals
- KPO (Knowledge process outsourcing)
- Artificial intelligence
- Quality monitoring
- Quantitative Forecasting Methods
L
- Lagging KPIs
- LAMA
- LAN
- Country code
- Longest Waiting Agent
- Large action model (LAM)
- Large Language Model (LLM)
- Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps)
- Latency
- Lead
- Lead collection
- Leader board
- Leadgeneration
- Leading KPIs
- Lean
- Lean Six Sigma
- Learning & development (L&D)
- Learning Experience Platform (LXP)
- Learning Management System (LMS)
- Leave Without Pay (LWP)
- Legacy
- Legacy Systems
- Learning organization
- Lift & shift
- Line
- Line load
- Line occupancy
- Likelihood to recommend (LTR)
- Listbroker
- live agent
- Live chat
- LLM Grooming
- Load balancing
- Local Area Network (LAN)
- Logged On
- Localization
- long call
- Longest Available Agent
- Longest Delay
- Look Ahead Queuing
- Look Back Queuing
- Lost Calls
- low code
- Low-rank adaptation (LoRA)
- Loyalty program
- Loyalty
- LSD
- Listening line
- LWOP
M
- M-commerce
- DO
- Machine customer
- Machine learning
- Machine to machine
- Make Busy
- Malicious prompt inserting
- Malware
- Managed Insourcing
- Managed Staffing Arrangement
- Management By Walking Around (MBWA)
- Manual Answer
- Manual Available
- Marketing funnels
- Master Data Management (MDM)
- MBWA
- Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)
- Employee experience
- Employee satisfaction
- Employee satisfaction survey
- Media plane
- Control room
- Data leak reporting obligation
- Announcement text
- Member Gets Member (MGM)
- Message Unit
- Messaging
- Metaverse
- Metric
- Microlearning
- Micromanagement
- Microservices
- Migration
- My environment
- My
- Mission critical
- Model card
- Model collapse
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Model routing
- Modem
- Modular Jacket
- Moment of truth
- MOSCOW
- Most Idle Agent
- Moves, Adds and Changes (MAC)
- Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
- Multi vendor sourcing
- Multi-agent system
- Multi-turn interactions
- multi-channel
- Multilingual
- Multimodal
- multisite
- Multi-skilled
- multitasking
- Music On Hold
- Mute
- Mystery calling
- mystery shopper
N
- Naked quitting
- Named agent
- Narrow AI
- Nasscom
- National Algorithm Register
- National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
- National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)
- National Customer Contact Week (NKW)
- National Ombudsman
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
- Natural language recognition
- After work
- NAWT
- NCC
- NCCA
- NCCBP
- NCO
- nearshoring
- Nested requests
- Net Promoter Score (NPS)
- Just Rep
- Area code block
- Netspeak
- Network code
- Network and Information Systems Directive (NIS2)
- Network Interflow
- Neural networks
- Neuro-symbolic AI agent
- Neurodivergent
- Neurodiversity
- Next best action
- Next Available Agent
- NIST
- NIVEA
- No code
- No-pray
- No input timeout
- NOC
- Noise Canceling Headset
- Non-ACD In Calls
- Non-delivery scams
- Non voice
- Emergency numbers
- Normalized Calls per Agent
- Not Ready Time
- nudging
- Numerical
- Caller ID
- Number plan
- Number portability
O
- OB (overbreak)
- Observability
- occupation
- OCR
- Ofcom
- Off Hook
- off-peak
- Off the shelf
- offboarding
- Offered Call
- Offshoring
- OJS
- OLAP
- Oldest Call
- ombudsman
- Omnichannel
- Omnimodal
- On Job Supervision
- On Job Training
- On premise
- On device processing
- Onboarding
- Understaffing
- One-Stop Service
- One Stop Shopping
- Deduplication
- Open source
- Open Ticket
- Open questions
- OpenAI
- Operating Time Span
- Operator
- Operator (AI)
- Split Services
- Scaling up
- opt in
- Opt-out
- Opta
- ORBSI
- Orchestration
- Out-of-the-box
- Outbound
- Outcome
- Outcome to contact ratio
- outliers
- output
- Outsourcing
- Overcrowding
- overflow
- Overlay
- Overtime
P
- PaaS
- PABX
- Page Pushing
- Paperless Office
- Pareto chart
- Pareto Principle
- Participative Leadership
- Patch
- Payment card industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
- PBX/ACD
- PCI DSS
- CFP
- Peak end rule
- Peer Monitoring
- Peer to Peer Platform
- PEMEA
- Pending
- Penetration Rate
- Percent Allocation
- Percent Utilization
- Performance Driver
- Performance-based bidding
- Permission-based marketing
- Human
- Personalisation
- Phishing
- phygital
- Physical AI
- PICNIC error
- Peak traffic
- PII
- Pilot
- Pitch shifting
- Plan Do Check Act cycle (PDCA)
- Schedule
- Planning horizon
- Platform for Customer-Oriented Business (PvKO)
- Platinum service
- Poaching
- Fish
- Pooling Principle
- Position ID
- Post Call Processing (PCP)
- POTS
- Power Dialer
- Predictive analytics
- Predictive customer service
- Predictive dialer
- Prefix
- Pressure prompting
- Pre-training
- Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
- Preview Dialer
- Price per Call
- priming
- Priority Queuing
- Privacy
- Privacy law
- Private AI
- Private Automatic Branch Exchange (PABX)
- Private Branch Exchange (PBX)
- Private cloud
- Proctoring
- Product feed
- Profit center
- Prognosis
- Forecasting methods
- Forecasting
- Progressive Dialer
- Prompt
- Prompt drift
- prompt engineer
- Prompt overload
- Promt trimming
- Proof of Concept (PoC)
- Proprietary
- Prospect
- PSD2
- Pseudonymization
- PSN
- PSTN
- Public AI
- Public cloud
- Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP)
- Public Switched Network (PSN)
- Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)
- Public services
- public affairs
- PUPM (Per User Per Month)
Q
R
- Accreditation Council (RvA)
- RACI model
- Rage clicks
- RAN
- Random Availability
- Random Call Arrival
- RDF (Resource Description Framework)
- Reader board
- Real Time Adherence
- Real Time Management
- Real Time Threshold
- Realtime
- Reason for outage (RFO)
- Received Call
- Right to object
- Right to object
- Recorded Announcement
- Recorded Announcement Route
- Recording
- Red carpet service
- Red teaming
- Redial
- redundancy
- Refresher (training)
- Refund
- Regression analysis
- Reinforcement Learning through Human Feedback (RLHF)
- relational database
- Remote Agent
- Repeat-caller loop
- Request for Information (RFI)
- Request for Payment (RFP)
- Request for Proposal (RFP)
- Request for Quote (RFQ)
- Request for Service (RFS)
- Response Time
- Responsible AI
- Response time
- REST API
- REST endpoint
- Retention
- Retransition
- Retrial Tables
- Retrieval engineering
- Retrieval augmented generation (RAG)
- Return on Investment (ROI)
- Reverse engineering
- Rich Call Data (RCD)
- Rich Communication Services (RCS)
- Ring Delay
- Ritz-Carlton $2000 rule
- robocall
- Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
- Red telephone
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Rolling forecast
- Schedule
- Schedule discipline (Adherence to Schedule)
- Root cause
- Rostered Staff Factor (RSF)
- Round Robin
- Round Robin Distribution
- Router
- Routing
- RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury)
- RTO Return to office
- RTT agent
- Consultation
- Rules based
- Rounds
S
- SaaS
- Safe
- Safety Staffing
- Same time zone support
- Sandbox
- Scenario planning
- Schedule Adherence
- Scheduling
- Written requirement
- SCORM
- Screen Monitoring
- ScreenPop
- Screen/Call Recording
- Screen reader
- Script
- scrum
- SDK (software development kit)
- seasonality
- Seat
- Secure Real-Time Transport Protocol (SRTP)
- Self service
- Semantic modeling
- Seniority model
- Sentiment analysis
- Serious Gaming
- Service Design
- Service differentiation
- Service dominant logic (SDL)
- Service Observation (SO)
- Service recovery paradox
- Service roulette
- Service to Solution
- Service window
- Service promises
- service level
- Service Level Agreement (SLA)
- Service number (0800, 0900)
- Session Border Controller (SBC)
- SHACL (Shapes Constraint Language)
- Shadow IT
- Shared risk/shared revenue
- Shared Service Center (SSC)
- Shift
- Shift bidding
- Shift swapping
- shopping cart
- Shopping cart abandonment
- Short calls
- shrinkage
- Signposting
- Silent Customer Experience (SCX)
- Silent Monitoring
- Single Exponential Smoothing
- Single point of contact (SPOC)
- Single Sign On
- Single source of truth
- Single sourcing
- Single-turn interactions
- SIP trunk
- Crab
- Situationalization
- Six Sigma
- Skill Group
- Skill Set
- Skills erosion
- Skills-based Routing (SBR)
- Skills-first organization
- SKNJ
- SKU – Stock Keeping Unit
- SLA
- Slop
- Small language model (SLM)
- Smile and dial
- Smishing
- Social engineering
- Social media monitoring
- Social search
- social selling
- Sovereign cloud
- Soft selling
- Soft skills
- soft phone
- Software identification tags (SWID)
- Sound masking
- Sourcing
- Spam
- Span of Control
- SPARQL
- Spear phishing
- Speech analytics
- Speech Emotion Recognition (SER)
- Speech to Speech Translation (S2ST)
- Speech-to-reality
- Speed of answer
- Split Shifts
- SPOC
- spoofing
- voice recognition
- Voice Routing
- Speech synthesis
- Speaker verification
- Sprint
- SQL (Structured Query Language)
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
- Statement of work (SOW)
- Voice biometrics
- Voice problems
- Call Center College Foundation
- A New Sound Foundation
- STIR/SHAKEN framework
- Straight Through Processing (STP)
- Strong AI
- Structured retrieval augmentation
- Subliminal learning
- Summative assessment
- Super user
- Supervised learning
- supervisor
- Supervisor Assist Test
- Survey begging
- Sycophancy
- Synchronous channel
- Syndicat des Professionnels des Centers de Contacts (SP2C)
- Synthetic content
- Synthetic data
- Synthetic customer
- system integrator
- System prompt
T
- T-bin
- Task crafting
- Talk over
- Talk time
- TCCM
- TCP / IP
- Teamleader
- Tech savvy
- Technical management
- Telecommerce
- Telecommerce Magazine
- Telecom Act
- Phone tones
- Telemarketing
- Telephone Service Factor (TSF)
- telesales
- TenderNed
- Text-to-Image
- Text-to-Speech (TTS)
- texting
- Thick Clients
- Thin client
- Third Party Call Center
- Threshold
- Working from home
- Ticket
- Tiered Scheduling
- Time series analysis
- Timbre modification
- Time Between Tokens
- Time of Day Effectiveness
- Time Per Output Token
- Time to competence
- Time to first token (TTFT)
- Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP)
- Time Series Forecasting
- Time-To-First-Token speed (TTFT)
- Accessibility
- Accessibility statement
- Toggle
- Token
- Tokenization
- Tokenizer
- Toll-free
- Total Experience (TX)
- Touchpoint
- Traffic Arrival
- Trafficking
- Traffic Manager
- Train the trainer
- Training data
- Transactional Net Promoter Score (tNPS)
- Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework (TDPF)
- Transport Layer Security (TLS)
- trend
- TRiSM
- True to interval (TTI)
- Trunk
- TSR
- Turnover
- Second line
- Two-factor authentication (2FA)
U
- UA
- Outsourcing
- Outgoing traffic
- Fallback location
- Unassisted customer contact
- Unavailable
- Uncanny valley
- UNI Global Union
- Unified Communications (UC)
- Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS)
- Unified desktop
- Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
- Universal Agent
- Universal Factor 2 (U2F)
- Unsupervised learning
- Up Selling
- User experience (UX)
- Utilization Rate
V
- Value center
- Valuestream
- Value stream mapping
- Vaporware
- VCCS
- VCN – Association of Contact Centers Netherlands
- Vector database
- Vendor lock-in
- Connection
- Traffic reports
- Course
- Vibe coding
- Video call
- Virtual Private Network (VPN)
- Virtual Reality (VR)
- Virtual Contact Center
- Virtual assistant
- Virtual queue
- vishing
- Visible Queue
- vision-language model (VLM)
- Visual IVR
- VOCATIO
- Voice
- Voice Authentication
- Voice cloning
- Voice Extensible Markup Language (VXML)
- Voice hacking
- Voice morphing
- Voice of the Customer (VoC)
- Voice of the Customer (VoC)
- Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
- Voice Print
- Voice Response Unit (VRU)
- Voice to form
- voicebot
- VoIP
- VRU
- VTO (Voluntary Time Off)
- VXML
W
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- Queue
- Queuing dynamics
- Wait text
- Waiting time (delay)
- Wall display
- WAP
- Warm transfer
- Warm Hand
- Web3.0
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
- Webcare
- webhook
- WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication)
- Reasons for refusal
- Employers' Association Facility Contact Centers (WFC)
- Balanced Labor Market Act (WAB)
- Personal Data Protection Act (Wbp)
- Transfer of Undertaking Act
- WFM Association (WFMA)
- WFM manager
- WFM registry
- WFM-as-a-service
- wft
- WGCC
- What-if Scenario
- Whisper Transfer
- White glove
- WISMO
- Word Error Rate (WER)
- Work from Abroad (WFA)
- Work from home (WFH)
- Work State
- Workforce Engagement Management (WEM)
- Workforce Management (WFM)
- Workforce Optimization
- workload
- Wrap-up
- Written care
Accountability
This Ziptone customer contact dictionary is based on Contact Center Management Dictionary, published in 2004 by F&G Publishing, Heerhugowaard. That edition is the Dutch translation of ICMI's Call Center Management Dictionary (Brad Cleveland, ICMI, Call Center Press).
In this customer contact dictionary, several entries from the original Dutch translation from 2004 have been omitted because they are no longer relevant or in use. In addition, other new terms from the field have been added by the editors of Ziptone, including from #Contact (Erik Bouwer, Bizzbooks 2014) and from various online sources. The Ziptone dictionary is regularly updated. For suggestions, additions and corrections you can contact us editors from Ziptone.
