Coming Soon in the 24.4 Release

This page shows the products and features currently planned for the 24.4 release cycle, which begins on 15 October 2024 and ends when the next release begins, which is currently targeted for 29 January 2025. Features are subject to change between now and the end of the release cycle. You may receive these features at different times throughout the release cycle. Remember that you may be required to purchase a license or sign up for a controlled release (CR) program to access some of them.

Register for our 24.4 webinar.

These sessions will cover the coming features in more detail.

Learn about the platform requirements and FedRAMP support status for the CXone apps you use.

ACD

ACD Routing

Multiple Routing Attributes

Currently, the ability to use more than one routing attribute at the same time is in controlled release in the United States and Australia. In this release, it will become generally available in the United States, Australia, and Europe.

A routing attribute lets you narrow the pool of agents assigned to the ACD skillClosed Used to automate delivery of interactions based on agent skills, abilities, and knowledge who are eligible to receive an interaction. For example, you could require that the agent has a certain license or certification. Multiple routing attributes will let you further narrow the pool of eligible agents. For example, you could specify that an agent with the correct skill must also have a certain license and be able to speak a certain language to be eligible to receive the interaction. This will give you more control over which agents an interaction can route to without creating a lot of ACD skills, reducing administration tasks and simplifying maintenance.

To set up multiple routing attributes, you will need to apply attributes to your agent user profiles. You will then use Studio scripts to route interactions to agents based on the ACD skill and the chosen attributes. To avoid narrowing your agent pool so far that interactions become stuck in queue with no matching agents, it will be best to use no more than five routing attributes per routing action.

You will need to have dynamic delivery enabled for your system to use multiple routing attributes.

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On deploy

CXone Attendant

Display Voicemail Message Timestamp in User Time Zone

Currently, voicemail message timestamps in CXone Attendant display in the business unitClosed High-level organizational grouping used to manage technical support, billing, and global settings for your CXone environment time zone with no option to adjust the setting to reflect the user's local time zone.

In this release, you will be able to adjust the voicemail message timestamps so that each user sees them in the time zone configured for their CXone user profile. This will make it easier for you and your agents to find voicemails according to the time they were received.

To make this change, you must have administrator permissions in CXone Attendant.

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On deploy

Developer Portal

Developer Portal Enhancements

The following are updates made to the CXone developer portal during the 24.3 deployment period:

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On deploy

DEVone Integrations

Customer Dynamics

Safe Select

Safe Select is an all-in-one campaign management tool. It simplifies compliance around campaigns sent through voice, SMS, and email channelsClosed A way for contacts to interact with agents or bots. A channel can be voice, email, chat, social media, and so on.. The process of agents approving each communication also determines the order of records. This is useful for TCPA requirements in certain jurisdictions. Other key features of Safe Select are:

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On deploy

C3 Payments

C3 Payments is a PCI-compliant payment tool. It offers a system of workflows for contacts to make a one-time secure payment. These workflows can be initiated by an agent and also be used in agentlessClosed Contacts made without a live agent for tasks such as one-way delivery of information or messages.. interactionsClosed The full conversation with an agent through a channel. For example, an interaction can be a voice call, email, chat, or social media conversation.. They keep the agent out of the PCI scope, which ensures compliance for your business and security for your contacts. Other key features of C3 Payments are:

  • While the agent is not involved in a transaction, they can be notified in their agent application of the progress of the payment.

  • You can keep various systems in sync, like your CRM, ticketing, or billing systems, after payments are made.

  • A mobile SDK to build this functionality into your mobile app.

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On deploy

Surfly

Surfly Standalone Video Chat

Currently, Surfly offers video chat in combination with co-browsing. In this release, Surfly will offer video chat as a standalone product. If you don't need co-browsing, you can still let agents add video to any interaction.

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On deploy

Textel/Capacity

SMS Expansion

Textel's core SMSClosed Short Message Service; also known as text messaging. product will receive the following enhancements:

  • Payments Solution: Customers will be able to securely collect payments without exchanging payment information over SMS. A pop-out in the agent application will let the agent initiate the payment. This will use your existing payment merchant, which lets you avoid setting up additional payment infrastructure.

  • SMS Line Intelligence: You will be able to validate all contact phone numbers. This will ensure that the numbers support SMS and will prevent you from incurring any unexpected messaging costs.

  • Okta MFA Support: If you use Okta as an identity provider, you will be able to use Textel for the SMS component of MFA.

  • Alpha Sender ID: Textel will provide alphanumeric sender IDs so you can send texts internationally. This may also help you expand the number of countries you can send texts to.

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On deploy

CXone Expert

Generative AI Documentation

Documentation about the CXone Expert generative AI tools will guide you to do the following: 

  • Improve content quality to provide better generative responses.

  • Increase generative AI tool utilization.

  • Adjust generative AI settings to increase consumer satisfaction.

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On toggle

Expert Kernels Report

The Expert Kernels report will give you insight into usage, queries, and content adequacy. This will help you to identify content gaps and assess content readiness for AI and LLM applications.

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On toggle

JWT Token Provisioning

A new method of cross-platform authorization will work with OIDC configurations to provide faster authentication. This will allow Enlighten Copilot to work seamlessly.​​ Receiving JWT ID tokens from Enlighten Copilot will enable IdP users to authenticate in one API call without having to authenticate with CXone Expert prior to making kernelClosed Pieces of CXone Expert articles that are relevant to a contact's issue. requests.​​

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On toggle

Instant Translation Report

This report will let you view the number of translated pages on your site in a chosen date range.​ This will help you to assess usage and overages to stay within budgeted limits and to make decisions about localization and translation. It will answer questions like how many languages users translate into, which languages are popular, and which pages are translated most often.​

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On toggle

Import/Export Tool Enhancements​

Currently, the import/export tool lets you export content from a primary CXone Expert site and import it into a destination CXone Expert site to provide a localized or branded knowledge experience.​

In this release, more granular site resource selections for export outputs will prevent resource overwriting during import. This will provide the following benefits:​

  • Faster localization and reduced run-time of imports and exports.​

  • More compact output for easier sharing throughout the localization process.​

  • No need for post-import manual reverting.

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On toggle

Interaction Analytics

Improvements to Dutch Transcripts

A new transformer technology will improve the accuracy of transcriptsClosed Written form of a voice or digital interaction for Dutch. This update will not be applied to existing transcripts, but will improve the quality of future transcripts.

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On deploy

Support for Storing Multiple Languages in Transcript Store

The Transcript Store will be able to store transcripts for interactions in multiple languages. It will even be able to store transcripts in languages not supported for analysis in Interaction Analytics.

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On toggle

Partner Applications

Adapters

Back-End Authentication Update for RingCentral

The back-end communication between RingCentral and CXone requires authentication. This validates the communication for security purposes. Currently, this authentication is set up to accept username and password as valid credentials. In this release, CXone will adopt OAuth as the new authentication method. You must work with NICE or your own developers to implement OAuth. The existing username/password method will continue to be supported; however, it will eventually be removed. If you have an integration with RingCentral, plan to update the authentication method. Work with your CXone Account Representative on a roadmap and deadline.

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On deploy

Regional Expansion

Partner Adapters will be available in the Korea region.

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On deploy

Reporting

Data Download Reports

Agent Refusal Expanded Report

The Agent Refusal Expanded report will provide an advanced view of your agent refusals. It will include the following new columns in addition to those available in the Agent Refusal report:

  • Skill_Name

  • Team_Name

  • Media_Type_Name

  • ANI/From

  • ContactEndReason

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On deploy

Skill Summary Expanded Report

The Skill Summary Expanded report will provide an advanced view of your skill history. It will include the following new columns in addition to those available in the Skill Summary report:

  • Queued

  • Contact_Duration

  • Avg_Talk_Time

  • Abandons

  • Abandon_Time

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On deploy

Agent by Day Expanded Report

The Agent by Day Expanded report will provide an advanced view of agent productivity. It will include the following new columns in addition to those available in the Agent by Day report:

  • Agent_Name

  • Agent_State

Customer Request UI Change

 

Availability GA
On deploy

Studio

These release notes apply to CXone Studio and Desktop Studio. For features specific to CXone Studio, select the CXone Studio filter on the right.

New Studio Action: TYPING INDICATOR

A new Studio action called TYPING INDICATOR will be available. This action will allow you to have a visual indicator that the sender is typing. For example, some chat applications use bouncing dots as a typing indicator. This is helpful in scripts for virtual agentsClosed A software application that handles customer interactions in place of a live human agent., to help make the virtual agent appear more human. It also allows you to communicate to the contactClosed The person interacting with an agent, IVR, or bot in your contact center. that the virtual agent is responding. This action will work with digitalClosed Any channel, contact, or skill associated with Digital Experience. chat and any third-party application that supports typing indicators.

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On deploy

CXone Workforce Management

Instant Break Optimization for Current and Future Days

This feature is available for users with the Advanced license.

Managers will have the flexibility to generate a plan whenever needed. They won't have to rely on preset optimization rules. Plans will expire one hour from the time of creation, based on the optimized time and date.

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On toggle

Display of Hours in Time-Off Planning Summary

Time-Off summary data will be viewable in Hours:Minutes format, in addition to days. This will allow for an easier understanding of time off earned and planning purposes.

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On toggle

Agent Configuration: Enabling Inline Editing for the Agent Configuration UI Grid

You will be able to edit all rules in the table instead of each rule separately.

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On toggle

Self-Service of Extra Hours in My Zone Weekly Schedule View

Currently, Extra Hours in Self-Service is only available in the day schedule view. In this release, agents will be able to see available extra hours opportunities in the weekly view as well.

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On toggle

Enhanced Staffing Efficiency

Updates to the staffing requirement calculator during the forecasting process will yield more accurate staffing requirements with higher sensitivity to parameter changes.​

Customer Request UI Change Availability GA
On toggle

Release Adjustments

The Release Adjustments section describes the changes, removals, and additions made in the feature descriptions since the initial coming soon announcement for the 24.4 release.

Features Removed from This Release

This section describes product changes that were included in the initial coming soon announcement and have since been removed from this release. These will not be part of the 24.4 release but may be part of a future release.

CXone Expert

Generative Search

A customizable search experience will let you smoothly incorporate your unique queries, permissions, and needs into . It will let your consumers source relevant, concise information without reading multiple articles. They will be able to use natural language search in their questions and receive natural language in their answers. This will increase query resolution efficiency and decrease support events.

Generative Response Reporting

Generative response reporting will let you monitor generative search queries, feedback, and click-through rate on source articles. This will help you to make informed decisions about content and settings to improve user satisfaction and increase utilization.