Workforce Optimization for ITSM Channels landing page

  • Release version: Zurich
  • Updated July 31, 2025
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    Summary of Workforce Optimization for ITSM Channels landing page

    The Workforce Optimization for ITSM Channels landing page allows channel managers to manage queues, monitor incident statuses, and analyze team performance from a centralized location. The page can be customized by admins to suit specific needs.

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    Key Features

    • Real-Time Data Analysis: Channel managers can review critical metrics, including incidents with critical priority, breached SLAs, escalated or unassigned incidents, and ongoing chats.
    • Team Performance Monitoring: Users can evaluate agent distribution, work assignments, and the number of available agents in a single view.
    • Custom Landing Pages: Admins have the ability to create and organize multiple landing pages according to their priorities.
    • Detailed Reporting: Drill down into specifics of each report to gain deeper insights into team performance and incident management.

    Key Outcomes

    Channel managers can effectively track and optimize service delivery by monitoring key performance indicators such as:

    • Open incidents with critical priority and those that have breached SLAs.
    • Current statuses of in-progress chats and agent availability.
    • Work items that require assignment and overall incident management health.

    Using this landing page enhances responsiveness and improves overall service management efficiency.

    Manage queues and analyze the status of incidents and chats using the Channels landing page. You can also monitor team performance and work assignments from one location.

    Channels Landing Page

    End user and roles

    As an admin, you can create or customize landing pages for the channel manager. For more information, see Creating custom landing pages for workspaces. If you have multiple landing pages, you can set the order for the landing pages. The lower the order, the higher the precedence in displaying the pages.

    End user and goal Required role
    As a channel manager, you can:
    • Analyze real-time data such as:
      • The number of incidents with critical priority, breached SLAs, escalated or unassigned incidents.
      • The number of chats that are in progress or with requests for help.
      • Agent distribution across work assignments, work items awaiting to be assigned, and number of agents available.
      • The performance of your team.
    • Drill down into each report or analytics to get more data.
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    Use cases

    As a channel manager, you can monitor key information such as the number of SLAs that have been breached, how many open incidents have critical priority, and how many work items are waiting to be assigned from one location.

    Performance Analytics Indicator

    Incidents closed this week: The number of incidents closed during the current week.

    Breakdowns

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    • Assignment group

    Data visualizations

    Title Type Source table or database view Description
    Open Critical Single scoreSingle score Incident [incident] Number of open incidents with critical priority.
    Unassigned Single scoreSingle score Incident [incident] Number of open incidents that have not been assigned.
    Escalated Single scoreSingle score Incident [incident] Number of open incidents that have been escalated.
    SLAs breached Single scoreSingle score Task SLA [task_sla] Number of open incidents with Service Level Agreements that have been breached.
    Updated > 7 days Single scoreSingle score Incident [incident] Number of open incidents that have not been updated in the last 7 days.
    Open for 30 days Single scoreSingle score Incident [incident] Number of incidents that have not been updated in the last 30 days.
    In-progress chats Single scoreSingle score Number of open interactions where agents are currently on a chat with customers resolving issues.
    Help requested Single scoreSingle score Number of current open interactions where agents are requesting help from a manager while on a chat with customers to resolve issues.
    Agent distribution Bar chartBar chart Presence States [awa_presence_state] The current presence status of agents distributed on work assignments.
    Waiting work items Single scoreSingle score Number of work items that are currently waiting to be assigned.
    Available agents Single scoreSingle score Number of agents currently available to work on work items.
    Total open incidents Bar chartBar chart Total number of incidents that are in various workflow states and have not been closed.