Preface

Change History

This table lists changes made to this guide. Most recent changes appear at the top.

Change

See

Date

First Release of Document for Release 15(0)(1)

November 2025
Replaced CUSP with CCCSP and Cisco Unified SIP Proxy with Cisco Contact Center SIP Proxy

Throughout the document

Initial Release of Document for Release 15(0)

April 2025

Features removed and unsupported in the CCE 15.0(1) release have been removed from this guide.

See the Release notes for Cisco Contact Center Enterprise Solutions, Release 15.0(1) for the list of removed/unsupported features at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/customer-collaboration/unified-contact-center-enterprise/products-release-notes-list.html

About This Guide

This manual provides conceptual, installation, and configuration information about the Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise (Unified CCE) Outbound Option application (formerly called "Blended Agent"). It also provides verification checklists and troubleshooting information to ensure that the Outbound Option installation and configuration setup is successful.

For detailed Outbound Option Components field descriptions, see the online help.


Note
Successfully completing the Outbound Option installation also requires use of the Staging Guide for Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise. See https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/customer-collaboration/unified-contact-center-enterprise/tsd-products-support-series-home.html for the complete set of Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise software manuals.

Topic 2.1

Audience

This document is intended for contact center supervisors and contact center technology experts who perform the following functions using Outbound Option:

  • System Administrators – The installer/partner who sets up the Unified CCE system to support Outbound Option and installs and integrates the Outbound Option components.

  • Administrator – The administrator responsible for configuration tasks, such as adding agents, skill groups, campaigns, and scripts necessary for ongoing activity.

  • Supervisors/Business users – These users might perform such tasks as modifying a query rule, adjusting the lines per agent, or enabling or disabling a campaign. This group of users also read and interpret reports to help them run their business.

  • Sales – A secondary audience, interested primarily in conceptual information.

Related Documents

For documentation for these Cisco Unified Contact Center Products, go to https://www.cisco.com/cisco/web/psa/default.html, select Voice and Unified Communications > CustomCisco Unified Contact Center Productser Collaboration > Cisco Unified Contact Center Products or Cisco Unified Voice Self-Service Products, and select the product/option in which you are interested.

Related documentation includes the documentation sets for:

  • Cisco Unified Contact Center Management Portal

  • Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal (CVP)

  • Cisco Unified IP IVR

  • Cisco Unified Intelligence Center

  • Cisco Finesse

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Conventions

This document uses the following conventions:

Table 1. Conventions

Convention

Description

boldface font

Boldface font is used to indicate commands, such as user entries, keys, buttons, folder names, and submenu names.

For example:

  • Choose Edit > Find.

  • Click Finish.

italic font

Italic font is used to indicate the following:

  • To introduce a new term. Example: A skill group is a collection of agents who share similar skills.

  • A syntax value that the user must replace. Example: IF (condition, true-value, false-value)

  • A book title. Example: See the Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise Installation and Upgrade Guide.

window font

Window font, such as Courier, is used for the following:

  • Text as it appears in code or that the window displays. Example: <html><title>Cisco Systems, Inc. </title></html>

< >

Angle brackets are used to indicate the following:

  • For arguments where the context does not allow italic, such as ASCII output.

  • A character string that the user enters but that does not appear on the window such as a password.