Interaction Analytics
Interaction analytics is the AI-powered analysis of customer interactions across all channels to extract insights about customer behavior, agent performance, and business trends.
In Depth
Interaction analytics goes beyond traditional call analytics by analyzing every customer touchpoint — calls, chats, emails, social media, and messaging — through a unified lens. AI processes the content of these interactions using NLP to identify topics, detect sentiment, measure effort, and extract actionable insights. Key capabilities include automatic topic categorization (understanding what customers are asking about), root cause analysis (identifying why customers are contacting support), sentiment trending (tracking how customer mood changes over time), compliance monitoring (detecting policy violations across channels), and competitive intelligence (identifying when customers mention competitors).
For support leaders, interaction analytics provides a data-driven understanding of the customer experience that goes far beyond traditional metrics like handle time and CSAT.
Related Terms
Speech Analytics
Speech analytics uses AI and NLP to automatically analyze recorded or real-time voice conversations, extracting insights about customer sentiment, agent performance, compliance, and trending topics.
Call Analytics
Call analytics is the collection and analysis of data from phone interactions to measure performance, identify trends, and optimize call center operations.
Sentiment Analysis
Sentiment analysis is an NLP technique that identifies and classifies the emotional tone behind text, determining whether a message expresses positive, negative, or neutral sentiment.
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