Understanding Metric Mapping Across 8x8 Analytics, Quality Management/Speech Analytics, and Supervisor Workspace

Updated: 10/20/2025

Overview

If you use multiple 8x8 analytics products, such as Quality Management & Speech Analytics (QM/SA), Interaction Retrieval in Supervisor Workspace, and Contact Center Analytics, you may notice that similar metrics sometimes display different values or labels across reports.
This article explains how key fields align across these systems and how to interpret data consistently when comparing results between tools.

Applies To

  • 8x8 Analytics
  • Quality Management
  • Speech Analytics
  • Supervisor Workspace

Field Mapping Reference

Below is a comparison of common fields across the three systems, with notes on how they relate.
QM/SA
Interaction Retrieval 
Contact Center Analytics 
(Interactions Detailed Report)
Notes / Comments
Interaction type
Media Type
Media type
QM/SA includes additional “audio video” and “video only” types.
Interaction source
Unique to QM/SA.
Evaluation Date / Interaction Date
Date/Time
-
Recording starting date & time. 
-
-
Time (Creation)
Interaction started date & time (includes script/wait time before the recording starts). 
Agent name
Agent
Participant
All refer to the same person, but naming varies per product.
Average emotion overall
Overall emotion
 
Interaction duration
Duration
-
Duration of the recording.
-
-
Handling duration
Total time spent by participants to handle the interaction. Not just recording duration.  
Caller name / Called name
Customer (Inbound/Outbound)
Customer (Inbound/Outbound)
 
Interaction GUID
Interaction ID
Interaction ID
Used for matching interactions between systems.
Original GUID
-
Original Interaction ID
 
Interaction direction
Direction
“Inbound” vs “Outbound” 
VCC Queue name 
Queue 
Queue Name 
Terminology differs, but these map directly.
VCC Channel name
Channel
Channel Name
Terminology differs, but these map directly.
VCC Transaction ID
Transaction ID
Transaction ID