Glossary of platform terms

What do terms on the HappySignals Platform mean? How are various metrics calculated?

Terms

Baseline

On the Identify > Experience page, you can compare Happiness / Lost Time in specific IT areas to your Organization Baseline.

Your Baseline is calculated by using NPS formula on all responses in the organization for the Measurement Area and/or the ticket type (if any) you're looking at, during the selected time period – e.g. All Incidents, All Remote Work.

Benchmark

HappySignals Global Benchmark for Happiness and Lost Time based on end-user responses from all our customers in the last six months. This benchmark is currently only available in ticket-based measurement areas (Services, e.g. Incidents/Requests) for Countries, Channels, and IT Support Profiles.

Employment Time

Time from the employee’s Employment Start Date to when their survey response is received. Employment Start Date field defaults to when the user record was created in ServiceNow.

*For now, this data is only available for ServiceNow customers who have activated collection of employment time data.

Factors

A list of suggested reasons why in HappySignals surveys that end-user can select from to explain their Happiness rating. One or more factors can be selected. The list of factors shown for each survey is automatically tailored depending whether the Happiness rating given was Positive (9-10), Neutral (7-8), or Negative (0-6). 

Happiness

HappySignals metric that shows how happy IT end-users are about their experience. Calculated using the NPS formula, Happiness is represented as a number between -100 to +100. 

On HappySignals surveys, end-users rate how happy they are with the IT area being measured (e.g. IT Incident or Request, Enterprise Applications, etc) on a scale from 0-10.

Happiness = % of Positive (9-10) scores - % of Negative (0-6) scores
Learn more about how Happiness is calculated.

Impact

On the Identify > Hotspots page, we color heat map cells red, light red, gray, light green, or green based on Impact. Impact is a factor of experience and number of affected end-users, i.e.

Impact = Response volume x (Happiness/Lost Time - Target/Baseline/Previous period)

Hence, areas with both many affected end-users and a large negative difference in experience compared to Target/Baseline/Previous Period are colored red – such as "Portal in Finland" and "Email in Germany" below.
Learn more about interpreting heat maps and using the Hotspots page.

Lost Time

On HappySignals surveys, end-users are asked to estimate how much work time they lost due to the IT area being measured. The average lost time across end-users' responses is displayed on HappySignals Platform, e.g. 2h 50m. 

Learn more about how Lost Time is calculated.

Productivity gains

In the Improve section, you can view the productivity gains achieved by IT for different measurement areas or more granular filter sets.

We calculate Work days saved as the cumulative change in Lost Time for each month compared to the first month of the time period you're looking at. We then calculate Productivity gain as the "Work days saved" compared to the potential total lost time for the whole time period (if no improvements were made from the first month).

For Ticket-based IT areas like Incidents or Requests, our calculations factor in your ticket volumes each month. We calculate ticket volume based on the number of surveys sent, since HappySignals ticket-based surveys are delivered together with the resolution of each ticket.

Productivity gain calculations_Ticket-based

F0r Proactive IT areas like Enterprise Applications or Remote Work, our calculations factor in the number of employees in your organization based on your HappySignals agreement.

Productivity gain calculations_Proactive

Time to resolve

The time it took to resolve a ticket from the time that it is opened to the time that it is resolved, in calendar time (24h = 1d). Calculated with data from customer’s ITSM tool.
Time to resolve = resolved_at - opened_at
Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) refers to the average time it takes to resolve tickets
MTTR = Total “Time to resolve” ÷ total number of tickets (only tickets where end-users responded to the HappySignals survey).

*For now, this data is only available for ServiceNow customers who have activated collection of ticket resolution time data.