In recent times, communications service providers have been able to offer
large business enterprises the ability to share call center operation
among multiple geographically dispersed call centers. In particular,
network-resident call handling technologies have been developed for
performing some of the handling and queuing of each inbound call within
the communications network, that is, before the call is forwarded to an
ACD at a particular call center. However, by outsourcing a portion of the
call center operations to a network-based call routing system, the call
centers are no longer able to maintain direct control over, and are
generally unable to directly access information, such as statistics,
about the calls in the network or other call centers. Accordingly, an
interface is provided that allows an entity to obtain information about
calls within the network or other call center(s).