Omnichannel contact-center solution replaces a legacy manual reporting system with innovative technology to unlock new era of efficiency, productivity, and satisfaction.
Case Study
Omnichannel contact-center solution replaces a legacy manual reporting system with innovative technology to unlock new era of efficiency, productivity, and satisfaction.
Faced with outmoded technologies, mounting operational costs, and the imperative to align with Fair Use Policies, a major Midwest utility organization—provider of vital city services like water, health, and sewer—needed a comprehensive overhaul of its aging contact center platform. Antiquated on-premises legacy systems were increasingly burdensome to manage and lacked the scalability required for a city in expansion mode.
With three separate billing systems lumped into a dated administrative system for each service, the organization needed to consolidate under a single, modernized, multi-tenant platform to streamline operational costs. Reporting and analytics upgrades were also needed to analyze and improve upon the utility’s containment rates. And conversational artificial intelligence (AI) was identified as a key exploration target to enhance the user experience. Lastly, the organization needed to integrate an effective workforce-management component to effectively manage their growing contact center.
All of these issues (and more) spurred the utility to modernize its contact center platform by implementing innovative cloud technology that could enable them to unlock a new era of high-level efficiency, mobility, and productivity.
The organization selected Waterfield Tech to spearhead its modernization efforts. Waterfield’s utilities-sector experience supporting multiple water, gas, electric, and waste clients—and expertise in on-premises cloud migrations—made the choice simple.
A comprehensive, innovative, efficient solution, with seamless workflow integration
Waterfield Tech migrated the utility’s on-premises contact center to a Genesys Cloud solution, providing feature-rich capabilities and applications that enabled the organization to manage its ever-increasing volume of customer email communication via seamless multi-channel integration within the standard agent workflow. Key modernization tactics included:
The new omnichannel platform simplified monitoring/scoring processes with a single desktop (instead of three), and it unified customer engagements across the full range of voice and digital channels (email, web chat, social messaging). Genesys Cloud also provided advanced engagement features like co-browsing, screen share, and file sharing. By eliminating the need to context-switch, the omnichannel desktop brought much-needed efficiencies and personalization to the organization’s workforce.
Robust multi-tenant capabilities and account-payment options enabled our client to more easily manage multi-departmental billing and comply with PCI SSC requirements
By partnering with Waterfield Tech, the utility was able to make the transition from obsolete manual monitoring and scoring processes to a modernized platform with advanced features for workforce, quality management, forecasting, and scheduling. Disjointed, limited reporting gave way to advanced reporting analytics, drill-down reports, and upgraded dashboards that delivered deeper insights into their operation.
The client is now implementing a short message service (SMS) channel that enables customers to download a QR code directly from ads to report pipe bursts in and around the city. And its partnership with Waterfield Tech continues to grow, with ongoing training, forward-planning strategy meetings, and timely, as-needed, system updates.
Recognizing the benefits our client accrued from the Genesys Cloud platform, the city’s health department and metropolitan sewer district are deploying this solution within their departments to leverage the power of Genesys Cloud for their own operations. And the city’s income tax division as well as the city’s police department have expressed interest in piggybacking onto the new multi-tenant platform in the year ahead.
