New Contact Center Solution for a Modern Workplace with more Scalability and Flexibility
Swissgrid is on duty around the clock to ensure that the transmission grid is always stable and secure. Around 650 employees ensure the reliable operation, maintenance and modernization of the Swiss extra-high voltage grid. Swissgrid brings together specialists from a wide range of fields, including engineering and natural sciences, electrical engineering, IT, finance, law and communications. They work together in multidisciplinary teams to actively shape Switzerland›s electricity future. Technological innovations, the far-reaching changes in the energy system and real-time events in grid operation are topics that constantly challenge Swissgrid.
Initial Situation
With the «Modern Hybrid Workplace» project, Swissgrid has renewed the entire workplace of its employees and rolled out a wide range of Microsoft 365 applications. The focus was on improving customer service by introducing a multi-channel contact center solution. In addition to simplified operation for users, automation of special business situations was also crucial. As a further part of the rollout, the previous enterprise telephony and contact center was replaced by Microsoft Teams Enterprise Voice and a contact center solution integrated with Microsoft Teams.
In order to keep the costs for operation and the effort for both support and know-how development manageable and low, Swissgrid opted for a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution in a Managed Service Model. This managed service model (Contact Center as a Service) provides Swissgrid with the desired flexibility and offers the possibility of co-managed management of the Contact Center services by Swissgrid administrators.
Solution
In order to be able to implement Swissgrid‘s specific requirements vis-à-vis enterprise telephony, the application was implemented with Luware Nimbus. Luware Nimbus is a SaaS contact center solution that is fully integrated with Microsoft Teams.
Tiered call distribution functionalities (Advanced, Enterprise and Contact Center) and an integration of existing customer applications via Microsoft APIs enable a wide range of solution possibilities. In addition to simple classic call center topics such as transfer and calendar-based call distribution, dynamic and availability-based call distribution, interactive voice response (IVR) systems and skill-based call distribution (Skill based Routing) were also implemented for Swissgrid.
Special requirements such as situation-dependent announcements and special call forwarding could be realized by simple lists, which can also be changed by users who do not have Nimbus administration knowledge.