North Hertfordshire District Council

Britannic delivers faster services and significant cost savings for North Hertfordshire District Council through the deployment of a resilient Mitel UC and Contact Centre solution.

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Moving to strong, fast and efficient communications

Despite budget reductions and the rationalisation of sites and citizen services over recent years, North Hertfordshire District Council has found ways to improve its customer service and reduce communications costs along the way. The Council is now making its customer service processes fit for the future with Britannic’s Mitel expertise and strategic support on its side.

Fast track to better communications

Pressured by budget cuts and an unreliable telephone and contact centre solution that failed citizens regularly, Customer Services Manager, Johanne Dufficy was already exploring ways to improve customer service delivery when an temporary office move threatened to leave the operation hanging by a thread. 

The Council’s communications solution was neither physically nor strategically flexible enough to move with the organisation. The deployment of a robust, future-proof and cost-effective communications solution was fast-tracked, as a result.

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The Solution

A series of workshops and tech demonstrations ascertained the Council’s goals and functional requirements, and served to build an integrated solution that would deliver against departmental, technical, legal and financial criteria.

The Council’s new scalable, resilient Mitel UC platform with cost-effective SIP phone lines is hosted on premise and fails over to a disaster recovery site to prevent service outages. Importantly, the system is easy to manage for the Customer Services Team who can now add new lines and set up software applications, which proved a time and money saver during the office move.

In tandem with the Mitel contact centre, the solution also helps home-based customer service agents to feel more connected to the office and it adds management visibility: “I can see who my team are talking to and how long for. When I have a question I just send an instant message. It simply saves time and reduces email”, says Johanne.

Kind words from the client

Johanne Dufficy, Customer Services Manager

North Hertfordshire District Council

“Britannic’s account management is excellent and they dealt proactively and pragmatically with any challenges that arose during the implementation of this project. They are a delight to work with.”

Mitel

Mitel’s MiVoice Business IP communications platform provides full VoIP services, auto-attendant, unified messaging for fast collaboration, and digital trunking.

MiContact Center

Contact Centre Management and reporting apps offer a powerful tool set to optimise queue and agent performance and add a personal touch to customer interactions.

Red Box Recorders

Compliance call recording solution captures telephone communications and aids quality monitoring to improve call handling, management information and training.

The Results

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Service disruptions during office move

75%

Call cost reduction

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Integrated solution for UC and Contact Centre

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