Contact Centre, CRM and AI & Automation
Dear West Berkshire Council,
1. Contact Centre – target to organisations we know have a CC
a. Do you have a customer/ citizen facing contact centre? If not please skip these questions.
b. Do you employ and manage your own agents, or do you outsource to a third party? If you outsource who to?
c. How many contact centre agents do you have?
d. Do agents work from home? Or just your offices?
e. Please confirm the manufacturer of your contact centre system(s) that are currently in place?
f. When is your contract renewal date?
g. Who maintains your contact centre system(s)?
2. CRM
a. Do you use a CRM in the contact centre? What platform is used?
b. Do you use the same CRM for the rest of the organisation? What platform is used?
c. Do you use a knowledge base / knowledge management platform? What platform is used?
3. AI & Automation
a. Does your organisation have a customer or citizen facing chatbot? If so, who provides this chatbot technology?
b. Does your organisation utilise RPA technology? If so which RPA technology provider do you use?
Yours faithfully,
Philip Mansfield
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Request for information: Contact Centre
Thank you for your request received 15 August 2022; we would normally seek
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Legal and Democratic, West Berkshire Council Market Street Newbury RG14
5LD
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Dear Philip Mansfield,
I write further to your request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000.
The service have provided responses to your FOI request as follows:
1. Contact Centre – target to organisations we know have a CC
a. Do you have a customer/ citizen facing contact centre? If not please
skip these questions.
Yes
b. Do you employ and manage your own agents, or do you outsource to a
third party? If you outsource who to?
We employ and manage our own agents.
c. How many contact centre agents do you have?
Currently 28.3 FTE
d. Do agents work from home? Or just your offices?
They have a choice of hybrid working or the office.
e. Please confirm the manufacturer of your contact centre system(s) that
are currently in place?
Supplier / company is Qmatic, product in Orchestra
f. When is your contract renewal date?
30/04/23
g. Who maintains your contact centre system(s)?
Internally supported by ICT, external support by the supplier /
manufacturer
2. CRM
a. Do you use a CRM in the contact centre? What platform is used?
No
b. Do you use the same CRM for the rest of the organisation? What platform
is used?
c. Do you use a knowledge base / knowledge management platform? What
platform is used?
3. AI & Automation
a. Does your organisation have a customer or citizen facing chatbot? If
so, who provides this chatbot technology?
Yes, it’s supplied by We Build Bots
b. Does your organisation utilise RPA technology? If so which RPA
technology provider do you use?
No
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Yours sincerely,
Thomas
FOI TEAM
Legal and Democratic, West Berkshire Council Market Street Newbury RG14
5LD
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From: Philip Mansfield <[FOI #886954 email]>
Sent: 15 August 2022 11:26
To: foi <[West Berkshire Council request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Contact Centre, CRM and AI &
Automation
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Dear West Berkshire Council,
1. Contact Centre – target to organisations we know have a CC
a. Do you have a customer/ citizen facing contact centre? If not please
skip these questions.
b. Do you employ and manage your own agents, or do you outsource to a
third party? If you outsource who to?
c. How many contact centre agents do you have?
d. Do agents work from home? Or just your offices?
e. Please confirm the manufacturer of your contact centre system(s) that
are currently in place?
f. When is your contract renewal date?
g. Who maintains your contact centre system(s)?
2. CRM
a. Do you use a CRM in the contact centre? What platform is used?
b. Do you use the same CRM for the rest of the organisation? What platform
is used?
c. Do you use a knowledge base / knowledge management platform? What
platform is used?
3. AI & Automation
a. Does your organisation have a customer or citizen facing chatbot? If
so, who provides this chatbot technology?
b. Does your organisation utilise RPA technology? If so which RPA
technology provider do you use?
Yours faithfully,
Philip Mansfield
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