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The most important technological challenge Edenor faced was transforming its call center into an Omnichannel Contact Center, to provide its customers a 360 view of their interactions during the year, including:
Million calls
Social media messages
SMS
Turn a call center into a more effective Omnichannel Contact Center, with the aim of giving customers a 360 view and a better experience in their interactions.
Avaya technology helped improve segmentation, so calls are directed to the right operator without the need for transfers or additional waiting time; it also helped to reduce average handle time and helped increase self management services by 19 percent
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Avaya Contact Center
Edenor is Argentina’s largest energy distribution company, supplying this vital service to more than 3 million customers distributed in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, which represents supplying energy to more than 9 million people.
“Currently”, explains Oscar Kovalow, Edenor's Telecommunications Manager, “our energy system has more than 80 substations throughout the metropolitan area. The company has more than 4,700 employees, the company itself is listed on the stock market of Buenos Aires and the United States.”
In this context, the demands of customer requirements are increasing and in their experiences, every interaction must be satisfactory. “At Edenor, we annually receive 5.5 million calls, 200,000 social network messages, 100,000 SMS and more than 80,000 emails, we have about 200 simultaneous agents who assist them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year,” says Hernán González, Modernization and Customer Experience Manager at Edenor. “Overall our customer satisfaction with the service equals 82 percent.”
With such a volume of interactions, the Telecommunications Manager confirms that one of the technological challenges they faced was “to convert our call center into a more effective omnichannel contact center, in order to be able to offer our customers a 360-degree view of their interactions. This way, we would not only be able to unify all of our service channels on a single platform, but also optimize the service channels and incorporate new functionalities in an agile way to improve the quality of service and customer experience.
“Our goal is to make more channels available for customers,” says Hernán González, “and to turn the most frequent contact reasons into self-managed ones, leaving the personalized contacts for those cases that do require it. On the other hand, we find it important to understand what is currently done well and what can be improved based on the customer's perception.”
According to both executives, with Avaya solutions, the company practically provided them with a world-class platform, with a long-term roadmap: “Avaya allowed us to meet omnichannel requirements on a single platform that was rapidly scalable and highly available, which could contain all voice channels and digital channels in an integrated way both in the historical and online reports of all interactions,” Kovalow points out
Avaya solutions provided a technological capacity of 320 voice agents and digital channels and outbound campaigns (voice, digital channels) in an integrated way.
For the customer, this integration represents a qualitative leap in their experience with Edenor: “It helped us improve segmentation, so that calls follow the right operator without the need for transfers or additional waiting time, and it also drove us to reduce the average handle time, which became a key factor that contributed to a 19-percent point increase in self-managed services,” said González.
According to Kovalow, from now on, this step and the digital transformation of the electrical network will be the fundamental pillars that Edenor has already started some time ago, “but we must go deeper in the coming years to reach our end customers.
In everything that has to do with the Internet of Things (IoT); we are improving our network to provide connectivity and demand to provide real-time information to our customers, while also adapting our network in sync with renewable energy consumers and electric cars.
For the customer, this integration represents a qualitative leap in their experience with Edenor. Avaya helped us improve segmentation, so that calls land the right operator without the need for transfers or additional waiting time; it also helped us lower the average handle time, and was a key contributor to the 19-percent point increase in self-managed services. —Hernán González, Modernization and Customer Experience Manager
For Hernán González, there are more goals to be achieved in the immediate future: “From the point of view of customer service we imagine even more self-management, more automation to carry out procedures or consultations from anywhere, without having to move to an office. We must bring personalized service to self-management.
“Currently,” he adds, “we are working mainly on several fronts; the automation of personalized call campaigns, the application of speech analytics to improve the quality of service, the incorporation of selfmanagement in written channels and the incorporation of a new service channel: WhatsApp, in which we are working on automating the change of ownership of customers.”
To conclude, Oscar Kovalow points out that the joint work with Avaya has more goals ahead of it: “Looking to the future, we are working with Avaya to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) with our bot and to include greater automation in our digital channels.”
Edenor is the largest power distributor in Argentina in terms of customer amount and power sold. Its concession area comprises 20 municipalities in the northwest of Greater Buenos Aires and the northwest area of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, which represents an area of 4,637 square kilometers and a population of approximately 9 million people. It serves more than 3 million customers through Edenordigital, the Call Center, its Facebook profile and 25 commercial offices distributed throughout the concession area. In addition, it provides answers to queries made via web through its chatbot system and by SMS. It is listed on the Buenos Aires Stock Market and as of April 24, 2007 on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).