How a large utility provider automated
email handling in customer centers
Customer
European utility company
Goal
Reduce turnaround times in customer service centers with mailroom automation
Challenges
- The company receives more than 200k emails from customers every year
- 6 FTE in the back-office are required to extract the information required to create a business case in the CRM-system and associate this case with a customer
- The manual processing of emails takes time and is error-prone, leading to long waiting times for customers and inaccuracies in the CRM-system
Solution
With SemanticPro, incoming emails are automatically classified and key parameters extracted to accelerate the intake and further processing:
- Each email is classified into one of 50 categories like new registration, address change, provider change, etc.
- A dozen identification parameters like client number, first and last name, address, are extracted from the email body and attachments
- The extracted information is cleaned and converted in a JSON format for further processing in the CRM-system
Results
- Near real-time 24/7 processing of emails
- Shorter response time to customers, even in peak season
- More time can be dedicated to special cases
- Higher customer satisfaction
- Elimination of duplicates and less errors in the CRM-system
The Cortical.io Difference
- Only a few hundred sample emails were necessary to train the system with the company’s terminology
- The system was production-ready within a few weeks
- The solution is deployed in a private cloud and guarantees full data privacy
- The solution can now easily be extended to other use cases to automate additional workflows