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Energy Supplier gets Competitive Advantage
from Superior Customer Experience

Customer Case Study

RWE transforms its contact centers for measurable enhancements in customer service, staff satisfaction,
and agent productivity
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Customer Name: RWE IT GmbH
Industry: Utilities
Location: Essen, Germany
Number of Employees: 2600
Challenge
•	Improve and personalize contact
center-based customer service to
make it a competitive tool in pricecontrolled marketplace
•	Simultaneously increase contact
center efficiency

Solution
•	Cisco platform, offering intelligent call
routing, computer telephony integration,
and multichannel contact management—
with intelligent application development,
industry-best personalized self-service,
and integration with existing RWE apps
•	Fully virtualized on Cisco UCS
blade servers

Results
•	80 percent fewer abandoned/dropped
calls, 90 percent reduction in call waiting
time, and 50 percent reduction in
call duration
•	90 percent improvement in customer
satisfaction, 90 percent uplift in agent
satisfaction, and over 100 percent rise in
agent productivity

Challenge
Although price can be critical in winning and retaining customers, in some markets
it’s just not that simple. “Our business is strictly regulated, and there’s little latitude to
compete on price, so we need to differentiate ourselves through stand-out customer
service,” says Jörg Grotehusman, enterprise solution architect for UC and contact
center solutions at RWE.
The RWE Group, employing around 67,000 people and supplying 24 million
electricity and gas customers in Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands,
and Eastern Europe, runs two on-premise contact centers. These are staffed by
1,200 agents dealing with over five million customer contacts a year via phone,
letters, email, and fax.
Those contact centers were an important part of the RWE strategy to use
customer service as a competitive tool. However, fragmented and outdated
systems were blocking that goal’s achievement. So RWE launched a contactcenter-of-the-future project.
“We needed an integrated platform that would ensure agents always have the correct
information to deal efficiently with customer calls, while enabling better management
through improved reporting,” says Grotehusman. “We also wanted to make the best
use of our people’s expertise and knowledge.”
The challenge was to find a fully-featured solution that could be easily integrated
with existing RWE systems and processes.

Solution
Using a two-stage approach, RWE first focused on transforming its processes, and
then considered the IT platform necessary to support that transformation. After
speaking with various potential vendors, RWE chose a Cisco contact center solution,
to be implemented by a partner and local contact center expert Bucher + Suter.
“The Cisco contact center platform had the flexibility to incorporate new upcoming
technologies and third party applications,” says Grotehusman. For example, integration
with the company’s existing Siebel EvoCS system was essential. “Also we knew we
would get all the required functionality with trouble-free administration,” he adds.

© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information.		

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Customer Case Study

“The Cisco contact center
platform had the flexibility
to incorporate new
upcoming technologies and
third party applications.”

Drawing on the systems integration expertise of Bucher + Suter, RWE deployed
Cisco® Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) and Cisco Unified Customer Voice
Portal for intelligent contact routing and call treatment, network-to-desktop computer
telephony integration (CTI), and multichannel contact management. Cisco Unified
Customer Voice Portal also combines open standards speech support with intelligent
application development and industry-best call control for personalized self-service.

Jörg Grotehusman
Enterprise Solution Architect for UC and Contact
Center Solutions
RWE IT GmbH

Cisco Unified Communications Manager runs on the UCCE platform and forms the
gateway for the company’s production, test, and development systems. All Cisco
software is virtualized on Cisco Unified Computing System™ (UCS®) blade servers,
which provide increased redundancy for 99.999 percent availability.

Results
Built on open standards architecture, the Cisco platform has allowed RWE to
integrate third party solutions. These include the Siebel EvoCS CRM system and
SemanticEdge NLU portal software, which helps streamline calls and customer
interactions. ITyX optical character recognition reads text documents for paperless
processing and storage.
In the contact center, Siebel CRM Desktop provides agents with instant access
to customer data, voice communications, email, fax, and scanned documents.
Data from the Cisco UCCE, such as queuing, call-waiting times, and call-handling
duration, is displayed on Symon wallboards. RWE also benefits from Cisco Unified
Intelligence Center, which provides an easy-to-use portal for accessing contact
center statistics and reports at a glance.
Resources Optimized, Productivity Doubled
RWE has created a platform for improved customer and agent experiences, while
obtaining a better return from its contact center technology.
An early in-depth study revealed 50 different agent skill sets with most possessing
only three or four of those. This information was used to configure skills-based routing
policies. Meanwhile agent screens display pop-ups and scripts so agents have a
complete and up-to-date view of the customer’s details and requirements, including
their call history, ensuring a quicker, more personalized service.
“Having all this information at their fingertips has significantly increased agent
productivity,” says Grotehusman, “because callers always get put through to the best
placed agents available to deal with their specific issues, or with the person who they
had contact with previously.”
RWE can now accurately forecast expected wait times, and closely match capacity
to peaks and troughs in demand. That capability makes it easier to optimize the use
of agent resources. In fact, in the past, each RWE agent could deal with four calls
per hour on average. Now, that figure is closer to between nine and ten calls an
hour, equating to a productivity improvement of over 100 percent.
Great Service, Proven
Customer feedback has been very positive. Only one recorded voice is used for all
messages, and callers often do not even realize they are talking to a machine. Selfservice is supported by automated voice recognition, allowing customers to route
their own calls without having to press buttons. They can already report their meter
readings using the IVR system, and there are plans to extend the functionality further.
To ensure that all agents have the same real time view, Bucher + Suter integrated
Cisco UCCE with the CRM system to help maintain free information flow. This saves
time on data entry. For example, agents only need press one button to transfer a
customer’s telephone number to the CRM system; the appropriate customer screen
pops up automatically whenever that caller rings back.

© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information.		

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Customer Case Study

“Our customers recognize
great service when they see
it, and our agents are happy
because they have all the
information they need to do
their jobs.”
Jörg Grotehusman
Enterprise Solution Architect for UC and Contact
Center Solutions
RWE IT GmbH

The company’s contact center transformation has brought 80 percent fewer
abandoned and dropped calls, along with a 90 percent reduction in call-waiting
times and a 50 percent reduction in call durations. Surveys reveal a 90 percent
improvement in customer satisfaction, corresponding exactly with a 90 percent
uplift in agent satisfaction.
“Our customers recognize great service when they see it,” says Grotehusman,
“and our agents are happy because they have all the information they need to
do their jobs. We’ve achieved the main goal of our business case, which was to
service customers better and in less time.”
Best Practice Synergies
RWE is in discussion with other group subsidiaries with a view to migrating their
contact centers to the Cisco best practice model that it has created. In addition,
RWE plans to increase customer self-service opportunities and extend the system
to include SMS, chat, and social media channels. The company is also investigating
integration with mobile apps.

For More Information
To learn more about Cisco architectures and solutions featured in this case study, go
to www.cisco.com/go/collaboration

Product List
Customer Collaboration
•• Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise
•• Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal
•• Cisco Unified Communications Manager
•• Cisco Unified Intelligence Center
•• Multi-Channel Adapter (MCA) for Siebel (Butcher + Suter product available via the
Cisco SolutionPlus program)

Americas Headquarters
Cisco Systems, Inc.
San Jose, CA

Asia Pacific Headquarters
Cisco Systems (USA) Pte. Ltd.
Singapore

Europe Headquarters
Cisco Systems International BV Amsterdam,
The Netherlands

Cisco has more than 200 offices worldwide. Addresses, phone numbers, and fax numbers are listed on the Cisco Website at www.cisco.com/go/offices.
Cisco and the Cisco logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cisco and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. To view a list of Cisco trademarks, go
to this URL: www.cisco.com/go/trademarks. Third party trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The use of the word partner does not imply
a partnership relationship between Cisco and any other company. (1110R)
© 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information.	

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RWE IT GmbH

  • 1. Energy Supplier gets Competitive Advantage from Superior Customer Experience Customer Case Study RWE transforms its contact centers for measurable enhancements in customer service, staff satisfaction, and agent productivity EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Customer Name: RWE IT GmbH Industry: Utilities Location: Essen, Germany Number of Employees: 2600 Challenge • Improve and personalize contact center-based customer service to make it a competitive tool in pricecontrolled marketplace • Simultaneously increase contact center efficiency Solution • Cisco platform, offering intelligent call routing, computer telephony integration, and multichannel contact management— with intelligent application development, industry-best personalized self-service, and integration with existing RWE apps • Fully virtualized on Cisco UCS blade servers Results • 80 percent fewer abandoned/dropped calls, 90 percent reduction in call waiting time, and 50 percent reduction in call duration • 90 percent improvement in customer satisfaction, 90 percent uplift in agent satisfaction, and over 100 percent rise in agent productivity Challenge Although price can be critical in winning and retaining customers, in some markets it’s just not that simple. “Our business is strictly regulated, and there’s little latitude to compete on price, so we need to differentiate ourselves through stand-out customer service,” says Jörg Grotehusman, enterprise solution architect for UC and contact center solutions at RWE. The RWE Group, employing around 67,000 people and supplying 24 million electricity and gas customers in Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Eastern Europe, runs two on-premise contact centers. These are staffed by 1,200 agents dealing with over five million customer contacts a year via phone, letters, email, and fax. Those contact centers were an important part of the RWE strategy to use customer service as a competitive tool. However, fragmented and outdated systems were blocking that goal’s achievement. So RWE launched a contactcenter-of-the-future project. “We needed an integrated platform that would ensure agents always have the correct information to deal efficiently with customer calls, while enabling better management through improved reporting,” says Grotehusman. “We also wanted to make the best use of our people’s expertise and knowledge.” The challenge was to find a fully-featured solution that could be easily integrated with existing RWE systems and processes. Solution Using a two-stage approach, RWE first focused on transforming its processes, and then considered the IT platform necessary to support that transformation. After speaking with various potential vendors, RWE chose a Cisco contact center solution, to be implemented by a partner and local contact center expert Bucher + Suter. “The Cisco contact center platform had the flexibility to incorporate new upcoming technologies and third party applications,” says Grotehusman. For example, integration with the company’s existing Siebel EvoCS system was essential. “Also we knew we would get all the required functionality with trouble-free administration,” he adds. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 1 of 3
  • 2. Customer Case Study “The Cisco contact center platform had the flexibility to incorporate new upcoming technologies and third party applications.” Drawing on the systems integration expertise of Bucher + Suter, RWE deployed Cisco® Unified Contact Center Enterprise (UCCE) and Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal for intelligent contact routing and call treatment, network-to-desktop computer telephony integration (CTI), and multichannel contact management. Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal also combines open standards speech support with intelligent application development and industry-best call control for personalized self-service. Jörg Grotehusman Enterprise Solution Architect for UC and Contact Center Solutions RWE IT GmbH Cisco Unified Communications Manager runs on the UCCE platform and forms the gateway for the company’s production, test, and development systems. All Cisco software is virtualized on Cisco Unified Computing System™ (UCS®) blade servers, which provide increased redundancy for 99.999 percent availability. Results Built on open standards architecture, the Cisco platform has allowed RWE to integrate third party solutions. These include the Siebel EvoCS CRM system and SemanticEdge NLU portal software, which helps streamline calls and customer interactions. ITyX optical character recognition reads text documents for paperless processing and storage. In the contact center, Siebel CRM Desktop provides agents with instant access to customer data, voice communications, email, fax, and scanned documents. Data from the Cisco UCCE, such as queuing, call-waiting times, and call-handling duration, is displayed on Symon wallboards. RWE also benefits from Cisco Unified Intelligence Center, which provides an easy-to-use portal for accessing contact center statistics and reports at a glance. Resources Optimized, Productivity Doubled RWE has created a platform for improved customer and agent experiences, while obtaining a better return from its contact center technology. An early in-depth study revealed 50 different agent skill sets with most possessing only three or four of those. This information was used to configure skills-based routing policies. Meanwhile agent screens display pop-ups and scripts so agents have a complete and up-to-date view of the customer’s details and requirements, including their call history, ensuring a quicker, more personalized service. “Having all this information at their fingertips has significantly increased agent productivity,” says Grotehusman, “because callers always get put through to the best placed agents available to deal with their specific issues, or with the person who they had contact with previously.” RWE can now accurately forecast expected wait times, and closely match capacity to peaks and troughs in demand. That capability makes it easier to optimize the use of agent resources. In fact, in the past, each RWE agent could deal with four calls per hour on average. Now, that figure is closer to between nine and ten calls an hour, equating to a productivity improvement of over 100 percent. Great Service, Proven Customer feedback has been very positive. Only one recorded voice is used for all messages, and callers often do not even realize they are talking to a machine. Selfservice is supported by automated voice recognition, allowing customers to route their own calls without having to press buttons. They can already report their meter readings using the IVR system, and there are plans to extend the functionality further. To ensure that all agents have the same real time view, Bucher + Suter integrated Cisco UCCE with the CRM system to help maintain free information flow. This saves time on data entry. For example, agents only need press one button to transfer a customer’s telephone number to the CRM system; the appropriate customer screen pops up automatically whenever that caller rings back. © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Page 2 of 3
  • 3. Customer Case Study “Our customers recognize great service when they see it, and our agents are happy because they have all the information they need to do their jobs.” Jörg Grotehusman Enterprise Solution Architect for UC and Contact Center Solutions RWE IT GmbH The company’s contact center transformation has brought 80 percent fewer abandoned and dropped calls, along with a 90 percent reduction in call-waiting times and a 50 percent reduction in call durations. Surveys reveal a 90 percent improvement in customer satisfaction, corresponding exactly with a 90 percent uplift in agent satisfaction. “Our customers recognize great service when they see it,” says Grotehusman, “and our agents are happy because they have all the information they need to do their jobs. We’ve achieved the main goal of our business case, which was to service customers better and in less time.” Best Practice Synergies RWE is in discussion with other group subsidiaries with a view to migrating their contact centers to the Cisco best practice model that it has created. In addition, RWE plans to increase customer self-service opportunities and extend the system to include SMS, chat, and social media channels. The company is also investigating integration with mobile apps. For More Information To learn more about Cisco architectures and solutions featured in this case study, go to www.cisco.com/go/collaboration Product List Customer Collaboration •• Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise •• Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal •• Cisco Unified Communications Manager •• Cisco Unified Intelligence Center •• Multi-Channel Adapter (MCA) for Siebel (Butcher + Suter product available via the Cisco SolutionPlus program) Americas Headquarters Cisco Systems, Inc. San Jose, CA Asia Pacific Headquarters Cisco Systems (USA) Pte. Ltd. Singapore Europe Headquarters Cisco Systems International BV Amsterdam, The Netherlands Cisco has more than 200 offices worldwide. Addresses, phone numbers, and fax numbers are listed on the Cisco Website at www.cisco.com/go/offices. Cisco and the Cisco logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cisco and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. To view a list of Cisco trademarks, go to this URL: www.cisco.com/go/trademarks. Third party trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The use of the word partner does not imply a partnership relationship between Cisco and any other company. (1110R) © 2013 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information. Printed in the UK ES/1113 Page 3 of 3