South Yorkshire Council Chooses 8×8 to Improve Citizen Comms

Over a quarter of a million residents are now promised better communications from their local council

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Rotherrham council installs 8x8 solution
Unified Communications

Published: December 6, 2021

Antony Savvas

Technology Reporter

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council in South Yorkshire, England is aiming to improve its communications with its 260,000 residents with a new system from 8×8.

It has deployed 8×8’s XCaaS (Experience Communications as a Service) offering, to modernise its employee and customer engagement operations, to help transform the way it interacts with citizens.

To increase business resilience, Rotherham Council wanted to maximise hybrid and remote working capabilities across its business operations. Limitations associated with legacy on-premise solutions from multiple providers proved to be a challenge, causing increasing communications costs, long wait times and system failures, the council said.

It wanted a cloud-based solution that provided a reliable service, cohesive integrations with its existing solutions, and the ability to scale and provide real-time analytics to drive efficiencies in time and resources. It also needed technology that was easy to use with remote coaching, to train and onboard new and existing staff.

XCaaS includes a fully integrated cloud-native contact centre, voice, team chat, video meetings and CPaaS embeddable communications and API capabilities in a single-vendor offering, designed for a distributed workforce.

The reporting and analytics capabilities have given agents and supervisors a real-time view of responses from Rotherham citizens, including their perception of the customer experience, enabling Rotherham to improve and better serve its citizens.

Steve Langrick, Head of Digital Services at Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, said:

“XCaaS allows us to standardise and consolidate our telephony services and provide flexibility to our staff. The ease of implementation and availability of training for our staff meant zero disruption to provision during transition, and empowered our employees to deliver the best possible services”

“We have provided Rotherham with the capabilities needed for their employees to communicate and collaborate from anywhere, while delivering a differentiated level of citizen experience,” said Jamie Snaddon, Managing Director for EMEA at 8×8.

Last week, 8×8 said it would be acquiring enterprise cloud communications and collaboration software player Fuze, in a deal valued at $250m. It entered the CPaaS market last year, through the acquisition of Wavecell.

 

 

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