By being able to tailor to Hughes’ specific needs, Fire have assisted Hughes Insurance in reaching elements of their mission statement. The transition to the Fire platform allowed Hughes to centralise and streamline their disparate systems into a single product. Thus enabling Hughes to review the administration costs and services and reducing operational costs. In terms of cost efficiency, Hughes has now brought in-house products and services that had previously been outsourced. This has given Hughes the ability to maintain much more control and thousands of pounds cost savings each month.

The main benefit received from the the Fire platform is the flexibility it can provide to its customers. Hughes were previously limited by the constraints of their phone system.

They are now able to operate with the philosophy, as supported by Kieran Gilmurray, that “by eliminating outsourced products, The Fire platform has dramatically reduced operational costs and increased the control we have over our own system”.

The Fire platform has provided solutions that positively impact operations and provide month on month savings. An example of this is the automatic call backs. This was developed on the Fire platform in conjunction with Hughes Internal Developers. The application automatically creates call-backs to customers based on triggers. This project improved both customer retention and agent efficiency levels.

Kieran Gilmurray explains that “Database Lookup aids the Management team by providing a product and service that is very powerful, very versatile and very user friendly.” The database lookups allow the agent to see if the caller is a current customer, and if so, routes the call to the correct department, displaying the policy information to the agent. For a contact centre that has in excess of 100,000 customer calls per year on average, this allows Hughes to take more calls with fewer agents whilst giving better service to their customers.

Reflecting on this, Kieran Gilmurray emphasises that “the Fire Monitor is an exceptional tool which allows simple and effective agent analysis and management, particularly with the daily login reports.” Through using Fire’s Skills Based Routing, Hughes is able to make their call times more efficient, with a shorter call time, making savings and allowing the agents to provide superior customer service.

In the short time Hughes have been using their new contact centre platform, the Fire development tools and data visibility have produced major cost savings, increased efficiency and improved customer service.