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Enabling a Differentiated Enterprise Customer Experience – A SolutionsBased Approach
An Oracle White Paper July 2012
Enabling a Differentiated Enterprise Customer Experience – A SolutionsBased Approach
Enabling a Differentiated Enterprise Customer Experience – A SolutionsBased Approach
Executive Overview ........................................................................... 1
The Enterprise Market Opportunity.................................................... 1
The Analyst Perspective .................................................................... 2
Oracle’s View of the Enterprise CE Lifecycle ..................................... 3
First Step – Defining Your Enterprise CE Strategy ............................ 3
The Need for a Holistic, Flexible, SolutionBased Approach .............. 4
What’s Achievable – Addressing Key CEImpacting Business KPIs .. 5
Balancing CE with Customer Profitability........................................... 7
Partnering with Oracle to Enable a Differentiated Enterprise CE ....... 8
Enabling a Differentiated Enterprise Customer Experience – A SolutionsBased Approach
Executive Overview Enabling an empowered customer experience (CE) for enterprise customers is critical to growing the top line, yet enterprise customer’s business expectations – often set by consumer experiences in other industries like retail and finance – are not being met. This deficit provides Communications Service Providers (CSPs) with a unique opportunity to differentiate their brand and grow their enterprise market share. This paper outlines the market opportunity and the analyst view of what is required to succeed with enterprise customers. It then discusses how a solutionsbased approach can deliver on these requirements, key performance indicators (KPIs) that are achievable and how CSPs can also maximize enterprise customer profitability as part of the overall business strategy.
The Enterprise Market Opportunity With consumer revenues flattening, CSPs are focusing on the enterprise segment to accelerate their business and financial growth. Ovum forecasts that service revenues from enterprise services alone will exceed USD280 billion by 2015 with:
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28% Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) from Managed and Hosted IT services
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13% CAGR from Carrier Ethernet
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25% CAGR from SME Cloud services
To capitalize on this opportunity, CSPs need the right platforms. Rapid growth in enterprise services drives the need to scale efficiently, support rapid timetomarket for nextgeneration services and enable converged offers seamlessly.
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The Analyst Perspective What is required to succeed? Telecommunications analyst firm Ovum states the following in their white paper “Improving the customer experience for the enterprise segment” (July 2012):
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“Enterprise customers challenge their CSPs to address the current CE deficit by improving the levels of service and support to deliver greater business benefits. In response, CSPs must standardize and unify systems, and deploy automated and softwaredriven business processes. The outcome will deliver tangible benefits internally, assure future revenue streams and improve the customer experience for the valuable enterprise segment.”
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“A single platform will deliver the unified view of services and customer data, whilst automating key touch points in the customer lifecycle will allow accurate order capture, faster processing and offer design and delivery and coordinated customer support across multiple channels.”
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“Operators can at the same time enhance the enterprise CE and business model if they focus on improving product profitability through ondemand bundling, reducing the cost of sale, and improving the ordertocash time.”
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Oracle’s View of the Enterprise CE Lifecycle A positive enterprise customer experience is the biggest driver of top line enterprise services revenue growth. As shown in Figure 1, the enterprise CE lifecycle involves multiple and ongoing interactions between the enterprise and the CSP during both the buying and owning stages. By exceeding expectations at each touch point, CSPs can enable a virtuous circle of continuous upselling for existing business customers as well as drive new business customers to the brand through positive testimonials.
Figure 1: Enterprise Customer Lifecycle Touch Points
Telecoms and connected IT services are business enablers for enterprises. As such, enterprises are looking for a flexible, responsive and partnershipbased relationship with the CSP that can address all their current and emerging needs.
First Step – Defining Your Enterprise CE Strategy Before looking at IT investments, CSPs need to first define their enterprise CE strategy. What are our top five CE objectives? How do they differ between consumer, SME, large enterprise, industry verticals and wholesale segments? This analysis will define the priorities; highlight where there is overlap and need for specialization; and in turn identify the business processes and IT platform requirements needed to support the strategy.
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Next steps involve drilling deeper to shape the plan: •
Frame the problem of the enterprise CE deficit within the context of the customer lifecycle touch points: buying (identifying a need, researching, selecting and purchasing) and owning (receiving, using, maintaining and recommending).
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Identify what are the key enterprise requirements for each phase. You can then translate these requirements into specific enterprise CE KPIs that can be measured.
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Identify the barriers preventing you from addressing the enterprise CE requirements. This requires an analysis of systems, people (skills) and process contributing to the enterprise CE deficit.
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Identify toplevel business processes required to improve enterprise CE. You can then determine the appropriate systems, organizational structure and skills required to enable the new, more customer centric approach.
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Identify quantifiable enterprise CE and business benefits that will be realized. These benefits provide the business and financial justification for moving forward with the action plan.
Through this analysis, the CSP can ensure a holistic and aligned approach, while at the same time target the highest priority areas first where the CE and business pay offs are the greatest.
The Need for a Holistic, Flexible, SolutionBased Approach Once CSPs have outlined their enterprise CE strategy, they need to identify the right platform to succeed. The platform needs to support a holistic approach given: •
the overlap between consumer, enterprise and wholesale market segments and services
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the need to balance CE objectives with other key business requirements such as maximizing customer profitability and reducing costs
Through a solutionsbased platform, as shown in Figure 2, CSPs can enable key endtoend customer centric and businessdriven processes, including: •
Concepttocash
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Leadtoquote
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Quotetoorder
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Ordertocash
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Endtoend customer lifecycle management
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Figure 2: Oracle’s EndtoEnd Solutionsbased Approach
A solutionsbased approach provides a common set of tools and language for •
Ensuring a common understanding of the account across all teams and channels
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Driving much greater organizational alignment around key customerimpacting business processes
To ensure flexibility and business agility, the platform must be: •
Modular to ensure that the CSP can flexibly target their highest pain points first as well as leverage legacy investments when appropriate
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Standardsbased and softwaredriven (i.e. favor configuration over coding) to futureproof IT investments and deliver much greater business agility, process optimization and reuse.
Benefits of Oracle’s flexible, softwaredriven solutionsbased approach are outlined in the next section.
What’s Achievable – Addressing Key CEImpacting Business KPIs To get started, CSPs need to identify which CEimpacting business KPIs are essential to their business and then prioritize them. Table 1 identifies key business KPIs for improving the CE, explains why they are important to both enterprises and the CSP, and highlights benchmarks that are achievable with the right approach.
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TABLE 1: TOP 10 CEIMPACTING BUSINESS KPIS CXIMPACTING
ENTERPRISE REQUIREMENTS
CSP BUSINESS VALUE
BUSINESS KPIS
INDUSTRY
WITH ORACLE
AVERAGE
Bring Products to
“We want to deal with a
Market Quickly
market leader and leverage
the latest technologies to
• Upselling to existing
“We have unique
• New revenue streams
requirements that are
• Faster revenue recognition
OnDemand
continually changing. We
• Strategic customer relationship
need.” “We want to decide how and
Channel Support
when to interact with our communications partner.”
• Multiple touch points enhances revenue potential • Faster resolution, lowcost channels lower costs
Reduce Sales
“We need to reduce the time
• Faster revenue recognition
Quotation Time
and cost in selecting and
• Reduces the cost of sale
(Lead to Quote
purchasing complex ICT
Time)
services.“
Improve Order
“Our communications partner
Capture Accuracy
must turn up our services on
(Right First Time)
time and as promised.
Minutes/Hours
• Competitive differentiation
Bundles
Flexible, Cross
Days/Weeks
the brand
Create Custom
only want to pay for what we
Days/Weeks
• Attracts new customers to
drive new competitive advantage.”
Months
customers
Channel
Single view of the
dependent view of
account across all
account
channels
Takes hours/days
Seconds/minutes
to crossreference
to access common
multiple records.
records.
Weeks/Months
Minutes/Hours /Days
• RFT critical to CX
Fallout rates of
99.9% Right First
• Reduces order fallout costs
30%50%
Time
• Faster revenue recognition
Days – Requires
Minutes/Hours
• Increases contract
cancelling and re
Unforeseen downtime can cost our business money.” Support InFlight
“Updates to our orders are
Order Changes
the norm. They shouldn’t cost our business time or to go to the back of the queue and delay our commercial plans.”
Reduce Order
“We need these services now
Cycle Time
to support revenue generation, reduce costly downtime and retain our competitive position.”
profitability
submitting order
• Faster revenue recognition
Days/Weeks
• Phased billing for longlived
/Months
orders • Lower OPEX
Minutes for onnet services and soft changes to complex services (IP VPNs)
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CXIMPACTING
ENTERPRISE REQUIREMENTS
CSP BUSINESS VALUE
BUSINESS KPIS
INDUSTRY
WITH ORACLE
AVERAGE
Provide Web
“We need selfcare so we
based
can update services on
SelfCare
demand and ensure
predictable costs.”
Meet Delivery
“Downtime is costly. We
SLAs
need guarantees that our
services will be delivered on
Limited to basic
Supports IP VPN
functions, swivel
Bandwidth on
• Fast, lowcost resolution
chair selfcare for
Demand showing
resolution to common
complex services
commercial cost
• Reduces contract risk
Networkcentric
Businesscentric
• Competitive differentiation
SLAs focused on
SLAs covering
network issues
customer lifecycle
• New revenue potential (i.e. iVPN BoD)
requests
time and as promised.”
Predictable and
“We need predictable costs
60% of support