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Puzzel Ltd

Puzzel Case Management

Puzzel Case Management is a Case/Ticket management tool that provides you with the ability to manage written interactions in a secure and efficient way. Each interaction in the queue is converted into a support ticket and assigned a unique case/ticket ID which is then distributed to the right person.

Features

  • Supports tickets / cases via SMS and Email as standard
  • Converts incoming messages to tickets / cases
  • AI-enabled to auto prioritise tickets or help draft responses
  • Tag tickets to help segregate them
  • Outbound SMS / Email campaigns to notify a wide audience
  • End-users can check ticket status, update via portal
  • Auto-Reply based on queue or content of interaction
  • Choose from standard reports or create your own
  • Integration via open APIs to other software

Benefits

  • Increases customer satisfaction by improving quality of your communications
  • Increase efficiency by easily assigning cases based on skill
  • Improve customer experience with visibility of their cases
  • Increase efficiency with automated processes that route cases more efficiently
  • Manage team tasks effortlessly and use templates for consistency
  • Increase user satisfaction by consolidating software
  • Improve your productivity with automated workflow rules
  • Organise your workload better by visualising your case load
  • Reduce the Average Handling Time (AHT) for agents
  • Increase team collaboration across cases / tickets

Pricing

£28.00 a user a month

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

1 7 4 9 7 5 3 2 4 1 2 2 0 9 5

Contact

Puzzel Ltd G-Cloud Team
Telephone: 0333 300 0066
Email: gcloud@puzzel.com

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
Yes, but can also be used as a standalone service
What software services is the service an extension to
Puzzel Contact Centre
Cloud deployment model
  • Public cloud
  • Private cloud
Service constraints
Planned maintenance is performed out of office hours and typically has no impact upon customers. Exceptionally users are logged off, but can then immediately log on again.

Note that many customers use, and rely upon, Puzzel as a 365 x 24 service.
System requirements
  • Device (PC, Mac, laptop, tablet etc) with Internet connectivity
  • A modern browser (all mainstream modern browsers are supported)
  • A suitable Puzzel Case Management licence

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
Within 1 hour for Priority 1 issues.
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
Yes
Online ticketing support accessibility
None or don’t know
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
24 hours, 7 days a week
Web chat support
Web chat
Web chat support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support accessibility standard
WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
Web chat accessibility testing
Webchat has been tested with an external consultancy company and is WCAG compliant. We do not support testing with screen readers but our services including web chat support are WCAG compliant.
Onsite support
No
Support levels
Our Basic support plan is available within business hours. Paid-for support plans below are available for increased levels of support and reporting.

The Standard support plan (Weekdays 9am to 5pm) includes Written Support, Web Chat Support, Service Level reporting and full access to status pages and knowledgebase. The Premium plan (Weekdays 9am to 10pm) includes all of the above plus Phone Support. Our Elite plan includes everything above extended to 24 /7.

All customers are provided a Key Account Manager and access to our remote support team. Furthermore, customers can elect to purchase additional reporting and a Service Manager for increased levels of support and attention.
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
On-site or virtual training is provided prior to Go-Live, for all users of the software including dedicated programs for administrators and users.

All training and user documentation are provided and made available as part of the set-up process for all customers.

Additional training is always purchasable as part of our ongoing Customer Success process.
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
  • HTML
  • PDF
End-of-contract data extraction
Key data can be exported at end of contract using SFTP or other similar mechanisms (EML files and any attachments).
End-of-contract process
All data extraction is included within our licence cost, however, any additional support if required may be charged at Professional Service rates per day.

A full Exit Plan will be produced and allow the customer to take their data in a machine readable format and that all other data will be deleted and purged in line with GDPR and UK Data Privacy considerations.

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Supported browsers
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
Application to install
No
Designed for use on mobile devices
Yes
Differences between the mobile and desktop service
The solution is mobile responsive and will work in any web browser. Some functionality may be reduced when using a mobile device and smaller screen. Otherwise, the full service is available as normal.
Service interface
Yes
User support accessibility
None or don’t know
Description of service interface
The service interface provides access for Administrators and Agents. The interface is accessible by modern browsers.

The Administrator Portal gives administrators better control of their day-to-day operations. For example:
- Access to reports
- Agent set up
- Configuration of ticket queue parameters
- Configure settings for outbound email and SMS
- Setup of API channels, workflows, etc

The user interface allows agents to control use of the service. Using this they can:
- Log in and out of ticket queues
- Set their status
- Transfer cases / tickets
- Manage and communicate cases with the end-customer
Accessibility standards
None or don’t know
Description of accessibility
Users currently use their keyboard and mouse to use the service via web browser.
Accessibility testing
None Applicable
API
Yes
What users can and can't do using the API
* Ability to create, read, modify and delete tickets and all associated metadata
* List tickets with specified search criteria
* Filter ticket list by date range
* Show and list categories and forms associated to tickets
* Organisation list
* Tag list
API documentation
Yes
API documentation formats
HTML
API sandbox or test environment
Yes
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
Puzzel Case Management can be tailored to your organisational structure, teams / queues and terminology.

Custom reports and dashboards can also be created by administrators.

Pre-written response templates which can be used for automatically generated messages or referenced by agents.

Agents and channel signatures.

Customer Hub (additional paid-for feature) can be branded to your organisation including logo and colours.

3rd party integrations are also available via open REST-based APIs and a API is also available for customers to develop their own integrations.

Scaling

Independence of resources
Puzzel Case Management is a multi-tenant platform, and the architecture is designed to be fully scalable. Users can be added easily, at any time.

Full redundancy of the system is provided in geographically diverse locations, and we constantly invest in incremental capacity as required to ensure plenty of 'headroom' is always available to allow peaks of demand.

Load balancing across sites ensures that users are not affected by increased volumes.

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
Full information about the use of Puzzel Case Management is provided with many key metrics including but not limited to: case volumes per team, per user, channel, priority, tag, category, customer, customer domain, status, ticket performance, SLA analysis, team performance, user performance, login, task SLA, Form, and Form Fields.
Reporting types
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

Supplier type
Not a reseller

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Other security clearance
Government security clearance
None

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
Yes
Data storage and processing locations
European Economic Area (EEA)
User control over data storage and processing locations
Yes
Datacentre security standards
Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
Penetration testing frequency
At least once a year
Penetration testing approach
‘IT Health Check’ performed by a CHECK service provider
Protecting data at rest
  • Physical access control, complying with another standard
  • Encryption of all physical media
  • Other
Other data at rest protection approach
All data at rest is encrypted to AES 256 standard
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Data sanitisation type
Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
Equipment disposal approach
In-house destruction process

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
Users can export ticket or customer records in the form of ZIP, PDF and other file attachments using the Service Interface.
Data export formats
  • CSV
  • Other
Other data export formats
  • PDF
  • EML
  • ZIP
  • Attachments (multiple formats)
Data import formats
CSV

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Data protection within supplier network
TLS (version 1.2 or above)

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
The availability target for Puzzel Case Management is 99.9%.
Approach to resilience
Infrastructure & Resilience:
All components in Puzzel's infrastructure are redundant by design. There are three levels of redundancy built into the infrastructure;
Component resilience: Every component in the infrastructure has built in resilience within the unit. This might be as double power adaptors, double network cards, mirrored disks more than one CPU etc.

Load balancing:
All critical infrastructure such as web-servers and application servers are load-balanced allowing operational systems even if components/ servers fail. For components not suited for load-balancing such as databases, advanced synchronization mechanisms are used between the active server and passive servers. This prevents data loss and minimal disruption on fail-over.

Geo-redundancy:
All systems can be run at full capacity from either DC1 or DC2 allowing a full outage of either of the data centres. DC2 will take on the services of DC1 in case of a full outage of DC1.
Outage reporting
Email alerts to nominated customer contacts together with a public dashboard showing service availability and status of any ongoing incidents.

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
Access to functionality is based upon the role and privileges of the user as defined by the system administrator.
Access restriction testing frequency
At least every 6 months
Management access authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information
Users have access to real-time audit information
How long user audit data is stored for
Between 1 month and 6 months
Access to supplier activity audit information
Users have access to real-time audit information
How long supplier audit data is stored for
Between 1 month and 6 months
How long system logs are stored for
At least 12 months

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
Yes
Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
DnV (Den Norsk Veritas)
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
Continuous since 2014
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
100% of our systems and processes are covered by the certification.
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
Yes
Cyber essentials plus
No
Other security certifications
Yes
Any other security certifications
ISO27701 Extension to ISO27001 for privacy information management

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security
Yes
Security governance certified
Yes
Security governance standards
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security policies and processes
Puzzel is ISO27001 certified (by DnV).

In line with ISO27001, Puzzel performs regular internal audits and risk assessments.

Any security breaches are recorded and actioned at board level.

Security officers at each site ensure that all staff are aware of, and comply with, the security policy.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach
Configuration and change management is based upon standard ITIL processes. This includes conducting risk analysis of all changes, all changes go via a change approval board before being released within a scheduled maintenance window held every two weeks.
Vulnerability management type
Supplier-defined controls
Vulnerability management approach
Bimonthly meetings of Puzzel's security team, chaired by the CISO, identify risks based upon:
- any operational changes
- perceived vulnerabilities
- any security incidents

Security patches are promptly deployed in maintenance windows, or sooner if appropriate.
Protective monitoring type
Supplier-defined controls
Protective monitoring approach
Monitoring of cloud instance including continuous scanning for vulnerabilities, monitoring of intrusion attempts as well as abuse detection. Denial-of-service (DDoS) attack prevention, frequent penetration testing as well as data analytics to make sure that the operation is stable and secure.
Incident management type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Incident management approach
Incident management is based upon ITIL processes. If appropriate ITIL problem management processes are used to eliminate recurring incidents. Incident reports are provided for all P1 incidents. Users report incidents by ticket, web chat, phone or email via Puzzel's Help Portal.

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v3.0)

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks
No

Social Value

Social Value

Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Covid-19 recovery
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

Fighting climate change

As a responsible provider of services, Puzzel has committed to the goal of achieving Net Zero environmental impact by no later than 2030.

To support the theme of Fighting Climate Change, we can commit to one, or a series of, actions with each buyer to positively impact the local community. The suggested actions include but are not limited to the following:

• Re-purposing IT equipment for local bodies such as Schools and VCSE’s to enable access to technology without further impacting the environment.
• Supporting schools and VCSE's with volunteering programs to assist with tree planting and other positive environmental action.
• Using our software and training teams, enabling a culture of hybrid or remote working to reduce the buyer’s environmental impact.

For each Social Value commitment, Puzzel will ensure specific, measurable criteria is agreed with each buyer and every year we shall report upon these with demonstrable reporting.

Covid-19 recovery

We are focussed on assisting buyers and their communities in recovering from the impact felt by Covid-19 with helping to enable positive social and economic impacts.

To support the theme of Covid-19 recovery, we can commit to one, or a series of, actions with each buyer to positively impact the local community. The suggested actions include but are not limited to the following:

• Re-purposing IT equipment for local bodies such as Schools and VCSE’s to enable access to technology in the community, so they are not left behind by the increasing cost of purchasing new technology.
• Supporting schools / VCSE's with digital skills training, to help upskill the young, the unemployed, the disadvantaged, and the elderly in the community.
• Using our software and training teams, enabling a culture of hybrid / remote working to assist the buyer in improving their capabilities and gaining efficiencies as they cut the cost of per employee of having to provide permanent desk space.
• Using our apprenticeship levy to fund apprenticeships in the local community to those that may still be recovering from the impact of Covid-19.

For each Social Value commitment, Puzzel will ensure specific, measurable criteria is agreed with each buyer and every year we shall report upon these with demonstrable reporting.

Tackling economic inequality

We are focussed on assisting buyers and their communities in tackling economic inequality with helping to enable positive social and economic impacts, removing barriers to employment, and helping the community to develop new skills.

To support the theme of Tackling Economic Inequality, we can commit to one, or a series of, actions with each buyer to positively impact the local community. The suggested actions include but are not limited to the following:

• Re-purposing IT equipment for local bodies such as Schools and VCSE’s to enable access to technology in the community, so they are not left behind by the increasing cost of purchasing new technology.
• Supporting schools / VCSE's with digital skills training, to help upskill the young, the unemployed, the disadvantaged, and the elderly in the community.
• Using our software and training teams, enabling a culture of hybrid / remote working to assist the buyer in improving their capabilities and gaining efficiencies as they cut the cost of per employee of having to provide permanent desk space.
• Using our apprenticeship levy to fund apprenticeships in the local community to increase opportunities for work to those that may be hindered from achieving it.

For each Social Value commitment, Puzzel will ensure specific, measurable criteria is agreed with each buyer and every year we shall report upon these with demonstrable reporting.

Equal opportunity

We are focussed on assisting buyers and their communities with increased equal opportunity for all by removing inequality in the workplace, and increasing the ability of employers to support employees from a wide-range of backgrounds and capabilities.

To support the theme of Tackling Economic Inequality, we can commit to one, or a series of, actions with each buyer to positively impact the local community. The suggested actions include but are not limited to the following:

• Re-purposing IT equipment for local bodies such as Schools and VCSE’s to enable access to technology in the community, to increase the ability of these bodies to offer access to IT equipment to more people.
• Supporting schools / VCSE's with digital skills training, to help upskill the young, the unemployed, the disadvantaged, and the elderly in the community.
• Using accessibility standards in our software development to enable the buyer to open employment opportunity and increasing the pool of people who can work using our software by using WCAG standards.
• Using our apprenticeship levy to fund apprenticeships in the local community to increase opportunities for work experience to those that may be hindered today from achieving it.

For each Social Value commitment, Puzzel will ensure specific, measurable criteria is agreed with each buyer and every year we shall report upon these with demonstrable reporting.

Wellbeing

We are focussed on assisting buyers and their communities in improving the health and wellbeing of their citizens including mental and physical health, healthier ways of living as well as access to basic foodstuffs.

To support the theme of Wellbeing, we can commit to one, or a series of, actions with each buyer to positively impact the local community. The suggested actions include but are not limited to the following:

• Supporting schools and VCSE's with volunteering programs to assist with local wellbeing projects and communities whereby we can positively impact physical and mental health.
• Supporting schools / VCSE's with mental health and other soft skill training, to help increase awareness amongst the young, the unemployed, the disadvantaged, and the elderly in the community.
• Donating to foodbanks and other local intiatives to increase the ability of the community to feed itself.

For each Social Value commitment, Puzzel will ensure specific, measurable criteria is agreed with each buyer and every year we shall report upon these with demonstrable reporting.

Pricing

Price
£28.00 a user a month
Discount for educational organisations
No
Free trial available
No

Service documents

Request an accessible format
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