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Wavenet Integrated Citizen Experience (CX) - Virtual Contact Centre - powered by Five9

True cloud omni-channel contact centre with workforce engagement management, AI enabled self-service for speech and chat-bot. This solution supports specialised Customer Relationship Management Integration capabilities and Robotic Process Automation tools.

Features

  • Carrier. Campaign and Access Point Management
  • Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and self-service
  • Intelligent Automatic Contact Distribution (ACD) with blended dialler
  • Integrated Omni-channel Advisor Desktop
  • Real Time and Historical Management Information
  • Contact and Screen Recording with Quality Management
  • Interaction Analytics
  • Workforce Management
  • PCI-DSS Compliant Payments
  • Artificial Intelligence enablement. Self-service chat and speech bot

Benefits

  • Enhance Citizen Experience
  • Improve Advisor Engagement
  • Streamline Business and Compliance Processes e.g. PCI-DSS & GDPR
  • Omni-channel citizen engagement
  • Integration with Customer Relationship Management for data driven customer experience
  • Data-led decision making and insight
  • Personalized, frictionless and helpful automation
  • Open standards and flexible integration
  • True cloud, highly resilient, true cloud platform
  • Automation between contact centre and wider digital eco-system

Pricing

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

6 4 6 0 9 3 4 9 4 1 2 9 5 5 0

Contact

Wavenet Joe Ewins
Telephone: 0333 234 0011
Email: publicsector@wavenet.co.uk

About your service

Service categories

Applications

Customer relationship management

  • Contact centre
Multi cloud support
Yes

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
Yes
What software services is the service an extension to
Solution can be integrated into MS Dynamics, Oracle Netsuite, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Zendesk, Oracle Service Cloud
Cloud deployment model
Hybrid cloud
Service constraints
VCC support extends to the entire customer experience across all services, including hardware, connectivity and applications.Wavenet provide First and Second Line support with Five9 supporting Third Line support. VCC is multi-sited across resilient data centres, and all hardware is modular and resilient at every level, meaning that upgrades can take place with no disruption to service. Upgrade notifications are issued regardless. The solution requires 110kpbs of throughput for voice.
System requirements
  • Browser: Recent version of Chrome, FireFox, Edge, Safari
  • Operating Systems - Windows 10/11 Mac 12.5, 13, 14
  • VDI Citrix Desktop 7.15, Apps and Desktop 1912LTSRCU3, Horizon7.13
  • 110 kbps of bandwidth per concurrent call for advisor desktop
  • OKTA for SSO integration

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Yes
Support response times
Tickets are categorised according to their impact (P1-P4) as defined in the service level agreement please see terms and conditions. Categories are. P1 : P2 : P3 : P4 :
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
No
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support
No
Onsite support
Yes, at extra cost
Support levels
Standard and bespoke support levels are available (for instance, 9-5 Mon-Fri, 7-7 Mon-Sun, 24/7/365). Costs are agreed as part of the overall services package. Technical support is provided by the dedicated, UK-based NOC.
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
Training for Wavenet VCC is built into the PRINCE2 Managed Project Deployment Process and cascades through a high, medium- and low-level gates based on the understanding of traditional contact centre and technologies and core stakeholder roles. This starts at the kick off meeting where a high-level demo will be supplied to all stakeholders deemed relevant to join.
Medium-level training is available from the delivery of the storm partition with all stakeholders having access to online training documents. This includes courses for agents, supervisors, and system admins. Before UAT stakeholders will receive dedicated classroom-based training to support a low-level understanding of VCC. This will be aimed at supervisors and system admins. This will provide an understanding of the following:
- Advisor and Supervisor Desktop
- Carrier and Access Management
- IVR & Self-service
- ACD, Organisation and User configuration
- Realtime and Historical Recording
- Recording and Quality Management
Wavenet seeks to empower customers to become experts within their own solution so as to take maximum advantage of the benefits of the solution and Integrated approach to CX.
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
  • HTML
  • PDF
End-of-contract data extraction
There are several different options available to customers for extracting data at the end of the contract. Most customers will regularly extract data using storm's inbuilt reporting management tool, VIEW (into formats such as CSV, XLS and PDF) and Recorder Manager solution (.WAV). However, all data can be manually extracted by storm's engineering team and delivered to the customer at the end of the contract, if this is required.
End-of-contract process
This varies based on the contract. Services can be decommissioned as part of the agreement, and there may be additional costs involved in decommissioning or transferring to other systems subject to the pre-agreed exit provisions.
Documentation accessibility standard
WCAG 2.2 A

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Supported browsers
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
Application to install
No
Designed for use on mobile devices
No
Service interface
Yes
User support accessibility
WCAG 2.2 AA
Description of service interface
All Wavenet VCC interfaces are browser-based.
- Agent Desktop Plus: Agent Desktop: Single interface for channel management
- Agent Desktop Toolkit: Agent interface integrated within a CRM solution
- Supervisor Desktop Plus: Single interface for channel management, agent monitoring (listen, whisper and barge in) and access to reports and recordings
- Admin Interface: Access to contact centre configuration and service scripts Access rights can be best set to match your operational goals.
- Carrier and Access Management
- IVR & Self-service
- ACD, Organisation and User configuration
- Realtime and Historical Recording
- Recording and Quality Management
Accessibility standards
WCAG 2.2 A
Accessibility testing
Not known
API
Yes
What users can and can't do using the API
The Wavenet VCC supports flexible API's to links VCC to other elements of a customers digital ecosystem such as Unified Communications solutions, Workforce Engagement Management, Analytics and AI solution and CRM/ERP solutions. API's can allow VCC to automate contact and citizen experience tasks such as appointment booking, automatic surveys and support AI enabled self-service. API documentation can be provided to access elements of the solution including recordings, reports and data management. Five9's open web services APIs and configurable connectors enable integration to a large variety of external systems. Pre-integrated solutions include Salesforce, Oracle Service Cloud, NetSuite, Velocify (Leads360), Microsoft Dynamics, ServiceNow, and Zendesk CRM platforms. The Five9 solution is developed as an open platform, providing rich open APIs and SDKs that allow partners and customers to integrate with and extend the solution, along with our commitment to developing and leveraging open standards such as SIP and MRCP for our voice communication protocols, TCPA adherence options for compliance, SNMP for system monitoring, SMTP for email as a contact centre channel, SOAP and REST methods for APIs, and HTML5 for our Agent Desktop Plus interfaces.
API documentation
Yes
API documentation formats
  • HTML
  • PDF
API sandbox or test environment
Yes
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
Wavenet VCC can be fully customised across its service interfaces. Each service interfaces is based on a discreet contact centre micro-service which customisation across each module. Core Modules include:
- Carrier and Access Management
- IVR & Self-service
- ACD, Organisation and User configuration
- Realtime and Historical Recording
- Recording and Qulaity Management
Further enhanced customisation can be undertaken at the application development level where purchased.

Scaling

Independence of resources
Carrier capacity is provided by Wavenet and will be scaled with the customer requirement on setup. In terms of the core platform storm, Content Guru are continually making improvements to the solution's multi-tenant core platform to increase capacity and upgrade features in line with the growth of the customer base. storm is configured so there is enough capacity for all customers in a single storm instance in case of the loss of one of its data centre.

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
Fully flexible and customisable real-time and historical reporting across multiple channels, with real-time notification alerts on service performance, trend analytics and service levels. Recording and Screen Recording capabilities with transcription and speech analytics alongside scorecards and associated reporting.
Reporting types
  • API access
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request
Resource tagging
No
FOCUS resource tagging
No

Resellers

Supplier type
Reseller providing extra support
Organisation whose services are being resold
Five9

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Conforms to BS7858:2019
Government security clearance
Security Clearance (SC)

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
Yes
Data storage and processing locations
United Kingdom
User control over data storage and processing locations
Yes
Datacentre security standards
Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 4.0)
Penetration testing frequency
At least once a year
Penetration testing approach
Another external penetration testing organisation
Protecting data at rest
  • Physical access control, complying with another standard
  • Encryption of all physical media
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Equipment disposal approach
A third-party destruction service
Data sanitisation type
Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation / Secure Erase

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
Management Information such as CDR can be exported in formats including: CSV, XLS and PDF. Recordings can be exported in a (.WAV) format. These can be exported to FTP and SFTP endpoints. Some data can be exported via API.
Data export formats
CSV
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 Wavenet VCC platform is has been architected by Five9 as multi-tenanted true cloud platform to deliver 99.999% core platform availability, delivered from two highly available active/active data tier three data centres. Wavenet are a UK critical National Infrastructure provider.
Approach to resilience
The Wavenet VCC platform, powered by Five9 is maintained across multiple secure data centre sites in the UK (and internationally where required) to provided optimum availability and resilience. To this end, it is of paramount importance that all data centre sites and the data stored therein is synchronized. All constituent data centres supporting the platform are connected by resilient links, which are continuously subject to monitoring. VCC data centres and servers are kept in primary-secondary configuration, with the resilient connections between them enabling the ongoing synchronization of all services and data.
Outage reporting
The platform's developer Five9 automatically notifies customers of planned outages via notifications provided on login to the system . In the event of an unplanned outage, Wavenet initially contacts customers via email and phone, and continues delivering updates at regular intervals until the incident is resolved. The customer system status portal on VCC also allows a customer to configure automatic text and email notifications of system disruptions. Wavenet will also provide Root Cause Analysis after the event of P1 or P2 outage.

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
Each organisation’s VCC solution requires the purchase of administrator licences. Administrators require these separate licences to access admin privileges. Admin activities are fully audited and can be linked to 2FA or SSO for additional security.
Access restriction testing frequency
At least once a year
Management access authentication
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

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
User-defined
Access to supplier activity audit information
Users have access to real-time audit information
How long supplier audit data is stored for
User-defined
How long system logs are stored for
At least 12 months

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
Wavenet is an ISO27001 certified company and we adhear to the standard, we are audited on this standard annually, Wavenet is also a CE+ certified company
Software Security Code of Practice
Yes

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach
Wavenet conform to ISO2000
Vulnerability management type
Supplier-defined controls
Vulnerability management approach
Wavenet conform to and follow the NIST standard and ISO27002
Protective monitoring type
Supplier-defined controls
Protective monitoring approach
We have continual monitoring with EDR solution feeding into a SIEM that is monitored 24/7 that is monitored by SOC
Incident management type
Supplier-defined controls
Incident management approach
Wavenet is ISO27001 certified and we follow the playbook as part of our certification.
Post-quantum cryptography secure
No

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 v4.0)

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks
No

Pricing

Discount for educational organisations
No
Free trial available
No

Discount percentage by annual call-off contract value (excluding VAT)

Less than £250,000
0%
Between £250,000 and £500,000
1%
Between £500,001 and £1,000,000
2%
Between £1,000,001 and £2,500,000
3%
Between £2,500,001 and £5,000,000
4%
Over £5,000,001
5%

Non-mandatory Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
Yes
Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
United Registrar of Systems
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
Thursday 18 July 2024
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
N/A
ISO 28000:2022 certification
No
ISO 9001 certification
Yes
Who accredited the ISO 9001 certification
United Registrar of Systems
ISO 9001 accreditation date
Monday 12 August 2024
What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover
N/A
Quality management systems (QMS)
Yes
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
Yes
Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number
39aabf05-4ab8-4ee7-adcd-3318af1f9d2f
Cyber essentials plus
Yes
Please provide your Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number
6cc5c85d-03f1-446c-9e9d-7338dfb9f0ce
Other security certifications
No

Social value

Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery
  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 1: Fair work: That offers fair wages and good working conditions. Help people get a job, stay in work, and progress in their careers, with good employment opportunities across the country. Notes: Where there is a large proportion of labour costs in the contract, commercial teams should consider MAC in Outcome 1 as a priority

    • New apprenticeships on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b
  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 2: Skills for growth: Supporting growth sectors and addressing skills gaps.

    • Delivery of apprenticeships, supported internships and T Level industry placement opportunities (Level 2, 3 and 4+) in relation to the contract
  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 3: Resilient, innovative and flexible supply chains: Support economic growth through enabling resilient businesses, opportunities for small businesses and voluntary, community and social enterprises

    • Plans for positive actions with community groups.
  • Mission: Make Britain a clean energy superpower: To cut bills, create jobs and deliver security with cheaper, zero-carbon electricity by 2030, accelerating to net zero

    Policy Outcome 4: Sustainable procurement practices: Reducing carbon footprints, minimising waste, and promoting the use of clean energy and green technologies.

    • Understanding of opportunities for additional environmental benefits delivery in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
    • Collaborative ways of working with the supply chain to deliver additional environmental benefits in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
    • Delivery of additional environmental benefits through the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
    • Understanding of how to influence staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders through the delivery of the contract to support climate and nature protection and improvement
  • Mission: Build an NHS fit for the future: That is there when people need it; with fewer lives lost to the biggest killers; in a fairer Britain, where everyone lives well for longer.

    Policy Outcome 8: Increasing productivity through physical and mental wellbeing: In the supply chain and communities in the relevant area.

    • Understanding of issues relating to health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health, in the contract workforce

Service documents

Request an accessible format
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