Acquisition Integration IT Project

Bouygues completed the acquisition of Equans, which represented an important milestone in its development. As a result of this significant aqcuisition, there were a number of areas needing review and integration.

Call centre software used by several Bouygues Energy and Services helpdesks was reaching the end of its service life and therefore presented significant risk. The software experienced many outages and had operating conflicts with various client firewall protections which meant it could not be used across the full client base. With the Equans acquisition completed, it was a good opportunity to evaluate existing software solutions across both organisations and assess these against business requirements.

We undertook the following activities:

• Defined the “As Is” call centre processes
• Elicited system requirements
• Worked with Stakeholders to understand the locations in scope
• Engaged with product owners on the Equans side to understand suitable solutions
• Complied business case for the Genesys Solution
• Distributed and coordinated data collection plans for initial setup
• Organised proposed software demonstrations
• Compiled a training and communication plan for rollout

As a result we, achieved the following benefits

• A reduction is licence costs of about £10k per annum
• Improved uptime for the clients 
• Improved standardisation by allowing a consolidated use of the software across all Contracts
• Improved MI as a result of consolidating data into a single database
• Supported the wider business integration with the two IT software portfolios consolidated into one