Building a global customer portal

Chubb is one of the UK’s best-known providers of fire safety and security solutions for businesses, operating across 20+ countries.

For over 200 years, their mission has been to make the world a safer place by protecting their customers with essential systems, equipment and services.

Mockup of web portal, customer portal and helpdesk portal for Chubb security

The problem

Chubb needed to produce a single customer portal for the group that enabled their customers to interact with Chubb’s entire suite of services, all from one location. There was no ‘one-stop shop’ where customers could:

  • Handle regular admin tasks such as invoicing
  • Access the entire suite of services that Chubb can offer
  • Monitor information related to the services Chubb provided them
 
In the absence of such a system, each region had started to develop its own solutions, risking the creation of a fragmented architecture and customer experience.

Furthermore, without a digital means of customer interaction, Chubb was not able to make improvements to operational processes.

The brief, in partnership with key stakeholders at Chubb, was to deliver a system that provided a scalable and consistent data architecture to power the entire customer relationship in each region that Chubb operates in.

The goals

 Provide a best-in-class digital customer experience and replace legacy systems

 Enable more effective marketing & engagement with a single source of truth for customer relationships

 Digitise reporting, thus reducing costs

 Enable operational improvements to benefit both customers and the business

Provide a scalable and consistent data architecture to support the business into the future

Deliver a global product, providing a consistent platform for all regions including language localisation and local data integrations

Solution definition

A single customer portal that could be deployed in each country individually to match the needs and capacity of each region.

The system would comprise:

  • A responsive web portal
  • A native mobile app
  • Many complex integrations, e.g. with ERPs and monitoring systems

In addition to building, launching and managing the customer portal project, there was a significant amount of operational and customer digital transformation work that was required to ensure that each of the processes of this 200-year-old company was optimised for a best-in-class digital experience.

Solution details

The tech

✅ Web application
✅ Native mobile app
✅ Scalable Azure architecture
✅ Complex integrations e.g. ERP, custom monitoring systems

Delivery methodology

✅ Agile
❌ Waterfall

Product services

✅ Stakeholder interviews
✅ Business process mapping
✅ Customer research
✅ UX and UI design
✅ Requirements analysis and definition
✅ System migration
✅ System launch
✅ Operational digital transformation
✅ Customer digital transformation

Business impact

For Chubb

 ✔ A best-in-class and differentiated customer experience, delivering true competitive advantage

 ✔ Revenue upside via reduced churn, upselling and winning more customers through a better customer experience

 ✔ Operational savings from operational improvements enabled by the digital platform

 ✔ A consistent and scalable technology platform

For Chubb's customers

A significantly improved customer experience. Customers now have a single, digital place to access:

 ✔ All invoicing and reporting information

 ✔ All monitoring information across all the services that Chubb offers

 ✔ Real-time and instant access to information

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