Legacy Systems Weren’t Built for Modern Scale

A leading e-commerce logistics provider in North America was under mounting pressure to modernize its customer support operations. While its delivery services boasted speed and flexibility, its case management systems lagged behind, manual, fragmented, and increasingly expensive to maintain. Operational costs ballooned as customer volumes rose and regional delivery complexity increased.

The client relied on a well-known SaaS-based platform integrated with Salesforce Service Cloud. Initially effective, the platform had become a performance bottleneck. Agent headcount grew, ticket volumes soared, and costs escalated rapidly. The system's limitations began to visibly strain response times, consistency, and scalability.

With a 600-member operations team, they sought an open-source alternative that could seamlessly integrate with Salesforce while maintaining efficiency and compliance with branding guidelines.

Beyond cost, rigidity was the real barrier. Making even minor changes, such as modifying routing rules or UI tweaks, required vendor intervention, resulting in long turnaround times. This hindered the client's ability to respond to seasonal shifts, new retailer demands, or localized service expectations.

Legacy Systems

When the Problem Isn’t the Platform, It’s the Operating Model

The organization didn’t just want to replace software, it wanted to rethink support operations end-to-end. Xerago was selected as a transformation partner to redesign the case management architecture for speed, scale, and control. 

The mandate was clear: reduce dependence on expensive licensing, automate high-volume tasks, and build a future-proof system.

The company defined core objectives:

  • Transition from expensive licensing to an efficient open-source case management system 
  • Retain Salesforce integration capabilities
  • Automate redundant workflows
  • Minimize disruption during rollout
  • Empower internal teams to maintain
  • Evolve the system post-deployment

Instead of focusing on platform migration alone, Xerago reframed the engagement around operational reinvention. The new case management solution needed to improve agent experience, reduce response time, and enable measurable cost savings, without compromising customer visibility or service accuracy.

From Vendor Lock-In to Open Control

The engagement was structured into three strategic phases: Diagnostic & Planning, Implementation & Integration, and Rollout & Stabilization. 

Xerago began with a deep-dive diagnostic to analyze workflow inefficiencies, calculate licensing burn, and understand operations team usage patterns across service regions.

Based on these insights, Xerago identified and implemented a cost-effective open-source Case Management System, customized to align with branding and operational needs. It featured SLA tracking, case prioritization engines, dashboards, and secure APIs for bi-directional Salesforce sync. Everything was built with scalability and transparency in mind.

The transformation also reimagined the user interface to center on agent efficiency. Repetitive steps like data entry, tagging, and manual escalations were eliminated. Dynamic routing, contextual case views, and real-time notifications became part of the intuitive user interface developed for faster case resolution.

Migrating 600+ Agents Without Disruption

Given the volume of daily cases and regional interdependencies, the transition had to be precise. Xerago rolled out the new system in staggered waves, aligning each region’s transition to agent availability, shift cycles, and peak volumes. 

Within two weeks, 600+ agents were fully migrated.

To ensure adoption, Xerago deployed role-specific training modules, simulation labs, and just-in-time documentation. Live monitoring dashboards allowed stakeholders to track usage, performance, and user behavior during the rollout window. Most critically, data preservation was absolute. 

Case histories, open ticket queues, user settings, and audit logs were migrated without compromise. 

The support function continued seamlessly, with no loss of productivity, compliance risk, or customer experience degradation.

Automation as a Force Multiplier

Once deployed, the new system’s automation engine became a force multiplier. Xerago mapped and templatized over 70% of repetitive case activities, including tagging, triage, routing, closure conditions, and escalations.

Rules-based logic ensured that incoming cases were routed by agent load, case type, or customer tier. Escalations were managed through pre-defined exception flows. Agents no longer had to perform routine classification or urgency tagging manually.

This shift delivered not just effort savings, but consistency.

Agents could now focus on more judgment-intensive cases, while routine operations were handled by the system. The overall case lifecycle shortened, response accuracy improved, and agents were more engaged.

Real-Time Visibility and Performance Intelligence

Another key innovation was the deployment of a centralized contact history and performance analytics layer. The new platform tracked every customer interaction and agent action in near real-time, enabling granular SLA and performance reporting.

Supervisors could monitor queue health, escalation ratios, and time-to-resolution instantly. 

This made resource planning and issue triaging far more proactive. The dashboards also provided visibility into team productivity by shift, location, and customer segment. By establishing a scalable framework for future feature enhancements, the platform allowed continuous improvement. What was previously a reactive support function became a data-informed, self-optimizing engine.

Smarter Support at Scale

Xerago’s reengineering of the support platform delivered measurable results across cost, efficiency, and service metrics. 

The client was able to cut annual platform spend by 40%, while improving overall support efficiency and agent throughput.

Case closure time dropped by 20% due to better routing and reduced manual steps. With automation embedded, over 70% of repetitive tasks were eliminated. Agents handled more cases per shift with fewer errors and less fatigue. Just as importantly, the transformation was invisible to customers.

600+ agents were migrated without disruption. Data continuity was 100% preserved. ROI was realized within one quarter, freeing up budget for analytics and self-service investments.

Key Business Outcomes

40% reduction

in annual case management platform costs

30% improvement

in case handling efficiency

70% of

repetitive case tasks automated

20% faster

case resolution with dynamic routing

From Cost Center to Strategic Enabler

This wasn’t just a system upgrade, it was a transformation of how support operations work. By embracing open-source tools, automation-first design, and real-time analytics, the client turned its case management backbone into a source of agility and cost control.

Xerago brought more than technology implementation. It led the transformation end-to-end, from strategy and platform selection to rollout and measurable business outcomes. The result: better visibility, faster support, and sustainable ROI.

Solving operational complexity doesn’t start with more software, it starts with smarter orchestration. That’s the value Xerago delivered: a case management engine that’s not just efficient, but adaptable, future-ready, and fully owned by the business.

Let's Talk

Areas Interested In

How We've
Helped Clients