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Milpark Education

Customer Service Automation · Marketing Personalization · Sales Automation

Milpark Education, a South African higher education provider, faced operational challenges in student support.

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Reported impact

Business outcome

Equipped with greater visibility, Milpark Education has reduced resolution times by 50% and escalation times by over 30%.

  • Customer Experience
  • Productivity Improvement
  • Revenue Growth
  • Risk Reduction

Solution

Milpark Education built its Microsoft solution to improve customer-service and conversational-support workflows. Milpark Education, a South African higher education provider, faced operational challenges in student support. Key components included Microsoft Copilot Studio coordinated workflows, prompts, or deployment, and Dynamics 365 Customer Service delivered dashboards, apps, or copilots to users. Requests and business records enter Dynamics 365 Customer Service, where Microsoft Copilot Studio assists routing, summaries, or responses before the updated information is surfaced back to employees and customers through the Microsoft application layer. The stack stayed governed and extensible on Microsoft. Equipped with greater visibility, Milpark Education has reduced resolution times by 50% and escalation times by over 30%.

Data flow

Requests and business records enter Dynamics 365 Customer Service, where Microsoft Copilot Studio assists routing, summaries, or responses before the updated information is surfaced back to employees and customers through the Microsoft application layer.

Solution architecture

5 components · 4 layers
  1. Compute
    • Azure Provides the core cloud infrastructure and managed services underlying the deployment.
  2. Storage
    • Dynamics 365 Customer Insights Unifies customer data so teams can personalize service and engagement workflows.
  3. Serving
    • Dynamics 365 Customer Service Provides the case-management and service workspace for customer-support teams.
    • Dynamics 365 Sales Gives sales teams a unified CRM system for pipeline management and seller productivity.
  4. Orchestration
    • Microsoft Copilot Studio Provides the managed environment to design, test, and operate custom copilots.

Architecture clues

  • Dale adds, "Using Copilot, agents are now able to use generative AI to rapidly get up to speed on case details and respond to students using standardized templates that help them provide more personalized and professional responses.
  • Initially hosting in-person classes only, it now offers online higher education through a mix of distance learning and short courses to approximately 2500 yearly graduates and a total of 20,000 students.
  • Sangster notes, "We fluctuate between days with very few cases and days where 300 students need a quick resolution." Milpark Education's implementation of Dynamics 365 has also enhanced compliance and security.
  • The platform foundation that we had laid in previous projects afforded us a springboard to success, but Microsoft's Digital Contact Centre was the true hero of this story." "The platform foundation that we had laid in previous projects afforded us a springboard to success, but Microsoft's Digital Contact Centre was the true hero of this story." Shaun Dale, Managing Director, Enterprisecloud Enterprisecloud's team was able to rapidly configure dozens of shared email inboxes, 7 telephone numbers, and 2 web chat channels into one holistic omnichannel support desk, with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) routing of records and conversations to multiple queues of agents for optimized work assignments.

Evidence from the source

Dynamics 365 Customer Service became the natural choice for student support," highlights Sangster.
Dynamics 365 Customer Service became the natural choice for student support." Joel Sangster, Business Development Manager, Milpark Education Delivering the solution Enterprisecloud collaborated closely with business and IT stakeholders at Milpark Education to deliver a new solution for student support.
Equipped with greater visibility, Milpark Education has reduced resolution times by 50% and escalation times by over 30%.
In collaboration with Enterprisecloud, Milpark Education implemented Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Service and the Digital Contact Centre within a short 3-month timeframe.
Milpark Education, a South African higher education provider, faced operational challenges in student support.
The results speak for themselves." The solution utilizes Dynamics 365 Customer Service along with Microsoft's contact center capabilities as the core of this transformation.
Transparency Evidence & methodology 70/100 reference value · 87% confidence · 1 source

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Scoring methodology

How scores are calculated

Customer Reference Value measures usefulness as a customer reference. Evidence Confidence measures the quality and traceability of available evidence, not independent verification.

Customer reference value70/100
  • Problem clarity20/20
    Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
  • Implementation depth20/25
    Rewards named components, data flow, integrations, and architecture detail.
  • Outcome specificity20/20
    Measures whether the reported benefit is concrete rather than a generic claim.
  • Quantified impact0/25
    0 metrics describe measurable impact.
  • Deployment scale10/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence87%
  • Source authority20/25
    The main evidence is an official vendor-published customer story.
  • Claim traceability21/25
    10 of 12 key fields link to a named source.
  • Direct evidence20/20
    6 direct source quotes retained.
  • Date provenance10/10
    The publication date comes from the source page or publisher.
  • Source transparency8/10
    1 source reference document publisher, URL, authority, retrieval, and supported fields.
  • Implementation specificity8/10
    Rewards source-backed components, data flow, quantified impact, and a specific outcome.
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Traceability

Sources & provenance

Field coverage shows which facts each source supports. Dates are shown only when documented by the source.

  1. Microsoft

    Milpark Education customer story

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    https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/1794371049083171324-milpark-education-dynamics-365-customer-service-higher-education-en-south-africa
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    Published
    Jul 24, 2024
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  • Published on source page Jul 24, 2024 · Microsoft · First-party
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