TCS Commercial and Professional Services Global

Kelly Services

Enterprise Knowledge Search · IT Operations Automation

Kelly Services needed an IT service desk that could keep up with rising support volumes and expectations from employees, clients, and job seekers, but traditional processes relied too heavily on agent memory and reactive handling to deliver fast, consistent resolution at scale.

100 percent quality audits for the first time
Average IT ticket turnaround time was reduced from 24 hours to just two hours.
Customer service scores rose to 4.9 out of five

Reported impact

Business outcome

Kelly cut ticket turnaround from a full day to two hours, lifted quality and satisfaction scores, and moved its service desk from reactive issue handling to a predictive support model that protects client and workforce productivity.

  • Customer Experience
  • Productivity Improvement
  • Speed to Market

Solution

Kelly Services and TCS rebuilt the company's IT service desk around an AI-assisted support stack instead of a traditional queue-based help desk. Monitoring tools and live interactions feed AI-driven call transcription and analysis so Kelly can understand how each support conversation unfolds, while intelligent knowledge search surfaces the right answer without depending on individual agent memory. Real-time predictive insights and context-aware recommendations are then presented during live interactions, giving agents guided next steps and helping the system adapt automatically as demand or service complexity changes. The same operating model supports proactive outreach when internal monitoring shows a customer may be having problems, turning the desk from a reactive contact point into an adaptive service platform for Kelly's internal workforce, external clients, and placed talent.

Data flow

Monitoring tools and support interactions feed the AI-driven call transcription and analysis layer, which turns live conversations into searchable operational context. Intelligent knowledge search, predictive insights, and context-aware recommendations then guide agents in real time, while the quality-management layer uses the same signals to improve service standards and trigger proactive outreach before issues become disruptive.

Solution architecture

6 components · 4 layers
  1. Ingest
    • monitoring tools Detect service issues in Kelly's environment and trigger proactive support outreach.
  2. Compute
    • AI-driven call transcription and analysis Captures and analyzes support interactions so the service desk can learn from every call.
    • real-time predictive insights and intelligence Adds live analytical guidance so agents can understand issue patterns during interactions.
  3. Serving
    • intelligent knowledge search Surfaces accurate answers to agents without depending on individual experience.
    • context-aware recommendations Suggests next responses and actions during support conversations.
  4. Governance
    • AI-driven quality management system Continuously refines service quality and adapts operations as support demand changes.

Architecture clues

  • Call transcription and knowledge search are embedded directly into daily service-desk operations.
  • Internal monitoring data is used to support proactive outreach before users escalate problems.
  • Predictive insights and context-aware recommendations are delivered during live interactions.
  • The system automatically adapts when demand or service complexity changes.

Evidence from the source

"Customer service quality scores now average 4.9 out of 5"
"Our average turnaround time on tickets was roughly 24 hours when we first started, and we're now down to two hours"
"TCS introduced AI-driven call transcription and analysis for the IT service desk"
"These systems provided agents with real-time predictive insights and intelligence, and context-aware recommendations during live interactions."
"implemented intelligent knowledge search capabilities to enable help desk agents to quickly surface accurate answers"
Transparency Evidence & methodology 90/100 reference value · 85% 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 value90/100
  • Problem clarity20/20
    Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
  • Implementation depth25/25
    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 impact15/25
    1 metric describe measurable impact.
  • Deployment scale10/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence85%
  • Source authority20/25
    The main evidence is an official vendor-published customer story.
  • Claim traceability25/25
    12 of 12 key fields link to a named source.
  • Direct evidence20/20
    5 direct source quotes retained.
  • Date provenance0/10
    The publication date has no documented provenance.
  • Source transparency10/10
    1 source reference document publisher, URL, authority, retrieval, and supported fields.
  • Implementation specificity10/10
    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. TCS

    Reimagining Kelly Services’ IT Service Desk with TCS

    First-party
    https://www.tcs.com/what-we-do/industries/high-tech/case-study/reimagining-kelly-services-it-service-desk-with-tcs
    Source type
    Vendor-published customer story
    Supports
    • Customer
    • Industry
    • Region
    • Company size
    • Business problem
    • Solution
    • Products
    • Solution components
    • Data flow
    • Integrations
    • technical area
    • use case category
    • Business outcome
    • outcome category
    • Metrics
    • Architecture
    • evidence quotes

Date evidence

  • First archived Nov 12, 2025 · Internet Archive · Independent First Wayback Machine capture; confirms the page existed by this date, not when it was published.
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  • Sitemap last modified Feb 12, 2026 · TCS · Publisher metadata Publisher-reported modification timestamp; not a publication date.
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