Why Did Calix Create Customer Success Services? To Ensure Extraordinary Results

It’s an exciting time to be in broadband. Getting communities connected—especially in rural and remote areas—is the number-one mission of many of our broadband service provider (BSP) customers. Many have been serving their communities for decades with telecommunications services. Others have expanded into broadband after their original founding generations ago as electric cooperatives. Today, they continue their tradition of introducing essential services to areas that would otherwise go unserved.
 

With billions now available in federal funding, we’re now closer than ever to bridging the longstanding digital divide. As a result, many broadband service providers (BSPs) are taking the opportunity to simplify their business, excite their subscribers, and grow their value. And we are thrilled to help our customers seize these opportunities. Backed by $1 billion in investment over more than a decade, Calix delivers the world’s leading cloud and software platforms, systems, and services for the broadband industry. We’ve partnered with thousands of broadband service providers (BSPs) to help them transform and bring vital, community-sustaining services to their subscribers. 
 

To be the best partner possible, we created Calix Customer Success Services in 2018. The Customer Success team works with BSPs to help them get the maximum benefit from their investment in Calix platforms. While a dedicated customer success organization is common in the software industry, this model is still not widely seen in the broadband industry. It’s a key differentiator for Calix and for our customers. And we help customers get real results. 

How Customer Success Services Helps BSPs Achieve Better Business Outcomes

Customer Success Services provides tools, resources, and best practices to optimize all areas of a broadband business. The Customer Success team works with BSPs to deploy the end-to-end platforms—Intelligent Access EDGE and Revenue EDGE—as well as Calix Cloud. Customer Success Services play a key role in helping customers adopt, brand, and leverage innovation that helps them grow their brand and lead their market. For example, we’ve helped hundreds of customers adopt the CommandIQ® mobile app, personalize it under their own brand, and use it as a tool to communicate the value they deliver—directly to the palm of a subscriber’s hand. We’ve also enabled customers to retool their pricing models and create Wi-Fi offerings built on the value-added services in EDGE Suites, including ProtectIQ®, ExperienceIQ™, Arlo Secure wireless security camera system, and now Bark to protect children online. 
 

Working with Customer Success, Calix customers achieve better business outcomes.

• West Carolina Tel increased average revenue per user (ARPU) 66 percent year over year.
• Dobson Fiber cut truck rolls by 50 percent and repeat trouble calls by 40 percent.
• Farmers Telecommunications Cooperative reduced inbound support calls by 35 percent and total talk time by 55 percent.
• Range Companies reduced operating expenses (OPEX) by 30 percent and achieved 173 percent return on investment (ROI).
• CTC boosted first call resolution to 68 percent.
   

These amazing results are among the reasons that the American Business Awards named Calix winner of a Gold Stevie Award in the “Customer Services Team of the Year” Telecommunications category.

Speed Time To Value With Success For All

The foundation of Customer Success Services is the Success For All program. Available to all customers, it helps BSPs drive faster adoption and time to value of their Calix networks. Success For All offers hundreds of resources, access to Calix experts, industry education, and peer networking. Success For All also leverages market activation resources like the unique Electronic Content Builder (ECB). The ECB provides thousands of ready-to-use creative and self-help assets. It allows even the smallest BSPs to easily execute sophisticated marketing campaigns that only look like they cost a million bucks. 

Premier Success Takes BSPs’ Business to the Next Level

Customer Success Services also includes Premier Success which helps BSPs exceed their business objectives, from improving marketing ROI to increasing subscriber satisfaction. With a dedicated Customer Success Manager, BSPs get guidance, consulting, and the resources of the entire Customer Success Services team. Premier Success covers onboarding and adoption; alignment of business objectives; and tracking, reporting, and optimizing processes and performance. Our BSP customers believe in the value of Premier Success. Through the end of 2021, 94 percent of Calix Marketing Cloud customers, over 50 percent of Calix Support Cloud customers, and 100 percent of Calix Operations Cloud customers had purchased Premier Success services. 
 

For Calix, the biggest win is having customers achieve extraordinary business results. Receiving a Gold Stevie Award for our Customer Success Services program is just icing on the cake. 

Learn how you can achieve better business outcomes with Calix Customer Success services.