The company’s executive complaints team handles the customer complaints that need the most care: issues escalated to senior leadership, often with regulatory and reputational weight. For years, that work ran on an on-premises SharePoint site built around a central InfoPath form, a large set of SharePoint Designer workflows, custom pages, and several third-party add-ins.
The process worked, but it had grown fragile. Workflows created complaint files, collected responses and signatures, sent reminders, shared files, and changed permissions behind the scenes. Some of that logic was hard to open, let alone document. Custom permission levels protected complaint confidentiality, but they made the site difficult to administer, and every add-in was one more dependency to maintain.
Time was also running out. InfoPath and the on-premises SharePoint platform were approaching the end of support, as described in what SharePoint end of life means for IT leaders. Staying put meant growing security and support risk, but moving meant rebuilding a process the team relied on every day, without losing open complaints or the confidentiality that regulators and customers expect.
The organization needed a modern, cloud-based complaints solution that kept the business rules it depended on, simplified administration, and could be adopted without disrupting complaints already in progress.