Purpose
1.2. Automating intake from multiple channels—including email, SMS, web forms, and social media—by routing requests to the right department or persona, tracking progress, logging interaction history, meeting SLAs, and enabling proactive notifications.
1.3. Secure, scalable automation ensuring all citizen inquiries, compliance reports, or notifications are captured, categorized, and addressed efficiently.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. New message from citizens on social media platforms or mobile applications.
2.3. Scheduled import of queries from spreadsheets or external ticketing systems.
2.4. Automated triggers from IoT devices (e.g., vehicle inspection kiosks) reporting compliance issues.
Platform Variants
• Feature/Setting: Configure "When a new email arrives" and "When a new form response is submitted" triggers; create automated flows to route and categorize inbound requests.
3.2. Salesforce Service Cloud
• Feature/Setting: Automate case creation with the "Web-to-Case", "Email-to-Case", and "Einstein Bots" APIs, configuring automated rules for assignment and escalation.
3.3. Zendesk
• Feature/Setting: Enable automatic ticket creation and routing via "Support API" and "Triggers"; set up automation for SLA reminders.
3.4. Twilio
• Feature/Setting: Use "Messaging Webhook" and "Studio Flow" automation for SMS-based inbound query handling and notifications.
3.5. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Automate channel messages and intake via "Incoming Webhooks," "Slack Events API" for message events, and app-driven workflow automations.
3.6. ServiceNow
• Feature/Setting: "Virtual Agent" for automated chat intake; "Flow Designer" to automate routing/escalation.
3.7. Freshdesk
• Feature/Setting: Automate ticket capture using "Email to Ticket" automation, "Omni-channel Routing," and "Workflow Automator".
3.8. Google Cloud Functions
• Feature/Setting: Deploy cloud-based triggers on inbound email, form, or webhook events; process and forward queries for further automated treatment.
3.9. Zapier
• Feature/Setting: Automate multi-platform request aggregation with dedicated "Zaps" for email, forms, and social; leverage filters and action automations.
3.10. Mailgun
• Feature/Setting: Inbound email routing automation with "Routes API" for parsing and forwarding to government CRM or ticketing.
3.11. Jotform
• Feature/Setting: Automate query capture via "Webhooks" for form submissions, triggering custom automations for triage.
3.12. HubSpot
• Feature/Setting: Automate ticket logging and workflow triggers through "Conversations API," chatbot integrations, and workflow-based automations.
3.13. Intercom
• Feature/Setting: "Messenger API" to automate the creation and escalation of inbound messages.
3.14. Google Forms
• Feature/Setting: Automate intake through "Form Response" events with connected Google Apps Script automations.
3.15. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: "Inbound Parse Webhook" automates actionable email capture for government requests.
3.16. Facebook Messenger
• Feature/Setting: Automate query intake through Messenger API, triggering workflows and automated follow-up.
3.17. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Automator for channel-driven inbound tickets with "Teams Bots" and webhook triggers.
3.18. BMC Helix ITSM
• Feature/Setting: Automate request entry using digital workplace forms and "Cognitive Service Automation."
3.19. Asana
• Feature/Setting: Automated task creation from inbound form/email triggers via "Asana API" to ensure follow-up.
3.20. Telegram
• Feature/Setting: Automate intake with "Telegram Bot API" for automatically logged and categorized citizen queries.
Benefits
4.2. Automating workflow accelerates response and resolution, maintaining regulatory compliance.
4.3. Automation boosts transparency, analysis, and reporting of citizen engagement.
4.4. Significantly reduced manual labor via automators optimizes staff focus on complex, high-value cases.
4.5. Enables a true omnichannel experience with seamless automatable routing, tracking, and notifications.