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The main objective of this research service was to investigate the current use and future adaptation of cloud solutions in North American contact centers. Currently, about 50% of the contact centers in North America use hosted or cloud solutions, and that percentage is expected to reach more than 90% by 2016. Although small and medium contact cente...

The main objective of this research service was to investigate the current use and future adaptation of agent performance optimization (APO) solutions in North American contact centers. Overall, quality monitoring, performance management, and workforce management systems are the most widely used APO applications. Furthermore, large contact centers ...

The primary aim of this research service is to gauge the use trends of social networking within a business context, specifically related to external communications. The study analyzes how social media is used to drive external client relations, measures the prevalence of social media engagement tool use, evaluates social media engagement tools, and...

The primary aim of this research is to gauge the use trends of social networking within a business context, specifically related to internal communications. The study covers drivers for social media use, prevalence of engagement, and management tool use as well as factors used to determine social media. About 60% of companies use social media for i...

The overall objective of this research service was to measure the current and future decision-making behavior toward IT technologies within the healthcare industry, specifically audio conferencing, business-grade and consumer softphones, headsets, Internet protocol telephony, time-division multiplexing phones, unified communications, video, and Web...

The objectives of this research were to understand the importance of infotainment and telematics features in the overall decision to purchase a vehicle, better comprehend vehicle adoption patterns, identify driver segments and their adoption likelihood, and recognize the key opportunities for growth. It turns out that more vehicle owners currently ...

The overall research objective of this research service is to measure the current use and future decision-making behavior toward IT technologies, specifically social media. Overall, IT decision makers who consider their company as highly effective at using IT to achieve business objectives rate factors related to IT investments as more important th...

The overall research objective of the survey conducted during the 4th quarter 2013 was to measure the current use and future decision-making behavior toward IT technologies, specifically mobile solutions such as mobile software applications, machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, and mobile device management (MDM). Segmenting the current and fore...

The overall research objective is to measure the current use and future decision making-behavior toward IT technologies, specifically cloud computing. More than half of US and European respondents currently using cloud technologies find cloud computing technologies to be highly effective, which indicates that exposure to these technologies can lead...