Contact Centers

Customer collaboration, which includes conferencing, co-browsing, and remote support, can improve the customer experience in handling complex issues and in successfully concluding sales opportunities. It accomplishes these goals by enabling contact center agents to bring in knowledgeable colleagues and subject matter experts (SMEs) into the convers...

The focus of this Market Insight is the use of speech or text-driven agents as a supplement to or replacement for live agents in the contact center. Interactive Voice Response systems (IVR) and other self-service channels have been used to offload more expensive agents in the contact center for decades. More recently, Virtual Agents  automated, ...

The growth of social media is shaking up corporate customer relationship management (CRM) strategies. It is prompting firms to reconsider the customer referral value component in customer value as it allows customers to expand their social networks beyond their immediate circles of family, friends, colleagues, neighbors, and acquaintances. Compani...

This market analysis research provides market sizing and forecasts for hosted contact center services. This includes public cloud services as well as dedicated hosted solutions. The segments covered are: hosted IVR, hosted ACD, hosted customer chat, hosted outbound contact, and hosted agent performance optimization (APO) applications. The study als...

This market analysis research provides market sizing and forecasts for premises-based contact center systems. The product segments covered are: inbound contact routing, IVR and voice portal, outbound dialer, quality monitoring, workforce management, and contact center analytics. The study provides market forecasts by product segment, industry verti...

This Market Insight examines current trends and highlights a number of robust, differentiated BPO service solutions. In todays environment, customer care providers continue to focus on areas where they can add business value while achieving significant cost savings. After all, cutting cost means freeing up cash for clients; cementing the business ...

The BPO value proposition, once centered around labor arbitrage, right-shoring and economies of scale, is changing. Consumer buying patterns and behaviors are changing as well. Meanwhile, service providers today are investing in new operational solutions and processes  ones that are mapped to meet the communication needs of the army of independen...

New customer interaction channels are accelerating the adoption of multi-channel contact center routing. But the contact center industry is moving to create an omni-channel experience where cross channel customer engagement is seamless. This Market Insight examines the extent to which new channels are changing the contact center and the Customer ...

Social customer collaboration sites create and foster external and/or internal user communities that enable the resolution of customers issues, from finding information to resolving problems, and help build customer loyalty. In the process, they enable companies to rapidly identify and capitalize on business opportunities and market trends.