Contact Centers

The objective of this study is to analyze the current and future adoption trends of various customer contact strategies, enabling technologies, and services in the healthcare vertical. North American healthcare companies are more likely to have social customer care, but are behind their European counterparts in terms of mobile customer care. 38% of...

This market analysis study provides market sizing and forecasts for the North American contact center outsourcing market. North American market revenue represents outsourcer revenues associated with customer interactions that originate in North America, regardless of fulfillment model. This includes onshore, nearshore, offshore, home-agent, automat...

Customer contact systems integrators and value-added resellers or solutions integrators (SIs) are the linchpins in the contact center supply chain. Companies call on SIs to map out solution strategies and recommend and implement new and upgraded hardware and software and services. In turn, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and hosting pro...

The overall objective of this research service was to look at the current and future adoption of various customer contact strategies, enabling technologies, and services, specifically in the manufacturing vertical. Email accounts for the highest share of customer interactions, ahead of LiveAgent voice, especially in Europe. More customer interactio...

The overall objective of this research service was to look at the current and future adoption of various customer contact strategies, enabling technologies, and services, specifically in the financial services vertical. In terms of financial services, significantly more current customer interactions are taking place through email in Europe than in ...

The overall objective of this research service was to look at the current and future adoption of various customer contact strategies, enabling technologies, and services, specifically in the communications vertical. As a proportion of total customer interactions in the communications vertical, the projected growth is clear for Web self-service port...

Human capital management (HCM), encompassing human resources (HR), is evolving. Companies are hiring more workers than they shed as the economy emerges from the downturn. There are changes in demographics, in employee expectations, in how and where work is conducted, and in laws and regulations that impact employee benefits, management, and recru...

As more employees work outside of the office, working arrangements are becoming more fluid with improved company IT environments, including IT support (ITS) help desk and service desk sectors. Cloud computing, bring your own technology (BYOT), bring your own application (BYOA), and bring your own device (BYOD), are all joining and replacing on-pre...

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...