Contact Centers

Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) is a powerful and evolving open source standard that may be the answer to customers and companies communications needs. WebRTC allows customers and agents to make and receive voice and video calls and share files within their browsers windows But customer contact organizations face challenges in fully capita...

The market for outsourcing customer care in North America is fragmented and competitive. There are less than a dozen global Tier-I outsourcing firms that continue to dominate the industry. Our studies have concluded that in the next 3-5 years customer-care providers will be laser-focused on vertical growth. This Market Insight will focus on the to...

This Frost & Sullivan market insight provides the reader with an overview of and an introduction to the emerging Back Office Workforce Optimization (BOWFO) market. It defines BOWFO and how it works, and discusses the benefits of its use. It also analyzes market drivers and restraints in evolving BOWFO solutions. Finally, it profiles a few key compe...

The landscape for choosing a hosted/cloud contact center solution has become complex because of the variety of offerings from traditional contact center vendors, pure-play software as a service (SaaS) providers, telecom service providers, outsourcers, and system integrators. The purpose of this buyers guide is to provide enterprise organizations an...

Choosing a contact center solutions partner is complex and poses dozens of options across systems, on-premise/cloud deployments, and business process outsourcers (BPOs). This Buyers Guide provides enterprise organizations with a fundamental assessment of contact center systems providers and their capabilities. The guide is divided into two section...

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...

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...