Contact Centers

Maintaining global competitiveness is a complex pursuit for enterprises across industry verticals. Intensifying competition in the business-to-consumer space, with decreasing customer loyalty and higher customer expectations, is proving to be a challenge for product and service providers. This market insight examines the emerging trends in the omni...

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...

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...