Contact Centers

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan's Digital Transformation program presents some of the customer experience trends that Frost & Sullivan believes will shape, grow, and influence customer contact and the customer experience. The study focuses on those growth insights that are the most relevant for 2020-2023 in North America, and highlights the tre...

Today, the experience economy is in full swing, strongly impacting organizations and their business models. In this new era, user experience is key to creating value. It is no longer just about the quality of a product or a service; it is about the emotions and experiences that clients have when they consume it. Firms from all sectors are increasin...

As technology adoption has skyrocketed, it has vastly changed the way that consumers engage with businesses across the industries, but never more than in the retail sector. Online shopping, web portals for deals and discounts, review sites allowing consumers to review, compare, praise and complain, and mobile loyalty apps are just a few of the chan...

The overall research objective is to measure the current use and future decision making behavior toward customer contact solutions primarily in the United States with a small sample from other regions. The technologies we covered include: customer journey analytics, elearning, quality monitoring, social media analytics, speech analytics, unified ag...

This market analysis provides market sizing and forecasts for the North American contact center outsourcing market. North American market revenue represents revenues derived from clients based in North America, regardless of fulfillment model. This includes onshore, nearshore, offshore, home-agent, automated and technology-based solutions. This mar...

Frost & Sullivan forecasts that the total number of contact center seats will shrink from 4.1 million in 2012 to 4 million by 2017. Even so, there are opportunities for vendors in this mature market. For example, consider hosted solutions. Hosted delivery allows companies to cut costs by buying only the applications and capacity they need, an attra...

Todays customers expect companies to provide a consistent and high quality Customer Experience, regardless of channel, including walk-in retail. Omni-channel strategies that integrate the Web, contact center, and retail channels (and subject matter experts), are becoming increasingly prominent in pursuit of a quality Customer Experience. The di...

Social media contains information and insights that help companies identify issues, threats, trends, sales opportunities, and influential buyers. It provides knowledge about customers, partners, competitors, and employees, and it helps deepen customer and staff relationships. Social media analytics has emerged as a powerful tool to measure social-s...

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...