Contact Centers

This studys objective was to review current and future adoption of customer contact strategies, enabling technologies, and services in the retail and consumer vertical. About 55% of North American and European contact centers are mostly integrated, with full integration expected to reach 55% in 2016. About 46% of customer interactions are fully au...

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 studys objective was to review current and future adoption of customer contact strategies, enabling technologies, and services in the government and education vertical. The use of Web self-service, social media, mobile applications, and video are expected to increase over the next 2 years, but LiveAgent voice and email will likely decline. Ce...

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...