Contact Centers

In a customer survey of 1,210 IT and telecom decision-makers around the world and across verticals (with 58% of respondents in a senior management position), improving customer experience is ranked as the top business objective in 2022, followed closely by improving brand equity. Companies recognize that maintaining brand loyalty becomes increasing...

The year 2021 was pivotal for contact centers. Organizations grappled with the continual challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic while working to meet customer demand for efficient service and an improved customer experience (CX). The contact center and CX landscape was severely affected by the disruptions caused by the pandemic, which accel...

A perfect storm of innovation occurs when unforeseen events or circumstances challenge human nature. Fall into a hole and you’ll find your way out. Take a truckload of lemons and go into the lemonade business. The English language is certainly peppered with colloquialisms that reflect this: “Desperate times call for desperate measures.” “...

Traditionally, the focal point of customer experience (CX) has been the contact center, but today’s contact center extends outwards across many channels, both digital and in-person. This has never been truer, as traditional brick-and-mortar establishments have been complemented by digital counterparts in the form of eCommerce and digital self-ser...

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...