Information Technology

The focus of this Market Insight is the use of speech or text-driven agents as a supplement to or replacement for live agents in the contact center. Interactive Voice Response systems (IVR) and other self-service channels have been used to offload more expensive agents in the contact center for decades. More recently, Virtual Agents  automated, ...

This market analysis research provides market sizing and forecasts for hosted contact centre services in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Hosted solutions include public cloud services and dedicated hosted solutions. The segments covered are: hosted IVR, hosted ACD, hosted customer chat, hosted outbound contact, and hosted agent pe...

This research service includes analysis of the hosted contact center services market in the Asia-Pacific region. Market sizing and forecasting is provided for Asia Pacific in terms of both seats and revenue. The competitive landscape is examined at a vendor level as well as at a service provider level. Furthermore, profiles of key hosted vendors an...

The growth of social media is shaking up corporate customer relationship management (CRM) strategies. It is prompting firms to reconsider the customer referral value component in customer value as it allows customers to expand their social networks beyond their immediate circles of family, friends, colleagues, neighbors, and acquaintances. Compani...

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...

This study analyzes the contact center systems market of the Latin America region in 2013. The forecast period is 20132019, with 2012 as the base year. Market drivers, restraints, and trends are presented within this work. Frost & Sullivans investigation also includes a competitive analysis and market share discussions of the main industry compan...

This Market Insight examines current trends and highlights a number of robust, differentiated BPO service solutions. In todays environment, customer care providers continue to focus on areas where they can add business value while achieving significant cost savings. After all, cutting cost means freeing up cash for clients; cementing the business ...

The BPO value proposition, once centered around labor arbitrage, right-shoring and economies of scale, is changing. Consumer buying patterns and behaviors are changing as well. Meanwhile, service providers today are investing in new operational solutions and processes  ones that are mapped to meet the communication needs of the army of independen...