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Frost & Sullivan defines workforce optimization (WFO) as a strategy to integrate disparate contact center workforce applications, monitor and analyze customer and agent interactions, and automate processes to optimize resources. WFO is an important segment of the contact center industry because it drives performance, agent engagement, and an improv...

The top digital transformation drivers for retailers over the next two years will be to improve customer experience (CX) and their marketing capabilities. Retailers will also leverage digital technologies to manage their supply chains and improve their operational efficiency. Internet of Things (IoT), augmented reality (AR), and artificial intellig...

The Frost & Sullivan Customer Contact East Executive MindXchange event revealed an evolving customer experience (CX) landscape in which a back-to-basics theme emerged. While the rate of change is accelerating, thanks in large part to technology innovation designed to meet the challenge of growing customer engagements, contact center thought leaders...

The last four years have been a roller coaster for the retail industry. Dominant themes that have both rankled and engendered creativity include the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the continued movement to the cloud, the maturation of next-level AI technology, and dramatic geopolitical upheaval. Each component has presented both significant chal...

Social media analytics is the process of evaluating and examining data about conversations on social media platforms to understand customer preferences and gain competitive intelligence. Social media analytics can be predictive, prescriptive, or descriptive and help businesses understand different parts of a problem, thereby enabling them to tackle...

This research study covers the workforce optimization market in the contact center space from a global lens. The study outlines the key elements present in a comprehensive WFO strategy as well as some of the main players in the global workforce optimization market. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for modern contact centers to mana...

Well-established businesses receive massive amounts of feedback every day, obtained through eCommerce platforms, customer support calls, emails, social media platforms, bots, and chats. This presents companies with an opportunity to collect remarkable volumes of customer data that they can use to enhance market intelligence. VoC refers to the pr...

The contact center industry benefitted greatly from COVID-19 pandemic market dynamics, which shifted millions of agents to work-at-home (WAH) models and accelerated cloud contact center-as-a-service (CCaaS) adoption. In 2021 and 2022, investments soared, and 2023 is the aftermath of that shift. Greater macroeconomic factors loom large over this...

Organizations recognize the importance of customer experience (CX) but face difficulty in service delivery. Striving for excellence in CX is a strategic component of every organization s sustained business growth as they realize the significance of delivering superior CX as a competitive differentiator. Delivering good CX is complex, with customers...