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Frost & Sullivan's annual survey of contact center solution decision-makers revealed that employee engagement is a top priority for contact center organizations in 2023. Organizations with more employee engagement initiatives benefit from higher employee satisfaction (eNPS) levels and lower attrition. Those with more solutions that support employee...

The retail industry had undergone significant change in the past decade, witnessed by the shift from in-store to online shopping and digital engagement. Digital customer care rapidly expanded with new channels on the web, mobile apps, and social media, and older channels, such as chat and interactive voice response (IVR), embellished with new tech...

This is a companion piece to Frost & Sullivan’s 2019 Contact Center Buyers Guide (K234-76, August 2019), which examines the core areas and suppliers in the North American cloud/hosted contact center market. Core areas include systems and cloud-based solutions for inbound contact routing/automatic call distribution (ICR/ACD), outbound dialing, inte...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the shining star of contact center innovation and began gaining features, focus, and adoption in 2022. AI is enhancing capabilities across the contact center spectrum: from agent hiring and training, resource forecasting, and quality and performance management to process automation, workforce optimization, and custom...

The main objective of this research service was to investigate the current use and future adaptation of cloud solutions in North American contact centers. Currently, about 50% of the contact centers in North America use hosted or cloud solutions, and that percentage is expected to reach more than 90% by 2016. Although small and medium contact cente...

The overall research objective of this research service was to investigate the current and future outsourcing trends in the North American contact centers. Nearly half of the respondents outsource some customer care activities. Large contact center organizations are greater users of outsourcing than medium and small contact center organizations. Co...

The main objective of this research service was to investigate the current and future integration of customer interactions in the North American contact centers. Currently, one-third of the contact centers have been fully integrated to deliver seamless and consistent customer experiences across channels. By 2016, 54% expect to be fully integrated. ...

Frost & Sullivan discusses the real benefits provided by customer experience management (CXM) solutions, illustrating the 9 hottest trends characterising the CXM space in 2015 and offering advice to end users and vendors on how to procure and promote CXM solutions. Vendors claiming to offer CXM solutions cluster into 1 of 5 groups depending on the ...

Although artificial intelligence (AI) has been around for decades, and the contact center industry has been leveraging it for years, recent advancements in AI have rapidly accelerated. The latter half of 2024 spouted industry excitement for next-level GenAI - agentic AI, also sometimes called autonomous AI. Agentic AI can act as the glue for orches...