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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...

In this third iteration of the annual Frost & Sullivan IoT user survey, we start to gain a longitudinal understanding of the industry s continuity and change. A total of 688 respondents participated in the survey conducted in Q3 2023, with IT and business decision-makers responsible for IoT decisions representing a range of industries, organization...

The data center colocation industry has seen significant growth in recent years, driven by the increasing demand for data storage and processing requirements. Public cloud service providers, enterprises, and governments are increasingly reliant on best-in-class data centers and digital infrastructure. A growing trend among enterprises is to outsour...

Edge computing refers to processing and computing data as close to the point of origin as feasible, enabling near-real-time decisions and insights to drive better outcomes. It is computing that moves intelligence, processing, analytics, and communication capabilities closer to the data source. The goal is to reduce latency while ensuring highly ef...

In the cloud market, as well as in most other technology markets, 2024 will be all about artificial intelligence (AI). Businesses across industries are scrambling to determine how they can leverage AI and, particularly, generative AI to meet their business goals. Public cloud providers are at the forefront of the effort to accelerate AI adoption am...

Frost & Sullivan s cybersecurity practice area covers a variety of solutions and advanced technologies that offer security protection to organizations. Some of the markets studied include extended detection and response (XDR), secure access service edge (SASE), cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPPs), identity access management (IAM)...

The Customer Experience industry benefitted greatly from the COVID-19 pandemic, 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; however, in 2023 global economic and political unrest created a more conservative and focused approach...

In this report, Frost & Sullivan examines the Network-as-a-service (NaaS) business model. NaaS is a modern business model for service providers to quote, sell, and manage network services to enterprises and their wholesale providers. The model enables network operators to deliver a cloud-like consumption model with a frictionless customer experien...

In the realm of technological progress, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force with the potential to reshape industries of the future. 89% of enterprises believe Generative AI technology will be a disruptive technology for enterprises to create strategic market differentiation. As AI evolves, its profound impact on bus...