Industries

This studys objective was to review current and future adoption of customer contact strategies, enabling technologies, and services in the retail and consumer vertical. About 55% of North American and European contact centers are mostly integrated, with full integration expected to reach 55% in 2016. About 46% of customer interactions are fully au...

Maintaining global competitiveness is a complex pursuit for enterprises across industry verticals. Intensifying competition in the business-to-consumer space, with decreasing customer loyalty and higher customer expectations, is proving to be a challenge for product and service providers. This market insight examines the emerging trends in the omni...

The contact center outsourcing services market in Latin America is expected to attain growth through the end of 2014, driven by a strong performance from regions such as Colombia, Mexico, Central America & the Caribbean, and Peru. While domestic business in the region is predicted to grow at a moderate rate, the offshore services provided from Lati...

The landscape for choosing a hosted/cloud contact center solution has become complex because of the variety of offerings from traditional contact center vendors, pure-play software as a service (SaaS) providers, telecom service providers, outsourcers, and system integrators. The purpose of this buyers guide is to provide enterprise organizations an...

Choosing a contact center solutions partner is complex and poses dozens of options across systems, on-premise/cloud deployments, and business process outsourcers (BPOs). This Buyers Guide provides enterprise organizations with a fundamental assessment of contact center systems providers and their capabilities. The guide is divided into two section...

Despite many economic challenges, a steady increase is being witnessed in the adoption of hosted contact center services in the EMEA market. The competitive landscape sees a mixed range of service providers, sharing a common goal of achieving greater market penetration. The changing landscape of the modern consumer (digitally connected, social medi...

This study breaks down the contact center applications market across 13 countries in the Asia-Pacific region based on 8 application segments including Automatic Call Distributor (ACD), Computer Telephony Integration (CTI), Interactive Voice Response, Outbound, Call Monitoring, Workforce Management (WFM), Speech Technology, and Multimedia applicatio...

This studys objective was to review current and future adoption of customer contact strategies, enabling technologies, and services in the government and education vertical. The use of Web self-service, social media, mobile applications, and video are expected to increase over the next 2 years, but LiveAgent voice and email will likely decline. Ce...

The objective of this study is to analyze the current and future adoption trends of various customer contact strategies, enabling technologies, and services in the healthcare vertical. North American healthcare companies are more likely to have social customer care, but are behind their European counterparts in terms of mobile customer care. 38% of...