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New and used vehicles can be purchased in a variety of ways in North America, whether through franchised car dealerships, original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agency sales channels, or third-party online marketplaces. The need for an online marketplace came into focus in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic as many companies selling cars did ...

Frost & Sullivan defines Communications Platforms as a Service (CPaaS) as any cloud-based platform that enables developers to programmatically embed voice, video, chat, and messaging services within their business or consumer applications. In nearly all cases, the embedded communications and collaboration services leveraged through a CPaaS are a fe...

Organizations across the board realize the increasing importance of customer experience (CX) in driving business success and delivering an excellent experience as a competitive differentiator. Customers view positive experiences as highly personalized, relevant, and proactive, involving engaging interactions and immediate issue resolution. Incre...

Organizations across the board realize the significance of delivering excellent customer service as a competitive differentiator. Customer experience (CX) outsourcing services play an increasingly vital role in building a robust end-to-end customer journey as customer-centricity takes center stage. Providing contextual, proactive, seamless, and per...

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted global supply chains, which still struggle with unpredictable shipment delays and longer harbor freight holdups on top of inefficient planning, higher costs, and lack of real-time visibility. The transportation management system (TMS) market is on growth trajectory as more companies realize the potential to reduce tr...

The continued digitalization and introduction of new mobile devices and software platforms have led many companies to include digital intelligence solutions in their security systems. Digital intelligence solutions collect, analyze, and prioritize information to help security operators maintain the safety of the public, employees, and executives. T...

In 2021, the electric vehicle (EV) penetration rate in North America was low, at less than 4%, but several geopolitical factors are sending the trend on an upwards trajectory. For example, a ban on Russian oil by the United States and Canada after the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War has caused oil prices to soar in many places. As a result, the vo...

China’s autonomous and connected mobility market is undergoing a transition. The top challenges it faces include technical obstacles, such as perception technology and control algorithms; data privacy, protection, and security laws and regulations issued in the pre-autonomous driving era; and high manufacturing and operating costs. As a result, m...

The European aftermarket distribution ecosystem is a multi-billion euro industry, with distributors grouped into uneven clusters based on their size (revenue and network) and the operating structures of their respective buying groups. Frost & Sullivan independently plotted the top 10 European distributors in this Frost Radar™ analysis. In 2019, s...