Contact Centers

Social customer collaboration sites create and foster external and/or internal user communities that enable the resolution of customers issues, from finding information to resolving problems, and help build customer loyalty. In the process, they enable companies to rapidly identify and capitalize on business opportunities and market trends.

This study breaks down the contact center applications market across 13 countries in Asia-Pacific based on 8 application segments including ACD, CTI, IVR, outbound, call monitoring, WFM, speech, and multimedia applications. It presents market sizing and market share by application and by country. Trends are also identified based on technology adopt...

The contact center outsourcing services market in 2012 witnessed a transition in which companies, aiming to seek higher rates of profitability, began embracing new business models detached from price-sensitive offers based on voice and workstations. Participants are repositioning their brands to offer broader solutions, integrating contact center a...

The defining characteristic of social media is that the conversations that take place on this channel are public. It is this value that gives the social channel its power, but it is one that poses risks to organizations, their employees, and their customers. Social media practices, laws, and regulations that touch on the public nature of this chann...

When it comes to the contact center industry, recent events such as Hurricane Sandy and the Boston Marathon bombing have brought the topic of business continuity and disaster recovery back into the spotlight. Meanwhile, a host of factors such as a general reluctance on the part of corporations to adequately invest in disaster response, more demand...

This market insight discusses the various subsectors of contact center analytics: performance analytics, speech analytics, enterprise analytics, and customer interaction analytics. It explores some of the main use cases of contact center analytics and the business benefits that can be derived from them. Adoption trends and vendor approaches across ...

Enterprises are adopting what Frost & Sullivan calls new telephone and computing endpoints, solutions in the form of wireless devices, soft phones, and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). This Market Insight examines the extent to which technology is changing the contact center and proposes a set of recommendations to consider.

For over twenty years the Banking and Financial Services (BFS) industry has been pegged as not only an early adopter of technology, but also a sector heavily invested in proprietary applications, requiring expensive integration with new market solutions. This study explores contact center technology and application trends in the BFS market. It al...

Companies continue to consolidate data from disparate enterprise and contact center applications and systems with the goal of improving agent performance. Still, end-to-end analytics capturing the entire customer experience remains elusive. Indeed, the majority of contact centers are not harnessing all the data sources available to them. This marke...