Contact Centers

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...

To deliver a great customer experience, organizations today want a single view of customers across all touchpoints, which can be achieved through customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The goal for businesses is to capture and leverage the wealth of available customer data to have profitable, productive, value-rich, experience-enhancing,...

This paper will provide the top takeaways from the insightful the 18h Annual Customer Contact West: A Frost & Sullivan Executive MindXchange and showcase some real-life examples of companies that successfully managed the challenges that COVID-19 brought forth and their plans to manage through the economic downturn companies are dealing with today. ...

The global business process management (BPM) services market declined in 2020, largely due to the challenges brought on by COVID-19. While client sectors were severely affected by the pandemic, the BPM services industry experienced significant growth in 2021 and is expected to continue to witness year-on-year growth between 2022 and 2028. This gro...

The CX outsourcing services landscape is set to grow throughout the forecast period. Two key reasons lie behind this: 1) the increasing acceptance of CX as a formidable competitive weapon; and 2) growing incentives for companies to outsource their CX operations. Improving CX appears as the number one business goal priority in the Frost & Sulliv...

A perfect storm of innovation occurs when unforeseen events or circumstances challenge human nature. Fall into a hole and you’ll find your way out. Take a truckload of lemons and go into the lemonade business. The English language is certainly peppered with colloquialisms that reflect this: “Desperate times call for desperate measures.” “...

Traditionally, the focal point of customer experience (CX) has been the contact center, but today’s contact center extends outwards across many channels, both digital and in-person. This has never been truer, as traditional brick-and-mortar establishments have been complemented by digital counterparts in the form of eCommerce and digital self-ser...

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan's Digital Transformation program titled Growth Opportunities in the North American Contact Center Market finds that the market for contact centers continues to increase. For cloud, the acceleration of omnichannel and digital transformation, coupled with the C-suite demands for stronger and swifter growth, is drivi...

The highly competitive hosted/cloud contact center market in North America faces many challenges. Customer service is now the centerpiece of business differentiation. To remain competitive, enterprise decision-makers must deal with cutting costs while vastly improving service quality and the customer experience. The contact center industry als...