Contact Centers

This market analysis provides market sizing and forecasts for the North American contact center outsourcing market. North American market revenue represents revenues derived from clients based in North America, regardless of fulfillment model. This includes onshore, nearshore, offshore, home-agent, automated and technology-based solutions. This mar...

Frost & Sullivan forecasts that the total number of contact center seats will shrink from 4.1 million in 2012 to 4 million by 2017. Even so, there are opportunities for vendors in this mature market. For example, consider hosted solutions. Hosted delivery allows companies to cut costs by buying only the applications and capacity they need, an attra...

Todays customers expect companies to provide a consistent and high quality Customer Experience, regardless of channel, including walk-in retail. Omni-channel strategies that integrate the Web, contact center, and retail channels (and subject matter experts), are becoming increasingly prominent in pursuit of a quality Customer Experience. The di...

Social media contains information and insights that help companies identify issues, threats, trends, sales opportunities, and influential buyers. It provides knowledge about customers, partners, competitors, and employees, and it helps deepen customer and staff relationships. Social media analytics has emerged as a powerful tool to measure social-s...

Customer collaboration, which includes conferencing, co-browsing, and remote support, can improve the customer experience in handling complex issues and in successfully concluding sales opportunities. It accomplishes these goals by enabling contact center agents to bring in knowledgeable colleagues and subject matter experts (SMEs) into the convers...

The focus of this Market Insight is the use of speech or text-driven agents as a supplement to or replacement for live agents in the contact center. Interactive Voice Response systems (IVR) and other self-service channels have been used to offload more expensive agents in the contact center for decades. More recently, Virtual Agents  automated, ...

The growth of social media is shaking up corporate customer relationship management (CRM) strategies. It is prompting firms to reconsider the customer referral value component in customer value as it allows customers to expand their social networks beyond their immediate circles of family, friends, colleagues, neighbors, and acquaintances. Compani...

This market analysis research provides market sizing and forecasts for hosted contact center services. This includes public cloud services as well as dedicated hosted solutions. The segments covered are: hosted IVR, hosted ACD, hosted customer chat, hosted outbound contact, and hosted agent performance optimization (APO) applications. The study als...

This market analysis research provides market sizing and forecasts for premises-based contact center systems. The product segments covered are: inbound contact routing, IVR and voice portal, outbound dialer, quality monitoring, workforce management, and contact center analytics. The study provides market forecasts by product segment, industry verti...