The North American EMM market is in a state of flux, rapidly evolving from standalone mobile device management (MDM) and now transitioning into an expansive unified endpoint management (UEM) experience that also encompasses desktop computers, wearables, and select smart IoT (Internet of Things) devices. How providers manage this evolution will impa...

The Internet of Things (IoT) market landscape has changed significantly over the past 2 years. Since the transition from machine-to-machine (M2M), the focus has changed from connecting devices to building an ecosystem to manage devices, derive actionable data, and use this data to make decisions, all while protecting data from point of capture to p...

Employing advancements in technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), Big Data and Analytics (BDA), and natural language processing (NLP), VAs are emerging as viable self-service options across industries. Investigating VAs as part of an omnichannel and digital transformation strategy should be a strategic imperative f...

There is no substitute for the human touch provided by omnichannel contact center agents when connecting virtually with customers for complex service and sales support issues. Agents are the linchpin to successful and profitable Customer Experiences (CXs). But it’s costly to hire, train, manage, accommodate, and equip agents to perform these esse...

The customer care outsourcing segment supporting carevolumes for North America is mature, highly fragmented, and competitive. Frost & Sullivan research has found that there are hundreds of customer care outsourcers in North America. While competition among vendors is fierce, there are fewer than twenty global Tier I outsourcing firms that dominate ...

This Market Insight will compare and contrast 3 separate case studies; a variety of, sometimes unconventional, customer experience strategies from travel, healthcare and financial services. Companies today are desperately looking for ways to map Omnichannel strategies to their customer marketing strategies - thus taking out cost, streamlining opera...

Obtaining and understanding the Voice of the Customer (VoC) is critical to future customer loyalty, customer social media brand promotion, and in marketplace differentiation. Money talks, but tracking and analyzing customer transactions represent only one set of tones. Customer attitudes towards brands, shaped by their experiences with products, sa...

Sales intelligence (SI) solutions provide sales reps with customer insights (including context and timing) in order to close more sales in less time. SI, then, helps to turn prospects into customers, and create and build customer relationships. SI is offered standalone and in many products, notably prospecting and sales acceleration software, and w...

The landscape for choosing a contact center solutions partner has become complex, with dozens of options to choose from across contact center systems, cloud, and business process outsourcing providers. Rampant industry consolidation has further clouded the picture. The purpose of this Buyers Guide is to provide enterprise organizations with a funda...