Not all customers, locations or users will move to cloud communications services. There are valid reasons to deploy UC solution on the customer premises. This Buyers' Guide overviews capabilities available with the flagship SMB platforms offered by North America's leading UC platform vendors. Details include: development direction, scale, performan...

This research study provides analyst commentary on the most important market forces affecting outsourcing trends in Europe for 2015 . This extensive Market Insight will provide enterprise organizations with a fundamental assessment of North American outsourcing providers and their capabilities in a single report. The study includes a profile of 23 ...

The contact center outsourcing services Market in Latin America exhibited mild growth, mostly driven by good performances in Central America and the Caribbean, Peru, and Colombia. Both domestic and the offshoring businesses have driven this performance, although this segment experienced the highest growth rates. The United States consolidated as th...

The landscape for choosing a hosted/cloud contact center solution has become complex because of the variety of offerings from traditional contact center vendors, pure-play software as a service (SaaS) providers, telecom service providers, outsourcers, and system integrators. The purpose of this buyers guide is to provide enterprise organizations an...

Choosing a contact center solutions partner is complex and poses dozens of options across systems, on-premise/cloud deployments, and business process outsourcers (BPOs). This Buyers Guide provides enterprise organizations with a fundamental assessment of contact center systems providers and their capabilities. The guide is divided into two section...

The main objective of this research service was to investigate the current and future integration of customer interactions in the North American contact centers. Currently, one-third of the contact centers have been fully integrated to deliver seamless and consistent customer experiences across channels. By 2016, 54% expect to be fully integrated. ...

The main objective of this research service was to investigate the current use and future adaptation of cloud solutions in North American contact centers. Currently, about 50% of the contact centers in North America use hosted or cloud solutions, and that percentage is expected to reach more than 90% by 2016. Although small and medium contact cente...

The overall research objective of this research service was to investigate the current and future outsourcing trends in the North American contact centers. Nearly half of the respondents outsource some customer care activities. Large contact center organizations are greater users of outsourcing than medium and small contact center organizations. Co...

The main objective of this research service was to investigate the current use and future adaptation of agent performance optimization (APO) solutions in North American contact centers. Overall, quality monitoring, performance management, and workforce management systems are the most widely used APO applications. Furthermore, large contact centers ...