Industries

In this research service, Frost & Sullivan provides a detailed analysis of the 2021 European SD-WAN survey conducted among different business sizes on their preferences for SD-WAN. The survey respondents involved the C-suite and IT/Network decision-makers from various enterprises, including small businesses (250 to 499 employees), mid-size business...

The global SD-WAN vendor market is large and growing, with market revenue expected to exceed $3.61 billion in 2022 at year-over-year growth of 48.3%. The market is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 25.8% from 2022 to 2027. Growth will be mainly driven by accelerated digital transformation, more complex network environments, and m...

Over the next five years, the customer experience (CX) outsourcing services market will continue to grow rapidly, fueled by two factors: the recognition of CX as a potent strategy for competitive differentiation and the compelling incentives for businesses to outsource their CX operations. Companies expect continuous process enhancement and rapi...

The sophistication of cyberattacks on web applications and business-critical infrastructure is increasing with the rise in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, new common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), and zero-day vulnerabilities (e.g., log4j and spring4shell). The growth of credential stuffing attacks from sophisticated botnets is...

Low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs) are gaining traction globally for their extended coverage, low transmission rate, long battery life, and beneficial cost savings in operations, capabilities that are determinantal to enabling massive machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) deployment for non-mission critical applications. Custo...

The contact center industry benefitted greatly from COVID-19 pandemic market dynamics, which shifted millions of agents to work-at-home (WAH) models and accelerated cloud contact center-as-a-service (CCaaS) adoption. In 2021 and 2022, investments soared, and 2023 is the aftermath of that shift. Greater macroeconomic factors loom large over this...

Businesses want collaborative customer relationship management (CRM) software that unifies all resources related to a particular deal and customer, eliminating siloes between different customer-facing teams and departments. Most CRM vendors already offer solutions with collaboration features that can integrate with contact center applications, but ...

The term metaverse has become a buzzword in the last two years, getting even more popular after Facebook announced its rebranding as Meta, which signaled the company’s embrace of future technology rooted in the metaverse. Broadly speaking, metaverse refers to a network of 3-D virtual environments where humans are represented by avatars used to co...

The customer experience (CX) outsourcing services landscape is expected to sustain a strong growth trajectory during the next 5 years. Two drivers will fuel this momentum: increasing acceptance of CX as a formidable competitive differentiation strategy and compelling incentives for companies to outsource their CX operations. Improving CX ranked ...