Contact Centers

This market insight looks at the tools and strategies being used to harness the voice of the customer (VoC), as part of the broader industry effort to improve the customer experience. It incorporates customer use cases from interviews on customers VoC goals, initiatives, and best practices.

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 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 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. ...

This market analysis study provides market sizing and forecasts for the North American contact center outsourcing market. North American market revenue represents outsourcer revenues associated with customer interactions that originate in North America, regardless of fulfillment model. This includes onshore, nearshore, offshore, home-agent, automat...

This Frost & Sullivan market insight provides the reader with an overview of and an introduction to the emerging Back Office Workforce Optimization (BOWFO) market. It defines BOWFO and how it works, and discusses the benefits of its use. It also analyzes market drivers and restraints in evolving BOWFO solutions. Finally, it profiles a few key compe...

Frost & Sullivan discusses the real benefits provided by customer experience management (CXM) solutions, illustrating the 9 hottest trends characterising the CXM space in 2015 and offering advice to end users and vendors on how to procure and promote CXM solutions. Vendors claiming to offer CXM solutions cluster into 1 of 5 groups depending on the ...

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...

Small midsized businesses (SMBs) become successful by addressing customers needs. Customer relationship management (CRM) software has become critical to SMBs by automating their ability to identify profitable sales opportunities and to develop customer loyalty and lifetime value, including social media referrals. But there are business, economic, ...