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• Report Build An Outside-In Contact Center Roadmap

  Roadmap: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook

  December 31, 2020 | Art Schoeller

  In most industries, a large percentage of customer contacts need support from contact center agents. Developing a solid contact center roadmap in the context of a broader customer experience (CX)...

• Report Mind The Gap When Organizing To Support Contact Center Applications

  Organization: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook

  July 7, 2020 | Art Schoeller

  Contact center applications require high reliability and scale that exceed typical requirements for enterprise applications. Configuring them drives not only the customer experience but the agent...

• Report GDPR-Like Regulations Are Here — Is Your Customer Service Organization Ready?

  How Customer Data Moves Through Your Contact Center Will Determine Your Compliance Path

  June 10, 2020 | Art Schoeller, Sarah Dawson

  Since the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect in May 2018, we've seen the consequences for firms that don't meet compliance standards. Data privacy regulations in the US are...

• Report Now Tech: Cloud Contact Center Vendors, Q2 2020

  Forrester's Overview Of 25 Cloud Contact Center Providers

  June 2, 2020 | Art Schoeller

  You can use cloud contact center providers to rapidly deliver critical contact center capabilities, increase flexibility and scale of operations, and lay the foundation for a cognitive contact...

• Report Five Lessons From The Forrester Wave™: UCaaS Providers, Q3 2019

  Unified-Communications-As-A-Service Is About The Entire Solution And Not Just A Cloud-Based Service

  January 24, 2020 | Art Schoeller

  Earlier this year, Forrester evaluated nine unified-communications-as-a-service (UCaaS) vendors and identified five key lessons learned that application development and delivery (AD&D)...

• Report Vendors Battle For The Heart Of The Contact Center

  Landscape: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook

  November 15, 2019 | Kate Leggett, Art Schoeller, Ian Jacobs

  The heart of the contact center comprises a set of complex, unintegrated technologies, which firms must leverage to deliver quality service. But application development and delivery (AD&D) pros...

• Report Predictions 2020: Customer Service

  Automation Remakes The Contact Center Organization

  October 31, 2019 | Ian Jacobs, Art Schoeller, Kate Leggett

  We've survived the hype storm around chatbots . . . barely. 2020 will mark the beginning of the concrete alterations that AI beyond chatbots will make to customer service and contact center groups....

• Report Design Your Contact Center To Be Customer-Centric

  Strategic Plan: The Contact Centers For Customer Service Playbook

  September 25, 2019 | Art Schoeller

  As enterprises strive to offer better customer experience (CX), they must incorporate organizational and operational change into contact center architectural design. Companies must establish...