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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 Opportunities And Risks Accompany The Use Of Employee Collaboration And Meeting Technology

  Video, Audio, And Chat Just Got More Complicated For Enterprises

  December 11, 2020 | Cheryl McKinnon, Art Schoeller, Heidi Shey

  Hundreds of millions of workers are on chats, video, and audio calls each day, with many working from home — this is the "new normal." Application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders and their...

• Report Organizing For Success In Collaboration

  Organization: The Enterprise Collaboration Playbook

  October 23, 2020 | Art Schoeller

  Too often, technology leaders approach staffing for collaboration as they would other projects led by the technology organization. Application development and delivery (AD&D) leaders must establish...

• Report The Critical Role Of Policy In Enterprise Collaboration

  Processes: The Enterprise Collaboration Playbook

  October 21, 2020 | Art Schoeller

  A clear collaboration policy is essential for employees using customer, partner, and internal collaboration tools. While it takes a cross-organizational team to establish a collaboration policy,...

• Report The Path To Customer Obsession Is Paved With Enterprise Collaboration

  Vision: The Enterprise Collaboration Playbook

  October 20, 2020 | Art Schoeller

  To create and deliver profitable customer experiences (CX), businesses rely on ecosystems that bring together networks of employees, partners, and customers. Keeping these disparate groups engaged...

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  Webinar Applying The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Contact Center Vendors, Q3 2020

  September 15, 2020 | Art Schoeller

  Want an agile contact center? Then shift to contact-center-as-a-service (CCaaS) where more integrated software suites operated as a service allow for more rapid changes to customer experiences,...

• Report Gain A Competitive Advantage Through Enterprise Collaboration

  Executive Overview: The Enterprise Collaboration Playbook

  September 4, 2020 | Art Schoeller

  Many collaboration technology initiatives fall well short of their transformational potential. But a properly executed enterprise collaboration (EC) strategy engages employees and connects the...

• Report Setting The Technology Foundation For Your Enterprise Collaboration Strategy

  Tools And Technology: The Enterprise Collaboration Playbook

  July 10, 2020 | Art Schoeller

  Many organizations are making a fundamental bet on enterprise collaboration (EC) to link the various roles in the customer experience ecosystem and make worker effectiveness and engagement into a...

• 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 Collaboration Success Hinges On Effective Change Management

  Continuous Improvement: The Enterprise Collaboration Playbook

  June 19, 2020 | Art Schoeller

  For two decades, companies have introduced new and potentially better tools to help employees collaborate, only to see tepid adoption. In the past several years, employees have begun to...

• 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 Zoom Becomes A Product Security Cautionary Tale

  CISOs Must Take Extra Steps To Protect Their Firms While Zoom Fixes Critical Flaws

  April 23, 2020 | Jeff Pollard, Fatemeh Khatibloo, Art Schoeller

  As the global pandemic sent hundreds of thousands of employees to work from home overnight, Zoom quickly rose to worldwide prominence as a central enabling technology. But just as quickly, Zoom...

• Report Create A Benchmark Strategy For Your Enterprise Collaboration Technology

  Benchmarks: The Enterprise Collaboration Playbook

  March 5, 2020 | Art Schoeller

  Enterprise collaboration (EC) is independent of any specific technology, tool, or service. However, the breadth and depth of adoption and effective use of EC varies widely. This report provides a...

• 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)...

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  Webinar Predictions 2020: Customer Service

  The Year That Automation And AI Reshape Customer Service

  January 21, 2020 | Ian Jacobs, Kate Leggett, Art Schoeller

  Join us to explore the (often unexpected) impacts of AI and automation in 2020 and beyond. From remaking contact center labor models to changes in the way customer service work is done, 2020 will...

• Report New Tech: AI-Enabled Meeting Technology, Q4 2019

  Forrester's Landscape Overview Of 24 Providers

  November 27, 2019 | Art Schoeller, J. P. Gownder, Christian Austin

  An emerging set of AI-enabled meeting technologies will transform the state of enterprise collaboration as we know it. Virtual workspaces, meeting assistants, and productivity tools will create...

• 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...

• Report The Forrester Wave™: Unified-Communications-As-A-Service (UCaaS) Providers, Q3 2019

  The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

  August 27, 2019 | Art Schoeller

  In our 31-criterion evaluation of UCaaS providers, we identified the nine most significant ones — 8x8, Cisco, Dialpad, Fuze, Microsoft, Mitel, RingCentral, Star2Star, and Vonage — and researched,...

• Report FAQ: Enhance Your Contact Center With Home-Based Customer Service Agents

  As The Gig Model Gains Ground, Work-From-Home Customer Service Agent Programs Become The New Normal

  July 2, 2019 | Art Schoeller, Ian Jacobs

  What does a successful work-from-home customer service agent program look like? How do you measure success and ensure continuous improvement? In this brief, we answer the most common questions from...

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  Webinar GDPR And Its Impact On Customer Service Operations — Be Prepared!

  June 27, 2019 | Art Schoeller

  Consumers increasingly want better protection of their data, and regulators are responding. The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) puts in place strict rules that companies must adhere...

• Blog You Can’t Ignore GDPR In Customer Service

  June 25, 2019 | Art Schoeller

  Many organizations, particularly in North America, think that the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) doesn’t apply to them. On May 25, 2018, the day the GDPR went into effect, I...

• Report A Solid Enterprise Collaboration Road Map Reduces Risk And Drives Adoption

  Road Map: The Enterprise Collaboration Playbook

  June 14, 2019 | Art Schoeller

  Enterprise collaboration (EC) technology can transform how employees work by eliminating barriers to collaboration, improving customer engagement, and accelerating the flow of information and...