Vasupradha Srinivasan

Principal Analyst

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The Customer Service Tech Landscape: What It Means For You

Kate Leggett December 17, 2024
To succeed, customer service organizations must curate a set of technologies that underpin their operations. To discover the most important ones, we surveyed technology decision-makers, suppliers, and other subject matter experts for their opinions about which ones really mattered.
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Generative AI Marks A New Dawn For Contact Centers

Christina McAllister June 25, 2024
Contact center leaders are now employing generative AI to mark a new dawn in the contact center. Brands will need to face challenges head on and capitalize on opportunities to redefine the contact center as we know it.
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It’s Time To Be More Strategic About AI In Customer Service

Vasupradha Srinivasan April 29, 2024
To truly unleash the potential of AI, there needs to be a fundamental shift in how we infuse AI into customer service. Learn more in this preview of our upcoming CX Summit APAC event next month.
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Announcing The Forrester Wave™: Insights-Driven Business Process Outsourcing, Q4 2020

Leslie Joseph December 2, 2020
Buyer demand for greater value from insights and technology such as RPA, data science, machine learning, and advanced analytics are forcing both classical BPO and omnichannel BPO vendors to retool themselves into insights-driven BPO's.
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Contact Centers Reacted To COVID-19 Quite Well — It’s Now Time To Institutionalize The Best Practices

Vasupradha Srinivasan September 4, 2020
Contact centers have met COVID-19 challenges with impressive agility and tenacity. Their next step is to apply the lessons from the crisis to build brand-new operational blueprints.
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Differentiate With Customer Service For Marketing Success In The New Normal

Vasupradha Srinivasan August 19, 2020
Customer service today breaks the barriers of pre- and post-sale engagements. Thanks to digital adoption and omnichannel engagement strategies, customer service activities span the entire customer lifecycle. Customers make no differentiation on whether they are seeking support before or after a purchase journey and expect a consistent experience with every interaction. Consequently, customer service has also established itself as an active channel capable of creating incremental revenue streams for every business.
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Contact Centers During COVID-19

Vasupradha Srinivasan July 27, 2020

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Help Your Chatbots Break The Scale Barrier In 2020

Vasupradha Srinivasan January 29, 2020
My first interaction with a chatbot was seven years ago. A comical avatar popped up when I was trying to renew my auto insurance and offered help. But help it did not. I still gave the brand brownie points for trying to engage, because back then it was a novelty. But we can all agree […]