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Introducing Forrester’s Digital Customer Interaction Solutions Landscape

Christina McAllister 2 days ago
Learn the three key shifts in the market that led to the launch of Forrester's new research on the digital customer interaction solutions market.
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The Forrester Wave™: Customer Service Solutions, Q1 2024 — Key Learnings

Kate Leggett March 13, 2024
Great customer service sets companies apart, and you leave money on the table if you don’t meet your customers’ expectations of engagement. Business and IT leaders understand the economics of great customer service, and Forrester data shows that over 70% of enterprises invest in modern solutions. They enable organizations to serve and retain customers and […]
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Push Forward To Become An Intelligent Enterprise That Delivers Real Business Value

Kate Leggett March 13, 2024
Learn the four biggest challenges enterprise business applications can mitigate to fast-path your intelligent enterprise technology strategy.
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Three Last-Minute Tips To Make Retail Customer Service Merry And Bright

Christina McAllister November 27, 2023
During the holiday retail crunch and last-minute scramble, read Forrester’s tips to ensure a merry customer service retail season.
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How GenAI Will Reshape CRM’s Value

Kate Leggett October 6, 2023
GenAI in CRM will make your front office more productive, help deliver better customer experiences, and unlock new revenue opportunities. Learn more in this post.
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The 2023 CICS Forrester Wave™ Is Live, And Competition Is Fierce

Christina McAllister August 16, 2023
Our first-time evaluation of this dynamic market, The Forrester Wave™: Conversation Intelligence For Customer Service, Q3 2023, is now live! We looked at the top 11 vendors in this market today and evaluated them across 32 criteria. Forrester defines conversation intelligence for customer service (CICS) as: Software solutions that analyze speech and text conversations between […]
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Planning Guides 2024: Customer Experience

Explore 2024 insights for investing in CX strategy to drive action, value, and revenue.

Bolster Buy-In For Your CX Priorities With A Simple Yet Powerful Tool

Watch our webinar to learn how to use Forrester’s CX Business Case On A Page template to create a winning business case for your CX initiatives.

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My Favorite Reason To Bring UC And CC Together

Max Ball July 21, 2023
My favorite piece of new research that we uncovered is a use case where brands leverage a shared UC and CC infrastructure to blur the lines between remote offices and a centralized contact center, resulting in better customer experiences and more efficient customer service.
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Is Asynchronous Chat The Future Of Customer Service?

What It Means May 4, 2023
Asynchronous chat is poised to proliferate throughout the B2C ecosystem, redefining expectations around customer service. Senior Analyst Christina McAllister joins to discuss the benefits and pitfalls of this technology.
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Oh, What A Crisis Can Do!

Max Ball April 18, 2023
It’s not proven that Winston Churchill said “Never let a crisis go to waste.” But whoever said it, they could have been talking about chatbot deployments. Our world is littered with unloved chatbots, useless offerings that deliver horrible experiences and are used by no one. Typically, this is the result of trying to boil the ocean, overthink things, and attempt to create the perfect chatbot right out of the gate. Brands that build their chatbots in response to a crisis don’t have time to overthink anything — they just do it, and this has led to some very successful deployments.
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Concentrix Acquiring Webhelp: Setting The Stage For A Two-Horse Race In Contact Center Outsourcing

Christina McAllister March 30, 2023
Yesterday, Concentrix announced that it is entering into negotiations to acquire Webhelp for $4.8 billion, with the transaction expected to close by end of year. This is, of course, quite the acquisition! Webhelp is a well-established player in the contact center outsourcing space (especially in EMEA) and will provide Concentrix with the global coverage they’ve […]
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AI Reshapes The 2023 Forrester Wave™ Evaluation For CCaaS

Max Ball March 27, 2023
In the prior Forrester Wave™ evaluation on contact-center-as-a-service (CCaaS) providers in August of 2020, AI was mentioned offhand a few times. It was not, however, a factor in the Wave scoring at all. A few years changed everything. AI has taken center stage in this year’s Wave, providing new capabilities across many aspects of a CCaaS vendor’s offerings.

Shine A Spotlight On CX Value

The new CX leader superpower? Measurement. Download our e-book to learn what to measure to prove CX’s value and impact — so you can lead CX to success.

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Customer Service In 2023: CX Front And Center

Christina McAllister March 20, 2023
It’s news to no one that the past few years have been tough. Having only just found some stability post-pandemic, companies are now thrust into a new economic crisis. In times like these, customer service teams are often pressured to cut costs — at all costs. While we don’t expect that to change entirely, we […]
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How To Navigate The Generative AI Hype In Customer Service

Christina McAllister February 16, 2023
Here's what you need to consider as you evaluate solutions for your organization.
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Contact Centers Are Leaving Money On The Table

Christina McAllister January 30, 2023
Empowering your front line could unlock billions. Learn how agent empowerment and accountability drives revenue growth.
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Nailing Chat Is Hard — Here’s How To Get It Right

Christina McAllister September 30, 2022
I have spent the better part of the last decade helping enterprises with their digital channel strategies. Omnichannel transformation is still a phrase on many enterprises’ lips, with companies across industries looking to launch (or, in some cases, relaunch) digital channels to support their customers. Lots of things have changed since the early days of […]
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Announcing The CRM Forrester Wave™ Evaluations — And How To Use Them

Kate Leggett August 7, 2022
The global customer relationship management market is projected to grow from $63.91 billion in 2022 to $145.79 billion by 2029, at a CAGR of 12.5%. This second wave that CRM is experiencing is aimed at transforming engagement and business outcomes across an enterprise, surpassing its initial remit of increasing front-office productivity. Companies use CRM to […]

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Don’t Miss Our 2024 Predictions Deep Dive

Hear directly from the tech, CX, and B2B analysts behind our 2024 global predictions and get an important generative AI update from Forrester’s CEO, George Colony.

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“You’re Dead To Me,” Said The Patient To Their Patient Portal

Natalie Schibell July 19, 2022
Read this blog to understand what precision nudging is and how it will help improve patient communication, engagement, and outcomes.
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Google’s Latest Experiment: What The Future Of Notifications (Could) Look Like

Julie Ask May 6, 2022
Google’s "Little Signals" aims to alleviate alert overload. What can brands take away from this?
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A Tale Of Two Behemoths

Max Ball April 7, 2022
Some years, Enterprise Connect is the place where the world’s biggest vendors make significant announcements in the unified communications or contact center space. 2022 was one of those years, with both Amazon and Google making significant noise in the contact center space. Amazon Let’s talk Amazon first: It announced its new forecasting, capacity planning, and […]
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