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Privacy Advocates Come For Contact Centers
“Please be advised that your call may be recorded for quality assurance and training purposes.” We’ve all heard this message at some point — a familiar prelude to countless conversations worldwide. This disclosure has remained largely unchanged over the years but may no longer serve any purpose. The bar for what’s considered legally acceptable consent […]
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US Government Tackles “Doom Loops” (But Risks Customer Service Chaos)
The newly launched "Time Is Money" initiative may have unintended consequences. Learn what they are, and what actions might be more meaningful.
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Generative AI Marks A New Dawn For Contact Centers
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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The 2024 DCIS Forrester Wave™ Reignites The Promise Of Truly Unified Channels
The Forrester Wave™: Digital Customer Interaction Solutions, Q2 2024, is now live! In this first-ever evaluation of the digital customer interaction solutions (DCIS) market, we analyzed 34 product and strategy criteria for the 11 most important vendors in this space (listed alphabetically): [24]7.ai, ASAPP, eGain, Gladly, iAdvize, Intercom, Khoros, LivePerson, Sprinklr, Unblu, and Verint. When […]
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Google Business Messages Getting The Boot: Here’s What Enterprises Need To Know
Even though GBM was never the most popular business messaging platform, its entry points are valuable for location-based businesses like retailers and hotels. Companies using it now must find a backup plan, fast.
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Balancing Personalization & Optimization In Commerce Search
Learn how to balance customer expectations and business needs with commerce search.
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Introducing Forrester’s Digital Customer Interaction Solutions Landscape
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.
Grow Faster And Be More Profitable With CX Alignment
Customer-centric B2C companies with aligned CX teams see higher growth and revenue. Download our CX Alignment Toolkit to accelerate growth by engaging and aligning stakeholders.
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Avoid Customer Dismay! Benchmark Your Store Fulfillment Initiatives.
Despite increased investment, businesses fall short of consumer fulfilment expectations for in-store order pickup. Analyst Lauren Cevallos explains what’s happening.
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Leverage Your Data For Stellar Commerce Search Experiences
Most US online adults use the search (not menu) function on a site to find products. Learn how quality data powers commerce search experiences.
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Payment Methods Don’t Matter — Payment Experiences Do
Retailers and consumer-facing brands have been so busy chasing the next hot payment method that they’ve missed what customers really want when they make payments. Learn how to start incorporating experiences into your payments strategy.
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Three Last-Minute Tips To Make Retail Customer Service Merry And Bright
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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The Commerce Solutions For B2B Landscape, Q4 2023: A Stoic Perspective Cuts Through The Static
Tech buyers, if you sell to other businesses through an e-commerce channel, your vendors have heard you loud and clear: You’re pursuing pragmatic growth opportunities in today’s unprecedented economic climate. The Big Picture Is Stoic Pragmatism Asset-light growth from helping existing customers do better — that’s what marketplaces do. That’s the main trend that unifies […]
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The 2023 CICS Forrester Wave™ Is Live, And Competition Is Fierce
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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Maximizing Retail Return Strategies Beyond Margin Recovery
Retail returns, when handled strategically, are an opportunity for retailers to gain a competitive advantage.
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Planning Guides 2024: Customer Experience
Explore 2024 insights for investing in CX strategy to drive action, value, and revenue.
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One Destination, Many Paths: The Content Engagement Solutions Landscape
B2B marketers spend ample time seeking better ways to engage their audiences, convert them to buyers, and retain them as customers. While content is central to engagement, audience expectations for contextually relevant, personalized content know no limits. To get content right, technology is key, but there are many paths to the ideal content destination. In […]
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AI And B2B Marketing: Three Opportunities And Challenges To Ponder
In the most promising areas of AI impact in B2B marketing, prudence, too, is advised as marketers explore use cases.
How To Scale Digital Accessibility And Expand CX’s Influence
Discover how to turn a business must-have into a CX leadership opportunity.
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Digital Sales Rooms: Hype Or Reality?
Like other business innovations, digital sales rooms are not a magic wand. Learn what’s needed to capture the biggest benefits — and learn more at B2B Summit North America.
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Oh, What A Crisis Can Do!
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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Cloud Powers Retail Through The Economic Slowdown
The retail industry was an early adopter of cloud and has continued to expand its use. Learn three key trends from our new report The State Of Cloud In Retail.
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