Buyers Guide

Contact Centers for Insurance 2025 Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Keith Dawson on 04 September 2025

Executive Summary Contact Centers for Insurance Contact centers have remained largely unchanged for decades, but are now undergoing a drastic overhaul in operations, interaction mechanics and underlying technology architectures. This is proving disruptive to both technology buyers and sellers. The most immediate cause is the explosion of new tools derived from artificial intelligence (AI)... Read More

Topics: Customer Experience, Contact Center, Insurance, Business-focused Software and Services, Customers and CX - Business & Technologies

Contact Centers for Healthcare 2025 Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Keith Dawson on 04 September 2025

Executive Summary Contact Centers for Healthcare Contact centers have remained largely unchanged for decades, but are now undergoing a drastic overhaul in operations, interaction mechanics and underlying technology architectures. This is proving disruptive to both technology buyers and sellers. The most immediate cause is the explosion of new tools derived from artificial intelligence (AI).... Read More

Topics: Customer Experience, Contact Center, Healthcare, Business-focused Software and Services, Customers and CX - Business & Technologies

Intelligent Self-Service 2025 Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Keith Dawson on 04 September 2025

Executive Summary Intelligent Self Service Contact centers are pivoting from offering primarily human-assisted service to relying heavily on customer self-service for routine inquiries. Customers have long had options to help themselves with simple tasks like account lookup or order status checks. As information resources became more widespread, customers became accustomed to proactively looking... Read More

Topics: Customer Experience, Contact Center, Intelligent Self-Service, Business-focused Software and Services, Customers and CX - Business & Technologies

Customer Interaction Analytics 2025 Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Keith Dawson on 04 September 2025

Executive Summary Customer Interaction Analytics The first iteration of artificial intelligence (AI) tools for contact centers to use Generative AI (GenAI) brought measurable improvements to operations by automating routine functions and speeding interactions. What floated under the radar was how continued AI development was about to remake the analytic landscape around customers. We are now... Read More

Topics: Customer Experience, Contact Center, Business-focused Software and Services, Customers and CX - Business & Technologies, Customer Interaction Analytics

Agent Management 2025 Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Keith Dawson on 04 September 2025

Executive Summary Agent Management Labor has long been the largest ongoing operational expense in contact centers—so much so that managers have had to manipulate the size of the agent pool to account for cost controls. In recent years, however, it has become clear that an explosion of new technology is upending core assumptions about how that labor force should be managed. The development of... Read More

Topics: Customer Experience, Contact Center, agent management, Business-focused Software and Services, Customers and CX - Business & Technologies

Contact Centers 2025 Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Keith Dawson on 04 September 2025

Executive Summary Contact Centers Contact centers have remained largely unchanged for decades, but are now undergoing a drastic overhaul in operations, interaction mechanics and underlying technology architectures. This is proving disruptive to both technology buyers and sellers. The most immediate cause is the explosion of new tools derived from artificial intelligence (AI) innovations. Contact... Read More

Topics: Customer Experience, Contact Center, Business-focused Software and Services, Customers and CX - Business & Technologies

Conversational AI for CX 2025 Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Mark Smith on 31 July 2025

Executive Summary Conversational AI for CX The digital transition to artificial intelligence-enabled (AI) software is transforming enterprises in unprecedented ways. While many AI initiatives in business focus on data processing for analytics and operational efficiency, there is a notable shift with the rise of conversational AI. This advancement goes beyond traditional human-computer... Read More

Topics: communications, Workplace, Digital Business, Conversational AI, CX, Business & Technologies, Platforms, Suites

Conversational AI for Workforce 2025 Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Mark Smith on 31 July 2025

Executive Summary Conversational AI for Workforce The digital transition to artificial intelligence-enabled (AI) software is transforming enterprises in unprecedented ways. While many AI initiatives in business focus on data processing for analytics and operational efficiency, there is a notable shift with the rise of conversational AI. This advancement goes beyond traditional human-computer... Read More

Topics: communications, Workplace, Digital Business, Conversational AI, Business & Technologies, Platforms, Suites, Workforce

Communication Platforms 2025 Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Mark Smith on 31 July 2025

Executive Summary Communication Platforms The need for communication with consumers and customers has evolved dramatically in recent years, transforming how enterprises connect to meet a wide range of needs. Today’s communication platforms, often referred to as CPaaS (Communications Platform as a Service), operate as services with APIs and integrations across the internet and carrier networks,... Read More

Topics: communications, Workplace, Digital Business, Business & Technologies, Collaborative AI, Platforms, Suites

Collaborative AI Suites 2025 Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Mark Smith on 31 July 2025

Executive Summary Collaborative AI Suites The necessity for collaboration across the enterprise has evolved dramatically, modernizing sophisticated digital interactions across all channels and devices for both internal teams and external stakeholders, including customers, partners and suppliers. Technological innovations have significantly reduced the complexity of enabling these essential... Read More

Topics: communications, Workplace, Digital Business, Business & Technologies, Collaborative AI, Platforms, Suites