Today’s contact centers are focused on the right communication tools that help in improving the customer experience. Businesses are optimizing their contact center operations by aligning with people, processes, and technology around customer needs and expectations. Several advanced technologies like cloud, analytics, artificial intelligence, and voice recognition are now being employed by contact centers to help improve personalization and make it easier and faster for customers to resolve their queries. Many businesses today reduce costs, increase customer satisfaction, and optimize IT efficiency and maintenance by leveraging the agility and flexibility of cloud technology. The cloud offers anytime, anywhere secure access to business data from a varied set of devices, and this ubiquitous access to data has redefined the business world across industries.
In addition, to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace, contact center solution vendors are unifying customer communications across channels to seek better insights on customer journeys. To support its objectives, contact centers need to deliver an omnichannel experience allowing customers to avail services through their preferred touchpoints such as mobile, voice, email, and chat, thereby reducing their efforts to the minimum.
There are numerous contact center vendors in the market today, and businesses find it difficult to choose the appropriate one who can guide them in building long-lasting customer relationships. To help leaders navigate through the list of contact center solution providers, our panel comprising CEOs, CIOs, VCs, industry analysts, and the APAC CIO Outlook editorial board has narrowed down the top companies in this landscape who exhibit competence in delivering robust innovations. We present to you APAC CIO Outlook’s “Top 10 Contact Center Solution Providers - 2021”.