By John Finch, AVP Product Marketing, RingCentral
June 18, 2018
Traditional contact centers as we know them were designed and deployed at scale in the 1960s, largely based on outdated management and governance models, with standards no longer applicable.
Today’s modern customer expects to communicate the way they find most convenient to them, including through phone, web, mobile, text, and social media. They demand higher levels of personalization, immediacy, and convenience. But on-premises technologies are, by design, not unified, omnichannel, or real time, and as a result fall short in an always-on, hyperconnected world.
A recent report from Brian Solis commissioned by RingCentral, Contact Center 2.0: The Rise of Collaborative Contact Centers industry report, demonstrates the need for digital transformation of the established contact center model to a truly customer-centric, modern approach.
Based on a survey of 500 knowledge workers in the US and UK, the findings outline the decline of traditional contact centers operating on-premises technologies, work siloes, and limited and dated customer channels. Instead new cloud models enhance collaboration among experts and contact center agents, providing first contact resolution to today’s modern customer. Companies are adopting cloud-first contact centers strategies in order to be more competitive in the market.
- Eighty-six percent aim to complete a transition within three years to Contact Center 2.0.
- Sixty-one percent of companies have or plan to fully transition to the cloud.
Meeting the needs of today’s customer is more critical than ever. It’s not just about delivering exceptional experiences in order to establish a competitive advantage, it’s about providing unique and fast resolution to the modern customer in order to meet evolving standards of service excellence. The technology is here today with the cloud and it is creating unprecedented opportunities for customer experience innovation.
Click here to request the full report on how digital transformation is making contact centers unified, collaborative, and intelligent. Read more contact center news stories here.
