The Future of the Contact Center

According to Gartner*, “Contact center operations of the future will foster greater collaboration between employees with digital workspaces, as well as benefiting from software as a service (SaaS)-based consumption and innovation provided by born-in-the-cloud technology.”

In this report, Gartner analysts explore four future scenarios for contact centers and dive into:

• Adoption of a holistic customer service application suite approach to procuring contact center technology
• Investment in SaaS-based contact center software as part of a cloud-based application ecosystem
• Use of artificial intelligence (AI) at the core of contact center software to revolutionize engagement and interactions