Contact Centers Industry Category Intelligence
The contact centers market dynamics pre- and post-COVID-19 scenario are drastically different. The pandemic has resulted in companies partnering and acquiring other firms, leading to a higher degree of market consolidation. In addition, contact centers are improving their technological offering to automate and streamline processes.
One of the biggest acquisitions in 2021 is Avaya’s acquisition of contact center developer CTIntegration. CTIntegration has been a technology provider to Avaya. It is the maker of CT Suite and its connectors and has been a part of Avaya’s DevConnect bringing expertise into Avaya OneCloud platform to understand customer behavior and thereby streamline replies and requirements. The acquisition occurred in August 2021, and the financials involved has not been disclosed.
There have been other technological advancements in the market as well. Coca-Cola Europacific Partner, Indonesia has opted to work with Taps 8X8. The objective of this engagement is to provide a secure mobile experience to manage orders through Taps 8X8’s SMS API. The Los Angeles Pacific University has decided to move their entire contact center operations including admission, enrollment, and alumni connect to Dialpad’s cloud system. The system integrator for this project is Dialpad.
Contact Centers Industry Category Intelligence Highlights:
• Migration into a cloud-based environment and technological advancements are the largest trends in the market
• The market features a highly fragmented competitive landscape
• Suppliers widely prefer in-house service provider model to leverage their expertise
• The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted the contact centers to shift from their traditional in-house operation to cloud-based operations.
• The contact centers market supplier intelligence is highly fragmented with a mix of IT service providers and core contact center companies.
• Labor costs are the largest cost heads for a contact center. Contact centers operate on a value-based pricing scheme. There are also instances of contact centers, which use flat-fee pricing scheme.
• Contact centers follow an in-house service provider engagement model and operate mostly as a basic service provider.
Contact Centers Industry – Pricing and Cost Intelligence Highlights:
Grand View Research has identified the following key cost components for availing Contact Centers:
• Variable Labor
• Fixed Labor
• Tech Support Labor
• Technology Cost
• Telecom and Networking Costs
• Facilities
• Miscellaneous Overheads
• Profits
Variable labor costs are the largest cost component of contact centers and account for 60-65% of the total cost of service.
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Contact Centers Industry – Supplier Intelligence – Capability based ranking & selection criteria with weightage:
Operational Capabilities – Weightage
- Years in Service 10%
- Employee Strength 25%
- Revenue Generated 20%
- Key Industries Served 25%
- Key Cients 20%
Functional Capabilities – Weightage
Type of deployment 40%
• On-premise
• Cloud-based
Type 40%
• Voice-based
• Text based
• Social media-based
Use of technology 20%
• Chatbots, automated call director
• Caller analytics tools
• Process automation tools
List of Key Suppliers in the Contact Centers Category
• [24]7.ai, Inc.
• Alliance Data Systems, Inc.
• Alorica, Inc.
• Atento
• BT Communications Ltd.
• Concentrix
• Convergys Corp.
• Genpact
• IBM Global Process Services Pvt. Ltd.
• Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
• Wipro
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Should Cost Analysis
In the contact centers category intelligence study, we have estimated and forecasted pricing for the key cost components while availing services from contact centers. Salaries of variable labor are the largest cost component of contact center services. It accounted for more than 60% share in overall contact center service cost. The cost of facilities also plays an important role in the should-cost analysis of contact center services. The cost of facilities has shown erratic trends. While the rental rates have been on a constant rise in the pre-Covid-19 era, the pandemic has resulted in employees working from home or remote locations and forced companies to upgrade their IT infrastructure to facilitate this change. Since most of these IT investments are of a CAPEX nature, these changes are expected to be sustainable. Hence, there is uncertainty about offices having 100% occupancy post the pandemic as well. With several contact centers not renewing contracts and limiting their physical real estate space, rental rates have dropped significantly. While chances of employees resuming offices physically post the pandemic are moderate to high, it is highly unlikely that rental rates will increase at the rate it used to before the pandemic.
Rate Benchmarking
Software development is one of the most important aspects while analyzing the rate benchmarking of contact center services. In our research, we have analyzed the hourly rates of contact center software development per region by using the rate benchmarking method. We found that the average contact center software development cost in the APAC region is 70%-80%% lower than the cost of North America and Western Europe. Moreover, the cost of CSR and supervisors are 20%-30% lower in APAC compare to the rest of the world.To gain a comprehensive understanding of the other aspects of rate benchmarking, please subscribe to our services for the complete report.
Salary Benchmarking
Labor is one of the key cost components incurred while offering a product or service. Understanding the pricing structure of salary is important for organizations in selecting the appropriate supplier and building a good negotiation strategy. It is also an important factor in determining whether the category under focus should be outsourced or built in-house.
Our research indicates that Concentrix software engineers earn 40% lower salaries than software engineers of other key industry players like Avaya and Exotel. However, Concentrix gives 50% higher bonuses to its software engineers compare to its peers.
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