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Melissa O'Brien
Research Analyst, Worldwide Contact Center Services

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Worldwide and U.S. Outsourced Customer Care Services 2013–2017 Forecast
Melissa O'Brien
May 2013 - Doc # 240893      Market Analysis
This IDC study provides IDC's forecast for the worldwide outsourced customer care services market for 2013–2017. This study highlights key assumptions and drivers that are creating changes and driving growth in this market. IDC expects t ...
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Alorica Dominican Republic Familiarization Tour: Growing Opportunity Through Employee Experience
Melissa O'Brien
Apr 2013 - Doc # 240770      Event Flash
This IDC Flash provides an overview of a familiarization tour event — held on April 11 and 12, 2013, and attended by a group of industry analysts — at Alorica's operations in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

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IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Customer Care BPO Services 2013 Vendor Analysis — Leveraging the Four Pillars to Modernize Customer Experience
Melissa O'Brien
Apr 2013 - Doc # 240710      Competitive Analysis
This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of a number of providers participating in the customer care BPO services market. The IDC MarketScape is an evaluation based on a comprehensive framework and a set of ...
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TCS Business Process Outsourcing Services: In Pursuit of Excellence
Mukesh Dialani, Lisa Rowan, Melissa O'Brien
Apr 2013 - Doc # 240274      Vendor Profile
This IDC Vendor Profile outlines and evaluates the business process outsourcing (BPO) services provided by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). The BPO business information details as outlined in the document are provided by TCS, and the ana ...
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Predictions 2013: New Models Take Hold and Opportunities Emerge in the Global Services Market
Rebecca Segal, Cushing Anderson, Rob Brothers, Chad Huston, Gard Little, Melissa O'Brien, Melanie Posey, Lisa Rowan, David Tapper, Ali Zaidi, Peter Marston, Mukesh Dialani
Feb 2013 - Doc # WC20130205      Event Proceeding
This IDC Web Conference analyzes that while traditional models of service delivery continue to be disrupted, new opportunities are solidifying leveraging business analytics, mobility, cloud, and social business. Expertise in these key ar ...
Meet Your New Boss: The Chief Executive Customer
Mukesh Dialani, Melissa O'Brien, Ali Zaidi
Feb 2013 - Doc # 239047      Insight
This IDC Insight discusses IBM's point of view about an emerging client agenda discussed at an event held in New York (Leveraging Data and Analytics to Transform the Front Office, November 2012). IBM's consulting, business analytics, com ...
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Worldwide Outsourcing Services 2013 Top 10 Predictions
Mukesh Dialani, Melissa O'Brien, Lisa Rowan, Xiao-Fei Zhang, David Tapper
Jan 2013 - Doc # 238973      Top 10 Predictions
This IDC study identifies IDC's Outsourcing and Offshore Services research team's top 10 predictions for the outsourcing and offshore services marketplace for 2013. It highlights the major trends and critical developments that will affec ...
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The Best of Customer Care Services 2012
Melissa O'Brien
Dec 2012 - Doc # lcUS23891712      IDC Link
The customer care BPO industry is certainly undergoing some major changes, and 2012 brought many examples of the market's reaction to a shift in buyer needs. This has been a year of striving for competitive differentiation and aiming to sta ...
The Future of Customer Care Services: Social, Mobile and Virtual
Melissa O'Brien
Dec 2012 - Doc # WC20121206      Event Proceeding
Customers are turning to social media as a channel for customer care, whether companies are prepared to use this channel for support. Similarly, customers want to use mobile devices to connect with brands. Providers of customer care serv ...
Market Analysis Perspective: Worldwide Customer Care BPO Services, 2012
Melissa O'Brien
Dec 2012 - Doc # 238122      IDC Presentation: Forecast
This IDC Presentation provides a general overview of the customer care BPO market in 2012. Market factors that are examined include the shifting of interactions from primarily voice based to other channels, mobile customer care, and emer ...
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Aegis: It's All About Transformational Partnerships
Mukesh Dialani, Melissa O'Brien
Nov 2012 - Doc # 238055      Insight
This IDC Insight summarizes our view of how Aegis is driving its customer experience and transformational partnership strategy. We spent two days with Aegis' customers and key executives at the company's VIBES 2012 customer event, held i ...
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IDC's Top 100 Worldwide Outsourcing Deals of 2009–2011
David Tapper, Melissa O'Brien
Nov 2012 - Doc # 238003      Update
This IDC update — using IDC's BuyerPulse Services Deals database, a database containing more than 43,000 deals — provides an in-depth analysis of the top 100 worldwide outsourcing deals in 2011 as well as trending analysis of the top 100 ...
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A Vendor Profile: Alorica
Melissa O'Brien
Oct 2012 - Doc # 237357      Vendor Profile
This IDC Vendor Profile examines Alorica, a provider of customer care BPO services. This report looks at Alorica's offerings and highlights several specific services including hosted contact center services, home-based agent delivery (Al ...
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Customer Care Deals Analysis 2006–2011
Melissa O'Brien, Xiao-Fei Zhang
Sep 2012 - Doc # 236833      IDC Presentation
This IDC Presentation analyzes worldwide customer spending on customer care BPO deals for 2006–2011. Within this study, IDC examines spending by geography, deal size, and industry sector. It also highlights differing trends in discrete a ...
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U.S. Home-Based Agent Customer Care BPO Services 2012–2017 Forecast: Home Work Is Working
Melissa O'Brien
Sep 2012 - Doc # 236834      Market Analysis
This IDC study provides IDC's forecast for the U.S. home-based agent customer care BPO services market for 2012–2017. This study highlights key assumptions and drivers that are creating changes and driving growth in this market. IDC expe ...
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The Impact of Mobility on Customer Care BPO
Melissa O'Brien
Aug 2012 - Doc # 236446      IDC Presentation
This IDC Presentation is part of a broader buyer study that provides results of a comprehensive survey into U.S. customer buying patterns and adoption of mobility services for customer care BPO services by organizations that employ 1,000 ...
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Improving the Customer Experience Through Mobile Customer Care: Opportunities for Next-Generation Mobile Customer Care Services
Melissa O'Brien
Jul 2012 - Doc # 235661      Insight
This IDC Insight discusses the emergence of mobile customer support and its impact on customer care services by presenting survey data on buyer expectations of customer care providers for support with mobility. This Insight also highligh ...
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Convergys Home Agent Solutions: A Vendor Profile
Melissa O'Brien
Jun 2012 - Doc # 235331      Vendor Profile
This IDC Vendor Profile highlights Convergys' Home Agent Solutions service offering. The home-based agent delivery model is the use of home-based customer care agents to field customer care inquiries. These virtual agents facilitate call ...
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NCO Completes APAC Merger to Form $2 Billion BPO
Melissa O'Brien
May 2012 - Doc # 234775      Event Flash
This IDC Flash highlights NCO Group Inc.'s merger with APAC Customer Services Inc. on April 3, 2012.

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Worldwide and U.S. Outsourced Customer Care Services 2012–2016 Forecast
Melissa O'Brien
May 2012 - Doc # 234533      Market Analysis
This IDC study provides IDC's forecast for the worldwide outsourced customer care services market for 2012–2016. This study highlights key assumptions and drivers that are creating changes and driving growth in this market. IDC expects t ...
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What Is Working for Home Work: Reflections on Remote Agent Summit in Six Tweets
Melissa O'Brien
Mar 2012 - Doc # 233720      Insight
This IDC Insight summarizes several of the presentations from the Remote Agent Summit on February 22 and 23, 2012, in Dallas, Texas, using tweets that were posted during the event, and it offers a future outlook for some of the topics di ...
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Customer Care Buyer Preferences: Highlights of Demand Side Survey Data
Melissa O'Brien
Feb 2012 - Doc # WC20120214      Event Proceeding
In a demand-side survey conducted in the latter half of 2011, IDC asked buyers and potential buyers of outsourced customer care about their preferences on purchasing customer care services as well as their perspective on many of the rele ...
CGS Takes the First Step into Latin America with Prego S.A. Acquisition
Melissa O'Brien
Jan 2012 - Doc # 232867      Event Flash
This IDC Flash highlights the January 4, 2012, acquisition of Prego S.A. by Computer Generated Solutions (CGS).

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Customer Care BPO Services Buyer Needs: A Demand Side Study
Melissa O'Brien
Jan 2012 - Doc # 232820      IDC Presentation: Survey
This IDC presentation provides results of a survey on U.S. customer preferences for third party contact center services, aka customer care services, by companies that employ 1,000 or more people. The survey involved 350 respondents from ...
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Worldwide Outsourcing Services 2012 Top 10 Predictions
Alexander Motsenigos, Rona Shuchat, Mukesh Dialani, Lisa Rowan, David Tapper, Melissa O'Brien
Jan 2012 - Doc # 232602      Top 10 Predictions
This IDC study identifies IDC's Outsourcing and Offshore Services research team's top 10 predictions for the outsourcing and offshore services marketplace for 2012. It highlights the major trends and critical developments that will affec ...
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