The Customer Experience (CX) Services Global List acknowledges leaders in driving customer experience excellence in organizations. The Constellation ShortList presents vendors in different categories of the market relevant to early adopters. In addition, products included in this document meet the threshold criteria for this category as determined by Constellation Research.
This Constellation ShortList of vendors for a market category is compiled through conversations with early adopter clients, independent analysis, and briefings with vendors and partners. A systems integrator (SI) or customer experience (CX) service provider brings together solutions into an overall customer experience hub. They work with all functional departments, such as marketing, sales, customer service, supply chain, e-commerce, IT, digital performance management (DPM) and back-office systems.
With SaaS solutions, the SI’s role is changing to focus on strategy, tactics and choosing technology. Customer experience SIs guide brands’ CX journeys on all channels (e.g., email, chat, text, websites, phone, social networks) and devices (e.g., phones, tablets, desktops), and optimize each to make the experience flawless. With options to order on a website and pick up in a store or ship to an address, front-end experiences need to be great, along with top-notch supply chain/ERP so inventory is current. In addition to customer journey mapping and choosing omni-channel technology, they focus on DPM to ensure websites load quickly and shopping carts don’t get hung up or abandoned, while mitigating lost revenue.
CX SIs have a set of best practices, strategy design, optimal delivery, and testing methodology to guide clients to obtain an optimal CX from a customer’s point-of-view. These firms often perform a gap analysis (comparing the current and future state of the customer experience to find gaps). SIs use gaps to create a long- and short-term road map, emphasizing low-hanging fruit and large ROI. SIs often incorporate organizational change management.
Constellation considers the following criteria for these solutions:
- Best practices methodology
- An assessment tool
- Create strategy and technology roadmap
- Customer references
- Differentiated IP
- Customer success management
- Operating in three continents.
Constellation evaluates over 100 solutions categorized in this market. This Constellation ShortList is determined by client inquiries, partner conversations, customer references, vendor selection projects, market share, and internal research. Enterprise Service Providers / System Integrators / Management Consultants include:
- Accenture
- Bain
- Boston Consulting Group
- Capgemini
- Deloitte
- Ernst & Young
- IBM Global Business Services
- Infosys
- McKinsey
- SapientNitro
- Wipro.
For more information about this short list, please see the Constellation Research website.
@DrNatalie Petouhoff, VP and Principal Analyst, Covering Customer-facing Applications