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Top Contact Center Stories of 2018Top Contact Center Stories of 2018

Sheila McGee-Smith

January 2, 2019

10 Slides
Contact Center 2018 Slide 1

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As one reviews the contact center stories of 2018, two themes emerge. One is the continuing move to cloud-based infrastructure, increasingly in the public cloud. The second is a strategy of new leadership to effect this architectural change at both traditional contact center players like Avaya and Cisco as well as already cloud-only vendors like Five9 and Vonage. The pace of executive change in the leading contact center businesses in 2018 is unprecedented in my nearly 30 years covering this space. In the slides that follow, we’ll re-visit how cloud contact center is moving into the public cloud and the executives who are newly tasked with taking their firms’ solutions there successfully.

Examining the next wave of cloud contact center leaders

About the Author

Sheila McGee-Smith

Sheila McGee-Smith, who founded McGee-Smith Analytics in 2001, is a leading communications industry analyst and strategic consultant focused on the contact center and enterprise communications markets. She has a proven track record of accomplishment in new product development, competitive assessment, market research, and sales strategies for communications solutions and services.

McGee-Smith Analytics works with companies ranging in size from the Fortune 100 to start-ups, examining the competitive environment for communications products and services. Sheila's expertise includes product assessment, sales force training, and content creation for white papers, eBooks, and webinars. Her professional accomplishments include authoring multi-client market research studies in the areas of contact centers, enterprise telephony, data networking, and the wireless market. She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, user group and sales meetings, as well as an oft-quoted authority on news and trends in the communications market.

Sheila has spent 30 years in the communications industry, including 12 years as an industry analyst with The Pelorus Group. Early in her career, she held sales management, market research and product management positions at AT&T, Timeplex, and Dun & Bradstreet. Sheila serves as the Contact Center Track Chair for Enterprise Connect.