The pandemic fundamentally changed how businesses use technology — as well as how they pay for it. Increased cloud usage not only allowed companies to accelerate IT innovation to support new operational requirements, but provided the budget stability that made such investments practical during a time of unprecedented uncertainty.
Many organizations that adopted cloud contact center solutions over the past two years did so out of simple pragmatism — pandemic-triggered restrictions required a transition to remote operations. A happy byproduct of that move has been the pronounced modernization of contact center processes.