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How CCM Technology Vendors Can Help Clients Achieve CXM in the New Digital Reality

The Customer Communications Management (CCM) market continues to undergo radical changes, especially in the wake of COVID. Aspire CCS recently published “Understanding the New Digital Reality,” an extensive study of the effects of the pandemic and its resulting economic and cultural fallout on the customer communications market. This third of a four-part series focuses on how social distancing measures have forced many businesses to enable their employees to manage customer communications remotely, further accelerating the transformation from CCM to CXM by pushing more organizations toward cloud computing.

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, the Customer Communications Management (CCM) market is undergoing radical changes on an evolutionary scale. In order to better understand the forces behind this evolution, late last year, Aspire CCS surveyed businesses across the globe, interviewed stakeholders in every facet of the market, and published an extensive report entitled, “The State of CCM-to-CXM Transformation.”

This, the third in a four-part seriespublished in partnership with WhatTheyThink,will focus on the CCM technology vendor’s place in the emerging ecosystem by examining the ways in which they can empower their clients’ Customer Experience Management (CXM) transformation in the wake of COVID-19. (Read Part 1 and Part 2 of this series.) Aspire recently surveyed 2,000 consumers in North America and 300 enterprises in the US and published an extensive study of the profound effect the pandemic and its resulting economic and cultural fallout has wrought on the customer communications market.

In this study, entitled, “Understanding the New Digital Reality,” we found that social distancing measures have forced many businesses to enable their employees to manage customer communications remotely, further accelerating the transformation from CCM to CXM by pushing more organizations toward cloud computing. In 2019, we explained that businesses interpret “cloud computing” in different ways depending on their CXM maturity.


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About Will Morgan

Will Morgan is an experienced industry analyst with expertise in the Customer Communications Services market. In his role as Senior Research Analyst at Aspire, Will works alongside the wider analyst team to provide advice, insight, and vital intelligence to the company's expanding customer base on both sides of the Atlantic.

About Aspire

Founded in 2015 by industry expert Kaspar Roos, Aspire is a leading consulting firm specializing in the Customer Communications Management (CCM) and  Customer Experience Management (CXM) industries. Through deep market expertise and global insights, Aspire works with software vendors, service providers, enterprises, and investors to successfully transform their CCM into CXM.

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