LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TeleSign, the world’s first end-to-end communications platform as a service (CPaaS) company, today released, Customer Communications Report: How Businesses Use Cloud Communications to Fuel Growth. The report provides key insights into how digital transformation is reshaping the communications landscape and driving businesses to adopt cloud communications/CPaaS for customer engagement.
Of the 500 customer communications stakeholders surveyed, 87 percent reported that communicating via SMS/text, voice and other cloud communications channels is vital to their companies’ success. For companies that have already adopted cloud communications, nearly twice as many report exceptionally high revenue growth rates (20 percent or above) than those that do not use cloud communications. Additionally, 93 percent of cloud communications users report that embedding communications into their web and mobile apps led to higher customer satisfaction.
“We believe business survival is tied to the ability to engage customers in delightful experiences where, when, and how they want to be reached,” said Aled Miles, CEO of TeleSign. “The world’s leading brands trust TeleSign’s communications platform to provide customers with seamless, right on-time experiences – whether it’s alerting that your driver has arrived, confirming your vacation rental, or receiving your movie tickets right on your mobile phone. The findings are conclusive that businesses using cloud communications to engage customers are seeing higher customer satisfaction and exceeding financial objectives.”
Digital Transformation Driving Cloud Communications Adoption
Today, 99 percent of businesses report being in the middle of digital transformation (using mobile connectivity, cloud consumption, and self-service channels to achieve better business results), yet only 29 percent have reached advanced stages. Of companies still in early stages of this transformation, 64 percent are struggling to meet the demands of real-time communications and 60 percent are not meeting customer expectations of 24/7 communication availability.
Cloud communications platforms enable businesses to embed real-time communications features (such as SMS, voice, push notifications and more) into their web and mobile apps, without the need for backend infrastructure or interfaces. According to this new report, the primary use case for cloud communications today is sending alerts, notifications and reminders, followed by sending marketing messages, enabling two-way communications, streamlining account registration, and protecting accounts with two-factor authentication.
Interestingly, twice as many companies that have achieved advanced digital transformation use cloud communications to engage customers versus those that are in early stages of digital transformation (43 percent vs. 20 percent).
How Cloud Communications Improves the Customer Experience
Businesses today are turning to cloud communications for a variety of reasons, led by the ability to help them improve the customer experience and deliver customized user experiences. Business leaders further report that once adopted, cloud communications offer an impressive list of benefits, including:
- Better customer service (65%)
- More effective communications (59%)
- Higher customer satisfaction (59%)
- Improved user experience (56%)
- Higher customer retention (52%)
- Increased sales (46%)
- Positive brand reputation (41%)
- Increased competitive advantage (38%)
Many of these benefits arise due to the fact that businesses are able to communicate with their customers when and how they prefer. In fact, 32 percent of companies that use cloud communications say their customers are very satisfied with the channels they use to communicate with them versus just 15 percent of those that don’t use cloud communications.
Cloud Communications Adoption Expected to Reach 80 percent by 2020
Although the cloud communications market is emergent, 32 percent of businesses are currently using a cloud-based communications platform to interact with customers. Adoption is expected to nearly double by 2018 (61 percent) and reach 80 percent by the year 2020.
Methodology
TeleSign commissioned Lawless Research to design and conduct a study about B2C cloud communications practices. Between August 1 and August 7, 2017, 502 managers and above who currently have or plan to add communications functions in consumer-facing applications or websites completed a 10-minute online survey. The online survey was hosted by Qualtrics and Research Now provided respondents from their online panel. Tests of significant difference were conducted at the .01 level (99% probability that the difference is real, not by chance).
Resource Links:
- For full access to the Customer Communications Report, please visit: www.telesign.com/customercommunicationsreport.
- To further explore the growth and benefits of cloud communications, please check out our infographic at https://www.telesign.com/blog/post/infographic-how-businesses-use-cloud-communications-to-fuel-growth/.
- To learn more about how TeleSign’s cloud communications platform is helping businesses better reach and engage their customers, please visit: www.telesign.com.
About TeleSign
TeleSign is a communications platform as a service (CPaaS) company, founded on security. Since 2005, TeleSign has been a trusted partner to 20 of the top 25 global websites and mobile applications, helping secure billions of end-user accounts. Today, TeleSign’s data-driven, cloud communications platform is changing the way businesses engage with customers and prevent fraud. Get started at www.telesign.com and follow us @TeleSign for more information.
