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    8x8 Contact Center

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/A8x8 Contact Center is a cloud-based platform that unifies customer interactions across voice, chat, email, video, SMS, and social. It offers intelligent self-service automation, real-time analytics, and CRM integrations. With omnichannel engagement, agents deliver consistent, personalized service from one interface.N/A
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    8x8 Contact Center
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    8x8 Contact Center
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    8x8 Inc.
    Chose 8x8 Contact Center
    Although every platform has their pros & cons but the flexibility of omni channel communications all in one central suite of application window along with license pricing flexibility gave us a point to make our decision for 8x8 Contact Center.
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    I have not tried any other similar product at all. There has been no reason for me to even consider such.
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Contact Center
    I prefer 8x8; it has the right number of features and modes for the communication I need. I much prefer 8x8 meetings to Zoom meetings, as it is much, much easier to transition between devices when I am on the road. 8x8 is also easier to manage across multiple modes of …
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Contact Center
    Because we needed a contact center environment that could integrate with our CRM and ERP.
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Contact Center
    Compared to something like a NICE InContact (which I have used/administered before too), 8x8 has less powerful scripting tools. However, their reliability and uptime is much better than NICE. You probably only should be looking at NICE if you have a really large CC and/or …
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Contact Center
    It's easy to contact the customer support team.
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Contact Center
    The right technology for the size contact center we have. The right RoI for migrating to a Cloud Contact Center. The E5 Microsoft license allowed us to leverage the 8x8 Contact Center integrations and not add additional cost for user PSTN. Able to reduce licensing across all …
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Contact Center
    we have service, training now and can use the system
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Contact Center
    We selected an 8x8 contact center based on the tools available to meet our needs. 8x8 was also rated as a more stable platform than Cisco, which helped us select 8x8 for our UCaaS platform. The amount of tools available in the 8x8 Contact Center for leaders to be able to manage …
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    Zoom's administration interface has call flow diagrams showing how calls move through the workflow
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Contact Center
    You could not sell service lines and new phones and always had to wait for them; 8x8 allows you to be self-sufficient.
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Contact Center
    We had many technical issues and functions not working correctly and very poor support to help fix these issues. 8x8 Contact Center is much more advanced.
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Contact Center
    We liked the agent experience, as well as the reporting and some of the QM & CE suites. The self-service options and customizability of contact center routing scripts was desirable. Overall when finalizing vendors 8x8 was one of the more cost-effective options between the UCaaS …
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    Chose 8x8 Contact Center
    We are currently evaluating Ringcentral as a possible replacement for 8x8 when our contract is up. Pricing is similar, but the support and admin experience looks better so far with Ring Central. Go to connect lacked features for what we needed and we have moved away from it, …
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    Chose 8x8 Contact Center
    Prior to this we were using a private company with land lines. So, the change was amazing!
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Contact Center
    Nextiva is very comparable to 8x8 Work. We're moving to as we are moving away from 8x8 as a whole. Their pricing has increased and Nextiva offers comparable features for a fraction of the price including their contact center. The contact center features available for use are …
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    8x8 Contact Center well with prominent platforms including
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    Mytel
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Contact Center
    With 8x8 Contact Center, help is only seconds away! The features of Caller ID, Voice Mail, Recorded Calls, Missed Calls, Customer Service, and Dialpad calling from anywhere on your computer! It is fast and easy to maneuver through and the information is at your fingertips! …
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    I was not in the decision making process.
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Contact Center
    I feel it provides basically every thing that is needed for the functionality. I think the help desk are easy to work with and provide good support.
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Contact Center
    We have no experience with any similar products.
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Contact Center
    We also use 8x8 for Work on a sister company. I couldn't find it in that list of products, but they use it, and as far as I know it helped the company to grow as well, just like it helped ours. The ability to "queues" was something we considered when we moved to 8x8, about 4 …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    8x8 Contact Center
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of 8x8 Contact Center
    Feature
    8x8 Contact Center
    6.1
    147 Ratings
    30% below category average
    Agent dashboard5.7131 Ratings
    Validate callers6.4117 Ratings
    Outbound response4.1116 Ratings
    Call forwarding5.7133 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)5.588 Ratings
    Warm transfer6.5128 Ratings
    Predictive dialing7.755 Ratings
    Interactive voice response5.681 Ratings
    REST APIs7.150 Ratings
    Call scripts7.178 Ratings
    Call tracking6.5129 Ratings
    Multichannel integration3.775 Ratings
    CRM software integration7.269 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of 8x8 Contact Center
    Feature
    8x8 Contact Center
    6.7
    136 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Inbound call routing8.1123 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing7.271 Ratings
    Recording7.9121 Ratings
    Quality management6.4120 Ratings
    Call analytics4.9122 Ratings
    Historical reporting4.0113 Ratings
    Live reporting7.915 Ratings
    Customer surveys5.565 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics8.410 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Nextiva Contact Center
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    8x8 Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.5
    (151 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.3
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (37 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (53 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    8x8 Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8x8 Inc.
    8x8 Work is an ideal communication platform for intra-organization communication; it is very easy to find any employee at my firm and quickly ascertain their availability. I prefer not to share my direct line with outside clients, so I would like to be able to mask my number in outgoing texts/display our general reception number, ensuring those clients are not confused about how to reach me.
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    Pros
    8x8 Inc.
    • The out of the box chat feature is outstanding for your website. My team was able to adopt chat easily.
    • Setting up the system with the help of an integrator was especially easy and did not require any IT training on my part.
    • The visibility of being able to manage my team and all media channels in one panel is awesome.
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    Cons
    8x8 Inc.
    • Support has always been a less than stellar area.
    • There's a few feature gaps that have been called out for years that haven't been addressed yet. I.e. passing calls from UC to CC requires a phone number (like why?)
    • Another frequent complaint I get is "why can't I just completely shut off a user's voicemail". You can fiddle with call forwarding rules, but sooner or later, an errant call finds a way to end up there.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    8x8 Inc.
    8x8 contact center is meeting our needs as a call center communication solution. We use 8x8 across the entire organization and have been able to work with our account management team to ensure our configuration and integrations meet our business, legal & compliance needs across the organization. The greatest benefit has been the 8x8 account management team who consistently works with us to ensure our needs are being met.
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    Usability
    8x8 Inc.
    The system is flexible, adaptable and easy to use and research. Once again the reporting is fantastic and gives up the information we need to be successful and even make changes or tweaks. The 8x8 Contact Center team is there to assist with questions when needed or to help get through an issue. Charlie Knutson is the best!!
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    Reliability and Availability
    8x8 Inc.
    The only issue I have ran across was on getting the updated new version
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    Performance
    8x8 Inc.
    Yes everything loads quickly and its ready for use
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    Support Rating
    8x8 Inc.
    The initial live support person seems to be just collecting information and is outsourced. Sometimes it is difficult to communicate with them, but going through this process gets me to the right person and having my support ticket opened in order. It's usually very smooth thereafter.
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    In-Person Training
    8x8 Inc.
    Detailed training and good quality to provide our customers to achieve their needs and to give the best we can as far as information and technology and the best service we can to have the customers be satisfied with the technology and the best quality to get the best answers to their doubts.
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    Online Training
    8x8 Inc.
    its was with the best quality and the best performance we could have as far as detailed information for us to get the best training on how to get used of 8*8 and provide the best quality and technology to provide to our customers when they need and made us fell comforatble in how to use it
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    Implementation Rating
    8x8 Inc.
    The transition from Mitel to 8 x 8 was smooth and no "hiccups". The support was one of the best that we had received. No surprises except what 8 x 8 is actually capable of doing! Support remained available throughout the transition! Co-workers were amazed at what they were able to do with having 8 x 8,
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    Alternatives Considered
    8x8 Inc.
    I would say they are all very comparable. The one advantage to the Spectrum Enterprise OnDemand would be that it has it own internet bandwidth, so it doesn't eat into our overall internet usage bandwidth. It is however more expensive than 8x8. Poly Series just didn't have the flexibility and extensive features offered by 8x8, and therefore was not an acceptable replacement.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8x8 Inc.
    It is pretty much "Par for the course" with the options out there with other vendors.
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    Scalability
    8x8 Inc.
    It was implemented across the board in the company and has worked perfectly
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    Return on Investment
    8x8 Inc.
    • The callback queue was a big thing for a while. Still is to a point but we would have MANY duplicate callbacks & it was frustrating to both the customer & the agent.
    • Support is my biggest negative for 8x8 Contact Center. Being able to communicate with someone is essential yet having MANY support agents have a language barrier has made it difficult on both ends to get things addressed/taken care of. Being able to follow the requests of the ticket is a big one as well. I talked about both of these points before, but if I request to communicate via email 9/10 times, I am being called to talk about the problem when it could have been an email. They also request information MANY many times that seems to be useless when I have provided what I think to be all the necessary information. It just doesn't make a lot of sense to me. It has been a little bit since I have had to put anything in for support the last one I did it was substantially better so hopefully that continues.
    • Being able to work solely on 8x8 work or 8x8 Contact Center would be a HUGE plus for agents & IT. I see other platforms that are able to do this, if 8x8 was able to do this it would make it 100x better for us so we don't have to work out of two things for an agent to be able to work.
    • The last thing is the plans. Not offering an unlimited talking plan to me seems very weird. What we are paying for & the amount of minutes that agents are using doesn't make a lot of sense on a billing standpoint. Offering better pricing/unlimited plans for enterprise like other companies would be a HUGE plus as well.
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    ScreenShots

    8x8 Contact Center Screenshots

    Screenshot of inbound SMS with contact center agent response in 8x8 Agent Workspace. Agents are able to see incoming interactions and respond with consistently across channels like voice, SMS, RCS, webchat, email, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, one-way video, Viber, and social media channels via our Meltwater integration.Screenshot of real-time suggestions via 8x8 Smart Assist and full customer history and overall sentiment in 8x8 Agent Workspace.Screenshot of the completely customizable 8x8 Supervisor Workspace for real-time and historical reporting plus features to make quick changes on the fly. Available on desktop and mobile.Screenshot of 8x8 Analytics for Contact Center, which provides out-of-the-box reports, dashboards, and visualizations like the Interaction Journey visual that shows the complete customer journey across channels.Screenshot of 8x8 Quality Management, used to drill into specific interactions, playback, and leave comments with timestamps.Screenshot of 8x8 Voice/Text/Sentiment Analytics, used to create Topics to track common phrases and keywords within customer interactions happening in the contact center.