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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Google Cloud Contact Center AI

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AGoogle has launched a cloud based contact center software which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the customer experience and provide real-time insights for agents. Announced in July 2018, this product adds three core AI functionalities to the contact center software tool belt with its Dialogflow feature: virtual agents, AI assistance for human agents, and contact center analytics. Google’s product streamlines inbound and outbound communications by…N/A
    Pricing
    8x8 Contact CenterGoogle Cloud Contact Center AI
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    8x8 Contact CenterGoogle Cloud Contact Center AI
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    8x8 Contact CenterGoogle Cloud Contact Center AI
    Considered Both Products
    8x8 Inc.
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    Google
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    8x8 Contact CenterGoogle Cloud Contact Center AI
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of 8x8 Contact Center and Google Cloud Contact Center AI
    Feature
    8x8 Contact Center
    6.0
    147 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Google Cloud Contact Center AI
    8.4
    13 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Agent dashboard5.7131 Ratings8.513 Ratings
    Validate callers6.4117 Ratings7.911 Ratings
    Outbound response4.1116 Ratings8.211 Ratings
    Call forwarding5.7133 Ratings8.611 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)5.588 Ratings8.911 Ratings
    Warm transfer6.4128 Ratings8.810 Ratings
    Predictive dialing7.755 Ratings8.39 Ratings
    Interactive voice response5.681 Ratings8.411 Ratings
    REST APIs7.050 Ratings7.211 Ratings
    Call scripts7.178 Ratings8.111 Ratings
    Call tracking6.4129 Ratings8.411 Ratings
    Multichannel integration3.775 Ratings8.712 Ratings
    CRM software integration7.169 Ratings8.711 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of 8x8 Contact Center and Google Cloud Contact Center AI
    Feature
    8x8 Contact Center
    6.7
    136 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Google Cloud Contact Center AI
    8.5
    13 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Inbound call routing8.1123 Ratings8.312 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing7.171 Ratings8.111 Ratings
    Recording7.9121 Ratings8.813 Ratings
    Quality management6.4120 Ratings8.911 Ratings
    Call analytics4.8122 Ratings9.012 Ratings
    Historical reporting4.0113 Ratings9.011 Ratings
    Live reporting7.915 Ratings8.410 Ratings
    Customer surveys5.465 Ratings8.18 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics8.410 Ratings8.410 Ratings
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    Score8 out of 10
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
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    User Ratings
    8x8 Contact CenterGoogle Cloud Contact Center AI
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.5
    (151 ratings)
    8.5
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.3
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (37 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    9.1
    (53 ratings)
    -
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    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
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    Configurability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    8x8 Contact CenterGoogle Cloud Contact Center AI
    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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    Google
    Well suited for sites where the product is hardware because with those if there are any questions then the site could help eliminate having to contact the company directly and waiting for answers days later. This would be suited for products as the answer could be given and the more complex questions would be directed to the company.
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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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    Google
    • Google Cloud Contact Center AI is based on the same foundation infrastructure and services as Google Assistant, therefore, it is robust and flexible. The APIs are very well built and documented as well. Any newbie can start using the service with a very little learning curve.
    • Seamless integrations are also a great add-on. Google makes sure that Contact Center AI service integrates well with leading customer service platforms which helps any user to use only the required functionalities from Contact Center AI and meanwhile use any other primary platform.
    • Robust documentation which is always alive and is updated within no time is of great help! Google makes sure its end customers know what to do where and when in clear plain text and any issues/ bugs are also documented.
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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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    Google
    • It's still in the beginning phase of sentimental Analysis and more data sets can really help during tough conversations.
    • Automation can be made a little simpler and basic for anyone to be able to work on it.
    • Each instance of the software can have its own AI learning for a wider range of real time issues.
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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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    Google
    We are happy with the implementation and functionality of the software and associated systems. In general, unless something better can replace this system we intend on continuing. We think the ease of systems implementation and integration adds value and substantiates the use and excellent functionality of the product and associated services.
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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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    Google
    Generally intuitive and easy to learn. I would like more guides but the learning curve is rather quick and makes the software rather an easy study for the average user. Generally, the support and functionality of the software make for a generally good outcome and easy implementation of the software and user experience.
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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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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    8x8 Inc.
    Yes everything loads quickly and its ready for use
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    Google
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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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    Google
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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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    Google
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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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    Google
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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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    Google
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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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    Google
    Only IBM Watson Assistant has been the one we have used in the company, in fact, it was the first to use it because currently in the market there are not many options to use, and if there are they are not receiving enough publicity, so we have limited ourselves to google cloud contact center AI.
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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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    Google
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    Scalability
    8x8 Inc.
    It was implemented across the board in the company and has worked perfectly
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    Google
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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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    Google
    • Reduced the number of minutes spent by live agents on trivial queries.
    • Our client saved thousands of dollars by using the AI contact center as now the agents spend most of their time solving real issues.
    • Customer satisfaction got increased exponentially.
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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.