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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

    Khoros Service

    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Khoros Service offers omnichannel engagement on publicly available channels like social, digital, chat, and voice, as well as owned online communities like Khoros Communities. The solution offers 1-to-1 and 1-to-many engagement with customers and consumers, bringing together automation through bots and human agents. Customer inquiries and support-related conversations can be routed and prioritized based on a variety of parameters, and the robust agent desktop solution…N/A
    Pricing
    8x8 Contact CenterKhoros Service
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    8x8 Contact CenterKhoros Service
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Pricing is variable based on the needs of the customer.
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    Community Pulse
    8x8 Contact CenterKhoros Service
    Considered Both Products
    8x8 Inc.
    No answer on this topic
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    89%
    Would buy again
    71 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    50 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    73 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    44 Answers
    Features
    8x8 Contact CenterKhoros Service
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of 8x8 Contact Center and Khoros Service
    Feature
    8x8 Contact Center
    6.1
    147 Ratings
    30% below category average
    Khoros Service
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    Ratings
    Agent dashboard5.8131 Ratings00 Ratings
    Validate callers6.4117 Ratings00 Ratings
    Outbound response4.2116 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call forwarding5.7133 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)5.688 Ratings00 Ratings
    Warm transfer6.5128 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive dialing7.855 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive voice response5.681 Ratings00 Ratings
    REST APIs7.150 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call scripts7.178 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call tracking6.5129 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multichannel integration3.775 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM software integration7.269 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of 8x8 Contact Center and Khoros Service
    Feature
    8x8 Contact Center
    6.7
    136 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Khoros Service
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    Ratings
    Inbound call routing8.1123 Ratings00 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing7.271 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recording7.9121 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quality management6.5120 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call analytics4.9122 Ratings00 Ratings
    Historical reporting4.1113 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live reporting7.915 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer surveys5.565 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics8.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    8x8 Contact CenterKhoros Service
    Small Businesses
    Nextiva Contact Center
    Score9.7 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Brand Embassy (discontinued)
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    8x8 Contact CenterKhoros Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.5
    (151 ratings)
    8.5
    (112 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.3
    (8 ratings)
    8.2
    (78 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (37 ratings)
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (53 ratings)
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    7.6
    (70 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    8.3
    (77 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    8x8 Contact CenterKhoros Service
    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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Less Appropriate Scenarios- A fintech company has highly specialized or industry-specific workflows that are not easily accommodated within the standard capabilities of Khoros Care. In such cases, the platform may be less appropriate for businesses with extremely unique processes that require a high degree of customization. Well suited- financial institutions face a high volume of customer inquiries related to account management, transactions, and security concerns. Khoros Care's security features, automation capabilities, and integration with banking systems make it suitable for managing customer interactions in the financial services sector.
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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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • Tagging system - it's possible to add a wide variety of labels and categories
    • Search feature - being able to find users by conversation number, username, or keywords makes it easier to navigate old conversations
    • Easy system for assigning conversations to other users
    • When you claim a conversation, it gets removed from the queue. This is much more visually explicit than Khoros Marketing's queue, for example, where all content remains visible in the queue and a bookmark gets moved around to distinguish the point where other users left off
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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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • I would like to be able to see deleted comments/tweets so we can look into the issues.
    • I would like to be able to better customize dashboards for our exact metrics. Some things previously available in Spredfast are no longer available in Care.
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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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Simply, there isn't anything on the market that is quite as personable as Khoros Care. After using a few different client messaging systems, this program gave the closest feel to in-person interaction that we could get during the COVID-19 epidemic and is an important part of our agency still to this day in 2023.
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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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    The ability to auto tag, manually tag, make notes, and "snooze" posts is extremely helpful. The efficiency of the work flow for agents is also a huge plus. It keeps agents moving quickly and prioritizing responses for the cases that need it most.
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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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    No issues.
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    Performance
    8x8 Inc.
    Yes everything loads quickly and its ready for use
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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    No issues.
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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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Khoros Support has always very responsive and helpful when it comes to getting my issue/inquiry addressed. Their ticket portal is great for tracking any open tickets and they can be updated via the portal or by responding to the email thread. Support reps are always extremely knowledgeable and care about getting you taken care of
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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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    The team received training (from the same executive team member who has been supporting us) over the web and this was of very high quality.
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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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
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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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Implementing the platform was not a big hassle for our client, it was seamless and easy we just had to follow a few steps and it was done. Just scaling was a bit of an issue but it got resolved with time and a bit of effort at both ends
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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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Khoros is more than just a platform for social publishing. No other competitor provides the in-depth moderation and social listening services that they do. If you're looking for a one-stop-shop of a platform for all things social, this is the tool to be using. Others are better in usability and innovative functionality.
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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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
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    Scalability
    8x8 Inc.
    It was implemented across the board in the company and has worked perfectly
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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Of course as the company grows owing to its growing customer base, they need to think of out-of-the-box solutions to offer its clients and customer satisfaction is one of them. Retention is very much needed in competitive environment like today and hence it becomes imperative for companies to find different ways to reach their client basis and fix their issues
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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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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • We have seen a positive shift of customers from reaching out to the Call Centre to the Social Care Team.
    • Monthly and Annual Reporting to keep track of performance and stats related to the team has been much easier to highlight areas for improvement (month2month and anually)
    • CSAT/NPS Survey results have increased via Khoros Care in comparison to the Call Centre.
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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.

    Khoros Service Screenshots

    Screenshot of a customer conversation in Agent view. Access past customer conversations and interactions in a single pane of glass.Screenshot of the analytic dashboard used to monitor key metrics across a service organization, such as available agents, time to first response, and agent handle time.Screenshot of Khoros Agent Assist. This feature provides agents with real-time recommendations, reducing the time needed to handle customer inquiries, deliver accurate resolutions, and train new agents.Screenshot of Work Queues under Rules and Routing. This allows admins to build rules around tagging to ensure timely and effective follow-up from agents.