8x8 Contact Center vs. Medallia

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
8x8 Contact Center
Score 7.5 out of 10
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8x8 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
Medallia
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Medallia is an enterprise customer feedback solution that allows companies to collect customer feedback across multiple channels and touchpoints, and analyze, understand and react to it in real time.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Contact Center
5.9
147 Ratings
34% below category average
Medallia
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Ratings
Agent dashboard5.6131 Ratings00 Ratings
Validate callers6.3117 Ratings00 Ratings
Outbound response4.0116 Ratings00 Ratings
Call forwarding5.6133 Ratings00 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)5.488 Ratings00 Ratings
Warm transfer6.4128 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive dialing7.655 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive voice response5.581 Ratings00 Ratings
REST APIs6.950 Ratings00 Ratings
Call scripts7.178 Ratings00 Ratings
Call tracking6.3129 Ratings00 Ratings
Multichannel integration3.575 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM software integration7.169 Ratings00 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Contact Center
6.6
136 Ratings
22% below category average
Medallia
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Ratings
Inbound call routing8.0123 Ratings00 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing7.171 Ratings00 Ratings
Recording7.9121 Ratings00 Ratings
Quality management6.4120 Ratings00 Ratings
Call analytics4.8122 Ratings00 Ratings
Historical reporting3.9113 Ratings00 Ratings
Live reporting7.715 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer surveys5.465 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics8.210 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
8x8 Contact CenterMedallia
Likelihood to Recommend
6.4
(151 ratings)
9.2
(21 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
5.4
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.8
(37 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(53 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(5 ratings)
-
(0 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)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
8x8 Contact CenterMedallia
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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Medallia
Medallia is best for customer experience feedback. This will allow you to analyze and understand their current experience with the service you are providing. You will not [only] understand what specific point you are lacking, but you will also know which point they are happy with. Using the data provided, you can take necessary actions on how to improve and elevate your customer's experience.
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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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Medallia
  • It provides a rating for customers to rank how satisfied or not satisfied they are with the service.
  • As an Account Manager, this is a helpful tool to hear customers' experiences and feedback.
  • It helps us manage our next steps because the tools also provide options to note the action taken and if the issue has been resolved or not.
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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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Medallia
  • Our service model does not provide any ownership over the platform. We have to engage our Medallia Project Team to build surveys, troubleshoot issues, make changes to surveys, reports, and dashboards, resulting in long turnaround times and inefficiency.
  • Medallia charges for both "units" and users. "Units" are defined as named individuals in surveys, but don't have log-in privileges. In our case, they are customer service agents or business consultants that engaged with the client but are not part of our closed-loop case management process or access to the platform.
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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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Medallia
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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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Medallia
Medallia's user interface is simple and intuitive for the end-user. Everyone in our organization from the CEO to store level team members use Medallia to see how we are delivering experiences for our customers. From an administrative side, I would rate Medallia closer to a 7.5, but this part of Medallia is not used as often post-implementation. That being said, you will need a technical/IT resource on staff or will need to pay a premium to a 3rd party to manage it for you.
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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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Medallia
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Performance
8x8 Inc.
Yes everything loads quickly and its ready for use
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Medallia
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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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Medallia
Medallia is always there to answer questions and/or support our needs. In some cases it does require a PO if the request does not fall under normal support, but that does not change the fact that they are very responses and available to support your needs
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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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Medallia
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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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Medallia
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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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Medallia
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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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Medallia
Medallia does not only gives us convenience. It also gives us an opportunity to solve real-time feedback and create real-time solutions. The platform is easy to use, with a dashboard that could help our agents check their progress on a daily basis. I am particularly impressed with the platforms' ability to provide high attention to detail without compromising the sleek design that gives a professional vibe.
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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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Medallia
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Scalability
8x8 Inc.
It was implemented across the board in the company and has worked perfectly
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Medallia
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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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Medallia
  • It does play a big role when we are running a referral campaign. Referral greatly affects sales and retention since customers are bringing in new clients/customers.
  • It helps our organization keep track of the accounts that are most likely to churn by checking their feedback and knowing how we can improve our service.
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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.

Medallia Screenshots

Screenshot of Employee EngagementScreenshot of Customer ProfileScreenshot of IoT FeedbackScreenshot of Medallia MobileScreenshot of Organizational HierarchyScreenshot of Suggested Actions