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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

    Webex Contact Center

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ACisco Webex Contact Center is a cloud-based omni-channel (e.g. voice, email, and chat) contact center solution providing customer / agent matching, customer service self-service agent, and built-in chat and voice for collaboration between agents.N/A
    Pricing
    8x8 Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    8x8 Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    8x8 Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
    Considered Both Products
    8x8 Inc.
    No answer on this topic
    Cisco
    Chose Webex Contact Center
    We trialed a fair few starting from anywhere, Microsoft 365 Call Center, the Genesys, 8x8 Contact Center. Some of the on-premise stuff. I think when it comes to the licensing model and just the flexibility of things, WebEx Center was a standout.
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    100%
    Would buy again
    39 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    37 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    38 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    31 Answers
    Features
    8x8 Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of 8x8 Contact Center and Webex Contact Center
    Feature
    8x8 Contact Center
    6.1
    147 Ratings
    30% below category average
    Webex Contact Center
    7.9
    34 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Agent dashboard5.8131 Ratings9.233 Ratings
    Validate callers6.4117 Ratings9.132 Ratings
    Outbound response4.2116 Ratings5.727 Ratings
    Call forwarding5.7133 Ratings8.732 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)5.688 Ratings8.429 Ratings
    Warm transfer6.5128 Ratings8.833 Ratings
    Predictive dialing7.855 Ratings5.421 Ratings
    Interactive voice response5.681 Ratings8.127 Ratings
    REST APIs7.150 Ratings7.829 Ratings
    Call scripts7.178 Ratings8.528 Ratings
    Call tracking6.5129 Ratings8.431 Ratings
    Multichannel integration3.775 Ratings7.030 Ratings
    CRM software integration7.269 Ratings7.130 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of 8x8 Contact Center and Webex Contact Center
    Feature
    8x8 Contact Center
    6.7
    136 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Webex Contact Center
    7.8
    31 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Inbound call routing8.1123 Ratings7.729 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing7.271 Ratings7.927 Ratings
    Recording7.9121 Ratings9.029 Ratings
    Quality management6.5120 Ratings8.826 Ratings
    Call analytics4.9122 Ratings7.427 Ratings
    Historical reporting4.1113 Ratings8.929 Ratings
    Live reporting7.915 Ratings7.629 Ratings
    Customer surveys5.565 Ratings6.827 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics8.410 Ratings6.124 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    8x8 Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.5
    (151 ratings)
    8.7
    (36 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.3
    (8 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (37 ratings)
    8.5
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (53 ratings)
    -
    (0 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 CenterWebex 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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    Cisco
    It depends on your needs. If you only need simple call flows, consider using Cisco Webex Calling Auto-Attendant. If you require more complex call flows and time-of-day routing, you can utilize Cisco Webex Contact Center. You only have to purchase 1 Agent to use the Call Flow Designer.
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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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    Cisco
    • Easy to setup a flow and managing it and make changes without impacting the production system
    • Great analyzer that gives detailed information
    • Provide social channels to reach all the customers regardless of age and social groups
    • Easy to SMS and have communication for customers on the go
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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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    Cisco
    • Better integration with Webex Calling.
    • More on premise features integrated into the cloud solution.
    • Better documentation for pebble templates.
    • Better information for changes and when new features are available. Instead of having to look on the what’s coming webpage alerts or a pop-up inside Webex control hub would be nice.
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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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    Cisco
    We are happy with the product, with Cisco as a partner and the roadmap looks mightily impressive. Webex Contact Center is one of our growth areas so we're keen to get more agents on the platform, we want to get more customers on it and we want to make use of all the features and functionalities it offers, so that we can help our customers do what they do best.
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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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    Cisco
    It is great to use Webex Contact Center as it delivers the call routing and workflow for agent and call routing. In addition to this the noise reduction helps to focus attention on the call and with the client. The notes feature and the ability for the transcription really helps with translation and language barriers.
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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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    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    8x8 Inc.
    Yes everything loads quickly and its ready for use
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    Cisco
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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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    Cisco
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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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    Cisco
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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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    Cisco
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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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    Cisco
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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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    Cisco
    Webex Contact Center feels the most modern of the solutions we evaluated. It is an all in one package which required no capital expenditure up front. Webex Contact Center was able to integrate with the AI packages which our IT team investigating for future use. Webex Contact Center was also able to integrate with the CRM packages which we use internally (without the use of a 3rd party connector).
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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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    Cisco
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    Scalability
    8x8 Inc.
    It was implemented across the board in the company and has worked perfectly
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    Cisco
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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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    Cisco
    • Increasing the number of channels agent can reach out to customers, especially text has shaved off a lot of hours from calling , leaving voicemail and waiting for customers to call back.
    • Less Downtime. No Upgrades or certificate Renewal, so fewer overtime hours.
    • Adoption of new features is now so quick, I don't have to worry about upgrading the Software or even hardware to get new features deployed.
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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.

    Webex Contact Center Screenshots

    Screenshot of Agent desktop viewScreenshot of View of Analyzer - Dark ModeScreenshot of Contact Center in Control Hub viewScreenshot of Supervisor desktop view