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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    8x8 Work

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/A8x8 Work is a collaboration hub for phone, video, and messaging. It brings secure unified communication and collaboration experiences to every employee.

    $24

    per month

    Five9

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AFive9 is cloud contact center software for inbound, outbound, blended, or multi-channel operations. This solution includes management capabilities such as campaign management, quality monitoring, real-time and historical reporting, and call recording.

    $119

    per month

    Pricing
    8x8 WorkFive9
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Core
    $119
    per month
    Digital
    $119
    per month
    Premium
    Contact sales team
    Contact sales team
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    8x8 WorkFive9
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Five9 offers pricing options to suit your business needs: Monthly On-Demand —Companies looking to quickly scale their operations with minimum costs Per-Minute Fees — Products such as voice message broadcasting or IVR with Speech recognition Annual Contracts — Reduced fee compared to monthly on-demand pricing
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    Community Pulse
    8x8 WorkFive9
    Considered Both Products
    8x8 Inc.
    Chose 8x8 Work
    Fax, landline, mobile option are the best features that provided by 8x8. Toll free number & DID Number inventory for customer, time to time training session for administrator free of cost. Call distribution ACD works great, auto attended functionalities, call forwarding from …
    Incentivized
    Chose 8x8 Work
    Only 8x8 offers a desktop phone solution, call center solution and equipment. Having one provider makes things much easier for all and allows for one call if there is an issue.
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    Five9
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    84%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    84%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    21 Answers
    Features
    8x8 WorkFive9
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of 8x8 Work and Five9
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    8.8
    395 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Five9
    -
    Ratings
    Hosted PBX9.9218 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)8.876 Ratings00 Ratings
    Directory of employee names8.4357 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of 8x8 Work and Five9
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    8.7
    442 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Five9
    -
    Ratings
    Answering rules9.1398 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call recording8.7343 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call park8.4318 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call screening9.1301 Ratings00 Ratings
    Message alerts8.1385 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of 8x8 Work and Five9
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    8.9
    385 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Five9
    -
    Ratings
    Mobile app for iOS9.0318 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile app for Android8.8248 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of 8x8 Work and Five9
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    -
    Ratings
    Five9
    8.0
    14 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings7.514 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings6.213 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings7.112 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings8.110 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings9.910 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings8.012 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings5.111 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings8.514 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings6.513 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings8.513 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of 8x8 Work and Five9
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    -
    Ratings
    Five9
    8.6
    23 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings8.512 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings6.610 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings9.013 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings8.023 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings10.013 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings8.514 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings8.012 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings10.011 Ratings
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    8x8 WorkFive9
    Small Businesses
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    Score9.1 out of 10
    Nextiva Contact Center
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    PanTerra Networks
    Score6.3 out of 10
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Webex Calling
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    8x8 WorkFive9
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (463 ratings)
    6.5
    (38 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (30 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (104 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (10 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.9
    (142 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (14 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.8
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.1
    (9 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.7
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.9
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.9
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    8x8 WorkFive9
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8x8 Inc.
    I’ve found 8x8 Work to be a reliable and efficient communication solution for our business. It offers excellent call quality, easy management of call flows and departments, and seamless integration for both in-office and remote users. One feature we especially like is that it automatically searches for phone numbers on the web, which saves time and makes it easier to identify and reach contacts
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    Five9
    We use Five9 as a tool to make and receive calls from various departments such as Customer Service, Underwriting, Claims, and others. It's a tool that has helped us complete various tasks to contact our customers. It has also allowed us to replace Zoom Phone, as it makes it easier to assign new contact numbers to agents, while Zoom Phone only allows reusing numbers. It's a good tool with an easy-to-use interface for new users.
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    Pros
    8x8 Inc.
    • 8x8 Work manages roles and permissions well. It is very simple to create permission groups needed for certain roles that may even overlap teams needs.
    • User management is fairly simple and straight forward.
    • Analytics reporting is good quality for the higher tier licenses
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    Five9
    • Inbound and outbound calls it process is so well.
    • The service is so good and they give very efficient support in customer need.
    • The calls we can do in Five9 include incoming, outgoing, voicemails and we can also send a note to a specific person. It's a very reliable mode of communication.
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    Cons
    8x8 Inc.
    • Click to dial for the web based client.
    • The ability to have specific contact lists that can be shared with certain teams only.
    • Group voicemail notification to show once a voicemail has been listened to by another member of the team.
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    Five9
    • Text. Texting is incredibly difficult on Five9. We've had issues with only some texts logging to Salesforce, issues with threading of text conversations, and issues with having Salesforce contact information appear on the text widget (knowing who you are texting, not just their phone number).
    • The interface to "pause" is challenging. There are not good reminders to our reps to remember to pause or log out of Five9. If you forget to log out, this can affect stats about who worked the longest hours that day - and it's hard to know who actually was active on the phones.
    • Inbound voicemails are too-easily hidden. It's challenging for a lot of our reps to remember to check their inbound voicemails because it is hard to access them in the Five9 widget.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    8x8 Inc.
    All our employees love this product. No one has ever had an issue, whether it be the phone or fax. Great during the winter when employees have to work from home because of the snow. Never had an issue with the phone app. Highly recommend this product
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    Five9
    Robust product, great reliability and support.
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    Usability
    8x8 Inc.
    We never have problems working with 8x8, employees pickup quickly on how to use the system best for them. Calling out and receiving calls is simple, the ablility to click on a number and 8x8 dial it for you saves so much time when you are making high volume calls.
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    Five9
    overall usability is very great. User friendly interface for agents within the Salesforce with the engage button. Easy to go offline and online. Very good Integrations with Salesforce helps lot of clients that implemented Salesforce. As it is cloud based, agents can access it from anywhere. While the agent experience is goof, as a technical person it is hard to manage with the Five9 VCC and also the reporting User Interface is bad and slow when there are large amount of records.
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    Reliability and Availability
    8x8 Inc.
    As mentioned before, we have not had an outage with the phone system per say, There was an issue with the call center where we did have an outage, but it was quickly and promplty handled by 8x8 support, they got us up and going again within 24 hours. The 8x8 hard phone and softphone side of things have been rock solid, I couldn't ask for anything more seeing we are in health care and it's exactly what we were looking for. When and if there is an issue 99% of the time it's user error
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    Five9
    We have had minimal downtime due to system outages since it was implemented.
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    Performance
    8x8 Inc.
    None of the features that are available slow down the application. The reports (even the ones with hundreds of records) complete very quickly and the web interface as well as the mobile application never struggle to load or complete a task. The analytics will sometimes take some time to reflect the online status of users but it is to be expected due to connection speeds.
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    Five9
    The system's performance is great. Page loads quickly. Reports are generated quickly and sent to our email or FTP. The integration did not impact the performance of our other applications. We have not seen any drop in the performance of either applications since we performed the integration.
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    Support Rating
    8x8 Inc.
    We are a USA based organization. Support was refreshingly quick (callback via phone or email, online live agents). Agents are knowledgeable, thorough in their explanations, and extremely patient when dealing with end-users at various levels of the ICT knowledge spectrum.
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    Five9
    Five9's Customer Support team is also based in Manila Philippines, thus turnaround email response times for our reported issues are great for our requirements. Their CS agents also facilitate mobile calls to followup on outstanding issues and operate on a 24/7 schedule. We've also had experience working with the senior tech agents to investigate recurring issues to completion.
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    In-Person Training
    8x8 Inc.
    The person giving the training was very engaged, He also listened and answered all the questions. He created a video for our company while he was training in case we needed to reference it again in the future. The questions he could not answer were answered within 24 hours via an email to the IT support staff here so we could share the answers with the rest of the group
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    Five9
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    8x8 Inc.
    online (video) training is good. No issues.
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    Five9
    I took the certification course for administrator and also received some tips while working with the developer during implementation. The UI was very intuitive, so I was able to figure out how things worked when I configured the users, skills, campaigns, IVR scripts. I worked with the Five9 AI team to beta test Agent Assist.
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    Implementation Rating
    8x8 Inc.
    The implementation of 8x8 X was rather smooth. We had training prior to getting the system. The IT company did a good job on the training. The whole system is wonderful. Saves me so much time with the faxing, as i can just let it go by itself and not have to make sure pages don't get skipped, as with a regular fax machine.
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    Five9
    The implementation team that was assigned to us was great. The project manager was very helpful and managed the timeline very efficiently. The developer was very helpful and provided insights while helping us configure the system.
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    Alternatives Considered
    8x8 Inc.
    I prefer 8x8 Work; it has the right number of features and modes for the communication I need. I much prefer 8x8 Work meetings to zoom meetings, as it is much, much easier to transition between devices when I am on the road. 8x8 Work is also easier to manage across multiple modes of communication.
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    Five9
    Initially selected Five9 but have since switched to RingCentral which has given us what we needed. Better CRM integration, simpler and in my opinion more robust reporting capabilities and the same omnichannel solution at a fraction of the cost
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8x8 Inc.
    At this time, we’re very happy with the pricing model that we have worked out and they have provided for us. Just be sure to do your homework, and use your comparisons to work out your cost with 8x8. They will be very straightforward with you on what they can
    adjust for you.
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    Five9
    We do annual renewals and it's concurrent licensing which is great.
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    Scalability
    8x8 Inc.
    The only issue was adding licences was not via a button click but through your account admin which seems bad practice in a SaaS world as the user should be able to sign up, amend and close their account with ease
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    Five9
    It was very easy to add additional licenses. Once we placed the order, it was activated the following day. Since it's web-based, it's very quick to deploy across multiple sites.
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    Professional Services
    8x8 Inc.
    PS had all the users etc. set up by our go-live date. All hard phones were activated and when we received them, all we had to do was set them up and punch in the activation code to activate them.
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    Five9
    Five9 Professional Services team is very knowledgeable and efficient. I worked with them during implementation and during beta testing for Five9 Agent Assist and Ai Insights.
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    Return on Investment
    8x8 Inc.
    • Getting access to emergency voicemails left on our office lines when we are at home, on the weekend, or after hours.
    • Texting clients from a dedicated office line portal, keep things private and organized.
    • The ease of installation and helpful support when needed significantly limit the time wasted.
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    Five9
    • Cost savings: Five9 replaced a premise-based outbound dialer and a different virtual call center solution for inbound.
    • Cost savings: Five9's voice over IP is less expensive than the land lines we were using.
    • Cost savings: Five9 requires significantly less management than our previous solutions.
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