8×8 has announced that it was ranked as a Top Five provider by Metrigy in its recently published 2023 CCaaS MetriRank report, which identified the top cloud contact centre providers leading the market today and best positioned for long-term success.
8×8 earned the ranking based on market share, financials, market share momentum, product mix, customer sentiment, and customer business success.
“8×8’s contact centre strength lies with its customers. Its top five ranking is in large part due to strong customer sentiment scores and the highest customer business success score of the group,” said Diane Myers, principal analyst responsible for Metrigy’s MetriRank reports as well as market sizing and forecasting.
“8×8 received the highest possible score in customer sentiment and the highest score of the group for customer business success. In almost all customer sentiment categories, it received one of the top ratings.”
8×8 contact centre also received a standout sentiment rating for response time to problems, with strong ratings on technical features, platform reliability, and security.
With regards to customer business success across four categories, 8×8 customers saw the highest positive improvement in customer ratings.
Metrigy Definition of CCaaS
Metrigy defines CCaaS as customer interaction software delivered as a service over a cloud-based platform; this includes Automatic Call Distributors (ACDs), Interactive Voice Response (IVR), predictive dialer, artificial intelligence (AI), channel integration, etc.
CCaaS solutions are typically multi-tenant, with today’s platforms developed by service providers to run in the cloud using microservices architecture.
“Modern, easy to use, AI-driven cloud contact centre solutions have become essential for organizations to drive business performance and customer experience improvements,” said Hunter Middleton, Chief Product Officer at 8×8, Inc.
“We are honored that Metrigy recognizes the impact of our ongoing efforts to deliver innovative solutions that meet our customers specific requirements, and we take great pride in providing small and medium-sized enterprises with the market-leading technology, services, and support that allow them to optimize productivity and achieve business success.”
In Metrigy’s Customer Experience MetriCast 2023 study, 50% of companies indicated they are using the same vendor for UC and contact centre-clearly a competitive advantage for those offering a single integrated platform.
In addition, 66.9% of the 641 companies in Metrigy’s Customer Experience Optimization: 2023-24 global study said the contact centre carries more weight in vendor selection when buying a combined UC/contact centre platform.
8×8 contact centre is delivered through the 8×8 XCaaS (eXperience Communications as a Service”) cloud contact centre and unified communications platform, which includes integrated cloud contact centre, business phone, team chat, video meetings, and SMS capabilities.
XCaaS is a resilient, secure, and compliant cloud platform that offers the highest levels of reliability with a financially backed, platform-wide 99.999 percent uptime SLA across an integrated cloud CCaaS and UCaaS solution.
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Author: 8x8
Published On: 23rd Aug 2023
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