8x8 Contact Center vs. Amazon Connect

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
8x8 Contact Center
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
8x8 Contact Center is a solution that helps businesses boost engagement, collaboration, and operational effectiveness for customer success. Built on the 8x8 XCaaS platform, 8x8 Contact Center helps businesses to connect and collaborate with individuals working inside and outside of the organization.N/A
Amazon Connect
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Launched in 2017 and available on AWS, Amazon Connect is a cloud-based omnichannel contact center designed to provide a seamless experience across voice and website live chat, featuring skills-based routing, task tracking, and analytic tools to track customer interactions, or evaluate agent activity. It can support office-based or virtual contact centers. The service is pay-per-usage, per feature.
$0
per profile/per month
Pricing
8x8 Contact CenterAmazon Connect
Editions & Modules
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Customer Profiles
$0.0025
per profile/per month
Chat
$0
per message
Contact Lens (5 million+ monthly minutes)
$0.0125
per minute
Contact Lens (first 5 million monthly minutes)
$0.015
per minute
Voice
$0.02
per minute
Voice ID
$0.025
per transaction
Tasks
$0.04
per task
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
8x8 Contact CenterAmazon Connect
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
8x8 Contact CenterAmazon Connect
Considered Both Products
8x8 Contact Center
Chose 8x8 Contact Center
Post going through all demo sessions and comprehensive side-by-side analysis, we came to the conclusion that we should go for 8x8 Contact Center over competitors. Below are the points that helped us to take the decision. User-friendly: It has all the features that a typical …
Amazon Connect

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
8x8 Contact CenterAmazon Connect
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Contact Center
6.4
140 Ratings
26% below category average
Amazon Connect
7.1
4 Ratings
16% below category average
Agent dashboard7.1124 Ratings5.14 Ratings
Validate callers6.6111 Ratings7.14 Ratings
Outbound response6.6110 Ratings7.14 Ratings
Call forwarding7.0126 Ratings7.04 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)5.282 Ratings7.14 Ratings
Warm transfer7.5121 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Predictive dialing7.954 Ratings5.03 Ratings
Interactive voice response6.075 Ratings6.14 Ratings
REST APIs6.345 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Call scripts7.374 Ratings5.14 Ratings
Call tracking6.6122 Ratings7.14 Ratings
Multichannel integration4.071 Ratings9.04 Ratings
CRM software integration5.563 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Contact Center
7.1
130 Ratings
15% below category average
Amazon Connect
5.8
4 Ratings
35% below category average
Inbound call routing7.8117 Ratings9.04 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing7.467 Ratings5.14 Ratings
Recording7.8115 Ratings7.14 Ratings
Quality management7.3114 Ratings7.04 Ratings
Call analytics6.6116 Ratings3.24 Ratings
Historical reporting6.1107 Ratings5.14 Ratings
Live reporting7.09 Ratings5.14 Ratings
Customer surveys6.462 Ratings5.14 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics7.45 Ratings5.14 Ratings
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8x8 Contact CenterAmazon Connect
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Score 9.8 out of 10
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Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.8 out of 10
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Score 8.2 out of 10
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Score 8.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
8x8 Contact CenterAmazon Connect
Likelihood to Recommend
7.2
(144 ratings)
7.1
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.3
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.4
(30 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
6.3
(53 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.8
(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 CenterAmazon Connect
Likelihood to Recommend
8x8, Inc.
Customer service/regular call center would be good places to implement this. It seems fairly user friendly & doesn't take too much to figure out the in's & out's of the system. Places that don't have IT staff or outsource all of their IT problems or questions would probably have some more difficulty with this because it can be a little complicated when it comes to specific attributes to 8x8 Contact Center such as installation/configuration, scripts, & queues.
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Amazon AWS
Our company is a startup that is just starting to get wholesale customers. When we realized our customers needed support using our products, we set up a Contact Center via Amazon Connect. It has been very useful in allowing us to scale up very quickly, and provide services to our company as if we were a large corporation.
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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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  • Auto call distribution.
  • Web based scripting.
  • Easy chat deployment.
  • Call Recording.
  • Customer heat check.
  • Detailed reporting.
  • Live monitoring.
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Cons
8x8, Inc.
  • With 2-party states, 8x8 does not give us an option to modify the recorded statement that alerts parties the call is being recorded. The one we could use tends to sound harsh to the second party, and tends to cause sales losses.
  • When they recently changed their admin panel UI, several things the old UI had available never made it across to the new platform.
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Amazon AWS
  • On reports and analytics, [I feel] Amazon Connect is slightly behind, and it should be perfected.
  • [In my experience], Amazon Connect lacks social platform integration, which is convenient and resourceful currently.
  • [I believe] Amazon Connect should include a queue management feature, for the call centers and customer help.
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Likelihood to Renew
8x8, Inc.
8 x 8 is not an ordinary system, it works well for everyday business and assists in working efficiencies. So much is required for credentialing and re-credentialing. 8 x 8 takes out a lot of the extra steps by providing smarter working features that saves time and money. Also, when faxing, once the fax is complete, you receive an actual confirmation! Absolutely love this feature.
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Amazon AWS
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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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Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability
8x8, Inc.
The only issue I have ran across was on getting the updated new version
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Amazon AWS
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Performance
8x8, Inc.
Yes everything loads quickly and its ready for use
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Amazon AWS
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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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Amazon AWS
No answers on this topic
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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Amazon AWS
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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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Amazon AWS
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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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Amazon AWS
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Alternatives Considered
8x8, Inc.
8x8 had better pricing for our needs. 8x8 offered the features we needed without extras we did not. The overall onboarding process as demoed was smoother and provided more confidence in the product.
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Amazon AWS
We worked through a Request For Proposal to check different Contact Center platforms, we evaluated Talkdesk, Amazon Connect and Genesys PureConnect, all of them as a SaaS platforms, and trying to go to a pay per use model. The best option for us was Amazon Connect, with a pure pay per use model according to the minutes of use, instead of the number of agents. As our goal was to automate the maximum number of contacts, we didn't want a license model based in the number of agents
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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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Amazon AWS
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Scalability
8x8, Inc.
It was implemented across the board in the company and has worked perfectly
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Amazon AWS
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Return on Investment
8x8, Inc.
  • The ROI for us is measured more within the CSAT and NPS score increase we have seen thus far, both scores have gone up significantly since we have streamlined our process with 8X8.
  • We are now focusing our attention on retention with the hopes of seeing a second wave of ROI with 8X8.
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Amazon AWS
  • Amazon Collect has allowed us to scale quickly and retain flexibility.
  • Amazon Collect has allowed us to provide omnichannel support as if we were a larger corporation.
  • Amazon Collect has allowed us to retain productivity.
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