8x8 Contact Center vs. Aspect Unified IP

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
8x8 Contact Center
Score 8.4 out of 10
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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
Aspect Unified IP
Score 4.0 out of 10
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Aspect Software headquartered in Massachusetts offers Aspect Unified UP, a call center solution for enterprise contact centers. It supports an omnichannel customer experience across voice, email, chat, SMS, IM, and social channels.N/A
Pricing
8x8 Contact CenterAspect Unified IP
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
8x8 Contact CenterAspect Unified IP
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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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
8.3
152 Ratings
0% above category average
Aspect Unified IP
7.4
3 Ratings
11% below category average
Agent dashboard8.4136 Ratings7.03 Ratings
Validate callers8.4120 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Outbound response8.3120 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Call forwarding8.6138 Ratings6.03 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)8.693 Ratings9.62 Ratings
Warm transfer8.4133 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Predictive dialing7.558 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Interactive voice response8.886 Ratings5.03 Ratings
REST APIs7.555 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Call scripts8.582 Ratings4.03 Ratings
Call tracking8.6134 Ratings6.03 Ratings
Multichannel integration8.378 Ratings8.22 Ratings
CRM software integration8.473 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Contact Center
8.5
140 Ratings
4% above category average
Aspect Unified IP
8.5
2 Ratings
4% above category average
Inbound call routing8.9125 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing8.373 Ratings8.12 Ratings
Recording8.5125 Ratings9.62 Ratings
Quality management8.6124 Ratings9.12 Ratings
Call analytics8.0126 Ratings8.62 Ratings
Historical reporting8.1117 Ratings7.42 Ratings
Live reporting8.419 Ratings7.42 Ratings
Customer surveys8.568 Ratings8.62 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics8.813 Ratings9.12 Ratings
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8x8 Contact CenterAspect Unified IP
Small Businesses
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Score 8.3 out of 10
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Score 8.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Score 8.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Bright Pattern Contact Center
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
8x8 Contact CenterAspect Unified IP
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(154 ratings)
7.0
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.5
(8 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(40 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.6
(53 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(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 CenterAspect Unified IP
Likelihood to Recommend
8x8, Inc.
IMO, 8x8 is great in the mid-market space. Contact Centers with 25-1000 seats. Is it perfect? No, but none of them are (Ring, Nice, Five9, Talk) they're all going to have their defects. If you're a small or micro business, I don't know if If 8x8 is the place to be. Functionally, it will work fine, but the ROI isn't good for that sized org. And, you want get the support the same way the Mid and Enterprise customers will. Another things to consider is integrations - of which, 8x8 has many. Integrations and APIs is an areas where I have really seen 8x8 making a big push in the last few years. They have a powerful CPaaS product too, but I've not used it enough to be qualified to comment on it (yet).
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Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
Aspect Unified IP is perfect to handle multiple outbound dialing campaigns, with tools that allow you to configure how customers must be reached, call them at different phone numbers by the time of the day, set priorities when dialing, or gather information about all running campaigns in dashboards in real-time.
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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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Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
  • Integrates inbound and outbound call routing in one platform, allowing agents to work in a seamless blend mode between all call types (inbound, predictive, manual).
  • Allows you to associate an account number with every agent phone call, the call type, and the reccording ID giving you the critical datapoints necessary to research, put together a customers experience from a telephony perspective, etc.
  • Create agent templates to streamline agent setup reducing the potential for admins to configure an agent incorrectly, placing them in services they aren't skilled for and vice versa.
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Cons
8x8, Inc.
  • Overall support, being able to get ahold of someone faster/someone that is able to communicate with us easier in terms of language barriers. As well as following what is requested in the support ticket, for example, I submit tickets asking to communicate via email yet 9/10 times I get called to discuss my ticket or to get told to submit information that is already in the ticket... this has improved recently but still plenty of room for improvement.
  • Callback queues. Being able to view the overall queue & not allow duplicates of a callback. For example, someone calls in, requests a callback, then calls back in again & requests for another one or two or three, limiting them to just one callback in that queue.
  • Being able to see overall queues & the numbers in both the regular queues & callback queues would be helpful as well.
  • Being able to do away with 8x8 Contact Center work entirely. Integrating it into Teams is a good thing I saw 8x8 do fairly recently, but being able to use 8x8 Contact Center as the just web version would be a huge plus.
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Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
  • The reports are very basic.
  • There may be a broader reporting line, perhaps with more detailed records.
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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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Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
Aspect Unified IP is very competent to handle most customers' needs in the contact center and it delivers what is promised. The only negative aspect is the costs of services, maintenance and professional services, too expensive.
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Usability
8x8, Inc.
8x8's contact center provides us with the functionality and capabilities we desire. Leaders have the ability to measure, guide, and improve the performance of our service representatives. They also have the ability to make necessary changes based on call volumes and workloads. Our service representatives have the tools required to resolve callers' needs more effectively. The administration tools available help us self-service our needs and resolve issues.
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Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
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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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Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
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Performance
8x8, Inc.
Yes everything loads quickly and its ready for use
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Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
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Support Rating
8x8, Inc.
Charlie Knutson is fantastic, however when you call the support number it is almost impossible to get through and when you do they cannot fix your issue. That is the biggest challenge. It is a difference between that and reaching our contact directly. The email support number that our company was given is very responsive and good.
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Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
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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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Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
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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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Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
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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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Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
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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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Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
We had evaluated Avaya. It was pretty good as well. However, we wanted a more software driven solution. Aspect also was able to give better results in our Proof of Concept.
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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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Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
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Scalability
8x8, Inc.
It was implemented across the board in the company and has worked perfectly
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Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
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Return on Investment
8x8, Inc.
  • It has eased the administrative burden on our IT department.
  • It has eased the overall user adoption process with the multi-platform availability and easy user interfaces.
  • It has enabled our remote customer service workforce to remain working through the COVID pandemic.
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Alvaria, Inc (Aspect Software + Noble Systems)
  • As stated before, we have been using UIP for over a decade now. Prior to this tool we had agents logging into Avaya for inbound, and using CTI fuctionality to bounce the agent back and forth between inbound and any predictive campaigns. By moving to Aspect it allowed us to streamline that process, reduce agent downtime, lost efficiency, while at the same time consolidationg all of our call center telephony data into one central location allowing us to easily track a customers telephony experience over any period of time.
  • The only negative impact is due to the upgrade schedule that has made for some interesting challenges forcing us to utilize IT resources that could have been used on more critical corporate projects. These upgrades might not be as big of a deal for any company out there that does not have a lot of integration with Aspect such as custom reporting, data loads, API hooks, etc.
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