8x8 Contact Center vs Aspect Unified IP

Likelihood to Recommend

8x8 Contact Center is perfect for call center management and tracking. Being able to search for calls that were taken as well as quality reviewing. The flexibility of needing to change a queue or make instant adjustments as needed. The reporting is very easy and it can be downloaded into excel for sharing and analyzing.

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Kelly Disera

Call Center Manager

AUS UrologyHospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

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If you are a call center looking to take advantage of agents being able to work in both an inbound and outbound capacity at the same time I think Aspect is a no-brainer. There is no CTI connectivity to deal with. It is all 100% seamless between all call types (inbound, dialer, manual). The tools are very intuitive, and the backend reporting tables are easy to use/query. If you are a smaller inbound only shop or even a small blend shop this product might be cost-prohibitive especially if it is an on-premise solution. In those cases, their cloud-based solution might make the most sense.

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Joseph Burda

VP Strategic Operations

Santander Consumer USA Inc.Financial Services, 5001-10,000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

8x8 Contact Center

Aspect Unified IP

Agent dashboard

Validate callers

Outbound response

Call forwarding

Click-to-call (CTC)

Warm transfer

Predictive dialing

Interactive voice response

REST APIs

Call scripts

Call tracking

Multichannel integration

CRM software integration

8x8 Contact Center

Aspect Unified IP

Inbound call routing

Omnichannel inbound routing

Recording

Quality management

Call analytics

Historical reporting

Live reporting

Customer surveys

Customer interaction analytics

Pros

Cleaner workspace with organization and efficiency at the forefront of our associates day.
Better reporting, making the process of coaching and developing agents easier task for our front line leadership team members.
Quality metrics have allowed for us to identify areas of concern when it comes to training, thus allowing us to proactively adjust our new hire training as well as our soft skill modules we use as part of our on-going training program.

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Michael Furman

Vice President of Customer Support

Age or Learning - ABCmouseE-Learning, 501-1000 employees

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When I administer and support this software for a few months, I can comment that, without a doubt, it is good software to start a call center with.
The main thing is to indicate that the software can be configured to have high availability with several servers that will help keep the service active.
You can count on several telephone lines that will be centralized in the appearance system.
The big advantage is that you have call recording and live video, you can also locate the video recordings of all the calls.

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Jose Raul Faria

Coordinador de Planificación Financiera

Sociedad Venezolana de Inversiones y Proyectos SIPSA C.A.Construction, 51-200 employees

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Cons

The initial live support person can sometimes be difficult to communicate with. However, they will take down your key problems and escalate it to the right person to deal with your issues.
Better online chat support. The online chat seems to be limited to a bot to direct to their FAQ or to assist in opening a ticket only. The ability to schedule a chat online instead of calls would help.

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Chris Nguyen

Attorney

Law Office of Chris T. Nguyen, APCLaw Practice, 1-10 employees

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It needs build-in seamlessness of Channel - Omni channel is still not available
Aspect services are costly
Need to add AIML in Aspect

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Bhosale Deepak

General Manager - IT

Asian PaintsConsumer Goods, 5001-10,000 employees

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Usability

8x8 Contact Center 8.0

Based on 16 answers

It works like a phone on your computer, on your desk phone with a lot more options on the desk phone. It has very high-quality voice and sound. It supports direct text and allows a lot of versatility in the application so you can take it with you anywhere you go and turn it off or on as your needs change.

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Chris Bugg

Principal

Chris Bugg Insuance AgencyInsurance, 1-10 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Support Rating

8x8 Contact Center 7.0

Based on 50 answers

The agents took ownership and solved the problem. Restating and clarifying everything I said kept 8x8 from getting a "10" here. Despite the agents restating and clarifying too much, the senior technicians know what they are doing! They kept digging and digging until they found the problem, fixed it, and (most importantly) tested it before ending the call. This is not consistent with call center industry standards as most agents with other firms "fix" a problem and hang up. We don't learn how bad the "fix" was until later.

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Verified User

General Manager in Corporate

Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 1-10 employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Alternatives Considered

8x8 came out on top in each of the 30 criteria on our evaluation scorecard except for the cost and length of storage of recording recordings. The other products offer free recording, while 8x8 charges $21 per user per month and only retains recordings for 10 days.

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Jeffrey Bryan

Sr. Contracts Manager

Fortna Inc.Logistics & Supply Chain, 201-500 employees

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I have not spent any time recently doing a detailed analysis of other vendors to comfortably answer this question. I will say that the last time I checked, the ability to have all 3 call types (inbound,outbound,and manual) managed in one convenient seamless platform was not available which is very important to me.

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Joseph Burda

VP Strategic Operations

Santander Consumer USA Inc.Financial Services, 5001-10,000 employees

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Return on Investment

The negative impact is that when a phone or other device stops working, we are simply out a phone and have to order a new one.
A negative impact is how short the phone warranty is.
A positive impact is the new "rent-a-phone" feature, which allows for a monthly rental rather than the full purchase of the phones.

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Christina K

Office Manager

Blanchard & Thomas, LLPLaw Practice, 1-10 employees

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My financial control has been much more controlled.
I identify in my indicators everything that has changed before and after having the service.
The results obtained can be appreciated just by checking my profits.
The objectives set according to this application and the annual cost is being adequate.

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Jose Raul Faria

Coordinador de Planificación Financiera

Sociedad Venezolana de Inversiones y Proyectos SIPSA C.A.Construction, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

8x8 Contact Center

Aspect Unified IP

8x8 Contact Center

Aspect Unified IP

8x8 Contact Center

Aspect Unified IP