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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    8x8 Contact Center

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/A8x8 Contact Center is a cloud-based platform that unifies customer interactions across voice, chat, email, video, SMS, and social. It offers intelligent self-service automation, real-time analytics, and CRM integrations. With omnichannel engagement, agents deliver consistent, personalized service from one interface.N/A

    Talkdesk

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ATalkdesk® helps organizations operate a human-AI hybrid workforce with enterprise CCaaS and Customer Experience Automation (CXA). Both support omnichannel engagement across voice and digital channels. CCaaS provides routing, workforce engagement, agent guidance, collaboration, and analytics for human teams. CXA enables organizations to build and manage agentic AI agents using natural language and orchestrates work across AI agents, people, data, and enterprise systems. CXA can also work with an…

    $85

    per month per user

    Pricing
    8x8 Contact CenterTalkdesk
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Digital Essentials
    $85
    per month per user
    Voice Essentials
    $105
    per month per user
    Elite
    $165
    per month per user
    Elite
    $165
    per month per user
    Industry Experience Clouds
    $225
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    8x8 Contact CenterTalkdesk
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—*Talkdesk also offers per hour login consumption pricing and concurrent pricing. Prices are based on a minimum 3 year commitment to these Editions. Additional telco and usage fees not included. Due to foreign exchange rate approximation, list price is not the exact price that will be quoted.
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    Community Pulse
    8x8 Contact CenterTalkdesk
    Considered Both Products
    8x8 Inc.
    No answer on this topic
    Talkdesk
    Chose Talkdesk
    No comparison. Talkdesk is leaps and bounds over the antiquated 8x8 Contact Center. I couldn't be happier with such a user-friendly and stable call management tool. Positive interactions all around for the smart integration with Salesforce. No more lost calls. Quick notes for …
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    We chose Talkdesk over five years ago because they were an innovator and leader in AI integration for a contact center.

    From an AI functionality standpoint today, we don't notice much difference between platforms. There's kind of an LLM plateau right now, and the key …
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    The reporting features and usability is much better than these other two options. 8x8 and Incontact (NICE CXone) were good when we had a smaller team of 10 to 20 agents on phones, but now that our customer service center is 50+, Talkdesk was able to handle the growth, and then …
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    Our company previously used 8x8, which was reducing productivity due to frequent call dropping and failure to log calls properly. Talkdesk has been much more reliable and has allowed us to increase our productivity with fewer issues.
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    So much more flexibility with Talkdesk when it comes to setting up flows and how I can move members around with seat changes. Then couple that in with the Studio Academy where I can learn how to best use the product and help onboard my team = SOLD! : )

    I've used many call …
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    Talkdesk beats the competition because it understands integrations between CRM systems much better than the competitors. VoIP software's tend to focus on the quality of the calls, the actual dialer and that part of the software. Talkdesk focuses on the the customizable …
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    The reason we selected Talkdesk is because of the Salesforce integration. We found out Talkdesk/Salesforce integration is superior compared to the other vendors.
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk

    We needed to be able to move to a cloud base solution for home working on a global scale and our current infrastructure would not allow for this growth.

    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    Talkdesk has all the same functionality of 8x8 with less cost and and a cleaner user interface.
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    Blows most of them out of the water, Five9 would be Talkdesk's best competition out there in the space at the moment.
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    8x8 doesn't come close and InContact was out of our price range.
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    We investigated several other software options before going with Talkdesk. Having a free trial was extremely helpful in testing the usefulness of this software. There were several options that would have helped us to revert back to our old system had we not liked Talkdesk, but …
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    Talkdesk is much easier to implement and less costly than their competitors. That's why I decided to move forward with them. Their service and reliability are what has kept me on for three years now.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    87%
    Would buy again
    158 Answers
    95%
    Would buy again
    350 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    136 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    280 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    166 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    352 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99 Answers
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    200 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    110 Answers
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    224 Answers
    Features
    8x8 Contact CenterTalkdesk
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of 8x8 Contact Center and Talkdesk
    Feature
    8x8 Contact Center
    8.4
    184 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Talkdesk
    8.2
    503 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Agent dashboard8.3165 Ratings7.3482 Ratings
    Validate callers7.8145 Ratings8.3422 Ratings
    Outbound response8.6145 Ratings8.4442 Ratings
    Call forwarding9.1168 Ratings8.5434 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)8.5115 Ratings8.2400 Ratings
    Warm transfer8.5158 Ratings8.8457 Ratings
    Predictive dialing7.374 Ratings8.9231 Ratings
    Interactive voice response9.3109 Ratings8.5324 Ratings
    REST APIs8.271 Ratings7.2256 Ratings
    Call scripts8.8106 Ratings8.2231 Ratings
    Call tracking8.8161 Ratings8.6450 Ratings
    Multichannel integration8.4101 Ratings7.0331 Ratings
    CRM software integration8.393 Ratings8.6383 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of 8x8 Contact Center and Talkdesk
    Feature
    8x8 Contact Center
    8.5
    170 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Talkdesk
    8.0
    487 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Inbound call routing8.8153 Ratings9.0447 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing7.893 Ratings7.0325 Ratings
    Recording9.0151 Ratings9.0471 Ratings
    Quality management8.7151 Ratings8.5429 Ratings
    Call analytics8.6152 Ratings8.5443 Ratings
    Historical reporting8.6143 Ratings8.2451 Ratings
    Live reporting8.242 Ratings7.8444 Ratings
    Customer surveys8.386 Ratings7.3249 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics8.133 Ratings6.8284 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    8x8 Contact CenterTalkdesk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (188 ratings)
    8.3
    (517 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.3
    (10 ratings)
    8.5
    (40 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (75 ratings)
    8.6
    (333 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (9 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.5
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (56 ratings)
    5.5
    (132 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.6
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.9
    (6 ratings)
    7.2
    (224 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.8
    (8 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    8x8 Contact CenterTalkdesk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8x8 Inc.
    We spend a lot of time calling insurance companies to check claim status, verify benefits, or fix denials. 8x8 is great for handling high call volume days when our team is making and receiving a ton of those calls. The call routing makes sure insurance calls go to our billing reps and patient calls go to the right team, so things don’t get mixed up. If we’re doing a compliance review or responding to an insurance dispute and need a specific recorded call from months ago, it can take some digging to find it unless we have exact details. It’s not impossible, just not super quick
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    Talkdesk
    As a growing company, we did not have customer service contacts set up like a traditional contact center, even though we were trying to operate like one. Talkdesk made the transition simple to orchestrate the new setup, allowing customers to have their contacts answered quickly. As Talkdesk has continued to roll out new products such as Copilot and AI Autopilot, we are implementing and continuing to realize the benefits.
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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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    Talkdesk
    • Talkdesk excels at reporting. It offers a wide range of reports, such as Aux, AHT, and productivity reports, which are great for monitoring performance.
    • Talkdesk has speech-to-text analytics. This is an AI transcript system. The AI detects speech and transcribes it.
    • Talkdesk is easy to integrate with other apps. Such as Calabrio and Zendesk.
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    Cons
    8x8 Inc.
    • Campaigns is a big one. That has been our main pain point with the 8x8 VCC.
    • AMD+Auto Voicemail is a feature not available today.
    • Customizations like changing a campaign's caller ID based on a CRM field do not allow teams to create more efficient flows.
    • Time zone dialing is limited to the phone area code, not the physical location (address), which is undesirable.
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    Talkdesk
    • From experience, customer service is terrible, we've had 5 account executives over 18 months, extremely difficult to get timely answers to pressing issues.
    • Integration with other tools, such as ServiceNow, is not truly integration (in my opinion). There was a marked difference between what the salesperson communicated during the evaluation period and what we actually got once we purchased and implemented the product.
    • We continue to have stability issues which force our agents to restart the Talkdesk client. I frequently receive vague error messages ('something went wrong') that can be frustrating as there's no actual detail to what happened. To be fair, it has improved since we implemented the tool, but if you were to ask our agents what frustrated them, Talkdesk would be at the top of their list.
    • Being a multi-channel platform was one of the things that drew us to Talkdesk; however, the chat channel lags way behind voice in customization and reporting.
    • Lack of training resources. The 'Talkdesk Academy' is often very out-of-date. Would be nice to have actual webinars or online training (even paid training) for various functions of the tool like reporting, WFM, IVR, etc.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    8x8 Inc.
    8x8 contact center is meeting our needs as a call center communication solution. We use 8x8 across the entire organization and have been able to work with our account management team to ensure our configuration and integrations meet our business, legal & compliance needs across the organization. The greatest benefit has been the 8x8 account management team who consistently works with us to ensure our needs are being met.
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    Talkdesk
    One of the best tools our there to tackle alot of our needs or issues within the organisation's and is value for money as you find alot of the features already in bedded and the Ai features are user friendly no need for additional training and Talk desk support when any issues arise is amazing
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    Usability
    8x8 Inc.
    Overall, the 8x8 contact center's functionality is great! As the administrator for our practice, I find the platform extremely easy to navigate and customize for our business needs, which are constantly changing and evolving. I find the analytics very easy to use overall. It is fairly quick and easy to find call recordings when needed, and the reporting can transition between a 30,000-foot view and an extremely granular view.
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    Talkdesk
    As a user, the Talkdesk system is pretty easy. However, as a leader or an admin, the system can be difficult to navigate. Talkdesk appeared to integrate different solutions into their environment. While the overall skin of the environment is pretty seamless, it's easy to see that some solutions are segregated off into their own area of the Talkdesk ecosystem. This is pretty evident with Identity, WFM, and System Analytics, where you have to navigate to their respective areas to pull reports and gather data. Where many other reports are available in Explore
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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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    Talkdesk
    Talkdesk is very handy but, sometimes we do face issues were the system can just kick you out and not be able to do calls or receive calls but, what I like about the system once you start refreshing or troubleshooting, everything becomes normal it is a unique system and very modern we don't usually have system issues with Talkdesk.
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    Performance
    8x8 Inc.
    Yes everything loads quickly and its ready for use
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    Talkdesk
    reports are good until a report is a big one in size then the wait is longer and some call reports delay by an hour or so which is not ideal as we pull these hourly and need them from Work force management perspective and Quality reports are perfectly fine
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    Support Rating
    8x8 Inc.
    Support is subpar, any time there was an issue they would ignore the preferred means of communication & would not respond to the ticket aside from that they called instead of emailed. They also are not based out of the US so hours are vastly different than typical working hours. They were able to help in some cases but a lot of them were "that's how it is" responses & just overall not a great experience
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    Talkdesk
    If Talkdesk had a dedicated phone support line I would have given this rating an overall 10. Their knowledge base is absolutely HUGE and at times very helpful. It's easy to search through and their customer support chat system works perfectly fine, but there are just some times that you need to speak to a human on the phone to ensure you are always on the same page.
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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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    Talkdesk
    The training that was given to us was very smooth and professional. I give my trainer 10/ 10 rate the training was so smooth and very helpful she would make sure we also watch videos of how to use the system which made it very easier for us and what was interesting it is because, the system is also easy.
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    Online Training
    8x8 Inc.
    The training was easy but would probably be much easier in person. Easier to ask questions and show someone your computer when you are in person. Easier to differentiate between network issues and 8x8 issues. Online works too but for how technical 8x8 can be, I would recommend you try and do in person if possible. Would make it much easier to get help when needed. This is a personal preference and not something that is required by any means. The online training is still great and still did the trick. The good thing is that help is always available months or years after if there is something new you want to do
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    Talkdesk
    Nothing is perfect!! Needing the ability to repeat the training so everyone was on board was important. Not real sure how many people had to repeat the training as they trained on their own and given 30 minutes at a time.
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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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    Talkdesk
    We were very satisfied with the implementation of Talkdesk. The team was able to gather all the data and information about the system we had in place at the moment and delivered us a Talkdesk plan that suited our needs. We had a few calls after implementation where our questions were answered and gave us the confidence to continue using the system.
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    Alternatives Considered
    8x8 Inc.
    Fuze is somewhat dated and clunky when it comes to configuring settings. 8x8 Contact Center design and settings is more clean and easier to amend. Fuze includes an all in one softphone system, which is an additional component for 8x8. RingCentral seems somewhat pricier when comparing the different offerings, although they may have more features.
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    Talkdesk
    Call recordings, quality assessments, feedback, coaching, and monitoring, the call flow is effortless and painless, changing statuses from after-call work is updated to be qued so you cannot change after aftercall work is finished, shows you the company metrics, SLA, abandonment, number of calls taken and record occupancy for you and the team. Many more features make Talkdesk an innovative software compared to its competitors.
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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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    Talkdesk
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    8x8 Inc.
    It was implemented across the board in the company and has worked perfectly
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    Talkdesk
    talk desk has helped us massively with flexibility of one system giving us all the relevant information we need to be able to drive improvement and also good service from work force management to quality improvement to the reporting of the work and inputs going in and assess outputs to determine the success of our work and remaining development areas
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    Return on Investment
    8x8 Inc.
    • Not having to worry about maintaining CCaaS infrastructure is a big ROI
    • For small business, the ROI may not be there - might still be better off with a local PBX (KSU) and a few POTS trunks from the cable company.
    • Never having to worry about upgrading software.
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    Talkdesk
    • Reduced hold times with callback feature = better CX
    • Easy transfer option between teams where we can talk rep-rep first before bringing the caller in = less repeated information the customer has to provide = better CX
    • Modified call dispositions allows for better call management & organization = less work on our end!
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    ScreenShots

    8x8 Contact Center Screenshots

    Screenshot of inbound SMS with contact center agent response in 8x8 Agent Workspace. Agents are able to see incoming interactions and respond with consistently across channels like voice, SMS, RCS, webchat, email, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, one-way video, Viber, and social media channels via our Meltwater integration.Screenshot of real-time suggestions via 8x8 Smart Assist and full customer history and overall sentiment in 8x8 Agent Workspace.Screenshot of the completely customizable 8x8 Supervisor Workspace for real-time and historical reporting plus features to make quick changes on the fly. Available on desktop and mobile.Screenshot of 8x8 Analytics for Contact Center, which provides out-of-the-box reports, dashboards, and visualizations like the Interaction Journey visual that shows the complete customer journey across channels.Screenshot of 8x8 Quality Management, used to drill into specific interactions, playback, and leave comments with timestamps.Screenshot of 8x8 Voice/Text/Sentiment Analytics, used to create Topics to track common phrases and keywords within customer interactions happening in the contact center.

    Talkdesk Screenshots

    Screenshot of Talkdesk Guardian™, which is a native cloud compliance solution that enables contact centers to gain visibility and take control of their WFH and hybrid workforce.Screenshot of Talkdesk Autopilot™, which is a tool that handles common customer queries, like orders, returns and billing, and automatically responds with conversational answers. And when complex cases are detected that need human empathy and expertise, the virtual agent will redirect customers to a human agent.Screenshot of Talkdesk AI Trainer™, which equips customers with tools to observe, simulate, and put guardrails on AI, according to their needs. This way, generative AI can be used responsibly, preventing AI mishaps, and protecting the brand from potentially poor AI experiences.