8x8 Contact Center vs. Webex Contact Center

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
8x8 Contact Center
Score 8.3 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
Webex Contact Center
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Cisco Webex Contact Center is a cloud-based omni-channel (e.g. voice, email, and chat) contact center solution providing customer / agent matching, customer service self-service agent, and built-in chat and voice for collaboration between agents.N/A
Pricing
8x8 Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
8x8 Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
8x8 Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
Considered Both Products
8x8 Contact Center

No answer on this topic

Webex Contact Center
Chose Webex Contact Center
We trialed a fair few starting from anywhere, Microsoft 365 Call Center, the Genesys, 8x8 Contact Center. Some of the on-premise stuff. I think when it comes to the licensing model and just the flexibility of things, WebEx Center was a standout.
Features
8x8 Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Contact Center
8.3
148 Ratings
0% below category average
Webex Contact Center
8.1
38 Ratings
2% below category average
Agent dashboard8.4132 Ratings9.036 Ratings
Validate callers8.3117 Ratings8.434 Ratings
Outbound response8.3117 Ratings7.029 Ratings
Call forwarding8.6134 Ratings8.936 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)8.589 Ratings8.532 Ratings
Warm transfer8.4129 Ratings8.635 Ratings
Predictive dialing7.655 Ratings6.122 Ratings
Interactive voice response8.882 Ratings8.031 Ratings
REST APIs7.551 Ratings8.332 Ratings
Call scripts8.578 Ratings8.831 Ratings
Call tracking8.5130 Ratings8.534 Ratings
Multichannel integration8.276 Ratings8.333 Ratings
CRM software integration8.370 Ratings7.633 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Contact Center
8.4
137 Ratings
3% above category average
Webex Contact Center
8.1
34 Ratings
1% below category average
Inbound call routing8.9124 Ratings8.332 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing8.371 Ratings8.030 Ratings
Recording8.5122 Ratings8.932 Ratings
Quality management8.6121 Ratings8.528 Ratings
Call analytics8.0123 Ratings7.929 Ratings
Historical reporting8.1114 Ratings8.332 Ratings
Live reporting8.416 Ratings8.132 Ratings
Customer surveys8.466 Ratings7.530 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics8.811 Ratings7.226 Ratings
Best Alternatives
8x8 Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
Small Businesses
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 8.4 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 8.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 8.4 out of 10
CloudTalk
CloudTalk
Score 8.4 out of 10
Enterprises
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 9.1 out of 10
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Bright Pattern Contact Center
Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
8x8 Contact CenterWebex Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(152 ratings)
8.6
(40 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.5
(8 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(38 ratings)
8.1
(16 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(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 CenterWebex Contact Center
Likelihood to Recommend
8x8, Inc.
The functionality of 8x8 is great. The only challenges we have faced are tied to outages of the platform and preventing callers from reaching the business. As 8x8 has worked with us, they have responded extremely well to patterns we were experiencing and made the necessary adjustments to stabilize the platform, which has been fantastic—our Account Reps. We were key to this effort, and it will be in 8x8's best interest to continue hiring, training, and providing Account Reps. Who cares about the partnership as much as the client does?
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Cisco
It depends on your needs. If you only need simple call flows, consider using Cisco Webex Calling Auto-Attendant. If you require more complex call flows and time-of-day routing, you can utilize Cisco Webex Contact Center. You only have to purchase 1 Agent to use the Call Flow Designer.
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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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Cisco
  • Things that it does particularly well include a really good UX or UI so that our agents as well as our administrators, can easily provide remote access from agents, new agents, and old agents, manage interactions with customers, and have a good call experience from start to finish.
  • The uptime is a big selling point of Cisco.
  • I feel supposed by Cisco in terms of new features/functionality coming down the line.
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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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Cisco
  • Better integration with Webex Calling.
  • More on premise features integrated into the cloud solution.
  • Better documentation for pebble templates.
  • Better information for changes and when new features are available. Instead of having to look on the what’s coming webpage alerts or a pop-up inside Webex control hub would be nice.
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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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Cisco
We are happy with the product, with Cisco as a partner and the roadmap looks mightily impressive. Webex Contact Center is one of our growth areas so we're keen to get more agents on the platform, we want to get more customers on it and we want to make use of all the features and functionalities it offers, so that we can help our customers do what they do best.
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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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Cisco
It is great to use Webex Contact Center as it delivers the call routing and workflow for agent and call routing. In addition to this the noise reduction helps to focus attention on the call and with the client. The notes feature and the ability for the transcription really helps with translation and language barriers.
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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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Cisco
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Performance
8x8, Inc.
Yes everything loads quickly and its ready for use
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Cisco
No answers on this topic
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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Cisco
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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Cisco
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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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Cisco
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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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Cisco
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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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Cisco
Webex Contact Center feels the most modern of the solutions we evaluated. It is an all in one package which required no capital expenditure up front. Webex Contact Center was able to integrate with the AI packages which our IT team investigating for future use. Webex Contact Center was also able to integrate with the CRM packages which we use internally (without the use of a 3rd party connector).
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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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Cisco
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Scalability
8x8, Inc.
It was implemented across the board in the company and has worked perfectly
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Cisco
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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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Cisco
  • Increasing the number of channels agent can reach out to customers, especially text has shaved off a lot of hours from calling , leaving voicemail and waiting for customers to call back.
  • Less Downtime. No Upgrades or certificate Renewal, so fewer overtime hours.
  • Adoption of new features is now so quick, I don't have to worry about upgrading the Software or even hardware to get new features deployed.
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ScreenShots

Webex Contact Center Screenshots

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