8x8 Express (discontinued) vs. Amazon Chime

The 8x8 app is great and very user friendly and straightforward. Team Members can adjust their own setting as needed.

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Amazon Chime is well suited for online video and audio meetings, IMs, and conducting training sessions using a whiteboard. It can be integrated well with Google Calendar and Microsoft outlook. With Amazon Chime mobile app you can attend meetings on the go as well. Meetings can be locked so that only legitimate participants can join the meeting. Amazon Chime is less suited in case you want meeting transcripts as well for your meetings. Given that Amazon Chime is not used by a larger audience so your client or customer may face some difficulties in join the meeting or accessing some of the features of the Chime.

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• So easy to use!
• Voicemail - can be accessed anywhere, includes transcription of the voicemail and an email message with the recording
• Telephone services without all the fees of a landline service
• Auto attendant, offering recordings of our messages

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• Chat tools, video calls, on spot meeting invite[s] easy to create and use.
• Ability to record any meeting and automatically downloads the meeting recording after ending the meeting.
• UI is clean and easy to navigate around Amazon Chime.
• Ability to invite outside guests easily using Amazon Chime without any issues.

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• We are just starting to use the platform and using limited features at the moment and 8x8 is doing everything we need it to do.

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• More simplified dial-in numbers. The PIN for our conference line is long and easy to mistype.
• You do not have to download the Chime app in order to join a conference, but if you want to do anything beyond join (schedule a conference, participate in a group chat, control participants), you have to have the app downloaded and installed. The app that you have to download in order to launch a conference is a memory hog, and slows down a computer's boot up time.
• The add-in for Microsoft Outlook is particularly clunky. It helps you add scheduled conference calls/video conferences to your Outlook calendar, but it can cause Outlook to crash, and creates a really slow open time for Outlook. If you can avoid downloading the Outlook Add-In, I would.
• No built-in screen sharing capabilities.

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If you get less than 4 phones you fall into the online only customer service. There were a couple of times that I could have used more assistance but figuring it out online was a bit of a hassle.

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They were very supportive in answering all of our questions when we had problems. Their in-person calls but their support site also had a full set of information that can answer a good portion of your questions before you have to pick up the phone. But when you, you will get good service.

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8x8 has a much lower cost that avaya for the same features. 8x8 is a bit more user friendly than some other larger well established brands. It still uses industry standards in terminology and call flows to for anyone with voip experience its a pain free switch to make over.

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Better than Skype for Business in terms of loading the application onto your device. Skype had crashing issues always and those are comparatively low when using Amazon Chime. Amazon chime is fast and easy to work with while collaborating and setting up meetings. The audio and video quality are better than Skype for Business.

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• Being able to listen to phone calls when there is a discrepancy
• Keeping the honest honest by knowing we can listen to calls
• Easy to communicate internally, been very helpful and time saving

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• The positive ROI is Amazon Chime helps make our sales reps more professional in their calls leading to an increase in closed/won deals.
• Amazon Chime has increased overall morale across our sales team because it has greatly improved our call processes when compared to other tools we've used in the past.

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