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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    8x8 Work

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/A8x8 Work is a collaboration hub for phone, video, and messaging. It brings secure unified communication and collaboration experiences to every employee.

    $24

    per month

    Adobe Connect

    Score6.7 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Connect is a web conferencing platform that enables users to create presentations, online training materials, and learning modules. The product is entirely Adobe Flash-based and has several add-ons for customizing its software to suit each users’ unique needs.

    $50

    per host/per month

    Pricing
    8x8 WorkAdobe Connect
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Meetings
    $50
    per host/per month
    Webinars & Learning
    $130
    per host/per month
    Small Meetings
    Free
    Forever free for up to 3 participants
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    8x8 WorkAdobe Connect
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
    More Pricing Information
    Features
    8x8 WorkAdobe Connect
    Cloud PBX
    Comparison of Cloud PBX features of 8x8 Work and Adobe Connect
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    8.5
    486 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Adobe Connect
    -
    Ratings
    Hosted PBX8.9267 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)8.7131 Ratings00 Ratings
    Directory of employee names8.5446 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call Management
    Comparison of Call Management features of 8x8 Work and Adobe Connect
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    8.6
    539 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Adobe Connect
    -
    Ratings
    Answering rules8.7492 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call recording8.6416 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call park8.5390 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call screening8.5376 Ratings00 Ratings
    Message alerts8.7472 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile apps
    Comparison of Mobile apps features of 8x8 Work and Adobe Connect
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    9.2
    471 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Adobe Connect
    -
    Ratings
    Mobile app for iOS9.2397 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile app for Android9.1304 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
    Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of 8x8 Work and Adobe Connect
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Connect
    7.7
    66 Ratings
    3% below category average
    High quality audio00 Ratings8.065 Ratings
    High quality video00 Ratings7.065 Ratings
    Low bandwidth requirements00 Ratings6.855 Ratings
    Mobile support00 Ratings9.042 Ratings
    Screen Sharing
    Comparison of Screen Sharing features of 8x8 Work and Adobe Connect
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Connect
    7.5
    65 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Desktop sharing00 Ratings7.065 Ratings
    Whiteboards00 Ratings8.055 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of 8x8 Work and Adobe Connect
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Connect
    5.6
    66 Ratings
    37% below category average
    Calendar integration00 Ratings6.042 Ratings
    Meeting initiation00 Ratings5.057 Ratings
    Integrates with social media00 Ratings4.029 Ratings
    Record meetings / events00 Ratings6.061 Ratings
    Slideshows00 Ratings7.052 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of 8x8 Work and Adobe Connect
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Connect
    6.7
    65 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Live chat00 Ratings7.063 Ratings
    Audience polling00 Ratings7.056 Ratings
    Q&A00 Ratings6.053 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of 8x8 Work and Adobe Connect
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Connect
    8.4
    61 Ratings
    4% above category average
    User authentication00 Ratings7.953 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions00 Ratings8.061 Ratings
    Confidential attendee list00 Ratings9.348 Ratings
    VoIP system collaboration
    Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of 8x8 Work and Adobe Connect
    Feature
    8x8 Work
    -
    Ratings
    Adobe Connect
    6.5
    1 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Video conferencing00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Audio conferencing00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Video screen sharing00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Instant messaging00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    8x8 WorkAdobe Connect
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (560 ratings)
    5.5
    (94 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (40 ratings)
    10.0
    (27 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (205 ratings)
    8.5
    (38 ratings)
    Availability
    8.9
    (14 ratings)
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.5
    (14 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (152 ratings)
    7.5
    (31 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (18 ratings)
    7.9
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.3
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.2
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.2
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.4
    (14 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.5
    (13 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    8x8 WorkAdobe Connect
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8x8 Inc.
    Having the capability to copy and paste in phone numbers that I am trying to call directly into the 8x8 Work user interface is a massive time saver for me so that I don't have to type in each phone number like we had to do before 8x8 Work. When you are in sales and productivity and time is important that can really add up.
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    Adobe
    Adobe Connect is wonderful for repeatable branded learning experiences or webinars. They allow for creating an event with a series of similar layouts. The ability to alter these are easy, and duplicating layouts makes for fast alterations. Changing between layouts also creates visual interest as learners see things shift. Adobe Connect also is great for accessibility, the captions allow for resizing and placing the captions in various sections. The recordings also can have a searchable transcript to get to the information you want fast. Adobe Connect allows for running fun games/events as well, there are lots of apps that make the experience unique, and allows for managing content on screen as you'd like.
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    Pros
    8x8 Inc.
    • 8x8 Work manages roles and permissions well. It is very simple to create permission groups needed for certain roles that may even overlap teams needs.
    • User management is fairly simple and straight forward.
    • Analytics reporting is good quality for the higher tier licenses
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    Adobe
    • It's a quick method to exchange files, file, documents, and videos from a web app. Real-time conversation, and screen-sharing are all supported. It has a highly user-friendly interface. It is really simple to assist the teams.
    • Even team engagements is beneficial since it allows them to share their expertise with others, and the big benefit is the security of the rooms' access is fairly simple to manage.
    • The interface, which include features like notes, chat, pods, etc. When we're trying to gather rapid and exact information, simplify our work as much as possible.
    • Adobe Connect's features since they allow team members to express their ideas during meetings without causing disruptions, thereby bypassing the current international boundary of distance.
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    Cons
    8x8 Inc.
    • Customer support do not respond properly if you are facing any compliance issue.
    • If any person in the organisation misbehaves with a customer and the customer raises a complaint to the concerned team, they suspend the organisation's entire
    • account without any warning.
    • Rarely we face voice disturbance.
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    Adobe
    • Nonetheless, Adobe Connect lacks the engagement monitoring, which can be critical for the management to oversee.
    • Besides, Adobe Connect has no certification management, which is essential in the current education or training field.
    • Lastly, Adobe Connect has no offline editing tool, hence, when the internet connection is not there, many things can not be conducted effectively.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    8x8 Inc.
    All our employees love this product. No one has ever had an issue, whether it be the phone or fax. Great during the winter when employees have to work from home because of the snow. Never had an issue with the phone app. Highly recommend this product
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    Adobe
    The longer you use Adobe Connect, the longer you are likely to use it. Because you can build more and more resources over time, creating rooms that you re-use, recorded content you can repurpose, and tools that form the basis of ever increasing productivity, the more you use Connect, the more productive you become. Unlike competing products where, with every meeting you essentially start over -- setting up your resources for each meeting -- in my Connect rooms, I have highly tuned tools to accomplish my knowledge transfer goals. When I want to conduct another session - I send a link out to the appropriate room and instantly we are all focusing on getting a job done together. This ability of Adobe Connect to make you productive at an ever quickening rate is a competitive advantage
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    Usability
    8x8 Inc.
    As long as the general system for your organization is up, it is a completely fine system, no issues; however, if there are any glitches, those are rarely solvable in-house. It's a completely fine system with just enough features to keep everyone happy, but not WOW anyone
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    Adobe
    I gave it a 6 because it does have lots of functionality, has a strong brand and reputation following, etc. but it does have its glitches and experiences with low bandwidth issues. I believe it has more features than my organization fully leverages, so some of those pieces haven't been explored yet. But there are opportunities for improvement in their online resource support, stability at high usages as well.
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    Reliability and Availability
    8x8 Inc.
    The 8x8 product is absolutely the best when it comes to this! I have had zero application errors or unplanned outages allowing me the opportunity to provide a constant source of reliable customer service to my members. I know this is something I can count on. Unlike the internet, it is subject to go down without warning
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    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    8x8 Inc.
    No problems with performance, Pages load as they should. I can't answer on the reports side as only a handful of our Admins ( call center ) currently use that side of the software. It does intergrate very well with Office for meetings and conferences. Sometimes there is a slight lag or static when users are talking, but we found this to be a cause of a users computer had not restarted in a while, Once the user restarts thier computer the problem is resolved, So this is not an issue with 8x8
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    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    8x8 Inc.
    We are a USA based organization. Support was refreshingly quick (callback via phone or email, online live agents). Agents are knowledgeable, thorough in their explanations, and extremely patient when dealing with end-users at various levels of the ICT knowledge spectrum.
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    Adobe
    The customer support of Adobe connect is professional and well-skilled for resolving our minor and major issues. Moreover, it has almost all the features that will provide you a secure connection, with people across the world. Education institutes can also implement this software. On the basis of its quality and technology, I will surely advise you to try it once.
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    In-Person Training
    8x8 Inc.
    The representative that arrived was very prompt and knowledgeable about the product and able to provide understandable instruction for how everything worked and what to be expected by us when using the product. They did not make me feel rushed or like they were ready to get the training over with
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    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    8x8 Inc.
    online (video) training is good. No issues.
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    Adobe
    The ability to have most of the functionality of a full LMS at a fraction of the cost is huge. I can create manage and deploy both synchronous and asynchronous training based on the situation and all of my training is tracked through a series of easily created reports
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    Implementation Rating
    8x8 Inc.
    The implementation of 8x8 X was rather smooth. We had training prior to getting the system. The IT company did a good job on the training. The whole system is wonderful. Saves me so much time with the faxing, as i can just let it go by itself and not have to make sure pages don't get skipped, as with a regular fax machine.
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    Adobe
    Prices do not seem to vary much among resellers of the Adobe Connect hosted license; the only price variation you're likely to find are among the audio providers. When implementing, you may also wish to look into expanding the amount of storage you are allowed on the server to avoid any problems later on as your library of files starts to build up
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    Alternatives Considered
    8x8 Inc.
    The customer support is not good on Zoom. They do not know about their product. When we ask something about a Zoom feature, customer support takes time and denied for that feature but those features available in Zoom and we have to find out those features by Google and logs. 8x8 Work is the best in the market.
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    Adobe
    Actually, it was the other way around....we were using Adobe Connect, company-wide, then switched over to Zoom, mostly, I think, as a cost-cutting measure. But some Learning & Development folks campaigned to be allowed to retain some Adobe Connect licenses (for example, one L&D area had literally over 250 room layouts that their course facilitators could just jump into and use to deliver a course on short notice), which also allows some of us to continue to publish Presenter and Captivate modules to the Adobe server. (But, even those of us who still have Adobe Connect licenses use Zoom for most regular business meetings.)
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8x8 Inc.
    At this time, we’re very happy with the pricing model that we have worked out and they have provided for us. Just be sure to do your homework, and use your comparisons to work out your cost with 8x8. They will be very straightforward with you on what they can
    adjust for you.
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    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    8x8 Inc.
    The only issue was adding licences was not via a button click but through your account admin which seems bad practice in a SaaS world as the user should be able to sign up, amend and close their account with ease
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    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    8x8 Inc.
    PS had all the users etc. set up by our go-live date. All hard phones were activated and when we received them, all we had to do was set them up and punch in the activation code to activate them.
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    Adobe
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    8x8 Inc.
    • Efficiency to be on the road and still have our calls well-managed.
    • Whether on the road or in the office, the incoming caller always assumes we are at our desks and in touch.
    • The ability to change our outgoing messages to suit immediate needs is simple.
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    Adobe
    • Save on time - our instructors and people that use the platform can teach more classes and more often than in-person training and time traveling.
    • We cut down on spending. When we offer training using Connect - we do not have to spend on meals, hard copy materials, and reserving a venue to deliver training.
    • We increase our training sales significantly but offering Connect as an alternative - any unforeseen cancellations to a public class can result in transferring to a remote online Connected class.
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