8x8 Work vs. Five9

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
8x8 Work
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
8x8 Work is a collaboration hub for phone, video, and messaging. It brings secure unified communication and collaboration experiences to every employee.
$24
per month
Five9
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Five9 is cloud contact center software for inbound, outbound, blended, or multi-channel operations. This solution includes management capabilities such as campaign management, quality monitoring, real-time and historical reporting, and call recording.
$119
per month
Pricing
8x8 WorkFive9
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Core
$119
per month
Digital
$119
per month
Premium
Contact sales team
Contact sales team
Optimum
Contact sales team
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Ultimate
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
8x8 WorkFive9
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsFive9 offers pricing options to suit your business needs: Monthly On-Demand —Companies looking to quickly scale their operations with minimum costs Per-Minute Fees — Products such as voice message broadcasting or IVR with Speech recognition Annual Contracts — Reduced fee compared to monthly on-demand pricing
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Community Pulse
8x8 WorkFive9
Considered Both Products
8x8 Work
Chose 8x8 Work
Fax, landline, mobile option are the best features that provided by 8x8. Toll free number & DID Number inventory for customer, time to time training session for administrator free of cost. Call distribution ACD works great, auto attended functionalities, call forwarding from …
Chose 8x8 Work
Only 8x8 offers a desktop phone solution, call center solution and equipment. Having one provider makes things much easier for all and allows for one call if there is an issue.
Five9

No answer on this topic

Features
8x8 WorkFive9
Cloud PBX
Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Work
8.5
471 Ratings
2% above category average
Five9
-
Ratings
Hosted PBX8.9255 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)8.7119 Ratings00 Ratings
Directory of employee names8.5430 Ratings00 Ratings
Call Management
Comparison of Call Management features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Work
8.6
525 Ratings
1% above category average
Five9
-
Ratings
Answering rules8.7476 Ratings00 Ratings
Call recording8.6406 Ratings00 Ratings
Call park8.5376 Ratings00 Ratings
Call screening8.5364 Ratings00 Ratings
Message alerts8.6458 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile apps
Comparison of Mobile apps features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Work
9.0
460 Ratings
5% above category average
Five9
-
Ratings
Mobile app for iOS9.1386 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile app for Android8.8297 Ratings00 Ratings
Contact Center Software
Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Work
-
Ratings
Five9
8.0
20 Ratings
5% below category average
Agent dashboard00 Ratings7.019 Ratings
Validate callers00 Ratings8.217 Ratings
Outbound response00 Ratings7.717 Ratings
Call forwarding00 Ratings7.715 Ratings
Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings8.515 Ratings
Warm transfer00 Ratings8.018 Ratings
Predictive dialing00 Ratings8.515 Ratings
Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
REST APIs00 Ratings8.614 Ratings
Call scripts00 Ratings7.615 Ratings
Call tracking00 Ratings8.819 Ratings
Multichannel integration00 Ratings7.518 Ratings
CRM software integration00 Ratings7.818 Ratings
Workforce Optimization (WFO)
Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Work
-
Ratings
Five9
8.2
28 Ratings
1% below category average
Inbound call routing00 Ratings9.117 Ratings
Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings8.415 Ratings
Recording00 Ratings9.018 Ratings
Quality management00 Ratings8.127 Ratings
Call analytics00 Ratings7.517 Ratings
Historical reporting00 Ratings7.919 Ratings
Live reporting00 Ratings8.018 Ratings
Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings7.515 Ratings
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User Ratings
8x8 WorkFive9
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(529 ratings)
8.4
(43 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.8
(38 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(175 ratings)
7.8
(8 ratings)
Availability
8.8
(13 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
8.2
(13 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(147 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(4 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(17 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
7.9
(11 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.2
(10 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.2
(8 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
(13 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
8.7
(7 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.8
(10 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.8
(10 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
8x8 WorkFive9
Likelihood to Recommend
8x8 Inc.
As per my 8x8 work experience, I will give an 8 rating out of 10. Because 8x8 work is doing very nice in the communication field. 8x8 works to provide seamless, high-quality voice connections with our customers. It has a simple, easy-to-use user interface. I can use 8x8 from my phone, desktop, laptop, and desk phone, which is great.
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Five9
We use Five9 as a tool to make and receive calls from various departments such as Customer Service, Underwriting, Claims, and others. It's a tool that has helped us complete various tasks to contact our customers. It has also allowed us to replace Zoom Phone, as it makes it easier to assign new contact numbers to agents, while Zoom Phone only allows reusing numbers. It's a good tool with an easy-to-use interface for new users.
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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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Five9
  • Inbound and outbound calls it process is so well.
  • The service is so good and they give very efficient support in customer need.
  • The calls we can do in Five9 include incoming, outgoing, voicemails and we can also send a note to a specific person. It's a very reliable mode of communication.
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Cons
8x8 Inc.
  • Click to dial for the web based client.
  • The ability to have specific contact lists that can be shared with certain teams only.
  • Group voicemail notification to show once a voicemail has been listened to by another member of the team.
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Five9
  • Text. Texting is incredibly difficult on Five9. We've had issues with only some texts logging to Salesforce, issues with threading of text conversations, and issues with having Salesforce contact information appear on the text widget (knowing who you are texting, not just their phone number).
  • The interface to "pause" is challenging. There are not good reminders to our reps to remember to pause or log out of Five9. If you forget to log out, this can affect stats about who worked the longest hours that day - and it's hard to know who actually was active on the phones.
  • Inbound voicemails are too-easily hidden. It's challenging for a lot of our reps to remember to check their inbound voicemails because it is hard to access them in the Five9 widget.
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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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Five9
Robust product, great reliability and support.
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Usability
8x8 Inc.
8x8 Work is very good software for making communication easier. 8x8 Work is user friendly in use. 8x8 Work has excellent uptime. It provides HD voice quality even on mobile phone as well. 8x8 Work has excellent customer support. 8x8 customer support is knowledgeable they always resolve issues with 8x8 deep knowledge.
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Five9
overall usability is very great. User friendly interface for agents within the Salesforce with the engage button. Easy to go offline and online. Very good Integrations with Salesforce helps lot of clients that implemented Salesforce. As it is cloud based, agents can access it from anywhere. While the agent experience is goof, as a technical person it is hard to manage with the Five9 VCC and also the reporting User Interface is bad and slow when there are large amount of records.
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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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Five9
We have had minimal downtime due to system outages since it was implemented.
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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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Five9
The system's performance is great. Page loads quickly. Reports are generated quickly and sent to our email or FTP. The integration did not impact the performance of our other applications. We have not seen any drop in the performance of either applications since we performed the integration.
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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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Five9
Five9's Customer Support team is also based in Manila Philippines, thus turnaround email response times for our reported issues are great for our requirements. Their CS agents also facilitate mobile calls to followup on outstanding issues and operate on a 24/7 schedule. We've also had experience working with the senior tech agents to investigate recurring issues to completion.
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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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Five9
No answers on this topic
Online Training
8x8 Inc.
online (video) training is good. No issues.
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Five9
I took the certification course for administrator and also received some tips while working with the developer during implementation. The UI was very intuitive, so I was able to figure out how things worked when I configured the users, skills, campaigns, IVR scripts. I worked with the Five9 AI team to beta test Agent Assist.
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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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Five9
The implementation team that was assigned to us was great. The project manager was very helpful and managed the timeline very efficiently. The developer was very helpful and provided insights while helping us configure the system.
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Alternatives Considered
8x8 Inc.
I prefer 8x8 Work; it has the right number of features and modes for the communication I need. I much prefer 8x8 Work meetings to zoom meetings, as it is much, much easier to transition between devices when I am on the road. 8x8 Work is also easier to manage across multiple modes of communication.
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Five9
Initially selected Five9 but have since switched to RingCentral which has given us what we needed. Better CRM integration, simpler and in my opinion more robust reporting capabilities and the same omnichannel solution at a fraction of the cost
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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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Five9
We do annual renewals and it's concurrent licensing which is great.
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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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Five9
It was very easy to add additional licenses. Once we placed the order, it was activated the following day. Since it's web-based, it's very quick to deploy across multiple sites.
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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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Five9
Five9 Professional Services team is very knowledgeable and efficient. I worked with them during implementation and during beta testing for Five9 Agent Assist and Ai Insights.
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Return on Investment
8x8 Inc.
  • Getting access to emergency voicemails left on our office lines when we are at home, on the weekend, or after hours.
  • Texting clients from a dedicated office line portal, keep things private and organized.
  • The ease of installation and helpful support when needed significantly limit the time wasted.
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Five9
  • Cost savings: Five9 replaced a premise-based outbound dialer and a different virtual call center solution for inbound.
  • Cost savings: Five9's voice over IP is less expensive than the land lines we were using.
  • Cost savings: Five9 requires significantly less management than our previous solutions.
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