8x8 Work vs. Microsoft Teams

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
Microsoft Teams
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Teams combines video conferencing software with team collaboration tools. The communications platform allows MS Office users to conduct conference calls and share files via SharePoint, and join or initiate a group chat.
$4.80
per month per user
Pricing
8x8 WorkMicrosoft Teams
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Microsoft Teams Essentials
$4.80
per month per user
Microsoft Teams Enterprise
$5.25
per month (paid yearly) per user
Microsoft Teams Enterprise
$5.25
per month per user
Microsoft 365 Business Basic
$7.20
per month per user
Microsoft 365 Business Standard
$15
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
8x8 WorkMicrosoft Teams
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscounts are available for non profit organizations.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
8x8 WorkMicrosoft Teams
Considered Both Products
8x8 Work
Chose 8x8 Work
With Microsoft Teams, It doesn't allow you to have license region as India and to have US numbers. It requires both to have same region. which is not suitable for us. With CallTrackingMetrics, we found it to be more suitable for digital marketing and tracking those calls. Not …
Chose 8x8 Work
3CX has a very poor admin portal and its difficult to use. The support you get from them is minimal and they rely on existing users to fix their issues using a forum, their nkowledge base compared to 8x8 is very poor and so is their support
Microsoft Teams simply does not have …
Chose 8x8 Work
Our company chose 8x8 Work because it offers a reliable, all-in-one communication platform with voice, video, and messaging in one place. Unlike other tools like Microsoft Teams, RingCentral, or Zoom, this program has provided a better global fill for supporting both remote …
Chose 8x8 Work
Before using 8x8 Work we evaluated other communication such as zoom and Microsoft Teams, and Rin central. While all of these tools offer video and messaging features, we found 8x8 Work to be more reliable for voice calls and easier for our team to manage. The interface is …
Chose 8x8 Work
8x8 staff was much more responsive than Ring Central, however Ring Central did not ask for a minimum period of engagement. As both products are quite similar, in retrospect, I would have chosen RingCentral. The delay at the beginning of each call is also slightly better on …
Chose 8x8 Work
From when I've been with the company, 8x8 has always been what we've used. My experience outside of here has been with other systems however that was long enough ago that I do not remember the name or their significance was not memorable.
Chose 8x8 Work
Fuze was good from few perspective, espectiall the click and dial option anywhere on the browser page where a number was situated.
8x8 Work says that has that but does not feel the same. also on adding notes in the CRM Fuze had a better usebilty
Chose 8x8 Work
8x8 Work offers all we need in an easy-to-use format. Zoom seemed to have too many features that are not required and can be overwhelming to Users who are not the most Tech-Savvy. The price point of 8x8 is great, too. Get everything we need at a low cost.
Chose 8x8 Work
I am not aware of any other phone system we have used. We do use teams for administrative meetings and communication. While the meeting quality in teams is better than the meeting quality in 8x8, I still prefer 8x8 overall for day to day communications and use. I prefer 8x8 …
Chose 8x8 Work
it's very similar but has better phone quality
Chose 8x8 Work
8x8 Work was clearly focused in on not just the quality of the end-user experience- but the quality of a non-IT end user experience. Some of the "Open source" options were clearly designed by IT engineers for IT engineers. Some organizations may very well welcome a level of …
Chose 8x8 Work
8x8 Work is better in some aspects, such as admin interface where everything can be accessed from one interface. Overall the perceived call quality seems to be better on 8x8 Work than it was on Fuze with less user complaints. Fuze did have better and easier to use analytics and …
Chose 8x8 Work
8x8 is miles ahead of EvolveIP. More features, way better admin portal. Softphone is not even in the same league.
Chose 8x8 Work
I did a demo of Zoom Phone and it was much more complicated than 8x8 Work to setup, configure and maintain. 8x8 Work has many more features that come standard with the product. It looked to me like there were many more steps when creating a new user and assigning them a phone …
Chose 8x8 Work
In our system selection process we were able to narrow down our selection to three primary options, dial pad, Mitel and 8x8. After the due diligence and criteria review we did trials of each of these potential solutions. From that we determined that the 8x8 offering was what …
Chose 8x8 Work
I have not used or evaluated any other products like 8x8.
Chose 8x8 Work
The products are basically the same - cloud based, remote provisioning, VOIP based. 8x8 is a superior product in terms of scaling, however the downside in this particular comparison that due to the global nature of 8x8, issues of deployment are not as easy to resolve and time …
Chose 8x8 Work
8x8 X Series is easier to manage, implement, and is currently supported.
Microsoft Teams

No answer on this topic

Features
8x8 WorkMicrosoft Teams
Cloud PBX
Comparison of Cloud PBX features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Work
8.5
463 Ratings
2% above category average
Microsoft Teams
-
Ratings
Hosted PBX8.9251 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)8.7115 Ratings00 Ratings
Directory of employee names8.5422 Ratings00 Ratings
Call Management
Comparison of Call Management features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Work
8.6
515 Ratings
2% above category average
Microsoft Teams
-
Ratings
Answering rules8.7467 Ratings00 Ratings
Call recording8.7399 Ratings00 Ratings
Call park8.6369 Ratings00 Ratings
Call screening8.5355 Ratings00 Ratings
Message alerts8.6449 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile apps
Comparison of Mobile apps features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Work
9.0
451 Ratings
6% above category average
Microsoft Teams
-
Ratings
Mobile app for iOS9.1379 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile app for Android8.8292 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Work
-
Ratings
Microsoft Teams
7.6
228 Ratings
2% below category average
Task Management00 Ratings7.6168 Ratings
Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.086 Ratings
Scheduling00 Ratings7.7195 Ratings
Workflow Automation00 Ratings7.8115 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings8.0217 Ratings
Search00 Ratings6.9199 Ratings
Visual planning tools00 Ratings8.1132 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Work
-
Ratings
Microsoft Teams
7.8
237 Ratings
2% below category average
Chat00 Ratings8.9236 Ratings
Notifications00 Ratings8.1235 Ratings
Discussions00 Ratings8.4222 Ratings
Surveys00 Ratings7.8133 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings8.4146 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings6.547 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings5.743 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings9.1155 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
8x8 Work
-
Ratings
Microsoft Teams
8.0
222 Ratings
0% below category average
Versioning00 Ratings8.3156 Ratings
Video files00 Ratings8.0189 Ratings
Audio files00 Ratings8.5188 Ratings
Document collaboration00 Ratings8.7202 Ratings
Access control00 Ratings8.4184 Ratings
Advanced security features00 Ratings8.1144 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings5.353 Ratings
Device sync00 Ratings8.3159 Ratings
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User Ratings
8x8 WorkMicrosoft Teams
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(531 ratings)
8.3
(281 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.8
(38 ratings)
3.7
(9 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(175 ratings)
8.7
(67 ratings)
Availability
8.8
(13 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
8.3
(13 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(147 ratings)
8.3
(113 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(17 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
7.9
(11 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.3
(10 ratings)
6.3
(7 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.2
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.3
(13 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
8.7
(7 ratings)
7.0
(7 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.8
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.8
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
8x8 WorkMicrosoft Teams
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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Microsoft
It is well-suited for an organization with many team members who are scattered throughout different locations. It offers organization and clarity to projects, files, and tasks in one centralized location. It would be a bit of an overkill for a small organization where everyone is in the same location 5 days a week
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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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Microsoft
  • Makes communication and collaboration easier through Chat.
  • Lets us personalize and humanize face-to-face interactions through Meetings.
  • Helps me effectively plan out my day through Calendar.
  • Enables us to safely store and access our information through OneDrive.
  • Simplifies calls and voice 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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Microsoft
  • the calendar function can improve it's not 100% feature parody with outlook.
  • Better search for documents and contact with AI
  • offer the same security for document sharing as is available in outlook. Especially concerning PII and documents shared to "external" contacts.
  • Contact is hidden away in "Calls" and needs to be better exposed like it use too.
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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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Microsoft
Microsoft Teams is included with our Office 365 subscription and we have no intention of migrating off of Office 365 and Microsoft products. Since Microsoft Teams is included for free with our Office 365 subscription, and since we enjoy all the features, benefits, and functionality, there is no question that our team will continue to use the product
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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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Microsoft
If you have the full Microsoft Office suite, it works really well because it's integrated well within its ecosystem, but if not, it can be annoying because it tries to open a shared file in the web versions of the file equivalents. The web version is also a bit slow, and the login is very difficult to handle if you have multiple Microsoft or Outlook accounts.
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Reliability and Availability
8x8 Inc.
As mentioned before, we have not had an outage with the phone system per say, There was an issue with the call center where we did have an outage, but it was quickly and promplty handled by 8x8 support, they got us up and going again within 24 hours. The 8x8 hard phone and softphone side of things have been rock solid, I couldn't ask for anything more seeing we are in health care and it's exactly what we were looking for. When and if there is an issue 99% of the time it's user error
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Microsoft
Rare, but outages do happen
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Performance
8x8 Inc.
None of the features that are available slow down the application. The reports (even the ones with hundreds of records) complete very quickly and the web interface as well as the mobile application never struggle to load or complete a task. The analytics will sometimes take some time to reflect the online status of users but it is to be expected due to connection speeds.
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Microsoft
Sometimes about once a week I get a message that says "Sorry, there seems to be something wrong". But it goes away in a few minutes.
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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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Microsoft
The overall support provided by Microsoft for Microsoft Teams has been quite good but there is still some room for improvements. Microsoft needs to proactively work on fixing the open bugs in order to provide a seamless experience to the users. But over the service and experience provided by the Microsoft team have been quite satisfactory.
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In-Person Training
8x8 Inc.
The person giving the training was very engaged, He also listened and answered all the questions. He created a video for our company while he was training in case we needed to reference it again in the future. The questions he could not answer were answered within 24 hours via an email to the IT support staff here so we could share the answers with the rest of the group
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Microsoft
No answers on this topic
Online Training
8x8 Inc.
online (video) training is good. No issues.
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Microsoft
No answers on this topic
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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Microsoft
I find everything I need for my day-to-day work.
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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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Microsoft
Microsoft Teams offers a much more integrated experience between their chat and video call function compared to Google Chat and Slack. Both other tools are much better for internal communications are they have simpler UI without other features. Whereas Microsoft Teams can be used for more critical conversations, particularly between external companies, and has been very useful in sales conversations which is what we chose it for when speaking to companies that work exclusively through Microsoft.
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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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Microsoft
Honestly, this tool is worth every penny. Yes, it's not free and you pay for the quality of services and the license. But the ROI and the benefits are all there. Also, the renewal, negotiation, and contract terms are all very well explained by our Microsoft account manager, and she's a charm.
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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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Microsoft
It does not appear to have a limit to how many teams and employees we can have using it
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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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Microsoft
I used Skype for Business to take calls, hold conferences, and provide remote assistance to users. Microsoft Teams, on the other hand, is superior to Skype for Business in my opinion. My job entails a lot of screen sharing.
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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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Microsoft
  • Because our unit decided to go all in with Microsoft Products, the integration and flow of our communication and files are seamless.
  • Microsoft Teams is very secure. Only those who are logged in with their university credentials can access the files we share and the events we host. Therefore, we don't have to worry about privacy and security for the virtual events we host.
  • If our virtual events are open to the public, joiners outside the organization often struggle to join because Microsoft Teams is not the most familiar tool amongst the public.
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