8×8, Inc, a leading integrated cloud contact center and unified communications platform provider, announced the latest 8×8 XCaaS integrated cloud contact center and unified communications platform innovations for enhanced customer and employee experiences, including AI-powered voice conversational self-service and the ability to elevate contact center interactions to video, further integrations with Microsoft Teams, and 8×8 video meeting enhancements.
New generally available updates for 8×8 Contact Center include:
- AI-powered Voice Self-Service Enhances Customer Experiences: Recently announced, voice self-service is now available for 8×8’s conversational AI solution, 8×8 Intelligent Customer Assistant. The addition of voice expands 8×8 Intelligent Customer Assistant’s powerful, user-friendly AI self-service capabilities that enable businesses to create simple to complex experiences across digital and voice channels that help minimize wait times, and provide instant access to highly personalized, natural interactions.
- 8×8 Agent Workspace Enhancements & Video Elevated Customer Support: Contact center agents can now elevate customer interactions to video directly within 8×8 Agent Workspace, allowing customers to visually help agents troubleshoot issues through their mobile devices. The new solution embeds 8×8 secure video interaction capabilities directly into 8×8 Contact Center, allowing organizations to easily and seamlessly add video for enhanced first contact resolution. Further, call handling is now directly within 8×8 Agent Workspace, without the need for an external hard phone or softphone.
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- Customizable Solutions for Customers: The 8×8 Technology Partner Ecosystem provides a carefully curated network of Independent Software Vendors, Value Added Resellers, and Systems Integrators that can solve specific customer experience use cases. Technology partners provide integrations that feel native in 8×8 to enhance customer experiences through cutting-edge technologies with AI and persistent data.
- Deeper Salesforce Integration: Customers using 8×8 Contact Center and Salesforce are now able to set up, configure, route, initiate (SMS Only), and reply to SMS and WhatsApp messages within the 8×8 Integration for Salesforce.
- 8×8 Webchat Quick Replies: Using 8×8 scripting functions, admins can build out questions and quick replies to interact with customers; all of which can then be routed back to an agent providing the necessary context to begin the live conversation. This is useful for customers that don’t need an AI-powered chatbot, but still want to give customers menu options to route them to the right agent.
Enhancements for 8×8 Unified Communications include:
- Deeper Native Integrations with Microsoft Teams: Recently announced, 8×8 Phone App for Microsoft Teams is a cost-effective and native Teams-first experience enabling PSTN calling without requiring per user Teams Phone licenses, installing desktop plugins, or running additional software outside of Teams. Built on 8×8’s direct routing service, it unlocks native calling functionality within Teams that is intuitive for users across devices, simple for IT to manage and deploy, and flexible for organizations to optimize licensing costs for business needs.
- 8×8 Video Enhancements: New beta program for up to 10,000 meeting participants, providing an optimized interface and customization options to support large audience events such as company-wide town halls, or for specific use cases such as auctions and other large audience events.
SOURCE: Businesswire