8×8 Brings New Video Functionality to 8×8 Contact Center for Elevated Customer Engagement

8×8, Inc., a leading integrated cloud contact center and unified communications platform provider,  announced the upcoming availability of native video functionality for 8×8 Contact Center to enhance speed to resolution and overall customer experiences. 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.

“Before implementing 8×8, often customer interactions resulted in us sending a technician to the site to assess and resolve a housing repair or issue. This was time-consuming and costly, especially if the customer issue didn’t require the need for onsite support or the technician lacked the correct parts or equipment to fix the problem during the first visit,” said Mohammed Zabir, Director of Technology and Delivery at Platform Housing Group. “By enabling our contact center agents to elevate customer interactions to video support, 8×8 provides us with the opportunity to remotely fix or re-evaluate 31% of issues quickly for a better, more seamless customer experience. To further complement our contact center agents, we also enable this solution across our front line heating engineers allowing them to further diagnose faults remotely with the customers. Remote support has saved both time and money on both sides, and we consider that a huge win!”

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Within specific industries, 8×8 customers have already realized tremendous opportunities for enhancing customer support through the use of video. In the UK Public Sector, housing association agents are now offering tenants video sessions to view on site-issues and resolve or assess routine maintenance service requests, while insurance claims adjusters are able to offer video sessions so that customers can show damaged property as part of the claims process without having to wait for an adjuster to come onsite. In addition, retail contact center agents are offering customers video sessions to help them assemble items they’ve purchased, such as bicycles, appliances, or furniture.

Key features and benefits of video functionality for 8×8 Contact Center include:

• Ease of Use: the 8×8 XCaaS cloud platform enables organizations to leverage 8×8’s native video escalation functionality for customer engagement with no integration required.
• Unified Experience: Easily configurable and handled within the 8×8 Agent Workspace solution, allowing contact center agents to seamlessly transition an interaction to video within a single, seamless flow of work.
• Mobile Experience: Customers can solve their issues faster and easier from any location using a mobile device, by clicking on an SMS to access video without having to download and install additional software.
• Improved and Effective Support: Video interactions allow agents to address complex issues more effectively, resulting in improved first contact resolution and higher customer satisfaction.

SOURCE: Businesswire