8x8 Brings New Video Functionality to 8x8 Contact Center for Elevated Customer Engagement
- 8x8 Contact Center introduces native video functionality to enhance customer experiences and speed up issue resolution.
- Contact center agents can now use video to troubleshoot issues with customers through their mobile devices.
- The new solution allows organizations to easily add video for enhanced first contact resolution.
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Native Capabilities Now Allow Contact Center Agents to Elevate Customer Interactions Directly to Video from 8x8 Agent Workspace
“Before implementing 8x8, 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, 8x8 provides us with the opportunity to remotely fix or re-evaluate
Within specific industries, 8x8 customers have already realized tremendous opportunities for enhancing customer support through the use of video. In the
Key features and benefits of video functionality for 8x8 Contact Center include:
- Ease of Use: the 8x8 XCaaS cloud platform enables organizations to leverage 8x8's native video escalation functionality for customer engagement with no integration required.
- Unified Experience: Easily configurable and handled within the 8x8 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.
- Omnichannel Visual Engagement: Deliver service on the customer’s channel of choice to visually collaborate with customers in real time.
- Cost Savings: Previously, many complex customer issues could only be resolved in person or through multiple interactions. By enabling video elevation, when needed, organizations reduce the cost of service while providing better customer support.
- Increased Brand Loyalty and Trust: The ability to easily elevate customers to video enables agents to resolve issues more rapidly, resulting in a superior customer experience and effortless service.
“Video capabilities within the contact center offer a huge array of possibilities for customer support, especially for specific industries and use cases, minimizing the need for on-site visits, saving time, and reducing overall costs,” said Hunter Middleton, Chief Product Officer at 8x8, Inc. “By offering video functionality natively in 8x8 Contact Center, we are providing organizations with yet another tool for exceptional customer service and support. Through the use of video, organizations can more quickly and easily resolve complex customer issues in a secure and private medium, all while saving money and creating a more seamless experience for customers and agents.”
8x8 Contact Center is delivered through the 8x8 XCaaS (Experience Communications as a Service™) integrated cloud contact center and unified communications platform, which includes cloud contact center, business phone, video meetings, team chat, and SMS capabilities. 8x8 XCaaS is a resilient, secure, and compliant platform, offering the highest levels of reliability with a financially backed, platform-wide 99.999 percent uptime SLA across an integrated cloud UCaaS and CCaaS solution.
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About 8x8 Inc.
8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT) is transforming the future of business communications as a leading software as a service provider of 8x8 XCaaS™ (Experience Communications as a Service™), an integrated contact center, voice communications, video, chat, and SMS solution built on one global cloud communications platform. 8x8 uniquely eliminates the silos between unified communications as a service (UCaaS) and contact center as a service (CCaaS) to power the communications requirements of all employees globally as they work together to deliver differentiated customer experiences. For additional information, visit www.8x8.com, or follow 8x8 on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
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