8x8 also earns EY Entrepreneur of the Year finalist nomination and
two bronze Stevie Awards for Virtual Office Mobile and Virtual Office
Meetings
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT), the world's first Communications Cloud,
announced today it has been named a leader in the
2017 IHS Markit's UC
as a Service (UCaaS) North American Leadership Scorecard for the
fourth consecutive year. 8x8 achieved this recognition due to its solid
financial position, continued strong growth of its customer base,
expansion in service offerings, and commitment to staying the course for
growing its mid-market and large enterprise business.
"As a leader for the fourth straight year, 8x8 has consistently been at
the top of our UC as a Service (UCaaS) Leadership Scorecard for North
America. One area where 8x8 stood out is the significant upgrades it has
made to its service and support options, including dedicated customer
support managers for global enterprise customers," said Diane Myers,
Senior Director at IHS Markit. "This enhanced capability is helping 8x8
meet the communications and collaboration needs of the mid-market and
enterprise market."
The IHS Markit UCaaS Leadership Scorecard profiles, analyzes, and ranks
the leading unified communication (UC) service providers in North
America to determine which service providers currently lead the market
for UC as a Service. Additionally, it determines which service providers
are best positioned to succeed in the long-term, based on a set of
criteria including installed base of users, financial stability, market
strategy, service capabilities and support options.
"It is a great honor to be ranked as a leader in the IHS Markit UCaaS
Leadership Scorecard for four years in a row. This recognition reflects
8x8's ongoing commitment to delivering the best global,
enterprise-grade, open communications cloud platform to enable our
customers to solve real-world communications and collaboration
challenges," said Matt McGinnis, Vice President of Product Marketing at
8x8. "This latest achievement, along with other recent industry
recognitions, demonstrates that 8x8 continues to be at the forefront of
innovation as the world's first Communications Cloud."
The IHS Markit UCaaS Leadership Scorecard highlighted a number of key
8x8 efforts including:
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Services that go beyond standard voice with collaboration and
messaging capabilities
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Integrated mobile clients offering customers flexibility where and how
they communicate
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Acquisition of Sameroom
for team to team messaging interoperability
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International expansion to better serve large, multinational companies
Continuing Industry Recognition for 8x8
In addition to being
recognized as a leader in the IHS Markit UCaaS Scorecard, 8x8 received two
bronze Stevie Awards. 8x8 was awarded for 8x8
Virtual Office Mobile in the Integrated Mobile Experience category,
as well as its 8x8
Virtual Office Meetings in the New Product or Service of the Year -
Software - Cloud Platform category. These awards, alongside being named
the IHS Markit UCaaS Scorecard leader, are a testament to the company's
innovative, high quality suite of services integrated within the 8x8
Communication Cloud platform.
Finally, Vik Verma, CEO of 8x8 and Bryan Martin, Chairman and CTO of
8x8, have been named co-finalists in the EY
Entrepreneur Of The Year Award in Northern California. The awards
program, celebrating its 31st year, recognizes entrepreneurs excelling
in innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their
businesses and communities. The winner will be announced on June 23rd at
the special awards gala event in San Jose.
Download the Report
Download a complimentary copy of the IHS
Markit 2017 UC as a Service (UCaaS) Scorecard: North America.
About 8x8, Inc.
8x8, Inc.
(NASDAQ:EGHT) is the world's first Communications Cloud that combines
unified communications, team collaboration, contact center, and
analytics in a single, open and real-time platform. 8x8 eliminates
information silos to expose vital, real-time intelligence across all
clouds, applications and devices to improve individual and team
productivity, business performance and customer experience. For
additional information, visit www.8x8.com,
or connect with 8x8 on LinkedIn,
Twitter, Google+
and Facebook.
*Results based on IHS Markit, Technology Group, UC as a Service (UCaaS)
Scorecard: North America, 4 May 2017. Results are not an endorsement of
8x8, Inc. Any reliance on these results is at the third party's own
risk. Visit technology.ihs.com for more details.
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