Recognition for 8x8 X Series underscores its impact on enabling
businesses to communicate faster and smarter
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
8x8, Inc. (NYSE:EGHT), a leading cloud
provider of voice, video, collaboration and contact center solutions for
over one million users worldwide, today announced it has received a
TechTarget Network Innovation award for 8x8
X Series, 8x8’s one cloud solution for business communications and
contact center that allows companies to operate at the new speed of
business.
TechTarget’s Network Innovation Award program highlights companies that
are making significant advances and network innovation in areas such as
unified communications, network management, data center networking, and
software defined networking. TechTarget recognized 8x8 in its Unified
Communications category for combining unified communications and contact
center technologies into a single cloud-based platform.
“We launched 8x8 X Series less than a year ago to help businesses
streamline employee collaboration and deliver superior customer
experiences. Since then, the feedback and recognition we’ve received
about X Series clearly demonstrates that our solution is helping
businesses transform the way they communicate,” said Hunter Middleton,
Global VP of Product Management and Operations at 8x8. “Our team is
constantly striving to deliver best-in-class solutions for business
communications, and we will continue to focus on enhancing X Series’
capabilities in 2019 and beyond.”
8x8 X Series helps businesses
transform their customer and employee experience with one system of
engagement across voice, video, collaboration and contact center, and
one system of intelligence on a single cloud-based technology platform.
In addition to this award, 8x8 recently won Frost & Sullivan’s 2018
North American Integrated CCaaS and UCaaS Competitive Strategy
Innovation and Leadership Award for 8x8 X Series, and was positioned
by Gartner, Inc. as a Challenger in the 2018 “Magic
Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service, North America”¹ for the
fourth year in a row. 8x8 was also named a Leader in the 2018 Gartner “Magic
Quadrant Report for Unified Communications as a Service, Worldwide.”2
This marks the seventh consecutive year that 8x8 has been recognized as
a Leader.
About 8x8, Inc.
8x8, Inc. (NYSE:EGHT) cloud solutions help businesses transform their
customer and employee experience. With one system of engagement for
voice, video, collaboration and contact center and one system of
intelligence on one technology platform, businesses can now communicate
faster and smarter to exceed the speed of customer expectations. For
additional information, visit www.8x8.com,
or follow 8x8 on LinkedIn,
Twitter, and Facebook.
1 Gartner "Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service,
North America" by Drew Kraus, Steve Blood, Simon Harrison, Daniel
O’Connell, October 17, 2018.
2 Gartner "Magic Quadrant
for Unified Communications as a Service, Worldwide" by Daniel O'Connell,
Megan Fernandez, Rafael Benitez, Bjarne Munch, Christopher Trueman,
Mihai Nguyen, October 10, 2018.
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