8×8 Adds Advanced Contact Center Capabilities with Google Cloud Contact Center AI Integration

8×8 Cloud-Based Contact Center Solution Together with Google Cloud Contact Center AI Provides Customers New Capabilities for Improved Engagement

8×8, Inc., a leading communications provider of cloud voice, video, chat and contact center solutions for over a million users worldwide, announced its integration of 8×8 Contact Center with Google Cloud’s new Contact Center AI, a solution that combines multiple AI products to improve the customer service experience, as well as the productivity of contact centers.

@8×8 announces integration of 8×8 Contact Center with @googlecloud’s new Contact Center AI to improve the customer service experience while increasing productivity of contact centers.

“Contact Center AI empowers enterprises to use AI to augment and improve their contact centers,” said Rajen Sheth, Director of Product Management at Google. “Google Cloud’s goal is to make the contact center experience easy and efficient. By partnering with 8×8, we are able to deliver on that goal, as well as allow enterprises to maintain happy customers with faster call resolution. We look forward to our continued partnership with 8×8 to enhance contact center capabilities as technology and customer expectations evolve.”

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8×8 Contact Center enables organizations to differentiate their customer experience in real-time with advanced analytics, reporting and predictive dialer. Contact Center AI (CCAI) is a simple, secure, and flexible solution that allows enterprises with limited machine learning expertise to deploy AI in their contact centers. Key features of 8×8 Contact Center integration with CCAI include:

• 8×8 Virtual Agent – using a combination of 8×8 AI technology and Google CCAI, incoming voice calls on simple and routine questions (such as “what time will the repair technician arrive?” or “is part #7542 in stock?”) can be answered with a virtual, automated agent without the need for a live agent. This call deflection technology increases the efficiency of the call center, often enabling 24/7 support, while reducing costs. For end customers, the 8×8 Virtual Agent improves the customer experience, increasing first call resolution and reducing call wait times.
• The virtual agent can also hand calls to a live agent, and with the Agent Assist feature, automatically supply the agent with articles and knowledge documents based on the conversation. This reduces call length and enhances the customer experience, ensuring customers don’t have to repeat their requests.

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“Improving efficiency and reducing call times are some of the most common contact center pain points. Google AI together with 8×8 Contact Center enables our customers to leverage the latest AI technologies to enhance the overall experience of their end customers,” said Dejan Deklich, Chief Product Officer at 8×8. “As a leader in contact center and unified communications as a service, we are partnering with Google to put resources behind such an advanced solution. Other vendors in our space are focused on chat, not on a unified approach. Google has the expertise and underlying technology and 8×8 brings telephony and contact center expertise for a perfectly integrated solution.”

8×8 Contact Center with Google Contact Center AI integration capabilities are in testing now. Customers interested in participating should contact vccai@8×8.com. For more information and to see a demo in action, visit 8×8 in booth 506 at Enterprise Connect taking place March 18-21, 2019, at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Orlando.

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