8x8 Expands AI Self-Service Capabilities with Voice Interactions for 8x8 Intelligent Customer Assistant

August 30, 2023 at 09:00 AM EDT

8x8 Contact Center Customers Can Now Add Voice Self-Service Capabilities Via Open Beta Program

8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT), a leading integrated cloud contact center and unified communications platform provider, today announced the availability of voice conversational AI in 8x8 Intelligent Customer Assistant. The addition of voice expands 8x8 Intelligent Customer Assistant’s powerful, user-friendly conversational AI self-service capabilities that enable businesses to create simple to complex experiences across digital and voice channels.

“Whether a contact center has thousands of agents or less than 100, organizations are recognizing that conversational AI is a real and cost-effective choice to improve self-service and productivity in contact centers to better support customers,” said Sheila McGee-Smith, founder and principal analyst at McGee-Smith Analytics. “Starting with digital self-service in March, 8x8 is now making their voice conversational AI capabilities available to its customers as a fully integrated part of their contact center solution to provide full orchestration of customer journeys across voice and digital channels.”

Key features of voice self-service for 8x8 Intelligent Customer Assistant include:

Streamline Workflows: From automated voice self-service experiences to live agent assistance, interaction workflows are seamless and minimize the need for manual data collection.
Complete Customer Context: Eliminate blind transfers as the voicebot interaction context is delivered to the agent upon connection, empowering them to deliver more personalized, frictionless experiences.
Build and Deploy Rapidly: Using graphical scripting tools, a single bot can be quickly built and deployed across any channel such as voice, WhatsApp, SMS, and web chat, among others.
Rich Conversation Insights: Built-in, comprehensive analytics deliver insights and intuitive monitoring and reporting for advanced customer journey visibility.
Turnkey Integration Options: Marketplace and turnkey integrations with CRMs allow for endless customization for a highly personalized customer experience within a voicebot interaction.

“For the airline industry, providing a seamless and quality customer experience is incredibly important. Our contact center needs intelligent AI-driven tools to help us handle a high volume of customer interactions while providing excellent service in a fast and timely manner,” said Thomas Rocharz, Director of Contact Centers and Reservations at Cape Air. “8x8 Intelligent Customer Assistant will first allow us to apply AI-enabled voice self-service to quickly resolve customer inquiries, with the ability to easily add new channels and agent-facing AI assistance as our company grows.”

“There is an incredible amount of opportunity around AI-enabled technologies and the ways in which those technologies allow organizations to engage with and support customers. Since the launch of 8x8 Intelligent Customer Assistant, the feedback we've received has been astounding,” said Hunter Middleton, Chief Product Officer at 8x8, Inc. “Our customers have been thrilled by the ability to easily reduce resolution times for simple inquiries as well as being able to handle a significant portion of customer interactions without requiring an agent. Additionally, the delivery of fast and easy deployments is noteworthy in how quickly our customers are able to see the value. As voice remains an increasingly relevant and preferred channel of communication, we are continuing the momentum we've already seen with the introduction of a conversational AI voice self-service option and look forward to allowing 8x8 customers to design more channels, deploy additional use cases, and exceed their organization's customer experience targets.”

8x8 Intelligent Customer Assistant is an add-on to 8x8 Contact Center 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.

8x8 Intelligent Customer Assistant On-Demand Webinar

View the “Not Your Average Chatbot: Self-Service Reimagined” on-demand webinar with Sheila McGee-Smith, founder and principal analyst at McGee-Smith Analytics, and Patrick Russell, Director of Product Management at 8x8 to learn how conversational AI and other advancements are changing the future of self-service. Visit the webinar page for more information.

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.

8x8®, 8x8 XCaaS™, eXperience Communications as a Service™, eXperience Communications Platform™ are trademarks of 8x8, Inc.

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