8x8 Named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Unified Communications as a Service
October 10 2024 - 4:05PM
Business Wire
8x8 Recognized as a Leader for the Thirteenth
Year in a Row
8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT), a leading business communications, CX,
and CPaaS platform provider, today announced it has been named a
Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified
Communications as a Service1. This is the thirteenth consecutive
year 8x8 has been recognized as a Leader in this report.
“It is always an honor to be named by Gartner as a Magic
Quadrant Leader, especially as we have now received this
recognition for thirteen years in a row. We believe this is further
testament that our strategic focus and ongoing innovation of our
modern, single cloud platform and suite of connected products has
been the correct approach,” said Samuel Wilson, Chief Executive
Officer at 8x8, Inc. “We remain committed to our customers’ success
and lasting growth by connecting their teams and customers
globally, enabling them to easily and quickly adopt AI capabilities
that drive immediate return, eliminating data and organizational
silos to increase operational efficiency, and ultimately empowering
them to deliver superior customer experiences.”
8x8 Work, which includes enterprise cloud voice, video meetings,
and team chat capabilities, in a single desktop, mobile, or web
experience, offers industry-leading global coverage in 59
countries. 8x8 Work is delivered as part of the 8x8 platform, which
includes AI-powered cloud contact center, business phone, video
meetings, team chat, business SMS, fax, virtual agents and
self-service, secure payment, WEM, advanced queue management,
conversational intelligence, analytics, and high-volume messaging.
The 8x8 platform is a resilient, secure, and compliant platform,
offering the highest levels of reliability with a financially
backed, platform-wide 99.999% uptime SLA across an integrated cloud
UCaaS and CCaaS solution.
The 8x8 platform also seamlessly extends to Microsoft Teams
through a portfolio of native integration options that includes the
Microsoft-certified 8x8 Contact Center for Microsoft Teams, 8x8
Voice for Microsoft Teams leveraging global Direct Routing as a
Service, 8x8 Operator Connect for Microsoft Teams, and 8x8 Phone
App for Microsoft Teams for a cost-effective alternative calling
option that enables PSTN without requiring Teams Phone licenses per
user or additional software.
In addition to being named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic
Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service, 8x8 has been
recognized for nine consecutive years in the Gartner Magic Quadrant
for Contact Center as a Service2.
[1] Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a
Service, Pankil Sheth, Megan Fernandez, Christopher Trueman, Rafael
Benitez, October 7, 2024. This Magic Quadrant report name has
changed from 2015 onwards- 2015-2023: Magic Quadrant for Unified
Communications as a Service, Worldwide, 2014: Magic Quadrant for
Unified Communications as a Service, North America With Additional
Regional Presence, 2012-2013: Magic Quadrant for Unified
Communications as a Service, North America.
[2] Gartner Magic Quadrant for Contact Center as a Service, Drew
Kraus, Steve Blood, Pri Rathnayake, Pankil Sheth, August 7,
2023.
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About 8x8 Inc.
8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGHT) is a leading provider of integrated
contact center, voice communications, video, chat, and SMS
solutions built on one global cloud platform. 8x8 uniquely
eliminates the silos across the entire organization to power the
communications and customer engagement 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, X, and Facebook.
8x8® is a trademark of 8x8, Inc.
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