8x8 Adds AI Self-Service
With voice self-service for 8x8 Intelligent Customer Assistant, companies can gain conversation insights from built-in analytics that deliver intuitive monitoring and reporting into customer journeys.
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8×8, a cloud contact centre and unified communications platform provider, today launched voice conversational artificial intelligence in 8×8 Intelligent Customer Assistant.
With voice self-service for 8×8 Intelligent Customer Assistant, companies can do the following:
- Streamline workflows, from automated voice self-service experiences to live agent assistance.
- Eliminate blind transfers as the voicebot interaction context is delivered to the agent upon connection.
- Build a bot using graphical scripting tools and deploy it across channels, such as voice, WhatsApp, SMS, and web chat.
- Gain conversation insights from built-in analytics that deliver intuitive monitoring and reporting into customer journeys.
- Integrate their bots with CRM systems.
“Since the launch of 8×8 Intelligent Customer Assistant, the feedback we’ve received has been astounding,” said Hunter Middleton, chief product officer of 8×8, in a statement. “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 8×8 customers to design more channels, deploy additional use cases, and exceed their organisations’ customer experience targets.”
“Whether a contact centre has thousands of agents or less than 100, organisations are recognising that conversational AI is a real and cost-effective choice to improve self-service and productivity in contact centres to better support customers,” said Sheila McGee-Smith, founder and principal analyst at McGee-Smith Analytics, in a statement.
“Starting with digital self-service in March, 8×8 is now making voice conversational AI capabilities available to its customers as a fully integrated part of their contact centre solution to provide full orchestration of customer journeys across voice and digital channels.”
8×8 Intelligent Customer Assistant is an add-on to 8×8 Contact Centre delivered through the 8×8 XCaaS (eXperience Communications as a Service) integrated cloud contact centre and unified communications platform, which includes cloud contact centre, business phone, video meetings, team chat, and SMS capabilities.
