8x8 Announces Virtual Office Meetings for Immersive Mobile & Desktop Experiences
March 07 2016 - 8:15AM
Business Wire
New Enhancements Deliver Continuous
Communications with Secure, Borderless HD Video and Audio
Collaboration
8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT), the leading provider of global
Enterprise Communications as a Service (ECaaS), today announced
Virtual Office Meetings, a cloud-based video conferencing and
collaboration solution that enables secure, continuous
collaboration from any device, anywhere in the world. New
enhancements to the solution include borderless HD video and audio
communications for immersive experiences.
Virtual Office Meetings is built seamlessly into 8x8’s Virtual
Office (VO) desktop experience and allows users to schedule
meetings, initiate instant collaboration on the fly, and transition
IM conversations into a meeting, with a single click, from one VO
desktop app. In addition, the solution gives users access to their
corporate directory for easy engagement and eliminates the need for
users and IT to manage multiple logins and passwords.
Virtual Office Meetings includes plug-ins for Outlook® and
Google Calendar™ for effortless, one-click meeting scheduling. When
in a meeting, users can take advantage of 8x8’s integrated Presence
feature to bring additional participants directly into a
collaboration session using their preferred method of communication
including IM, email or voice. Virtual Office Meetings is scheduled
for general availability in the spring of 2016.
“With our transition to 8x8’s cloud based Virtual Office
solution, we’ve been very impressed with the quality of calls,
regardless of device. Now with new Virtual Office Meetings, 8x8 is
taking meeting experiences to the next level with HD video and
audio capabilities,” said Ron Godine, Director of Information
Technology at TMW Systems. “TMW has over 800 employees spread in
different offices across North America and we interact with
hundreds of customers daily so it’s vital that we can collaborate
seamlessly and reliably, whether it’s by phone or video
conferencing.”
Immersive HD Video Experiences
The latest generation of VO Meetings brings industry leading
video technology to deliver the highest quality experience.
Face-to-face collaboration is optimized with resilient HD 1080p
video on laptops/computers, and the solution continuously optimizes
video streams for unmatched fidelity over variable network and
devices. VO Meetings’ support for Ultra HD 4K composite resolution,
paired with HD audio enables an immersive video experience at an
affordable cost.
Complete Mobile Collaboration
The new VO Meetings will also enable users to collaborate
immersively when on the move. Mobile users can now collaborate with
HD 720p video and share content from their mobile devices via cloud
applications such as Dropbox, Box, iCloud® and Google Drive™.
Mobile collaboration capabilities are built into the same VO mobile
app that is used for voice calling, global directory, IM and
Presence; giving users the ability to easily schedule and initiate
instant meetings from iOS and Android mobile devices. This
capability will be available in the summer of 2016.
Global Reliability and Scalability
VO Meetings deliver resilient, reliable quality, working over
network connections of varying bandwidth and quality. The solution
sustains high resolution and fidelity with low latency, even over
public internet and wireless networks, out-performing competing
solutions. In addition, 8x8 has the industry’s largest global
footprint with local dial-in numbers for international
collaborators, and nine datacenters serving over 100 countries on
six continents, enabling low network latency and the best possible
voice and video quality for a truly mobile workforce.
“As global organizations scale in size and have an increasingly
mobile workforce, ensuring a high quality and continuous
collaboration experience becomes paramount to success,” said Enzo
Signore, Chief Marketing Officer of 8x8. “With Virtual Office
Meetings integrated into our VO solution, customers can now
leverage high quality, easy-to-use web and video collaboration
working with one single provider for all of their communications
needs.”
For more details on Virtual Office Meetings, read the associated
blog post.
About 8x8, Inc.
8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT) is the trusted provider of secure
and reliable enterprise cloud communications solutions to more than
40,000 businesses operating in over 100 countries across six
continents. 8x8's out-of-the-box cloud solutions replace
traditional on-premises PBX hardware and software-based systems
with a flexible and scalable Software as a Service (SaaS)
alternative, encompassing cloud business phone service, contact
center solutions, and conferencing. For additional information,
visit www.8x8.com, www.8x8.com/UK or connect with 8x8
on LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+ and Facebook.
8x8 and the 8x8 logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of
8x8 and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. iCloud
is the trademark or registered trademark of Apple, and iOS is the
trademark or registered trademark of Cisco used by Apple under
license. Other third-party trademarks mentioned are the property of
the companies indicated.
View source
version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160307005517/en/
8x8, Inc.Neha Mirchandani,
669-256-5095neha.mirchandani@8x8.comorfor 8x8, Inc.Chad Torbin,
415-548-6536chad@speakeasystrategies.com
8x8 (NYSE:EGHT)
Historical Stock Chart
From Aug 2024 to Sep 2024
8x8 (NYSE:EGHT)
Historical Stock Chart
From Sep 2023 to Sep 2024