8x8 Named Leader in IHS Markit’s UCaaS North American Scorecard for Fourth Consecutive Year
May 18 2017 - 8:15AM
Business Wire
8x8 also earns EY Entrepreneur of the Year
finalist nomination and two bronze Stevie Awards for Virtual Office
Mobile and Virtual Office Meetings
8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT), the world’s first Communications Cloud,
announced today it has been named a leader in the 2017 IHS
Markit’s UC as a Service (UCaaS) North
American Leadership Scorecard for the fourth consecutive year. 8x8
achieved this recognition due to its solid financial position,
continued strong growth of its customer base, expansion in service
offerings, and commitment to staying the course for growing its
mid-market and large enterprise business.
“As a leader for the fourth straight year, 8x8 has consistently
been at the top of our UC as a Service (UCaaS) Leadership Scorecard
for North America. One area where 8x8 stood out is the significant
upgrades it has made to its service and support options, including
dedicated customer support managers for global enterprise
customers,” said Diane Myers, Senior Director at IHS Markit. “This
enhanced capability is helping 8x8 meet the communications and
collaboration needs of the mid-market and enterprise market.”
The IHS Markit UCaaS Leadership Scorecard profiles, analyzes,
and ranks the leading unified communication (UC) service providers
in North America to determine which service providers currently
lead the market for UC as a Service. Additionally, it determines
which service providers are best positioned to succeed in the
long-term, based on a set of criteria including installed base of
users, financial stability, market strategy, service capabilities
and support options.
“It is a great honor to be ranked as a leader in the IHS Markit
UCaaS Leadership Scorecard for four years in a row. This
recognition reflects 8x8’s ongoing commitment to delivering the
best global, enterprise-grade, open communications cloud platform
to enable our customers to solve real-world communications and
collaboration challenges,” said Matt McGinnis, Vice President of
Product Marketing at 8x8. “This latest achievement, along with
other recent industry recognitions, demonstrates that 8x8 continues
to be at the forefront of innovation as the world’s first
Communications Cloud.”
The IHS Markit UCaaS Leadership Scorecard highlighted a number
of key 8x8 efforts including:
- Services that go beyond standard voice
with collaboration and messaging capabilities
- Integrated mobile clients offering
customers flexibility where and how they communicate
- Acquisition of Sameroom for team to
team messaging interoperability
- International expansion to better serve
large, multinational companies
Continuing Industry Recognition for 8x8In addition to
being recognized as a leader in the IHS Markit UCaaS Scorecard, 8x8
received two bronze Stevie Awards. 8x8 was awarded for 8x8 Virtual
Office Mobile in the Integrated Mobile Experience category, as well
as its 8x8 Virtual Office Meetings in the New Product or Service of
the Year - Software - Cloud Platform category. These awards,
alongside being named the IHS Markit UCaaS Scorecard leader, are a
testament to the company’s innovative, high quality suite of
services integrated within the 8x8 Communication Cloud
platform.
Finally, Vik Verma, CEO of 8x8 and Bryan Martin, Chairman and
CTO of 8x8, have been named co-finalists in the EY Entrepreneur Of
The Year Award in Northern California. The awards program,
celebrating its 31st year, recognizes entrepreneurs excelling in
innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their
businesses and communities. The winner will be announced on June
23rd at the special awards gala event in San Jose.
Download the ReportDownload a complimentary copy of the
IHS Markit 2017 UC as a Service (UCaaS) Scorecard: North
America.
About 8x8, Inc.8x8, Inc.
(NASDAQ:EGHT) is the world's first Communications Cloud that
combines unified communications, team collaboration, contact
center, and analytics in a single, open and real-time platform. 8x8
eliminates information silos to expose vital, real-time
intelligence across all clouds, applications and devices to improve
individual and team productivity, business performance and customer
experience. For additional information, visit www.8x8.com, or
connect with 8x8 on LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+ and Facebook.
*Results based on IHS Markit, Technology Group, UC as a Service
(UCaaS) Scorecard: North America, 4 May 2017. Results are not an
endorsement of 8x8, Inc. Any reliance on these results is at the
third party's own risk. Visit technology.ihs.com for more
details.
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