UC and contact center solutions provider 8x8 )will provide enterprises with contact center quality management capabilities, thanks in part to a new acquisition. 8x8 has announced plans to acquire Quality Software Corporation, a Delray Beach, Florida-based call center performance and analytics solutions provider, and two affiliated companies for $3 million in cash and $1.3 million in stock compensation.

Dan Kobialka, Contributing writer

June 9, 2015

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8x8 CEO Vik Verma
8x8 CEO Vik Verma.

Unified communications (UC) and contact center solutions provider 8×8 (EGHT) will provide enterprises with contact center quality management capabilities, thanks in part to a new acquisition.

8×8 has announced plans to acquire Quality Software Corporation (QSC), a Delray Beach, Florida-based call center performance and analytics solutions provider, and two affiliated companies for $3 million in cash and $1.3 million in stock compensation.

Also, 8×8 intends to hire QSC CEO Ryan Morrissey and the company’s development team in Romania as part of the transaction. Morrissey will serve as 8×8’s senior director of product strategy for cloud quality management solutions.

So what does QSC offer 8×8? An 8×8 spokesperson told Talkin’ Cloud that QSC will help 8×8 deliver “a more personalized customer experience” to enterprises.

“QSC now puts us in a unique position, as [this company has] developed an agile, cloud-native solution from the ground up, which means 8×8 can start to deliver these capabilities far beyond the call center and now offer key lines of business such as sales, HR and help desks high-touch capabilities such as call recording, screen capture, live monitoring, agent evaluations, speech transcription, reporting and detailed analytics,” the spokesperson said.

The spokesperson noted that 8×8 now is on track to unveil a cloud-based quality management product for its Virtual Contact Center (VCC) solution by the end of this year.

In addition, 8×8 has finalized its acquisition of DXI, a UK-based outbound and blended contact center solutions provider, for approximately $25.7 million. 8×8 last month announced plans to acquire DXI and finalized the transaction on May 29.

8×8 said it now expects its fiscal 2016 revenue to range from $202 million to $206 million, which represents roughly 24 percent to 27 percent annual growth.

What are your thoughts on 8×8’s acquisition of QSC? Share your thoughts about this story in the Comments section below, via Twitter @dkobialka or email me at [email protected].

About the Author(s)

Dan Kobialka

Contributing writer, Penton Technology

Dan Kobialka is a contributing writer for MSPmentor and Talkin' Cloud. In the past, he has produced content for numerous print and online publications, including the Boston Business Journal, Boston Herald and Patch.com. Dan holds a M.A. in Print and Multimedia Journalism from Emerson College and a B.A. in English from Bridgewater State College (now Bridgewater State University). In his free time, Kobialka enjoys jogging, traveling, playing sports, touring breweries and watching football (Go Patriots!).  

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