8x8 Empowers Real-Time Contact Center Analytics with Confluent

8x8, a leading cloud communications platform provider, was faced with the challenge of delivering real-time analytics for its cloud-based communication services in a mission-critical, multi-tenant environment. The company provides voice, video, chat, and contact center solutions on a unified global platform, complemented by real-time analytics that help enterprises accelerate their businesses. Advanced analytics are critical in a contact center environment, where supervisors utilize real-time dashboards with hundreds of metrics. These dashboards provide insight into key customer experience metrics such as customer wait time and first-call resolution rates. As a fast-growing, multi-tenant SaaS contact center solution, 8x8 needed a way to rapidly and cost-effectively add new customers. The platform needed to be multi-tenant, providing strict data separation—a key customer requirement—and it had to be highly resilient given its mission-critical nature. Robust security was also a must, since 8x8 handles sensitive caller information.

8x8 is a leading cloud communications platform provider that enables more than a million business users to collaborate faster and work smarter. The company provides voice, video, chat, and contact center solutions on a unified global platform, complemented by real-time analytics that help enterprises delight their customers and accelerate their businesses. Advanced analytics are critical in a contact center environment, where supervisors utilize real-time dashboards with hundreds of metrics. These dashboards provide insight into key customer experience metrics such as customer wait time and first-call resolution rates. Supervisors are also provided insight into which agents are successfully resolving inquiries and around what topics, so that they can make staffing decisions as well as predict their future staffing needs.