With the pressure from COVID-19 pushing a lot of businesses into complicated situations lately, 8×8 is on hand to help organisations stay ahead of the curve. As a leader in cloud communications solutions, 8×8 is working hard to help companies stay connected through voice, chat, and video technology.
Quietly, the 8×8 platform has shot up to a user count of 9.4 million monthly active users on its video meeting solution alone, at time of writing; it will be higher right now. Additionally, the 8×8 offering is being used in over 165 countries now. That’s an increase of 40 times usage in video. This April, the 8×8 brand introduced a new business readiness kit designed to help companies embrace the new work from home environment. The solution comes with everything that 8×8 customers need to communicate, including chat, cloud voice, video meetings, and contact centre support in one.
The open-cloud technology available from 8×8 even comes with an instructional kit and activation guides to help with deploying 8×8 video meetings as rapidly as possible.
Helping Crucial Companies in Times of Crisis
With easy-to-access video conferencing solutions, immerse and open cloud communications, and best practice guides for remote employees, 8×8 is making the move to cloud as easy as possible. According to the CEO of 8×8, Vik Verma, as businesses around the world struggle to address the challenges of the current landscape, 8×8 believes it has to equip customers with the right tools for success.
This also includes delivering support to some of the most critical businesses in the current landscape, such as WeSchool for education over the web, and Every Child Pediatrics. 8×8 is even helping AVANT Communications to stay open and connected in this complicated time. Bionical Solutions, one of the market leaders in the provision of innovative clinical and digital services in the healthcare sector, has used the 8×8 X series to deliver more virtual and video nursing features to staff and patients.
The technology means that patients and nurses can communicate safely and consistently through call, text, video meetings, and messaging apps alike. The 8×8 Virtual Office mobile and desktop apps are also assisting pharmaceutical reps in accessing more multi-channel conversations too.
Providing Free Video Meetings to the Masses
Aside from keeping educators and medical professionals connected to the people who need them most, 8×8’s technology portfolio also includes a free instant video meetings solution. The free service has recently added dial-in numbers for more than 55 new countries, ensuring that businesses can more easily access the continuity they need.

The 8×8 portfolio aims to meet the needs of businesses with remote and mobile workforces around the globe, with a solution that’s resilient, highly reliable, and accessible across all devices. This ensures that companies of all sizes can rapidly deploy a distributed workforce and enable flexible styles of work, without giving up on security or performance.
8×8’s free video meetings service is optimised to work efficiently with the WebRTC standard, which helps attendees to join meetings instantly without any plugins or downloads. Additionally, 8×8 video meetings is also available as part of the 8×8 Express offering. This solution helps small organisations to unlock a completely pre-configured remote phone system, with business numbers, messaging, and video meetings in a single application. Find out more about the latest steps that 8×8 is taking to support the evolving workforce on the 8×8 website today.