BREAKING: 8x8 to Acquire Fuze

Fuze has around 300 enterprise customers, culminating in over 400,000 paid users.

Brian Day, Fuze CEO, said: “Enterprise customers recognize the importance of an integrated UCaaS and CCaaS solution. 8x8’s industry-leading XCaaS solution for an integrated employee and customer experience enables customers to advance their cloud transformation efforts as they move off legacy on-premises systems.

“Combining resources and expertise with 8x8 is a natural fit, bringing with it needed scale and accelerating the pace of product innovation with differentiated solutions that capitalise on this massive opportunity, all of which will serve to benefit our enterprise customer base.”

In a blog post, Sipes said to channel partners: "This commitment to all customers’ current and future needs also gives 8x8 and Fuze channel partners confidence that their customers’ investments—and therefore their customer relationships—are protected, with the promise of future innovation to meet evolving customer needs.

"It creates significant new revenue opportunities with an expanded solution portfolio and complementary partner-led value-added services."

8x8 launched its XCaaS solution earlier this year, bringing together its UC and CC offerings. Last year it entered the CPaaS market via the acquisition of Wavecell.