San Jose, CA, USA, July, 2019 - 8x8, Inc. (NYSE: EGHT), a cloud provider of voice, video, chat and contact center solutions for users worldwide, announced the acquisition of privately-held Wavecell Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-based global Communications Platform-as-a-Service (CPaaS) provider. The acquisition provides 8x8 with an established technology platform and revenue business to pursue CPaaS globally and represents a natural expansion of 8x8’s cloud business from Unified Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS), Contact Center-as-a-Service (CCaaS), and Video into the CPaaS market.
Wavecell is expected to further accelerate 8x8’s growth, expand its international presence, and deepen the company's technology capabilities in cloud communications
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"The market opportunity in CPaaS is growing rapidly, and this acquisition enables us to quickly provide these services to our customers around the world," said Vik Verma, CEO of 8x8. "8x8 is now the only cloud provider that owns the full, global-scale, cloud-native technology stack offering voice, video, messaging, and contact center delivered both as pre-packaged applications and as enterprise-class APIs. We’re excited to welcome the Wavecell employees to the 8x8 family. We now have a significant market presence in Asia and expect to continue to expand in the region and globally in order to meet evolving customer requirements."
"With the acquisition of Wavecell, we can now offer customers enterprise-class APIs, bringing a CPaaS solution to our global communications platform," said Dejan Deklich, Chief Product Officer of 8x8, Inc. "Customer demand for CPaaS is accelerating and now organizations can easily add real-time communication capabilities that include SMS, chat apps, voice and video to improve the experience for their end-customers. The integration of all the API’s and data into one CPaaS platform gives 8x8 customers unprecedented ability to engage with end users in true omni-channel fashion and understand the full customer journey."
"We are delighted to become part of 8x8, one of the world’s leading cloud communications platforms. Now is the right time to leverage the global expansion of UCaaS, CCaaS and CPaaS services to better serve our customers’ growing demand for communication services and to continually drive greater innovation," said Olivier Gerhardt, CEO and Co-Founder of Wavecell.
Posted by Veronica Silva Cusi, news correspondent
Source: https://www.businesswire.com
About 8x8 Inc.:
8x8, Inc. (Nasdaq: EGHT) leverages its patented software technologies to deliver high quality voice solutions with integrated messaging and video to businesses of any size with employees in any location on a wide variety of business telephony, web and mobile platforms. 8x8 also offers managed hosting and cloud-based computing services.
Published: Monday, July 22, 2019
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