8×8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT), a San Jose, Calif.-based Communications Cloud provider, acquired Sameroom, an Oakland, CA-based interoperability platform that enables cross-team messaging and collaboration in the enterprise.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
The acquisition will enable 8×8 to add interoperability between more than two dozen team collaboration clients to its Communications Cloud strengthening its capabilities and providing employees, customers and partners with the ability to collaborate across disparate team messaging apps, as well as the capability to launch communication services from within these apps.
The Sameroom team will join 8×8 and bring to it deep expertise in chat and messaging. With this acquisition, customers will continue to enjoy the service and will soon be able to leverage embedded enterprise communications features from 8×8, such as start online meetings, audio calls and video conferencing, from within their team collaboration service of choice.
Led by CEO and co-founder Andrei Soroker, Sameroom enables users to stay in their home team collaboration service and connect with other users’ rooms on the same or different platforms. The platform relays all messages and files to the connected rooms in real time. This way, users in different groups only need to maintain their home team collaboration account. Since all of the data is replicated and each room retains its own copy, none of the parties violate any corporate data governance policies.
Currently, Sameroom integrates with over two dozen different messaging and team collaboration apps, including Slack, Skype, HipChat and more.
Over 200 enterprises, including universities, ecommerce websites, car sharing services, professional sports leagues and more are using the solution to communicate between various internal and external team collaboration channels.
Led by Vik Verma, CEO, 8×8 connects employees, customers and applications to improve business performance for organizations anywhere in the world. The company has just introduced its Communications Cloud, which combines unified communications and team collaboration, contact center, and analytics in a single, open and real-time platform. The company also announced a number of new business application integrations, aimed at enhancing business workflows by making real-time communications, collaboration capabilities and intelligence available for third-party cloud applications, all customizable via an Open Cloud approach to fit individual enterprise needs.
FinSMEs
08/03/2017