PROSPECTUS SUMMARY
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Our Company
We are a leading software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) provider of voice, video, chat, contact center and application programming interface (“API”) solutions powered by one global cloud communications platform. From our proprietary cloud technology platform, organizations across all their locations and employees globally have access to unified communications, team collaboration, video conferencing, contact center, data and analytics, communication APIs and other services, enabling them to be more productive and responsive to their customers.
Our customers represent companies ranging from small businesses to large multinational enterprises, and their users are spread across more than 150 countries. In recent years, we have increased our focus on the mid-market (which we define as customers that generate $25,000 to $100,000 Annual Recurring Revenue (“ARR”)) and enterprise (which we define as customers that generate more than $100,000 ARR) customer categories.
We have a portfolio of SaaS offerings made available at different rates varying by the specific functionalities, services and number of users. We generate service revenue from subscriptions to our communication services as well as from our customer’s usage of our platform services. We generate other revenues from the sales and rentals of office phones and other hardware equipment, and professional services. We define a “customer” as one or more legal entities to which we provide services pursuant to a single contractual arrangement. In some cases, we may have multiple billing relationships with a single customer (for example, where we establish separate billing accounts for a parent company and each of its subsidiaries).
Our flagship service is our 8x8 X Series, a next generation suite of unified communications as a service (“UCaaS”) and contact center as a service (“CCaaS”) solutions, which consist of service plans of increasing functionality designated X1, X2, etc., through X8. With 8x8 X Series, we provide enterprise-grade voice, unified communications, video meetings, team collaboration and contact center functionalities from a single platform. The continued increase in demand for an integrated UCaaS and CCaaS solution led us to introduce eXperience Communications as a Service, a deployment model that erases boundaries between UCaaS and CCaaS, delivered through our differentiated single platform.
We were incorporated in California in February 1987 and reincorporated in Delaware in December 1996. Our principal executive offices are located at 675 Creekside Way, Campbell, CA 95008, and our telephone number at that location is: (408) 727-1885. Our website is www.8x8.com. We make available free of charge on our website our annual, quarterly and current reports, including amendments to such reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish such material to, the SEC. Information contained on, or accessible through, our website is not incorporated by reference into this prospectus, and you should not consider information contained on, or accessible through, our website as part of this prospectus. Reference to our website is made as an inactive textual reference.