Ingram Micro and RingCentral support cloud-focused channel
partners with communication solution for mobile and dispersed workforces
in the UK
SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
RingCentral UK Ltd., a leading cloud business communications provider
and subsidiary of RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG), today announced that
RingCentral OfficeTM, a complete cloud-based business phone
solution, is now available to channel partners in the UK via Ingram
Micro, Inc. (NYSE: IM), the world's largest wholesale technology
distributor and a global leader in IT supply-chain, mobile device
lifecycle services, and the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace.
Ingram Micro began offering RingCentral to its resellers in North
America in April 2013, and will now offer RingCentral Office to its
growing base of cloud-focused channel partners across the UK.
RingCentral Office is a complete cloud business phone solution that’s
designed for today’s mobile and dispersed workforces. It includes voice,
fax and conferencing capabilities and provides a mobile-centric,
easy-to-use alternative to complex, inflexible on-premise legacy phone
systems. RingCentral Office keeps employees connected to customers and
colleagues no matter where they are working, on a variety of business
and personal devices, including smartphones, tablets, computers and desk
phones. RingCentral Office is affordable, simple to activate and manage,
and easy to scale as a company grows.
“Cloud services is an explosive marketplace lined with significant
opportunity for today’s channel partners and cloud-focused technology
vendors and service providers. Now is the optimum time for partners to
grow with Ingram Micro as we gain leverage on their behalf following the
announcement of our worldwide cloud services organisation,” says Apay
Obang-Oyway, general manager, enterprise software and services group,
Ingram Micro.
“Cloud-based business communications solutions and services are high
growth sales opportunities for our channel partners, especially as many
organisations still don’t have a natural owner for business
communications and require consultancy in this area. As such, we’re
pleased to extend RingCentral Office into the UK, through the Ingram
Micro Cloud Division.”
“RingCentral is serious about helping its channel partners succeed and
we’re very pleased to expand our relationship and work together to bring
the value of its solution and the simplicity of the Ingram Micro Cloud
to channel partners in the UK,” says Renee Bergeron, vice president,
cloud computing, Ingram Micro.
“We’re pleased to be a major part of Ingram Micro’s cloud portfolio,”
said Lars Nordhild Ronning, general manager (EMEA), RingCentral. “As
businesses look to connect their increasingly mobile and geographically
distributed workforces, Ingram Micro’s sizeable network of channel
partners across EMEA will now be able to help more companies in the UK
experience the benefits of a fully integrated cloud phone system.”
ProTech Systems Group Inc, a North America based solution provider, was
the first US Ingram Micro reseller to offer RingCentral to its
customers. “We were the first value-added reseller (VAR) to join the
RingCentral and Ingram Micro programme,” said Steve Bargiacchi, CEO
ProTech Systems Group Inc. “We took on RingCentral Office, to offer to
our customers, as we realised that the time to competency is short with
RingCentral. The solution is easy to sell so it means we can break into
new accounts quickly and see an immediate ROI.”
MSPs, solution providers and IT cloud integrators that are interested in
becoming an Ingram Micro partner can contact the Ingram Micro Services
New Partner Team on 0871 973 3135.
For more information on Ingram Micro, visit: http://uk.ingrammicro.com/corporate/corporate.jsp.
For more information on RingCentral, visit: www.ringcentral.co.uk
About RingCentral
RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG) is a leading provider of cloud business
communications solutions. Easier to manage and more flexible than
on-premise communications systems, RingCentral’s cloud solution meets
the needs of modern distributed and mobile workforces, while eliminating
the expense of on-premise hardware and software. RingCentral is
headquartered in San Mateo, California.
About Ingram Micro Inc.
Ingram Micro is the world's largest wholesale technology distributor and
a global leader in IT supply-chain and mobile device lifecycle services.
As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates
sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through
unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics and mobile solutions,
technical support, financial services and product aggregation and
distribution. The company is the only global broad-based IT distributor,
serving approximately 170 countries on six continents with the world's
most comprehensive portfolio of IT products and services. Visit www.ingrammicro.com.
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Source: RingCentral UK Ltd.