RingCentral to Deliver the Industry's First Integrated
Communications and Team Collaboration Solution
BELMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE:RNG), a leading provider of cloud communication
solutions, today announced it has acquired Glip, Inc., a cloud messaging
and collaboration company. Glip serves diverse teams and helps them be
more productive with team messaging closely integrated with task
management, group calendars, notes, annotations, and file sharing. It
also includes integrations with a number of leading business solutions
such as Asana, Box, Dropbox, Evernote, JIRA, GitHub, Google, Zendesk,
and many others.
“Today’s mobile and distributed workforce requires a new generation of
enterprise communication solutions,” said Vlad Shmunis, founder and CEO
of RingCentral. “We’re excited to welcome the Glip team to RingCentral.
Glip extends our platform by adding powerful team messaging and
collaboration services. Together we’ll deliver the industry’s first
integrated cloud business communications and team collaboration
solution, which will empower teams to work across all locations,
devices, and modes of communication.”
Glip’s capabilities will be integrated and made available to all
RingCentral Office customers. RingCentral also plans to keep the current
stand-alone Glip application, renamed as RingCentral Teams, available
for web, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android for all current and future
customers.
“Collaborating with employees, partners, and customers to solve business
problems is becoming more complex, and email is no longer sufficient by
itself,” said Peter Pezaris, Founder and CEO of Glip. “We started Glip
with the vision of empowering employees to work more efficiently by
developing a world-class messaging solution with integrated productivity
tools. We’re excited to join RingCentral to take our vision even further
by combining with their state-of-the-art business communications
platform.”
Glip was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.
Glip customers include IBM, CBS Interactive, The Economist, Harvard
University, and many others. As a result of the acquisition, Peter
Pezaris, CEO & Co-founder and the entire R&D team will join RingCentral.
The company currently expects that the acquisition will not have a
meaningful impact on the financial guidance provided previously on April
28, 2015.
About RingCentral
RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG) is a leading provider of cloud-based
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. RingCentral
is headquartered in Belmont, Calif. RingCentral, the RingCentral logo
and RingCentral Office are trademarks of RingCentral, Inc.
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