Glip Dramatically Expands RingCentral Office Corporate Phone
System Capabilities with Powerful Team Messaging and Collaboration
Services
BELMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
RingCentral,
Inc. (NYSE:RNG), a leading provider of cloud communication solutions,
today announced the integration and general availability of Glip team
messaging and collaboration for all RingCentral Office customers.
Following the acquisition of Glip in June 2015, RingCentral’s
integration marks a new chapter in its mission to transform business
communications and deliver the first integrated cloud communications and
collaboration platform that helps people work more productively and
businesses to operate more efficiently than ever before.
This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151102006807/en/
Glip combines team messaging with file sharing, notes, task management,
shared calendars, and integrations with other popular business
applications such as Asana, Box, Dropbox, Evernote, GitHub, Google
Drive, and Zendesk. Adding powerful RingCentral capabilities to Glip
such as click-to-call, corporate directory, audio and video
conferencing, and online meetings now makes it faster and easier to
escalate a group chat to a live real-time conversation.
“The workplace is undergoing a radical transformation. As teams
world-wide become more distributed, and mobile, they are looking for
more efficient ways to communicate and collaborate,” said RingCentral
CEO, Founder and Chairman, Vlad Shmunis. “All core IT functions,
including business communication and phone systems, are now moving to
the cloud. This makes it now possible to seamlessly integrate
traditional business communications with team collaboration and
messaging. Instead of toggling between multiple single-point
applications to get work done, we can empower people to send a message,
assign a task, schedule an event, share a file, collaborate on a
project, and make a call or schedule a conference – from one easy to use
mobile, web, or desktop app.”
An increasing number of businesses are adopting team messaging and
collaboration solutions to enable greater agility and team productivity.
RingCentral believes voice and other modes of communication will play a
fundamental role as part of a complete solution. According to Gartner,
“By 2020, over 90% of enterprise voice calls in the digital workplace
will originate from collaboration applications, up from less than 30%
today.” Gartner, Inc., Research Note: Digital Workplace Employees Need
an Enriched Voice to Collaborate More Effectively, Steve Blood, March
25, 2015.
“When we set out to integrate Glip with RingCentral, we had a few goals
in mind: make it simple, make it scalable, make it integrated, and make
it effortless to communicate and collaborate,” said Peter Pezaris,
Founder of Glip, who’s now VP of Applications at RingCentral. “Bringing
Glip into RingCentral Office creates unparalleled value for customers
while empowering them to work, communicate, and collaborate more
effectively than ever before.”
In the new release of Glip integrated with RingCentral Office, the
application has been rebranded as Glip by RingCentral and includes the
following new features:
-
Single Sign On – Gives access to Glip using either RingCentral
Office or corporate credentials
-
Click-to-Call Voice – Click the phone icon on a coworker’s
profile or in one-to-one conversations
-
Corporate Directory – Look up and collaborate with co-workers
in the RingCentral cloud phone system
-
RingCentral Meetings – Launch RingCentral video and web
conferences directly from a team chat
-
Audio Conferencing – Start a conference call from within the
context of a Glip team or group chat
“Glip has allowed us to broaden our reach and get outside of the inbox,”
says Christina Yozallinas, Director of Services Operations for DemandGen
Inc. “With Glip, we can create team conversations that align within our
company projects and priorities, which has not only improved the
individual team communications but has also provided a place for us to
post upcoming events, highlight industry news, and obtain information or
provide feedback as a company. Glip has helped our team significantly
increase the level of collaboration and productivity, and have a much
broader sense of community.”
General availability to all RingCentral Office customers begins this
week, and will work across mobile devices, tablets, desktop and the web.
Glip is currently included at no additional cost to all RingCentral
Office customers globally. Glip also continues to be available as a
stand-alone product for non-RingCentral users.
About RingCentral
RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG) is a leading provider of cloud-based
business communications and collaboration solutions. RingCentral’s cloud
solution is easier to manage, and more flexible and cost-efficient than
legacy on-premises communications systems. It meets the needs of modern
distributed and mobile workforces spanning SMB to Enterprises globally.
RingCentral, Business Communications Made Simple. RingCentral is
headquartered in Belmont, Calif. RingCentral and the RingCentral logo
are trademarks of RingCentral, Inc.
View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151102006807/en/
for RingCentral, Inc.
Mattie Goldman, 646-779-0219
RingCentral@sutherlandgold.com
or
Jennifer
Caukin, 650-561-6138
Jennifer.caukin@ringcentral.com
or
Tom
Johnson (UK), +44 20 7096 9089
tom.johnson@jargonpr.com
Source: RingCentral, Inc.