Introduces RingCentral Rooms™ and RingCentral Room Connector™;
extends RingCentral Global Office™ to 24 Countries
BELMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
RingCentral,
Inc. (NYSE:RNG), a leading provider of enterprise cloud
communication and collaboration applications, continues to up the ante
for enterprise growth with the launch of new room video conferencing
services, expansion into new countries supported by RingCentral Global
Office, and the hiring of veteran enterprise talent. RingCentral’s
mission is to deliver the power of the most comprehensive, secure, and
reliable communications and collaboration platform to ensure employees
globally can work efficiently.
RingCentral Rooms - The “Any Room” Video Conferencing Solution
Current legacy on-premise room video conferencing systems are complex,
expensive, and difficult to use. As a result, the enterprise room video
conferencing market has less than 10 percent penetration today,
according to Frost & Sullivan. RingCentral today is announcing a
fundamentally different solution, a cloud-based software application, to
meet this need. A simple to deploy and easy to use alternative, RingCentral
Rooms enables companies to bring a high definition video experience
to their workforce at a fraction of the cost delivering HD video
quality. RingCentral Rooms is compatible with off-the-shelf room cameras
and is used with a simple visual app on an iPad. RingCentral Room
Connector™, available in July 2016, enables any legacy room conferencing
system (e.g. Polycom, Cisco, Lifesize, or other compatible H.323/SIP
third party systems) to connect to other RingCentral Rooms or
RingCentral Meetings participants on desktop or mobile devices.
“RingCentral Rooms is completely redefining room video conferencing with
a cloud software application that turns every conference room into an
active meeting participant,” said Kira Makagon, Executive Vice President
of Innovation at RingCentral. “We’re extending our impact beyond mobiles
and desktops, and now taking our solution into conference rooms. There’s
no longer the need for expensive legacy conference systems as cloud
applications open up new opportunities to bring video conferencing into
the corporate mainstream.”
A Global Market Opportunity
Introduced in February 2016, RingCentral Global Office is a single
global Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) solution designed for
multinational enterprises. In less than six months, more than 170
multinational enterprises have adopted RingCentral Global Office to
connect their workforces across multiple countries without the
complexity and high costs of managing multiple, legacy on-premise
systems. RingCentral is rolling out a Global Office expansion into 12
additional countries, including Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, India,
Malaysia, Sweden - available today, and Austria, Belgium, Italy, Norway,
Portugal, and Taiwan – available July 2016. These additional countries
bring the total to 24 supported by Global Office. The global market
opportunity is addressed not only by the availability of RingCentral
Global Office, but also by the availability of RingCentral’s
International Virtual Numbers, which provides enterprise customers with
local inbound phone numbers in 79 countries.
“We’re very happy with the rapid traction of Global Office, and excited
to see customers like MindBody, Alien Vault, Hortonworks, and Medallia
utilizing Global Office to fulfill their business communications needs
globally on a single platform,” said Makagon. “With RingCentral Office®
monthly recurring software subscriptions growing 45% year-over-year, and
our upmarket customer segment, which now has an average deal size of
well over 100 users, growing over 100% year-over-year, we believe
RingCentral is extending the lead as the fastest growing pure-play cloud
communications provider for global enterprises.”
Expanding Enterprise Focus with New Executive Hires
As part of its continued enterprise expansion, RingCentral today
announced that it has brought on new executives. Carson Hostetter,
formerly Vice President of Sales at Avaya, joins RingCentral as Vice
President of Enterprise Sales; David Marler, formerly in leadership
positions at ShoreTel and CA Technologies, joins RingCentral as Vice
President of Customer Success; and Chuck Emmette, also a former Avaya
Vice President, joins as Head of Professional Services. Together, these
three professionals bring more than 50 years of experience selling to
and supporting large enterprise customers around the world.
“While the cloud is transforming business communications, the journey to
the cloud requires thoughtful change management for enterprise
customers,” said David Sipes, Chief Revenue Officer of RingCentral. “We
are investing deeply in every touch-point of the customer journey from
sales to customer deployment and ongoing customer success. Our goal is
to be a trusted partner every step in that journey so enterprises fully
benefit from the power of our cloud platform.”
RingCentral is advancing enterprise communications in ways that fit the
need of today’s modern, dispersed, and mobile workforce. Businesses rely
on RingCentral for open, scalable, cloud-based communications to empower
their workforces around the world – to work together with customers,
clients and colleagues in any way they choose, all without the
limitations of legacy on-premise systems.
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-premise communications systems. It meets the needs of modern
distributed and mobile workforces spanning SMB to Enterprises globally.
RingCentral is headquartered in Belmont, Calif. RingCentral, RingCentral
Rooms, RingCentral Room Connector, RingCentral Office, Global Office,
and the RingCentral logo are trademarks of RingCentral, Inc.
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RingCentral, Inc.
Jennifer Caukin, 650-561-6348
jennifer.caukin@ringcentral.com
Source: RingCentral, Inc.