New offering brings business communications with Google Apps
Challenges competitors on ease of deployment, robust capabilities and
cost efficiency
BELMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
RingCentral,
Inc. (NYSE:RNG), a leading provider of business cloud communication
and collaboration applications, and Google today join efforts to help
mid to large size enterprises transition to the cloud. Companies are
increasingly adopting cloud productivity tools like Google Apps and
cloud communications applications like RingCentral Office® to enable
greater flexibility and workflow efficiency. This has created a rise in
demand for a seamless experience between these types of applications so
users don’t have to jump in and out of different environments to get
work done. The new offering, called RingCentral Office®
Google Edition, addresses this by providing a unique and
integrated solution for enterprises. For $30 USD per user per month, the
offering includes Google Apps Unlimited with unlimited storage and a new
edition of RingCentral Office that integrates with Google Apps and
Google Hangouts. This solution will provide richer and more robust
enterprise communication compared to competing industry solutions, such
as Office 365 and Skype for Business.
Businesses are continually looking for ways to work faster and smarter
so they can stay ahead and compete more effectively. RingCentral and
Google address this need with a complete communications and productivity
environment, where every employee in a distributed enterprise can work
however they want, communicate in whatever mode they choose, on any
device.
“Google’s impact on the enterprise is significant as more CIOs and IT
decision makers make the jump to the cloud and move away from legacy
on-premise infrastructure,” said Vlad Shmunis, chairman, founder and CEO
of RingCentral. “Our recognition as a leader in the Gartner 2015 Magic
Quadrant for UCaaS Worldwide and our status in the ‘Recommended for
Google Apps’ program can give enterprises the confidence in RingCentral
as a high quality, reliable, and secure communications solution.
Together with Google, we look forward to helping enterprises maximize
their cloud investments with an unprecedented, integrated communications
and productivity solution.”
Channel Partnerships to Drive Adoption
The new offering, RingCentral Office Google Edition, will
be sold through channel partners initially, with Agosto signing up as
the first channel partner. Agosto, founded in 2001, is a premier Google
for Work partner, known for bringing unmatched levels of service and
commitment in helping businesses migrate to the cloud. In addition to
developing joint channel partnerships for the integrated offering,
RingCentral will provide extensive sales training to direct sales and
sales engineer staff to champion the innovative power of the integrated
solutions and to inspire more businesses to move their communications
and productivity to the cloud.
“It’s great to be an inaugural channel partner of the RingCentral Office
Google Edition,” said Aric Bandy, Agosto president. “We’ve been a key
player in the adoption of Google Apps in the enterprise; this new
integrated offering is a great way to add to our portfolio of services
and help more businesses migrate their communications applications to
the cloud too.”
About the RingCentral and Google Offer
A new tier of RingCentral with WebRTC has been developed for this
offering, which is purpose-built for Google, integrated with Hangouts,
Gmail, Drive, Chrome, and Android. It will be available in the U.S. for
$30 per user per month, with Canada and UK coming soon. Existing Google
customers can add this RingCentral tier for $20 per user per month and
use their Google credentials to log into RingCentral using single
sign-on. The ability to make calls directly from Google Apps allows
enterprises to spend more time communicating with customers, and less
time toggling between apps, dialing, and recording all types of
communications into the profile. It also eliminates the need for
customers to use a separate communications application, promoting a
holistic cloud solution that yields significant productivity gains.
Additional Supporting Points and Supporting Quotes
RingCentral for Google is a plug-in available today from the Google Apps
Marketplace where there have been nearly 200,000 installs since it was
first made available in February 2015. Among all of the various
integrations offered by RingCentral, the Google integration leads as the
most popular among RingCentral users. In November 2015, RingCentral was
chosen as a trusted communications solution in the new “Recommended for
Google Apps” program. Reviewed for the quality of integration and vetted
by a third-party security firm, RingCentral delivers a great product
experience that Google’s business customers can count on to serve core
functions in their everyday business needs.
“In a recent survey of North American enterprises, we asked respondents
what capabilities they deem important in choosing a UC solution; 69%
said the ability to integrate voice with business applications is ‘very
important.’ It is no longer enough to have communication tools unified;
it’s necessary to bring those tools to individual applications, to
launch communication sessions—chat, voice, and video—directly from
email, address book, or other productivity tools,” said Diane
Myers, senior research director & UC analyst for IHS (formerly
Infonetics Research).
“As one of the top universities in the country, it was crucial for us to
have a communications solution that integrated with Google Apps. With
click-to-dial capabilities and the RingCentral MeetingsTM
integration with Hangouts, communicating with colleagues and students
has never been more effortless,” said Naveed Husain, Chief
Innovation Officer, Teacher’s College, Columbia University.
“RingCentral for Google has been life changing for our sales team that
spends 60-80% of their time engaged in prospecting and sales calls. In
addition to easy access to our communications history, we can make and
receive calls directly from a phone number within Gmail and ProsperWorks
CRM. RingCentral combined with the power of Google Apps has made us more
productive than ever,” said Bret Knobelauch, Senior Director and
Global Head of Sales, ProsperWorks.
"When we transitioned our communications to the cloud, we chose
RingCentral because it had already been vetted by Google, so we knew it
would be a great solution. Our business relies heavily on Gmail and we
needed a dependable platform that would allow us to easily and
efficiently integrate as well as track our communications within the
Google Apps we utilize every day,” said Carl Landers, Chief
Marketing Officer, Conversica.
RingCentral Office Google Edition will be available late summer 2016.
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, the
RingCentral logo, RingCentral Meetings, and RingCentral Office are
trademarks of RingCentral, Inc.
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