RingCentral Named Founding Partner Of The Warriors And Chase Center
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
The Golden State Warriors, Chase Center and RingCentral,
Inc. (NYSE:RNG), a leading provider of global enterprise cloud
communications and collaboration solutions, today announced a multi-year
partnership. RingCentral will now be the Official Enterprise Cloud
Communications Partner for the Warriors and a Founding Partner of Chase
Center, the state-of-the-art sports and entertainment complex being
built in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood, scheduled to open in
September of 2019. In addition, all Warriors business offices and Chase
Center operations will use RingCentral to exclusively power its
communications. Warriors Owner and CEO Joe Lacob and RingCentral
Founder, Chairman and CEO Vlad Shmunis announced the news today at
RingCentral’s ConnectCentral®
2018 conference in San Francisco.
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Joe Lacob, Warriors Owner and CEO, and Vlad Shmunis, RingCentral Founder, Chairman and CEO (Photo: Business Wire)
“Adding RingCentral as our latest Founding Partner further enables us
across the organization, to collaborate seamlessly,” said Warriors Owner
and CEO Joe Lacob. “RingCentral has been a tremendous partner of ours
for the past four years and we’re looking forward to continuing that
relationship as we open Chase Center less than a year from now.”
Under the agreement, RingCentral will be the Official Enterprise Cloud
Communications Partner, bringing its industry leading cloud technology
to the brand-new arena. As the presenting partner for the Warriors radio
game broadcast Call Under Review feature, RingCentral’s enterprise
communications platform will power referee collaboration as they make
critical game decisions.
“We’re excited to partner with the Warriors to enhance the
communications experience for both the team and Chase Center,” said Vlad
Shmunis, RingCentral Founder, Chairman and CEO. “With today’s
announcement, we are now a Founding Partner of Chase Center and their
enterprise cloud communications solutions provider of choice. We look
forward to a continued successful partnership.”
Recognizing the robust capabilities of RingCentral, the Warriors
business offices and Chase Center operations will use RingCentral’s
cloud platform to communicate with customers, partners, and employees.
RingCentral will replace the Warriors legacy on-premises system with RingCentral
Office to enable greater mobility, flexibility, and richer features,
including video meetings, team messaging, mobile and desktop apps, and
quality of service analytics.
RingCentral provides enterprise-grade unified voice, video, team
messaging and collaboration, conferencing, online meetings, digital
customer engagement and integrated contact center solutions. Easier to
manage and more flexible and cost-efficient than legacy, on-premises
communications systems, RingCentral’s cloud solutions meet the needs of
today’s mobile and distributed workforce.
About Chase Center
Chase Center is a 18,064-seat sports and entertainment arena, set to
open in the Fall of 2019, which will anchor an 11-acre mixed use
privately financed complex in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood.
Chase Center will play host to Warriors basketball, concerts, cultural
events, family shows and more, totaling nearly 200 events a year. The
sports and entertainment district will include two office buildings and
29 unique retail locations, along with 3.2 acres of publicly accessible
plazas and open space.
About the Golden State Warriors
The Golden State Warriors organization, currently in its 73rd
season, is a charter member of the National Basketball Association.
Founded in 1946, the Warriors called the city of Philadelphia home for
16 memorable years before moving to the West Coast in 1962 to become the
San Francisco Warriors and ultimately, in 1971, the Golden State
Warriors when the team moved across the Bay to its current home in
Oakland. The team’s storied history includes six NBA Championships, an
NBA-record 73 wins during the 2015-16 season, six of the NBA’s 50
Greatest Players and 26 members of Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of
Fame. For more information on the Golden State Warriors, please visit warriors.com.
About RingCentral
RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG) is a leading provider of global enterprise
cloud communications and collaboration solutions. More flexible and
cost-effective than legacy on-premises systems, RingCentral empowers
modern mobile and distributed workforces to communicate, collaborate,
and connect from any location, on any device and via any mode.
RingCentral provides unified voice, video, team messaging and
collaboration, conferencing, online meetings, digital customer
engagement and integrated contact center solutions for enterprises
globally. RingCentral’s open platform integrates with leading business
apps and enables customers to easily customize business workflows.
RingCentral is headquartered in Belmont, California, and has offices
around the world.
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RingCentral logo are trademarks of RingCentral, Inc.
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Golden State Warriors/Chase Center
Raymond Ridder
(510)
986-5384
rridder@warriors.com
Lisa
Goodwin
(510) 986-2253
lgoodwin@warriors.com
RingCentral
Mariana Kosturos
(650) 562-6545
mariana.kosturos@ringcentral.com
Source: RingCentral, Inc.