RingCentral
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| Industry | Cloud computing based business phone systems |
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| Genre | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Headquarters | San Mateo, CA, USA[1] |
| Key people | Vlad Shmunis, CEO |
| Products | RingCentral Office RingCentral Mobile RingCentral Fax |
| Employees | 900 |
| Website | RingCentral.com |
RingCentral provides cloud computing based phone systems, designed to help small businesses manage mobile, fax, and email communications. Its products include RingCentral Office, RingCentral Mobile, and RingCentral Fax.
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[edit] History
Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, RingCentral has approximately 900 employees. It was founded in 2003 by Vlad Shmunis who previously started Ring Zero Systems[2]. RingCentral is funded by Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, and DAG Ventures[3].
[edit] Products
RingCentral has three product offerings: RingCentral Office, RingCentral Mobile, and RingCentral Fax.
As reported by Forbes, "What makes RingCentral so potentially disruptive is that it offers an inexpensive ($99 per month for four users), Web-only solution with no hardware to be installed at all, except for handsets which the customer supplies. Reportedly, with the right handset and a good enough Internet connection, RingCentral offers excellent quality. RingCentral enables small and midsize businesses to have what might otherwise be unaffordable smart-PBX features, including call control, extensions, Outlook integration for dialing and faxing, hold music, call logs, and rules-based call routing and answering[4]."
[edit] RingCentral Office
RingCentral Office is a complete Internet-based phone service designed for small businesses. It can be used to connect teams in different locations.
[edit] RingCentral Mobile
RingCentral Mobile provides customers with a local or toll-free number that connects their existing phone lines as virtual extensions. Features include call forwarding and answering rules. Users can also receive calls, transmit faxes, and listen to voicemail through an online account.
[edit] RingCentral Fax
RingCentral Fax is an Internet fax service that gives users the ability to send and receive faxes through the Internet without a fax machine. Users can transmit documents online, sign and edit their faxes digitally, and receive text and email alerts when a new fax arrives.
[edit] RingCentral VoIP Lines
VoIP lines enable users to make outgoing calls with a softphone or VoIP phone.
[edit] Awards
RingCentral was named a 2010 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. Explaining what makes the company a pioneer, the World Economic Forum states, "RingCentral has radically changed the cost structure for business phone systems from tens of thousands of dollars to as low as US$ 10 a month and is delivering these services in the US, Canada, and the United Kingdom[5]."
PC Magazine awarded RingCentral with an Editor’s Choice Award[6]. RingCentral also won the 2009 Product of the Year Award from Internet Telephony Magazine[7] and was named a 2009 Webware 100 award winner[8].
[edit] References
- ^ Contact Us
- ^ "RingCentral About Us Executive Team Leadership". http://www.ringcentral.com/whyringcentral/company/executiveteam.html. Retrieved 2010-08-31.
- ^ "RingCentral About Us". http://www.ringcentral.com/whyringcentral/company.html. Retrieved 2010-08-31.
- ^ Callahan, Renee Hopkins (December 9, 2008). "Businesses Move To Voice-Over-IP". Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/09/skype-vonage-ringcentral_leadership_clayton_in_rc_1209claytonchristensen_inl.html. Retrieved 2010-08-31.
- ^ "Embracing Disruption: Redesigning the Future / The World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers 2010", World Economic Forum, http://www.weforum.org/pdf/techpioneers/TechnologyPioneers2010.pdf, retrieved 2010-08-31
- ^ Rist, Oliver (January 7, 2008). "RingCentral DigitalLine VoIP Service". PC Magazine. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2246090,00.asp. Retrieved 2010-08-31.
- ^ Linask, Erik (February 2010). "2009 Internet Telephony Product of the Year Awards". TMCnet.com. http://www.tmcnet.com/voip/0210/2009-internet-telephony-product-of-the-year-awards.htm. Retrieved 2010-08-31.
- ^ "Webware 100 Winners!". CNET. http://www.webware.com/html/ww/100/2009/winners.html?tag=snav. Retrieved 2010-08-31.
[edit] External links
[edit] Further reading
- Bradley, Tony (June 23, 2010). Managing Smartphones in Your Business. The Washington Post
- Buckman, Rebecca (March 4, 2008). Internet Phone Service Gets Plush. The Wall Street Journal
- Dahl, Darren (May 1, 2008). Clip Here and Save Big: How to trim your IT budget without making sacrifices. Inc.
- Diaz, Sam (November 17, 2009). Ring Central: a virtual phone system for a 21st Century workforce. ZDNet
- Enderle, Rob (July 20, 2009). Could the Cloud Kill the PBX? IT Business Edge
- Fahmy, Dalia (January 28, 2009). Financing, With Strings Attached. The New York Times
- Hamilton, Charles (October 28, 2009). RingCentral Office: Comprehensive Internet-based Phone Services. WebWorkerDaily
- Hesseldahl, Arik (August 11, 2009). Services That Eliminate Telephone Tag. Bloomberg Businessweek
- Hoge, Patrick (June 9, 2010). Ringtones in the Clouds. Portfolio.com
- Poe, Robert (September 26, 2007). RingCentral Makes Very Small Businesses Look Very Big. VoIP News
- Shah, Praful (December 2, 2009). Is the Traditional Office Becoming Extinct? VentureBeat
