Next-generation services will support better
collaboration and communication for businesses of all sizes across
multiple countries, including the UK, Germany, Spain, and Italy
Vodafone Business and RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG), a leading
provider of global enterprise cloud communications, collaboration
and contact center solutions, today announced a strategic
partnership that seeks to transform business communications and
collaboration.
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Together the companies will create a new co-branded, cloud-based
service that will be the lead Unified Communications as a Service
(UCaaS) solution for Vodafone Business, and also offer Contact
Center as a Service (CCaaS) to Vodafone Business customers.
Bringing together Vodafone Business’ mobile first approach,
global brand, reach and scale with RingCentral’s deep UCaaS and
CCaaS expertise, the platform will deliver flexible, easy to use
and secure services. The platform will be available to customers of
all sizes offering all businesses benefits from next-generation
communications and collaboration capabilities.
Vodafone Business and RingCentral will jointly drive product
roadmap, innovation, sales enablement and go-to-market. Both
companies will contribute resources to this, creating a joint
development capability and also leveraging the RingCentral open API
platform for custom integrations.
Vinod Kumar, CEO, Vodafone Business, said: “Our
partnership with RingCentral will enable customers to rapidly
deploy and easily manage the communications services that are right
for them, and marks another step forward in our drive to become a
platform based business. Together with RingCentral we can transform
ways of working, improve business processes, and help companies
become ready for a future of increased remote and flexible
working.”
The partnership will offer Vodafone Business’ global customer
base quick-to-deploy, scalable cloud-based communications services
based on RingCentral’s leading Message Video Phone™ (MVP™)
platform. As part of the agreement, Vodafone Business will offer
RingCentral's integrated UCaaS and CCaaS solutions including
RingCentral’s Engage Voice and Engage Digital products. Vodafone
Business will provide value-added services in migration, adoption,
and integration to ensure customers are realizing the full benefit
of the platform.
“We're excited to partner with the leader in mobility and 5G to
enable a ‘work from anywhere’ world with a new generation of cloud
communications services,” said Anand Eswaran, RingCentral’s
President and COO. “Mobility is critical to business success,
and together with Vodafone Business, we will bring enterprise
customers worldwide the capabilities they need, including team
messaging, video meetings, and enterprise-grade voice services, to
build the digital communications of the future.”
Vodafone Business and RingCentral will initially introduce new
services to customers located in the United Kingdom and for
Vodafone Business’ multinational customers in Europe in 2021.
Multiple additional countries will follow, including Spain, Germany
and Italy, with the platform tailored to local delivery in
each.
About Vodafone
Vodafone is a leading telecommunications company in Europe and
Africa. Our purpose is to “connect for a better future” and our
expertise and scale gives us a unique opportunity to drive positive
change for society. Our networks keep family, friends, businesses
and governments connected and – as COVID-19 has clearly
demonstrated – we play a vital role in keeping economies running
and the functioning of critical sectors like education and
healthcare.
Vodafone is the largest mobile and fixed network operator in
Europe and a leading global IoT connectivity provider. Our M-Pesa
technology platform in Africa enables over 45m people to benefit
from access to mobile payments and financial services. We operate
mobile and fixed networks in 21 countries and partner with mobile
networks in 48 more. As of 30 September 2020 we had over 300m
mobile customers, more than 27m fixed broadband customers, over 22m
TV customers and we connected more than 112m IoT devices.
We support diversity and inclusion through our maternity and
parental leave policies, empowering women through connectivity and
improving access to education and digital skills for women, girls,
and society at large. We are respectful of all individuals,
irrespective of race, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual
orientation, gender identity, belief, culture or religion.
Vodafone is also taking significant steps to reduce our impact
on our planet by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by
2025, purchasing 100% of our electricity from renewable sources by
2025, and reusing, reselling or recycling 100% of our redundant
network equipment.
For more information, please visit www.vodafone.com, follow us
on Twitter at @VodafoneGroup or connect with us on LinkedIn at
www.linkedin.com/company/vodafone.
About RingCentral
RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG) is a leading provider of cloud
Message Video Phone™ (MVP™), customer engagement and contact center
solutions for businesses worldwide. More flexible and
cost-effective than legacy on-premise PBX and video conferencing
systems that it replaces, RingCentral empowers modern mobile and
distributed workforces to communicate, collaborate, and connect via
any mode, any device, and any location. RingCentral’s open platform
integrates with leading third-party business applications and
enables customers to easily customize business workflows.
RingCentral is headquartered in Belmont, California, and has
offices around the world.
©2020 RingCentral, Inc. All rights reserved. RingCentral,
Message Video Phone, MVP and the RingCentral logo are trademarks of
RingCentral, Inc.
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Ryan Goodman, RingCentral Ryan.Goodman@ringcentral.com +1 (650)
918-5356
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Mariana Leventis, RingCentral Mariana.Leventis@ringcentral.com
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