{"id":755852,"date":"2023-05-08T08:05:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T12:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/ringcentral-announces-ringcentral-for-teams-2-0-a-next-generation-integrated-calling-experience-for-microsoft-teams\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T08:05:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T12:05:12","slug":"ringcentral-announces-ringcentral-for-teams-2-0-a-next-generation-integrated-calling-experience-for-microsoft-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/ringcentral-announces-ringcentral-for-teams-2-0-a-next-generation-integrated-calling-experience-for-microsoft-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"RingCentral Announces RingCentral for Teams 2.0 – a Next Generation Integrated Calling Experience for Microsoft Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RingCentral Announces RingCentral for Teams 2.0 – a Next Generation Integrated Calling Experience for Microsoft Teams<\/b><\/p>\n

Revamped solution enhances Microsoft Teams with advanced telephony, superior mobile experience, SMS, fax, integrations, and faster performance – no Teams Phone license required<\/i><\/p>\n

BELMONT, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE<\/a>)–RingCentral, Inc.<\/a> (NYSE: RNG), a leading provider of AI-powered global enterprise cloud communications, video meetings, collaboration, and contact center solutions, today announced the next generation of RingCentral<\/a> for Microsoft Teams 2.0.<\/a> RingCentral provides the ultimate flexibility with both direct routing and a next-gen embedded app for calling, SMS, and fax.<\/p>\n

This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20230508005261\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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RingCentral for Microsoft Teams 2.0 provides a next-gen embedded app for calling, fax, and other functions. (Graphic: Business Wire)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nThe solution brings RingCentral\u2019s world-class cloud PBX capabilities into Microsoft Teams with a fully native experience, and without requiring a second application. This means that end customers can now enjoy RingCentral\u2019s renowned 99.999% reliability, global availability, and industry-leading features and third-party integration capabilities entirely within Teams\u2019 single pane of glass.<\/p>\n

\nRingCentral for Microsoft Teams 2.0 delivers a significantly enhanced, purpose-built experience with innovative features that boost productivity, including voicemail transcription, call recording, bi-directional presence sync, unified contact search, and can be coupled with RingCentral Contact Center<\/a>\u2122, one of the world\u2019s leading contact center solutions.<\/p>\n

\n“Many businesses have standardized on Teams for internal collaboration, but when it comes to advanced communications, customers often seek out third-party solutions,” said Mo Katibeh, President and COO of RingCentral. \u201cWhen customer communications are critical, businesses look to RingCentral, given our reputation for 99.999% reliability and our robust and advanced telephony capabilities. We\u2019re excited to deliver this next generation of RingCentral for Microsoft Teams, and empower customers with faster performance, deeper integration, a new mobile experience, and simpler admin tools.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why Microsoft Teams Customers are Choosing RingCentral<\/b><\/p>\n

\nTelephony remains a critical component of hybrid work communications. In a recent third party study1<\/sup> of 17,000 people, results revealed that phone is now the #1 preferred customer communication channel, overtaking email. The majority of Microsoft Teams customers have Microsoft 365 E1 or E3 licenses, which do not include telephony and require customers to purchase a calling plan or a Teams Phone license at additional cost. With RingCentral, telephony is included with all licenses, and customers have a cost-effective and robust solution for an integrated, reliable, cloud-based phone service for Microsoft Teams that offers advanced telephony features, such as call routing, custom call queues, automatic call recording, over 330 pre-built integrations, and industry-leading analytics. In addition, RingCentral provides a smart sidecar panel for quick access to key contacts and advanced call features, like monitor, whisper, barge-in, and queue management, all available on desktop and mobile devices.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cMost Microsoft Teams users do not have access to integrated calling capabilities, which means they can’t use Microsoft Teams to place calls outside the organization or to customers,\u201d said Irwin Lazar, President and Principal Analyst at Metrigy. \u201cAs Teams users evaluate alternative telephony approaches, more than 47% are choosing to use a UCaaS provider, such as RingCentral, to enable calling capabilities for Microsoft Teams. RingCentral options for Microsoft Teams provide flexible, and highly reliable, deployment options and the ability to integrate enterprise-grade telephony and SMS, fax, analytics, CRM integrations, and other capabilities into a Microsoft Teams deployment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nThousands of organizations, especially in industries where customer engagement is critical and communication downtime means major disruption to revenue and operations, have already selected RingCentral for Microsoft Teams for its superior reliability, advanced cloud telephony capabilities, analytics, app integrations, and more. RingCentral for Microsoft Teams 2.0 offers faster load times and a streamlined user interface, resulting in an improved user experience, along with robust capabilities and flexibility.<\/p>\n

Key capabilities of the RingCentral for Microsoft Teams 2.0 next-gen solution include:<\/b><\/p>\n