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Businesses are fed up with old-school on-premise phone systems’ limitations. But cloud phone services offer features that on-prem systems can’t – at attractive prices, to boot. RingCentral recently worked with Dimensional Research, an independent research firm, to poll about 300 corporate IT decision-makers. Among the survey respondents who are using a private branch exchange (PBX) [...]

Exciting news: For the second year in a row, RingCentral has been named one of AlwaysOn’s 100 companies to watch. AlwaysOn, a media company serving private-company entrepreneurs and executives, conducted a rigorous three-month search for the companies that are disrupting computing the most. The final list of 100 firms – known as the OnDemand Top [...]

Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) phone systems are gaining traction for both personal and business use. What’s so great about online telephony – and why is it grabbing market share from old-line telecom providers? Here are 10 of the biggest reasons: 1. Hosted phone solutions require no on-site equipment. That means you have more space [...]

Hagaman Insurance Group, a life, health and dental insurance brokerage, is located just off the Jersey Shore in the township of Toms River. The town, with its bucolic central business district and miles of water frontage, is normally quiet. But when Hurricane Sandy struck in the fall of 2012, Toms River was anything but peaceful. [...]

Believe it or not, the fax machine is still being used throughout the world – despite the proliferation of internet-based fax services such as RingCentral. Whilst most communication in the business world revolves around smartphones, email, internet messaging and other web-based applications, there are still millions using paper-based fax machines on a daily basis. This [...]

Does moving to cloud just mean hosting your software in a highly available data center? Is SaaS (software as a service) just about using somebody else’s software that’s hosted in their data center? How much spent on a SaaS solution is too much? Where do you break even with a perpetual software fee? Do these [...]

Cloud computing is revamping entire industries – and telecommunications is no exception. Compared to the legacy phone systems they’re designed to replace, cloud phone services like RingCentral are easier to access, more mobile-friendly and better able to bring virtual workforces together. How do RingCentral Office’s features improve accessibility, mobility and unity for businesses? Read on: [...]

Exciting news: Our senior director of channel and franchise sales, Bonnie Lam, appeared today on BlogTalkRadio‘s Franchise Interviews radio show. Franchise Interviews has been discussing the business of franchises for more than 40 years. Some of the nation’s best-known companies are franchised – including Subway, Jiffy Lube, Quizno’s and H&R Block – so even if [...]

What’s better: on-premise or cloud-based software? At this year’s ITExpo East in Miami (a conference where RingCentral exhibited), an entire panel of industry experts attempted to make sense of that question. Even when their conversation concluded, however, much remained unresolved. Is there a single ”best” choice? The simple answer is no – different companies will have different demands, [...]

Our Silicon Valley neighbor and my ex-employer Yahoo! made waves this week when it announced plans to disallow remote work. Many corporate leaders like Virgin’s Richard Branson and oDesk CEO Gary Swart were quick to criticize Yahoo’s move, arguing that their employees are more productive when working from home (in contrast to Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who [...]