RingCentral’s CEO, Vlad Shmunis, describes in a recent Smart Business article how he grew RingCentral into the company it is today. Founded in 2003 by “two guys named Vlad,” RingCentral now provides cloud-based phone service to more than 200,000 customers and employs more than 500 people. Here’s the executive summary of Vlad’s strategies for growth and success: Invest in [...]

When I owned a small business in the late ’90s, the day came when a couple of analog lines and multi-line phones didn’t seem professional enough. So I had to start calling local phone-system companies. They all came out with their brochure, and pretty pictures of ugly boxes, and phones with lots of buttons to [...]

The results are in from our annual smartphone survey! We polled 300 RingCentral SMB customers about their mobile device adoption and cloud use. The key takeaway: 57% of business owners said the majority of their business-critical applications currently run in the cloud. Take a look at our infographic below for additional survey results. Many thanks [...]

Nielsen reports that almost half of U.S. mobile subscribers (49.7%, to be precise) now own smartphones. And almost half of that group (48 percent) own an Android device. In addition, a recent survey by AT&T found, 85% of small businesses have adopted smartphones, with first-time buyers favoring Android devices by a wide margin. RingCentral already offers VoIP calling for iPhones. So we’re excited to [...]

AlwaysOn has named RingCentral one of the OnDemand 100 - “the top emerging internet companies disrupting the established enterprise, reinventing legacy data streams and pioneering cloud computing and SaaS.” Cloud–Infrastructure RingCentral is listed as a top cloud infrastructure company and is pleased to be the leading cloud phone systems provider for businesses as part of OnDemand 100. [...]