About RingCentral Office

Headquartered in Belmont, California, RingCentral is a leading cloud unified communications and collaborations solutions provider. Founded in 2003 by Vlad Shmunis and Vlad Vendrow, the company went public in 2013 and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol RNG. In 2015, Ring Central acquired Glip, an instant messaging application for businesses which enabled RingCentral to add messaging functionality to its application.

RingCentral Office is a custom-built unified communications service that has been developed especially for Microsoft Products. Its cloud-based architecture makes it easily scalable and provides enhanced flexibility and mobility. The system uses one phone system to provide voice calls, video conferencing and online meeting services. It provides seamless connectivity with the RingCentral desktop app which enables companies to plug in IP desk phones and computers into their internet connection. The RingCentral mobile apps for Android and iOS enables people to stay connected using their smartphones.

RingCentral Office is custom-built for with Microsoft OS, and it allows for easy integration with other applications such as Oracle Sales, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Zendesk and even Dropbox. The team collaboration and conference+meeting features make it easier for team members to work together. RingCentral provides a range of call management services in addition to features such as auto-receptionist to help greet callers and direct their calls. The Cloud PBX also provides role-based access control and can generate call reports to help analyze historical data and identify trends. It also provides instant messenger application for businesses, business SMS and internet fax services. Companies can choose from three membership options: standard, premium, and enterprise. This makes it a powerful connectivity tool for small and medium businesses, even though it does not provide extensive call center functionalities. In just a little over a decade, RingCentral has worked with close to 350,000 clients.

RingCentral’s shelf of trophies boasts of the 2017 Unified Communications Excellence Award presented by TMC and Internet Telephony magazine in addition to its Frost & Sullivan’s 2016 Company of the Year Award. Forbes named it one of the 100 most trustworthy companies in America, and RingCentral has been a regular on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 list for three consecutive years, starting in 2013. At the 2016 Best in Biz Awards, RingCentral was a Gold winner in the Enterprise Service of the Year category. It also won the prestigious TMC Internet Telephony Product of the Year Award in 2016. The company’s executives, Kira Makagon, Executive Vice President of Innovation, Faiza Hughell, Vice President of SMB Sales, won awards at the Stevie Women in Business event.

About Zendesk

Zendesk is a customer service software company that aims to build better customer relationships.

Founded in 2007, Zendesk was the brainchild of Mikkel Svane, Alexander Aghassipour, and Morten Primdahl – all former employees in the customer service industry. They created Zendesk as a straightforward and intuitive solution to customer tracking and incident reporting problems that they used to encounter in their day jobs.

The trio received $500,000 in seed funding from angel investor Christoph Janz in 2008. It was followed the next year by a $6 million series B funding from Charles River Ventures and Benchmark Capital. From Copenhagen, Denmark, the Zendesk headquarters moved to San Francisco, California.

Zendesk debuted on the New York Stock Exchange in 2014 with the ticker symbol ZEN and an IPO price of $9 per share. The company now has over 1,600 employees and serves 87,000 customers in over 150 countries. It has offices in London, Madison, Manila, Copenhagen, Dublin, Tokyo, Montpellier, Berlin, Melbourne, Singapore, and Sao Paulo.

Zendesk offers a suite of products that work together to help improve customer relationships. One of the most popular is Zendesk Support – a simple system that tracks, prioritizes, and solves customer support tickets. It is backed by experts (called the Advocate Team) that provide worldwide support through a variety of channels. It also has a Success Team that can work as an extension of the user’s own team, helping them create strategies and set goals to optimize the customer service experience.

Another well-loved product is the Zendesk Help Center, which delivers seamless self-service experiences to reduce support requests. It features a fully customizable Help Center, a knowledge base, an online community, and a self-service portal.

Users can also make themselves available across multiple channels through Zendesk Chat, Zendesk Talk, and Zendesk Message.

As one of the most popular CRM platforms on the market, Zendesk has been the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions.

In 2011, Zendesk won Best Relationship Management Solution at the SIIA CODiE Awards, the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. It also won in the Most Innovative Use of Big Data in the Cloud category of the 2014-2015 UK Cloud Awards Program.

FastCompany also ranked Zendesk fifth on its list of the Most Innovative Companies in Enterprise Software last 2016.

Zendesk founder Mikkel Svane has received accolades as well, including his inclusion in the Inc. Founders List in 2016 and Inc. Magazine’s Top 40 CEOs to Watch in 2015.