Highlights include:
- Voice activated control and mobile phone controller for
RingCentral Rooms™
- RingCentral Rooms on Logitech Rally devices
- RingCentral Rooms for Windows devices
RingCentral Inc. (NYSE: RNG), a leading provider of global
enterprise cloud communications, video meetings, collaboration, and
contact center solutions, today announced new enhancements to
RingCentral Rooms™. The enhancements, specific to its video
meetings capabilities within RingCentral’s Message Video Phone™
(MVP™) offering and RingCentral Video®, the company's video
meetings solution with team messaging, will enable people to
connect, communicate, and collaborate seamlessly, whether they are
returning to the office or working from anywhere. The new
capabilities include voice activated control enabling users to
start and join meetings through a touchless experience and the
ability to control the meeting from a mobile device. In addition,
RingCentral Rooms will now be compatible with Logitech Rally
devices and Windows devices and appliances, making RingCentral
Rooms accessible to a wider audience.
“At RingCentral we are focused on connecting people - wherever
they are located - with the best messaging, video, and cloud phone
service,” said Nat Natarajan, executive vice president of products
and engineering at RingCentral. “As offices open up, organizations
are quickly adapting to support a collaborative hybrid workforce
that creates participation equity. Our rapid innovation on
RingCentral Rooms makes it easier and more rewarding for people to
connect, resulting in a more inclusive culture so they can do their
best work.”
RingCentral customer Dave Evans, CIO of Computer History
Museum, a well-known Bay Area-based institution, said, “Our
mission is to enable our employees, partners and guests to
communicate digitally with audiences all over the world - whether
that's in-person from our historical venue, from home, or
on-the-go. With new RingCentral Rooms capabilities, we will have
the flexibility we need to redesign and transform our venue for the
new way of working and support a hybrid model. By doing this, we
can continue to preserve the history of computing through the
exchange of ideas with audiences seamlessly from wherever they
are.”
Meeting Room Features for the Hybrid Workplace
As workers begin to return to offices and work from anywhere,
organizations must manage safety concerns, including cleanliness
and social distancing guidelines to ensure their employees are
comfortable attending hybrid video meetings in an office
environment. To support this, we are announcing the following
features for RingCentral Rooms:
- Voice activated Rooms: Users can use a voice command,
“Hi RingCentral, join my meeting” in any conference room that
leverages RingCentral Rooms, without needing to touch the shared
tablet controller or any high touch surfaces.
- Mobile phone as controller: Users can start, join, and
manage video meetings in a conference room using their own
RingCentral mobile app (connecting to the room via Bluetooth) so
they can adhere to social distancing guidelines and avoid touching
the communal controller tablet to control the Rooms system. The
RingCentral app will natively support a command to start an
upcoming meeting.
- Rooms monitoring: Users can now track and monitor their
RingCentral Rooms devices in real-time, gaining visibility into
device history and unprovisioned devices. With this feature, users
can easily search, filter, and track meeting rooms and devices
based on location/IP address, time, and device name.
- Rooms status and alerts: IT admins can now customize the
operational status of their room’s assets to ensure meeting rooms
are fully functional. Administrators can receive real-time,
proactive alerts about the status of devices and integrations in
any particular meeting room and remedy any issues before the
meeting occurs.
- Windows for RingCentral Rooms: RingCentral Rooms now
supports Windows-based host appliances, in addition to Android and
Mac appliances. With this update, we are continuing to expand our
portfolio by providing compatibility and support for the majority
of devices used by customers today including devices from Logitech
and AVer.
“Organizations are actively discussing plans to enable employees
to work in the office and exactly when and how that will happen.
However, they will need an actual plan in place that addresses
things like meeting accessibility, simplicity, control, inclusion,
workplace safety, security, privacy, etc. for that to happen
effectively,” said Rich Costello, senior research analyst, IDC.
“The capabilities and enhancements highlighted in this RingCentral
Rooms announcement are key attributes of any smart return to work
plan.”
RingCentral Rooms for Logitech: All-in-One Video Meeting
Rooms Solution
Together, Logitech and RingCentral are providing an easy way for
businesses to modernize their workplaces for the new hybrid
workforce with an enhanced meeting rooms experience. With
RingCentral Rooms for Logitech, mutual customers can deploy, start,
and join meetings without the need for extensive meeting room
equipment, delivering an all-in-one video conferencing solution for
almost any workspace. This solution enables organizations to
accelerate their hybrid transitions and allow onsite and remote
employees to connect and collaborate with minimal friction.
The Logitech Rally Family of devices will support RingCentral
Rooms, included with the Logitech® Tap controller to allow users to
control room settings. Devices include:
- Logitech® Rally Bar Mini for small-sized meeting
rooms
- Logitech® Rally Bar for medium-sized meeting rooms
- Logitech® Rally Plus & RoomMate for large-sized
meeting rooms (available by end of 2021)
“Teleconference phones in conference rooms are rapidly
transforming into video rooms as the world starts returning to the
office and transitioning to hybrid work,” said Scott Wharton, GM of
Video Collaboration for Logitech. “RingCentral has been a leader
and innovator in driving Unified Communications to businesses of
all sizes, so their RingCentral Rooms, powered by Logitech's
market-leading video products, is a next logical step to helping
people adapt to the new hybrid reality.”
For more information about RingCentral Rooms, visit
https://www.ringcentral.com/office/rooms.html.
About RingCentral
RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG) is a leading provider of business
cloud communications and contact center solutions based on its
powerful Message Video Phone™ (MVP™) global platform. 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
offers three key products in its portfolio including RingCentral
MVP™, a Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) platform
including team messaging, video meetings, and cloud phone system,
RingCentral Video™, the company's video meetings solution with
team messaging that enables Smart Video Meetings™, and RingCentral
cloud Contact Center solutions. 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.
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