#contactcenterworld, @Avaya, @ringcentral

Santa Clara, CA, USA, June 30, 2020 -- Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE: AVYA) and RingCentral Inc. (NYSE: RNG) announced the global expansion and general availability of Avaya Cloud Office™ by RingCentral(R) in Australia, Canada, and the UK along with the availability of several key new features and capabilities including tools to help migrate customers more efficiently and effectively.

Today’s announcement highlights the continued expansion of Avaya Cloud Office to more countries and customers around the globe. For example, the CIUSSS Est-de-l’Ile-de-Montreal (or CEMTL), a Canadian healthcare and social services provider turned to Avaya to power their communication needs. "Avaya Cloud Office demonstrates the true value of UCaaS and enables us to act quickly and stay engaged across our locations, in particular during the COVID-19 crisis when effective and efficient communications and collaboration are critical and not an option. Avaya Cloud Office enables our team to collaborate seamlessly across locations and devices to better focus on the needs of our customers. Additionally, the deployment was fast and effortless, literally within hours we were up and running."

"The way we work continues to change as we see real examples of digital transformation accelerating rapidly across businesses of all sizes," said Dennis Kozak, SVP, Business Transformation, Avaya. "Nothing is more critical to a business than communications and we have seen unprecedented uptake of our collaboration solutions as a result of the new working environment we are all experiencing. Organizations of all kinds are quickly adopting solutions that provide a single integrated platform to seamlessly manage communications with customers and employees, across multiple devices."

"It is now more important than ever before that vendors in Unified Communications & Collaboration are able to provide UCaaS for clients both new and potential," said Oru Mohiuddin, Research Manager Enterprise Communications & Collaboration, IDC. "According to IDC Europe forecast, UCaaS will grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 23.3 percent between 2019 and 2022, which is higher than the 17.1 percent anticipated during the pre-COVID-19 period. IDC is seeing similar trends in places like Canada and Australia as well. This is to facilitate remote collaboration as working from home becomes the new norm in the post crisis period. It is, however, not just enough to provide UCaaS – it needs to be customizable, flexible, modular, agile, frictionless, scalable, omnichannel and secure to cater to the varying needs of enterprises."

"Organizations need modern cloud communications solutions to remain connected and accelerate business outcomes," said Anand Eswaran, President and Chief Operating Officer, RingCentral. "Avaya Cloud Office enables businesses to keep moving forward and helps ensure that customers have the necessary solutions at their fingertips to connect, communicate, and collaborate effectively. Ever since we launched in the US market, we have seen tremendous uptick for Avaya Cloud Office by the extensive and trusted ecosystem that Avaya has nurtured for many years."

#contactcenterworld, @Avaya, @ringcentral

Posted by Veronica Silva Cusi, news correspondent
Source: https://www.businesswire.com