{"id":30065,"date":"2017-06-21T14:15:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T14:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2017\/jun\/21\/ringcentral-leads-cloud-business-communication-vendor-race-says-synergy\/"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:15:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T14:15:19","slug":"ringcentral-leads-cloud-business-communication-vendor-race-says-synergy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ringcentral-leads-cloud-business-communication-vendor-race-says-synergy\/","title":{"rendered":"RingCentral leads cloud business communication vendor race, says Synergy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/media\/img\/news\/iStock-157682690.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>RingCentral leads the way for the cloud business communications market with the overall landscape growing at a considerable clip, according to the latest note from Synergy Research.<\/p>\n<p>The market is growing at an annualised rate of 23% driven by strong adoption of unified communications as a service (UCaaS), according to the research. The total cloud communication market is generating revenues in excess of $2 billion (&pound;1.58bn) per year.<\/p>\n<p>Synergy puts the market into three buckets; UCaaS retail being demonstrably the largest, followed by cloud comms and UCaaS wholesale. However, the later has a much quicker growth rate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/media\/cbc_q117.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For RingCentral, presence as a market leader in both the former and latter are a boon &ndash; and the company pushed out an agreeable blog from CEO Vlad Shmunis with regard to the news.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As we look ahead, we are excited about the market opportunity for cloud communications as enterprise customers empower their global and distributed workforce to work anywhere, any time, and on any device,&rdquo; Shmunis wrote. &ldquo;This market transition will fuel our growth to $1bn by 2020.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;UCaaS continues to be a force for change within the business communications market,&rdquo; said Jeremy Duke, Synergy Research founder and chief analyst. &ldquo;Major barriers to cloud adoption are now almost a thing of the past and consequently we are seeing continued erosion of on-premises PBX-based systems. Clearly these trends will continue over the next few years.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Other leading players in the market include 8&#215;8, Mitel, and ShoreTel, Synergy added. According to Gartner&rsquo;s Magic Quadrant for UCaaS, released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appstechnews.com\/news\/2016\/aug\/25\/ucaas-market-analysed-ringcentral-fuze-west-top-magic-quadrant\/\">in August last year<\/a>, 8&#215;8, BT, Fuze, RingCentral, and West Unified Communications found a place in the winner&rsquo;s enclosure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RingCentral leads the way for the cloud business communications market with the overall landscape growing at a considerable clip, according to the latest note from Synergy Research.<br \/>\nThe market is growing at an annualised rate of 23% driven by strong ad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30066,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30065\/revisions\/30066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}