UCaaS

RIP to the Premises PBX, a last millennium dinosaur, unable to migrate to the UCaaS cloud

Yesterday, Mitel announced that they were entering into a relationship to have RingCentral MVP become the UCaaS migration offer to be made to the existing (and future) Mitel “single-instance” user base. The key message is that as customers migrate to UCaaS with Mitel, they will move to RingCentral MVP as the solution.

With a good portion of small- and medium-sized (SMB) organizations purchasing call center capabilities from their unified communication (UC) provider, UCaaS provider 2600Hz introduced a new offering, Call Center Pro (CCPro).

At Vonage’s analyst conference in San Francisco last month, a group of analysts got to preview the newly branded Vonage which was introduced at the company’s inaugural user and developer conference, Vonage Campus. All of the brands are now simply Vonage – say goodbye to Nexmo and NewVoiceMedia, or separate business and consumer brands. As part of the rebranding, Vonage introduced a nice new logo and beautiful gradient color scheme and design for its website, dashboards, and more.

With the theme “Powering Seamless Communications and Strategy,” Mitel provided an update on its products and strategy at its annual analyst and consultant summit in Dallas, while addressing “the elephant in the room,” otherwise known as its acquisition strategy.