It’s that time of the week where we gather the best news reports and stories from the last seven days for your easy perusal.
This week saw RingCentral team up with Verizon Business, The official rollout of PowerPoint Live and Webinar features for Microsoft Teams, and Communicate Better continue its M&A spree.
RingCentral Teams Up with Verizon
Comms provider Verizon Business is partnering with RingCentral to offer cloud-based solutions for enterprise communication to users.
The partnership promises team messaging, video, cloud phone technology, and everything enterprise businesses need to create a new platform for hybrid work. The solution – developed through the new partnership – will add to Verizon’s array of UCC products.
Microsoft Brings PowerPoint Live and Webinar to Teams
First announced earlier this year at Microsoft Ignite, the PowerPoint Live and Webinar features were rolled out to Teams this week.
PowerPoint Live is specially designed for sharing PowerPoint presentations with Teams contacts, and is intended to help users deliver more polished pitches and learning experiences from a distance. It’s built to improve engagement and user experience.
Meanwhile, the Webinar function allows users to host interactive webinars and meetings for as many as 1,000 attendees in Teams. The solution includes end-to-end support from Microsoft, custom registration pages and rich presentation options, as well as attendee emails, host controls, among others.
Sendbird Launces Clubhouse-style API
Sendbird has launched an API that enables developers to build Clubhouse-style functionality into their applications.
This API can integrate high-quality voice and video functionality into web and mobile applications. The voice API currently supports up to 25 participants, with the video component supporting six participants, and larger groups will be enabled soon.
Sendbird CEO, John Kim, said:
“Our group calls API makes it so simple for any company to build its own Clubhouse, preventing users from exiting the app in search of another messenger application, video service, or phone call.”
Communicate Better’s M&A Spree Continues
Comms provider Communicate Better’s acquisition of Manchester-based Staveley Comms marks its seventeenth purchase within the past decade.
The move expands the company’s presence across the UK and strengthens its IT, mobile, telephony and telematics offerings.
“After a testing last 12 months guiding the business through the pandemic, the time is right to pick up and continue with our buy-and-build strategy which has always worked well for us,” stated Wayne Cartwright, CEO of Communicate Better.
“Staveley is an exciting business for us as it adds products and services to our portfolio, such as the Avaya and 3CX products.”
The Channel Solves Hybrid Working Woes
We gathered executives from Xelion, Avaya, VanillaIP, Enreach, Voiceflex, Gamma and Ascentae for a round table to discuss the challenges facing the channel as hybrid working looks set to become a permanent working model.
The panelists mulled over the business problems that are being solved – and are yet to be solved – with hybrid working, the major challenges facing the channel in implementing hybrid working products and services for customers and how the model will evolve this year and what that means for the channel.
from UC Today https://ift.tt/2QH9QLI
0 Comments