Whois & Analysis for ringcentral.com

RingCentral is a publicly traded provider of cloud-based phone systems for businesses.

It is headquartered in Belmont, California and has offices in Denver, Colorado; Charlotte, NC; Toronto, Canada; Singapore; Manila, Philippines; Xiamen, China; St. Petersburg, Russia; Boca Raton, Florida and Odessa, Ukraine.

Cloud communications are Internet-based voice and data communications where telecommunications applications, switching and storage are hosted by a third-party outside of the organization using them, and they are accessed over the public Internet.

Cloud services is a broad term, referring primarily to data-center-hosted services that are run and accessed over an Internet infrastructure.

Until recently, these services have been data-centric, but with the evolution of VoIP (voice over Internet protocol), voice has become part of the cloud phenomenon.

Cloud telephony (also known as hosted telephony) refers specifically to voice services and more specifically the replacement of conventional business telephone equipment, such as a Private branch exchange (PBX), with third-party VoIP service.

A call centre or call center is a centralised office used for receiving or transmitting a large volume of requests by telephone.

An inbound call centre is operated by a company to administer incoming product support or information enquiries from consumers.

Outbound call centres are operated for telemarketing, solicitation of charitable or political donations, debt collection and market research.

A contact centre is a location for centralised handling of individual communications, including letters, faxes, live support software, social media, instant message, and e-mail.

Collaboration is the process of two or more people or organizations working together to realize or achieve something successfully.

Collaboration is very similar to, but more closely aligned than, cooperation.

Most collaboration requires leadership, although the form of leadership can be social within a decentralized and egalitarian group.

Teams that work collaboratively can obtain greater resources, recognition and reward when facing competition for finite resources.

A business (also known as an enterprise, a company or a firm) is an organizational entity involved in the provision of goods and services to consumers.

Businesses serve as a form of economic activity, and are prevalent in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and provide goods and services allocated through a market to consumers and customers in exchange for other goods, services, money, or other forms of exchange that hold intrinsic economic value.

Businesses may also be social non-profit enterprises or state-owned public enterprises operated by governments with specific social and economic objectives.

A business owned by multiple private individuals may form as an incorporated company or jointly organise as a partnership.

Countries have different laws that may ascribe different rights to the various business entities.