Just over a year on from LogMeIn’s announcement of its intention to acquire fast-growing UCaaS vendor Jive, a recent earnings call gave a clear indication of developments since the acquisition confirmed in April 2018.
Contributing $700 million, UCC is LogMeIn’s largest business and President and CEO, Bill Wagner, is clear where the company is headed: “Our goal is simple, we want to be the defining leader in the UCC, identity and digital engagement markets and we are making the prudent investments and structural changes needed to capture the opportunity in front of us.”
LogMeIn announced an additional $75 million investment in growth products, aimed at accelerating its growing momentum that saw Jive’s 31% year-on-year growth 55% higher than in 2017. Wagner confirmed: “Almost two-thirds will be used to accelerate our UCC strategy with a combination of our GoToMeeting business and Jive” and “allow us to more aggressively ramp our international sales capacity and fund marketing programs in support of our new product launches.”
“Convergence is driving this market and LogMeIn has the broadest product portfolio, everything from a lightweight tool designed for small businesses to a collaboration platform that supports thousands on a single event to a highly scalable cloud-based telephony offering"
"While competitors are scrambling to build their own or buy companies that strengthen their portfolio, we already have all the ingredients to deliver the next generation of integrated communications and collaboration solutions for companies of all sizes.” Bill Wagner, LogMeIn President and CEO
LogMeIn to Launch New Integrated UCC Solution
Could a crowded collaboration market be entering a defining phase? Convergence is a common theme, and recent developments have seen less brand convergence and more portfolio convergence, as offerings become more integrated and simplified. Microsoft with Teams and Cisco, bringing Spark and Webex together as Webex Teams, illustrate this. LogMeIn, with a collection of “ingredients” (Jive, GoToMeeting, Join.me, OpenVoice) can be expected to join the ‘teams’ race following Wagner’s remark about the success of the 2018 GoToMeeting and Jive bundle being “a precursor to our integrated product we’ll release here in 2019”.
What is relatively clear, but exactly when has yet to be confirmed.
