The unified communications as a service (UCaaS) offering, first announced last August, has today been made available in Germany, France, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Ireland.
Rainbow Office is a combination of RingCentral’s UCaaS technology and ALE’s telephony and networking expertise, the pair said.
The collaboration is the latest in a string of partnerships that RingCentral has formed with comms vendors.
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Sahil Rekhi, Vice President, Global Strategic Partnerships at RingCentral, said that the ALE collaboration brings something unique to the market.
“Every partnership brings something different and we at RingCentral also bring something different to each of the partners,” he said.
“ALE is a leader in the markets it operates in, specifically in Europe, and it also has a strong relationship with its network of partners.
“I think this brings a very different proposition to the market and they also have a very strong relationship with their customers; they bring a base of 40 million users which not many companies can do"
“We’ve really enjoyed working with them to date and I’m confident we’ll have tremendous success in the eight launch countries with Rainbow Office.”
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Claudio Soland, Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships & Business Operations at ALE, said he expects to see demand for Rainbow Office from businesses of all sizes across a range of verticals, adding that SMB customers in particular will benefit from the platform’s agility and simplicity.
He also said that demand from channel partners for the product has exceeded expectations – from both new and existing partners.
“The challenge is two-fold,” he said.
“We want to migrate our existing installed base who are interested in this particular offer, as well as attract greenfield and other businesses to jointly grow business with our partners.
