From huge growth with Teams and Zoom to the UC Awards 2022, here are extracts from popular stories this week.
AudioCodes Sees Huge Growth with Teams and Zoom
AudioCodes has reported strong growth in its Zoom and Microsoft Teams offerings as businesses continue to add voice to their collaboration platforms.
The voice-focused firm has released its quarterly numbers, with sales climbing 12.8 percent year on year to $66.4m.
On an earnings call with investors, AudioCodes CEO Shabtai Adlersberg said that AudioCodes saw 50 percent growth in both its Teams and Zoom.
“Teams accounts additions in the quarter were 260 versus 206 in the year-ago quarter, the highest on record, which speaks to the accelerating adoption of Teams as the UCC platform in our market leadership in segments,” he added.
“Importantly, Microsoft created opportunity continues to grow at a healthy rate. In the first quarter of ’22, new opportunities, new Teams opportunities grew 51 percent year-over-year.
“Zoom Phone was still a small percentage of overall business [but] Zoom Phone activity in the quarter set another record and was growing more than 50 percent year-over-year.”
AudioCodes services revenue grew 25 percent year on year in the quarter, contributing an all-time record of 41.5 percent of total sales. The core of these came from unified communications and collaboration projects.
Microsoft appoints New Operator Connect Accelerator Provider
Microsoft has appointed PingCo as an Operator Connect Accelerator (OCA) partner.
PingCo joins the five partners Microsoft revealed when the programme launched last month.
OCA is designed to streamline the process carriers must undertake to become authorised for Operator Connect.
Dan Pearson, CEO of Australia-based PingCo, said: “Typically, carriers who go to market through TCAP have their offerings ready in just a few weeks.
“We provide the platform, which streamlines both the customer journey and Microsoft’s verification process, and we automate the backend integration and carrier testing services.
“As a result, we shorten the time to market from six to 12 months to just a couple of weeks.”
PingCo’s Operator Connect offering is built on its TCAP platform, which is purpose-built for service providers and also supports Direct Routing.
What’s New in Microsoft Teams? April 2022 Update
The Microsoft Teams group has published a list of the new Teams features for April 2022.
The updates arrive alongside the launch of Microsoft’s Operator Connect Accelerator (OCA) which help carriers get OC approval faster.
Microsoft believes the biggest changes to the Teams application have been improvements to webinar invites and audio detection enhancements targeting frontline workers.
The latest updates affect nine areas: meetings, calling, devices, chats and collaboration, power platform and custom development, management, Teams for education, frontline workers, and the government.
Tom Arbuthnot, Microsoft MVP, spoke to UC Today about the latest Microsoft Teams news which includes a discussion about Operator Connect, Microsoft Teams app store and audio conferencing, Dynamics 365 Voice Channel, and more.
UC Awards 2022 Applications Now Open
The UC awards are returning for its fifth year and registrations are now officially open to applicants.
The awards seek to publicly recognise success stories from within the UC and Collaboration industry.
The application numbers have grown exponentially, year on year, and so we are expecting the turnout for the UC Awards 2022 to be the biggest yet.
Last year’s winners included big company names such as Cisco, RingCentral, Avaya, and Poly, as well as individual acknowledgements to Oded Gal from Zoom and Javed Khan from Cisco. You can view the full list of winners from 2021 on our previous winners page.
Register your details and download a UC Awards 2022 application form. There is a small application fee, no table fees, and no travel and accommodation required.
Entries are only accepted until June 17th so remember to get your application in before then.
For more information about the awards, our Media Kit, to download an application form or contact us, visit awards.uctoday.com.
