First Bank

Deploying RingCentral was extremely smooth

Another key factor that led First Bank to RingCentral was the availability of RingCentral Professional Services™ to help the company roll out the new system across its many locations.

“That hands-on help from the RingCentral Professional Services team was a big deal for us,” Nibhanupudi explains, “because this was going to be a large, complex undertaking involving many vendors and deployment across 100 plus branches. Also, the technical work involved in the migration was going to be tricky because our infrastructure was old and built on many disparate systems.

We were running everything on a PBX and call center software, which itself was comprised of multiple systems.”

“RingCentral Professional Services has been doing an awesome job of helping us make this rollout smooth and getting our team up and running very quickly,” says Nibhanupudi. “Throughout phase 1 of our migration, they have been on-site at our locations helping to set up the new systems, port over existing phone numbers, and coordinating with our other vendors, and even helping train our team members on using the new system.”

Phase 1 of First Bank’s rollout of RingCentral is already showing significant benefits

First Bank is now midway through phase 1 of its planned two-phase company deployment of a full suite of RingCentral’s UCaaS services including RingEX™, RingCentral Contact Center™, Glip®, and other applications. “We’re already seeing a big return on our investment in RingCentral,” says Nibhanupudi.

“We’ve been able to replace our PBX and the six or seven servers we were maintaining to run our previous call center infrastructure with a lightweight, cloud-based system. Even factoring in the cost of RingCentral’s desktop VoIP phones that we’ve set up, the RingCentral rollout is already saving us 30% on our overall phone system costs.”

“Also, as soon as we replaced our employees’ legacy phones with RingCentral, we began to see value immediately. Our team was able to do a lot more with RingCentral’s softphone capability than they’d ever been able to do with our legacy phones. And this was before we fully implemented the complete RingCentral solution in the way we plan to in the next phase—which will create a unified communications experience for our team to call, meet, message, and collaborate from anywhere using any device. Bottom line for us: RingCentral is already making good on its promise of improving our communications, and we anticipate it will continue delivering even more value as we roll out more services.”