{"id":5991,"date":"2019-07-16T15:31:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T14:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/gb\/en\/blog\/?p=5991"},"modified":"2023-01-17T10:27:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T10:27:06","slug":"summer-celebrate-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/gb\/en\/blog\/summer-celebrate-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer is a Time to Celebrate (Your Latest Communications Capabilities)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Summer is a season many look forward to for holidays and great weather. At RingCentral, we look forward to summer for these reasons, with the addition of our summer RingCentral Office\u00ae release. Our latest release includes a bevy of new features designed to help your organisation work as one to better serve your customers.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Global updates: Enhanced international calling credit bundles; Puerto Rico calls; new languages for voicemail to text; new Israeli numbers<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>With our new release, UK premium and non-geo destinations are now included in your international calling credit bundles, enabling cost-effective rates for users who call premium <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/gb\/en\/office\/features\/local-numbers.html\">numbers<\/a>. Also, any calls your company makes to and from Puerto Rico are now treated as calls to and from the United States and charged at US international rates.<\/p>\n\t<div class=\"cta-banner  CID-2FdM5dTp IID-6a0b807608675\"\r\n\t\tdata-dl-custom-type=\"ctaButton\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"cta-banner-img-wrap\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"cta-banner-img\" style=\"background-image:url(\/gb\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/video-meeting-cta.jpg)\"><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<div class=\"cta-body\" data-dl-custom-type=\"ctaButton\">\r\n\t\t\t<span class=\"cta-sub-heading\">Discover the financial benefits of online meetings<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"cta-heading\">Team collaboration with RingCentral meetings and conferencing<\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t<p>Get the complete video and audio conferencing solution included with RingCentral Office<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t<a class=\"rc-cta-shortcode btn btn-primary btn-lg\" data-dl-element=\"button\"\r\n\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/gb\/en\/office\/features\/online-meetings\/overview.html\" class=\"btn btn-primary\"\r\n\t\t\t\ttarget=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-dl-additional-info=\"Team collaboration with RingCentral meetings and conferencing\"\r\n\t\t\t\tdata-dl-name=\"Team collaboration with RingCentral meetings and conferencing | Start a free trial\">Start a free trial<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t\n<p>In addition, voicemail-to-text is now available in Canadian French and Australian English. You can preview your voicemail messages from any device in either of these languages when you\u2019re on the go or just can\u2019t get to the phone. You can also access visual voicemail through your online account on RingCentral for Desktop or via the RingCentral mobile app.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we now have new Global Office phone numbers available for those looking to expand in Israel. With Global Office you get a local PBX service with local phone numbers, 1,000 pooled regional calling minutes, and one easy portal for managing your reliable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/gb\/en\/office\/product-overview.html\">cloud phone system<\/a> across your multi-site organisation.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Calling: Enhanced survivability; configurable call queues; and a new service status site<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Our latest release includes <strong>RingCentral Persist<\/strong>, which allows you to maintain your critical communications services\u2014including emergency calling, extension-to-extension dialling, inbound and outbound calling, and call-back capabilities\u2014in the case of an internet failure. Persist is easy for your IT team to deploy, with no service interruption for end users.<\/p>\n<blockquote><span class='bctt-click-to-tweet'><span class='bctt-ctt-text'><a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fringcentr.al%2F30y74rd&#038;text=With%20Global%20Office%20you%20get%20a%20local%20PBX%20service%20with%20local%20phone%20numbers%2C%201%2C000%20pooled%20regional%20calling%20minutes%2C%20and%20one%20easy%20portal%20for%20managing%20your%20reliable%20cloud%20phone%20system%20across%20your%20multi-site%20organisation.&#038;via=RingCentralUK&#038;related=RingCentralUK' target='_blank'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">With Global Office you get a local PBX service with local phone numbers, 1,000 pooled regional calling minutes, and one easy portal for managing your reliable cloud phone system across your multi-site organisation. <\/a><\/span><a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fringcentr.al%2F30y74rd&#038;text=With%20Global%20Office%20you%20get%20a%20local%20PBX%20service%20with%20local%20phone%20numbers%2C%201%2C000%20pooled%20regional%20calling%20minutes%2C%20and%20one%20easy%20portal%20for%20managing%20your%20reliable%20cloud%20phone%20system%20across%20your%20multi-site%20organisation.&#038;via=RingCentralUK&#038;related=RingCentralUK' target='_blank' class='bctt-ctt-btn'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click To Tweet<\/a><\/span><\/blockquote>\n<p>With configurable call queues, your admins now have more flexibility. By assigning a name to each direct number that\u2019s added to a call queue, agents now have more context on incoming calls. And you can now customise how call information is displayed across desk phones and softphones by\u00a0choosing whether to display phone number name, caller ID name, or queue name.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, visit our new trust site for real-time updates on the status of your RingCentral service. Simple to access and navigate, you can view the status of your core services by feature and region, allowing you to quickly determine what needs immediate attention.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The RingCentral App: code snippets<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019ve added code snippets to the RingCentral app,\u00a0which allows you to conveniently share snippets of code in its original formatting. You can view and easily reuse the code by copying or downloading.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Connect Platform: More Microsoft integrations; quickly embed voice; new APIs<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>We\u2019ve launched a highly intuitive new user interface for RingCentral for Office 365 that allows you to manually set presence. You can also schedule video meetings and conference calls from your Office 365 calendar natively. And we\u2019ve given you the ability to launch group or multi-party calls. 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Our industry-standard APIs enable developers to innovate in novel ways and add value to existing products.<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t<a class=\"rc-cta-shortcode btn btn-primary btn-lg\" data-dl-element=\"button\"\r\n\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/gb\/en\/platform\/developer.html\" class=\"btn btn-primary\"\r\n\t\t\t\ttarget=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-dl-additional-info=\"RingCentral Connect Platform&#x2122; for Developers\"\r\n\t\t\t\tdata-dl-name=\"RingCentral Connect Platform&#x2122; for Developers | Learn more\">Learn more<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t\n<p>We\u2019re also excited to bring you <strong>RingCentral Embeddable<\/strong>, which makes it easy to embed RingCentral voice into any web application in just 15 minutes\u2014no code required. 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