{"id":37816,"date":"2015-09-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newrcblog.wpengine.com\/ringcentral-recognized-as-a-leader-in-the-2015-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-ucaas\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T06:52:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:52:31","slug":"ringcentral-recognized-as-a-leader-in-the-2015-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-ucaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/us\/en\/blog\/ringcentral-recognized-as-a-leader-in-the-2015-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-ucaas\/","title":{"rendered":"RingCentral Recognized as a Leader in the 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for UCaaS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/blog\/?attachment_id=17356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17356 noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17356 size-large\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/blog1.png\" alt=\"blog\" width=\"640\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a>In the just released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/lp\/gartner-magic-quadrant.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service<\/a> report, Gartner selected RingCentral as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant.\u00a0 In addition RingCentral was positioned as the most \u201cvisionary\u201d company on the quadrant, and we are the most \u201cup and to the right\u201d off all the vendors in the leaders quadrant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/?attachment_id=17347\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17347 noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17347 size-medium\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Gartner-300x77.jpg\" alt=\"Gartner\" width=\"300\" height=\"77\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I could not be more pleased about our position in the Magic Quadrant, which is a result of the countless hours of hard work by the RingCentral team across all functions, as well as the commitment and belief of our customers. This recognition by Gartner marks a defining moment for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RingCentral<\/a>, as the strength of our solution, and the success of our customers has helped elevate our position into the leaders quadrant.<\/p>\n<p>Our industry is undergoing a dramatic shift, which is reshuffling leadership positions. RingCentral saw this shift early and has made investments to better position us to take advantage of it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/2014\/12\/4-unique-needs-dynamic-workforce-friday-five\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Today\u2019s workforce is highly distributed<\/a>, mobile and has become accustomed to communicating in a variety of ways on any device from any location. RingCentral solves this challenge through a complete <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/office\/how-it-works.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cloud communications and collaboration solution<\/a> that works on any device anywhere. The cloud opens up many opportunities beyond just cloud-based phone or PBX capabilities. Our tight integration with messaging, web meetings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/office\/features\/online-meetings\/overview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video conferencin<\/a>g and now collaboration enable our customers to bring together more facets of communication into one easy-to-use solution. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/office\/developer-platform.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">platform<\/a> opens up communications for tighter integration into other cloud applications and internal processes.\u00a0 And our integrated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/contact-center\/overview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contact Center<\/a> adds world-class customer support capabilities into our cloud solution. No other solution on the market offers this breadth of functionality and foundation to grow into future capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t stop there \u2013 this is just the beginning. RingCentral is hard at work on many new innovations that will further address large enterprises, international and collaboration. So while we are excited and proud of this recognition from Gartner as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gartner.com\/doc\/3124817\/magic-quadrant-unified-communications-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leader in Unified Communications as a Service<\/a>, we believe the best is yet to come.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/lp\/gartner-magic-quadrant.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download the full Gartner Report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the just released 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service report, Gartner selected RingCentral as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant.\u00a0 In addition RingCentral was positioned as the most \u201cvisionary\u201d company on the quadrant, and we are the most \u201cup and to the right\u201d off all the vendors in the leaders 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