{"id":38174,"date":"2016-05-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newrcblog.wpengine.com\/the-evolution-of-seamlessly-integrated-work-environments-in-the-cloud\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T06:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:51:17","slug":"the-evolution-of-seamlessly-integrated-work-environments-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/us\/en\/blog\/the-evolution-of-seamlessly-integrated-work-environments-in-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of Seamlessly Integrated Work Environments in the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/blog\/2016\/05\/the-evolution-of-seamlessly-integrated-work-environments-in-the-cloud\/cloud-integrations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18742 noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18742 size-large\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/cloud-integrations.jpg\" alt=\"cloud integrations\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a>For quite some time, certainly going back several decades, various key elements of information technology have been evolving on parallel tracks. Specifically, I\u2019m thinking about applications, business communications and platforms. The evolution has been rapid, and at times, a bit confusing.<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, we\u2019re seeing these parallel tracks in the process of merging as the cloud has matured enough to become a focal point for what is increasingly viewed as the most efficient, cost-effective and reliable model for business computing in the broadest sense of that term. More than anytime in the past, we are seeing the seamless enablement of the anywhere, anytime, any device, always available work environment.<\/p>\n<p>Call it the <em>as a service<\/em> convergence that has brought business applications, enterprise infrastructures and business communications solutions together in the cloud. This convergence is still frequently discussed in a fragmented, shorthand fashion using <em>SaaS<\/em>, <em>IaaS<\/em>, <em>DBaaS<\/em>, <em>UCaaS<\/em> and other <em>as a service<\/em> acronyms. Not every organization is migrating immediately, as some don\u2019t yet feel comfortable discarding on-premise investments they\u2019ve made over the past couple of decades. So, we\u2019re in sort of a hybrid stage for the moment. But make no mistake, while the earlier stages of the trend involved the movement of separate IT parts, pieces and functionality to hosted environments, we\u2019re now seeing an irreversible movement to the cloud, and more recently, a knitting together of those various enterprise computing elements within the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Taking a step back, it\u2019s clear that while there was resistance initially in many organizations to divest themselves of their hardware, software and business communications acquisition and management businesses (regardless of what businesses they were really in), over time most have grown more comfortable with moving all or nearly all of their physical assets (and the associated management and maintenance headaches) off-premise to the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>The cloud\u2019s basic value proposition is compelling. It delivers dramatic hard and soft cost reductions, <a href=\"\/blog\/2016\/05\/why-i-recommend-cloud-communications-for-it-teams-managing-multiple-business-sites\/?BMID=BLOGNEW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">simplifies multi-location administration and maintenance<\/a>, provides virtually unlimited scalability and ad hoc flexibility, delivers new features and functionality across enterprises immediately as they become available, efficiently connects <a href=\"https:\/\/go.ringcentral.com\/mobile-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mobile<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/go.ringcentral.com\/remote_workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">remote workers<\/a>, and unifies omni-channel business communications. Omni-channel support refers to a business\u2019 ability to enable outstanding customer experiences by allowing employees, customers and suppliers to communicate using the modality of their choice including social media, web, desktop, mobile, messaging, video and business applications.<\/p>\n<p>Even regarding the last point of resistance to offloading IT hardware and information \u2013 <em>security<\/em> \u2013 we are nearing universal consensus that not only is security in the cloud as solid as in on-premise deployments, but that in many cases it\u2019s superior.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers of such change stem from larger businesses seeing Cloud as not only a vital element of communication but also as the future source of business tools for its evolution.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, cloud IT infrastructure spend is predicted by IDC to reach $53.1 billion with a 15.1 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) by 2019, accounting for over 46 percent of total enterprise IT spend driven by public cloud data-center expansions. Other forecasts predict that over the next four to five years SaaS business applications will amount to a $50.8 billion business, with upwards of 30 percent of enterprise applications being SaaS applications.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the fluffy clouds that float overhead on beautiful summer days, cloud computing is the next generation supersonic transport (SST), empowering warp speed business activity while delivering unprecedented positive customer experiences.<\/p>\n<p>RingCentral has seen this coming since its founding. It has always been a cloud business communications company, established to break down the communication barriers created by complex on-premise hardware and to free people to work the way they want in today\u2019s mobile, distributed and <a href=\"\/blog\/2014\/12\/business-communications-never-sleep-2015\/?BMID=BLOGNEW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">always-on work world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While business applications still maintain a center stage position, we\u2019re now seeing multi-modal cloud business communications solutions like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/office\/how-it-works.html\/?BMID=BLOGNEW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RingCentral Office<\/a> being infused into those business applications.<\/p>\n<p>This is a welcome development to those employees who spend the majority of their time working in specific applications or application suites. The integration of comprehensive business communications functionality into their business applications, visible and usable on the same screens, literally puts all the information and functionality they need to do their jobs efficiently and effectively right in front of them. No need to switch in and out of stand alone applications.<\/p>\n<p>Integrating UCaaS directly into business applications has been made possible by the emergence and adoption of the Worldwide Web Consortium\u2019s <a href=\"\/blog\/2016\/03\/ringcentral-adds-choice-and-flexibility-with-webrtc\/?BMID=BLOGNEW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WebRTC<\/a> protocol. It\u2019s expected that this WebRTC-driven empowerment will impact some 19 billion devices by 2018. 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