{"id":38599,"date":"2017-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newrcblog.wpengine.com\/revisiting-2016-predictions-and-looking-ahead-to-2017\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T06:49:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:49:29","slug":"revisiting-2016-predictions-and-looking-ahead-to-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/us\/en\/blog\/revisiting-2016-predictions-and-looking-ahead-to-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting 2016 Predictions and Looking Ahead to 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><a href=\"\/blog\/2017\/01\/revisiting-2016-predictions-and-looking-ahead-to-2017\/2017-cloud-predictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20559 noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20559 size-full\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2017-cloud-predictions.jpg\" alt=\"2017-cloud-predictions\" width=\"640\" height=\"344\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in;margin-bottom: .0001pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\">As 2016 arrived, I offered some <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';color: black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/kira-makagon\/my-top-five-predictions-f_b_8886324.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: #1155cc\"><span>predictions<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\"> for the cloud. To greet 2017, I revisited these thoughts and shared their evolution over the past year. From cloud vendors becoming go-to communications solutions providers to the proliferation of collaboration tools, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RingCentral<\/a> has remained a significant part of the growth in the cloud communications and collaboration industries over the past year. As we continue to untether corporate workers from their desktop phones with solutions we provide, we are proving that the future of work is found in mobile, scalable, flexible working arrangements. There\u2019s lots more excitement ahead this year at RingCentral and in the cloud. Please read <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt;font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';color: black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/2016-predictions-redux-foreshadowing-2017-kira-makagon?published=t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: #1155cc\"><span>my full piece on LinkedIn<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><span><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\"> for more. Best wishes for a Happy New Year! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As 2016 arrived, I offered some predictions for the cloud. To greet 2017, I revisited these thoughts and shared their evolution over the past year. 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