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RingCentral Unveils RingCentral Online 3.0 -- On Demand Telecommunications Service for Small Businesses and Mobile Workers; Advanced Scheduling, Routing and Dialing Options Enable Unprecedented Communications Management.


SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- RingCentral, Inc. today announced RingCentral Online 3.0, the latest version of the company's popular and widely used on demand telecommunications service In telecommunication, the term telecommunications service has the following meanings:

1. Any service provided by a telecommunication provider.

2.
 for small businesses and mobile workers. The powerful new services, including customized rules for receiving and routing calls, personalized per·son·al·ize  
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1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner.

2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify.
 announcements and music, and a navigable NAVIGABLE. Capable of being navigated.
     2. In law, the term navigable is applied to the sea, to arms of the sea, and to rivers in which the tide flows and reflows. 5 Taunt. R. 705; S. C. Eng. Com. Law Rep. 240; 5 Pick. R. 199; Ang. Tide Wat. 62; 1 Bouv. Inst. n.
 dial-by-name directory, enable users to project a more professional image to customers, partners and prospects.

As more small businesses and mobile workers turn to Internet-based technologies Refers to the communications infrastructure of the Internet, which is based on the IP protocol. IP is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. It may also refer to voice over IP (VoIP), which uses the Internet to make telephone calls. See VoIP, IP and TCP/IP. , market demand for affordable online telecommunications services is growing dramatically. Rather than assume the high cost of a traditional PBX (Private Branch eXchange) An inhouse telephone switching system that interconnects telephone extensions to each other as well as to the outside telephone network (PSTN).  system, many in this market cobble together cobble together
Verb

[-bling, -bled] to put together clumsily: a coalition cobbled together from parties with widely differing aims

Verb 1.
 home lines Home Lines was founded in 1946 by purchasing the Norwegian America liner Bergensfjord, which it renamed the Argentina. It operated continuously until 1988 when it discontinued operations and sold its remaining two ships, the Atlantic and the , fax numbers and mobile phones. This disparate approach leads to missed messages, and unmanageable work and personal communications, hindering productivity and diminishing an organization's professional image. With 15 years in the telecommunications market and more than 25,000 customers, RingCentral provides advanced telecommunications services, unifying land line, wireless, VoIP and email communications, and outpacing services available to large enterprises with a fixed PBX. RingCentral Online provides dial tone independence, full fax integration and does not require purchasing any new hardware or software, working seamlessly with existing land line and mobile phones.

"To compete against larger companies, small businesses and mobile professionals absolutely need advanced communications," said Michael Suby, program manager at Stratecast Partners (a division of Frost & Sullivan). "In addition, ease-of-use, flexibility and affordability must be present. RingCentral has assembled a distinctive suite of management capabilities that allow small businesses to gain more value from their existing communication investments."

Key new features available with RingCentral 3.0 include:

--Answering Rules: A powerful call scheduling, filtering and routing technology that allows customers to greet callers with various messages and route them according to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 the day, time, date range and caller ID A telephone company service that sends the caller's telephone number between the first and second ring of the call. If the calling number is not blocked, the calling number is displayed on the handset or base station of the called party. . Customers can route calls to voice mailboxes, extensions and any phone in the world, as well as block calls with exceptions, allowing users to set specifications and overrides for VIP customers or family members.

--Music On-Hold: This service provides an assortment of music and custom announcement options. Flexible music on-hold allows subscribers to not only download custom music to their service, which will play to callers on hold, but also to interrupt music with professionally recorded announcements or their own marketing messages. Leveraging the new Answering Rules tool set, users can make real-time decisions, manipulating the music and personalizing the voice messages to a designated caller.

--Dial-by-Name Directory: The company dial-by-name directory allows callers to more easily and quickly locate the appropriate individual or department.

The new features in RingCentral Online 3.0 build on the service's unique CallController and RingOut capabilities. CallController allows customers to manage and react to calls online, including the ability to provide a text-to-speech response, in real time, from any location. RingOut enables subscribers to place calls from any Windows application A program that is written to run under Microsoft's Windows operating system. Such applications typically run under all 32-bit versions of Windows, but earlier applications might also run under the 16-bit versions (Windows 3.x) as well. See Windows.  and it is the only service to allow customers to use their toll-free number as their caller ID.

"With company headquarters in Sweden, our U.S. division is a small, distributed organization that needs to maintain a unified virtual business environment," said Jennifer Doran, Americas marketing manager for PortWise, an identity and access management solutions provider. "RingCentral ties all our critical communications together, allowing us to connect with our clients and global counterparts where and when we need to. We rely on RingCentral's advanced call management system to support multiple business units -- and with the flexibility of Answering Rules we can manage and direct incoming calls based on our business and personal priorities."

"More than ever, small businesses and mobile professionals need a unified, professional telecommunications service tailored for them in both features and price. With more than 25,000 customers, we developed RingCentral Online 3.0 specifically for this market, incorporating feedback from our users," said Vlad Shmunis, chairman of the board and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of RingCentral. "We will continue to work closely with our customers to make telecommunications more valuable to more workers more hours of the day, enabling them to be more productive, professional and profitable."

RingCentral Online 3.0 is available immediately. For additional information about pricing and a complete listing of services available, please visit http://www.ringcentral.com.

About RingCentral, Inc.

RingCentral, Inc., provides on demand telecommunications services that enable small businesses and mobile executives to effectively manage communications and project a professional image to customers, partners and prospects. RingCentral Online combines a toll-free and/or local number with advanced call management, PBX, voicemail and Internet fax Using the Internet to send faxes. Fax servers accept an incoming fax message and route it to a fax server in the same locality as the destination fax machine. The fax server then makes a local telephone call to send the fax. , enabling customers to automatically screen, forward and place calls; take voicemail; send and receive faxes; and receive message alerts. More than 25,000 customers use RingCentral's comprehensive and affordable hosted phone system to unify 1. (database, product) Unify - A relational database produced by Unify Corporation.
2. (algorithm) unify - To perform unification.
 landline, wireless, VoIP and email communications. RingCentral is headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., for more information, visit www.ringcentral.com.
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