Avaya and RingCentral Expand Strategic Partnership with AI-Powered Communications and Collaboration Experiences

Today at Avaya ENGAGE, RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG), a leading provider of AI-driven cloud business communications, contact center, video and hybrid event solutions, and Avaya, a global leader in customer experience and communications solutions, announced an expansion of offerings for Avaya customers, including a new hybrid solution of RingCentral’s AI-powered cloud business communications solution with Avaya Aura telephony, providing enhanced collaboration capabilities.

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This new hybrid offering allows users within the same organization to seamlessly collaborate with each other, whether individuals are using Avaya Aura or Avaya Cloud Office telephony solutions. Customers gain additional value from their existing investments in Avaya’s solutions by combining them with RingCentral’s video calling and messaging features, including RingSense AI -- RingCentral’s core AI platform. This hybrid solution, which is exclusively available through this partnership, also provides Avaya’s enterprise customers with the choice to utilize their existing Avaya Aura Platform or cloud-based Avaya Cloud Office by RingCentral (ACO) for call control functionality, enabling a seamless user experience across messaging, video and phone.

Alan Masarek, Avaya CEO, said, “Our expanded partnership with RingCentral enhances communications and collaboration experiences for our global customers. This integration further demonstrates our commitment to innovation without disruption. We are empowering our customers to operate where and how they want – on-prem, private cloud or public cloud – without missing a beat.”

“Our objective is to simplify business communications while offering robust, enterprise-grade multi-modal cloud communications capabilities with 99.999% reliability and security,” said Vlad Shmunis, Founder, Chairman and CEO of RingCentral. “We’re excited to build on our partnership with Avaya through a solution that flexibly serves Avaya’s UC customer needs. Together, we are proud to offer Avaya customers a new, hybrid option for leveraging their existing investment in Avaya Aura while providing a seamless path to a cloud communications experience.”