Register for our 30 min TEAMS webinar Microsoft Teams offers integration capabilities with various Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) and Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) providers to enhance its communication and collaboration features. These integrations enable organizations to leverage the power of Teams for both internal and external communication, as well as customer support and engagement. Here are some key aspects of Microsoft Teams integrations with UCaaS and CCaaS providers: Get your free whitepaper about TEAMS here. 1. UCaaS Integrations Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) providers typically offer a range of communication and collaboration tools, including voice, video, messaging, and conferencing. Microsoft Teams can integrate with UCaaS platforms to enhance its telephony and voice capabilities. Here's how this integration works: - Calling Plans: Microsoft Teams can be used as a full-fledged phone system by integrating with UCaaS providers' calling plans. This allows users to make and receive calls, manage voicemail, and set up call routing within Teams. - Direct Routing: Organizations can use Direct Routing to connect Microsoft Teams to their preferred telephony providers. This integration allows for seamless PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) connectivity within Teams. - Voice Features: UCaaS integration enhances Teams with features like call recording, interactive voice response (IVR), call analytics, and call center functionality. - Single Interface: Users can access both UCaaS and Teams features within a single interface, streamlining communication and collaboration. 2. CCaaS Integrations Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) providers offer solutions for managing customer interactions and support. Integrating CCaaS with Teams can help organizations improve customer service and engagement. Here's how this integration works: - Omnichannel Communication: CCaaS integration allows customer support agents to handle customer inquiries via various channels, including voice, chat, email, and social media, all within the Teams interface. - Routing and Queues: Teams can be integrated with CCaaS routing and queuing systems to efficiently manage incoming customer requests and distribute them to available agents. - Access to Customer Data:Agents can access relevant customer data and information from CRM systems and databases directly within Teams, providing a more personalized customer experience. - Reporting and Analytics: CCaaS integrations provide insights and analytics on customer interactions, allowing organizations to make data-driven decisions. - Workflow Automation: Automate processes and workflows by integrating CCaaS and Teams, improving efficiency and reducing response times. - Scalability: Organizations can scale their customer support operations seamlessly by adding or removing agents as needed. Register for our 30 min TEAMS webinar UCaaS and CCaaS Providers Integrated with Teams - UCaaS Providers: Cisco Webex Calling, Zoom Phone, RingCentral, and 8x8. - CCaaS Providers: Five9, Genesys Cloud, and Twilio Flex. When integrating UCaaS and CCaaS services with Microsoft Teams, organizations should consider factors such as compatibility, scalability, and the specific communication and collaboration needs of their teams and customers. Additionally, they should consult with their chosen UCaaS and CCaaS providers for detailed integration instructions and support. Want to know more? Register here for our 30 min TEAMS lunch & learn.
RingCentral the only UC & CC Leader When - Tuesday 4th April, 12-12:30pm Where - Virtual As of January 2023 RingCentral is now the only outright market leader providing both Unified Communications and Contact Centre. Spending more than $300 million on R&D in 2022, their solutions are constantly being developed to remain best of breed. The RingCentral UcaaS platform now has over 3,500,000 paid users globally with many of them using the CCaaS solution in combination. Hardly surprising when RingCentral has been the UC & CC market leader for almost a decade. RingCentral can seamlessly replace legacy solutions such as Mitel and Avaya, and can introduce advanced capabilities to enhance the way you engage with customers and colleagues. Join this interactive session to learn how using RingCentral will be an enabler for increased flexibility and productivity of your colleagues, and a maximised customer journey.
3rd Feb, 2023: Fortay Connect is pleased to announce that they are recognised as a RingCentral Reach Gold Partner. As a Gold Partner, Fortay represents the Top 1% of RingCentral's Global channel partners and are best equipped to help European organisations use RingCentral to create an enterprise-grade communication platform. As a RingCentral ReachTM Gold Partner, Fortay Connect is recognised as one of the partners most familiar with RingCentral’s industry-leading UCaaS and CCaaS products.That means when it comes to helping move your communications to the cloud, our consultants and engineers have the expertise, experience, and relationships to ensure a seamless transition. With our long track record of success with RingCentral, we know how to design the perfect cloud solution for your needs. RingCentral Gold Partner Requirements Gold Partner status recognises the top 1% of RingCentral Partners globally, owed to the significance of their knowledge, expertise and impact on customers who want to move their communications to the cloud. Gold Partners have the experience to design the perfect solution for customer needs. Benefits of Selecting RingCentral RingCentral MVP is a full-featured cloud communications solution offering all of the integrated capabilities of team messaging, meetings, and contact center to address the challenges of today’s business environment. Some of the many benefits include; Unifies communications across your company Simplifies multi-location management Flexes when your business flexes Connects mobile and remote workers Instant access to the latest features Greater control RingCentral MVP offers the perfect way to move all of your communications and collaboration systems into the modern world. It unifies voice, fax, text, video conferencing, and audio conferencing into a single network. Our team is available immediately to help your organisation with any RingCentral queries or migrations.
6th Jan, 2023: Fortay Connect is pleased to announce that they are the first UK Zoom partner to receive certification the Zoom Phone Competency. Fortay's consultants are now equipped to help our clients use Zoom to create an enterprise-grade voice, video, and collaboration platform. With many enterprises today operating in a remote or hybrid work model, ensuring a seamless user collaboration experience is critical to user productivity and satisfaction. Fortay’s new Zoom credentials come in addition to the team’s expert-level certifications in RingCentral, Avaya, Mitel and Teams platforms. “Many enterprises are grappling with creating a collaboration architecture that meets the needs of a geographically-dispersed workforce,” says Mark Taylor, Co-founder and Director of Fortay Connect. “When you hire an outside consultant to help, you need an expert who can look across the leading platforms and help you build the best for your users and use cases. That’s what Fortay does. We are experts in mapping client requirements to platform architecture decisions.” Zoom Phone Competency Requirements Zoom Phone Competency enables trusted voice professionals to become certified in delivering Zoom Phone for a seamless customer experience, ensuring successful adoption and deployment of the platform. To gain entrance to this certification program, firms must have a minimum two years as a voice consultant and five customer testimonials on record. Benefits of Selecting Zoom Phone Zoom Phone is a “modern cloud phone system.” Together with their meetings platform, it provides an enterprise-grade collaboration hub for video, voice, chat, and meetings. The three biggest advantages of Zoom Phone are: The enterprise features: Zoom Phone includes traditional PBX features that enable employees to talk and interact in new ways to keep businesses moving. Centralised management: You can provision and manage users and intelligently monitor business interactions with an easy-to-use centralized administration portal. Security and reliability: The globally distributed Zoom cloud platform delivers secure HD audio with enterprise-class reliability and quality of service. For businesses interested in a cloud-first phone system to better accommodate a remote or hybrid employee geographic footprint, Zoom Phone is a leading option in the market. If you’re already using Zoom’s meeting, webinar, or room capabilities, there is even more reason to consider extending your platform to include Zoom Phone. Fortay's Professional Services Zoom Phone Competency Partner's are encouraged to develop value-added services to enhance the client platform experience. As a voice and collaboration consultant for nearly 25 years, Fortay has a deep understanding of the evolution of collaboration infrastructure in the enterprise. Today, our collaboration expertise includes architecting cloud-first unified communications platforms. Fortay's value-added services for the Zoom platform include: Platform selection and design Deployment, including integration with other platforms and systems End user training and adoption to ensure maximum system value Our team is available immediately to help your organisation with Zoom Phone or general platform integration help.
Maximise your IP Office investment with Avaya Cloud Office RingCentral and Avaya introduce Avaya Cloud Office, a Unified Communications (UCaaS) platform with Avaya phones, services and migration capabilities. Providing customers with next-gen, cloud communications capabilities including high reliability, security, functionality, and broad enterprise app integrations. Exciting news, but what does this really mean for your business and your IP Office investment? Join our 30 minute lunch to learn about; The most advanced features in the market, such as Video, Chat, Collaboration, along with Calling and more A seamless, stress-free migration path Existing Avaya phone integrations with zero touch provisioning Exclusive migration incentives for IP office customers 200+ ready-to-use integrations with business cloud apps, including Microsoft Office 365, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Zendesk and Google Workspace. Register today and leave with an understanding of how to maximise your investments and mitigate technology depreciation while increasing end-user value and productivity. Lunch is on us - all attendees will receive a £15 JustEat voucher! Time; 12:30-1pm Date; Tuesday 15th November Location; Virtual
RingCentral became Mitel’s exclusive UCaaS partner, providing customers with a next-gen, cloud communications platform with high reliability and security, functionality, and broad enterprise app integrations. Exciting news, but what does this really mean for your business and your Mitel investment? Join our 30 minute lunch to learn about; A seamless, stress-free migration Mitel & RingCentral phone integrations with zero touch provisioning Advanced calling features Exclusive migration incentives forMiCloud Connect, SKY, MiCloud Flex, MiCloud Office, or MiCloud Business customers. Register today and leave with an understanding of how to maximise your investments and mitigate technology depreciation while increasing end-user value and productivity. Lunch is on us - all attendees will receive a £15 JustEat voucher! Time; 12:30-1pm Date; Thursday 22nd September Location; Virtual
The Digital Transformation Expo (DTX) and Unified Communications Expo (UCX) showcases the latest ‘must have’ technology and insight from the world’s leading brands and experts The north’s biggest digital transformation expo connects businesses with the information and technology you need right now. Visit our stand (G131) Join Fortay Connect and Zoom on stand G131 where our expert team will be on hand throughout the two days to meet and chat about your unified communications and customer experience strategies. Talking Enterprise Cloud Communications Strategy Fortay Connects, Head of Technology, Mark Taylor, joins Zoom Phone's Director to discuss: How to build an effective and scalable cloud strategy for the agile enterprise Business benefits from transitioning to the cloud Adopting a public-cloud strategy How can 'bringing your own carrier' (BYOC) benefit your enterprise? Don’t miss this session: Thursday 28 th April, 11:40-12:05 on the UC Technology Stage
Take the first-class route from PBX TO CLOUD COMMUNICATIONS. The future of work is in the cloud. Welcome on BOARD. Develop a solution that easily scales with your company, integrates with your mission-critical apps, and saves your business a bundle. Our team of experts will: Design a custom project plan with precise deployment steps Reduce infrastructure complexity to cut costs and boost ROI Provide QoS analytics and monitoring to ensure call quality Discuss how to integrate your contact centre with your business phone system Register below to book your free consultation with one of our specialists and receive a free pair of personalised airpods* *No purchase necessary. Must be at least 18 years old to enter. Entrants enter on behalf of the employer. Must have authority from the employer and act in accordance with internal gift policies. Offer is non-transferable and limited to the first 20 qualifying participants.