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RingCentral lets businesses run their phone systems, messaging and video meetings over the internet through RingEX, which generates most of its revenue. It serves both large enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses. For customer-service teams, RingCX handles interactions across voice and digital channels; RingCentral Contact Center provides another option built with NICE technology and integrated with RingEX.
Subscriptions account for nearly all revenue. Customers pay according to the features, services and number of users they need, under monthly, annual or multi-year plans. AI products, such as tools that answer incoming calls or summarize conversations, also carry usage charges or add-on subscription fees. RingCentral sells directly and through resellers, strategic partners and service providers; a substantial share of revenue comes through these channels, though no single customer supplies a large share.
The business depends on customers renewing subscriptions and maintaining or expanding their paid users and services. Many sales partners have no long-term contracts with RingCentral and also sell competing products. Delivering calls relies heavily on outside network providers, including Bandwidth.com, Sinch and Lumen. Communications rules govern its phone services, and some countries restrict resale, limiting where partners can sell its offerings.
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RingCentral's growth hinges on businesses adopting cloud calling and AI contact centers, with privately held Dialpad and Genesys adding important competition beyond this list.
Zoom competes directly for the business subscriptions that support RingCentral: Zoom Phone, Zoom Workplace and Zoom Contact Center cover calling, collaboration and customer service. Watch Zoom's enterprise subscription revenue for evidence of spending by customers both companies pursue.
8x8 competes with RingCentral for businesses buying cloud phone, collaboration and contact-center services. Its integrated platform sells these services together, making its offering relevant across RingCentral's small-business and enterprise customers.
Five9 competes with RingCentral's RingCX for customer-service and sales teams buying cloud contact-center and AI agent software. Watch its AI Agents and Agent Assist offerings for how it addresses the same work RingCX handles: automated customer interactions and help for live agents.
RingCentral depends on NICE Ltd technology for RingCentral Contact Center, while NICE's CXone competes with RingCX for organizations buying customer-engagement software. NICE's acquisition of Cognigy adds conversational AI capabilities to CXone, making that platform's AI development worth watching.
Microsoft Teams competes with RingCentral's RingEX for business calling and collaboration, but Teams users can also buy RingCentral's communications services inside Teams. That integration provides phone, SMS, fax and customer-experience services without requiring a Teams Phone license.
Cisco competes with RingCentral's RingEX by selling businesses calling and collaboration software through licenses and subscriptions. Watch Cisco's collaboration business rather than its overall results, which are dominated by other infrastructure businesses.
Ooma competes with RingCentral's RingEX and RingCX through business phone subscriptions and contact-center offerings, particularly for smaller businesses. Focus on Ooma Business rather than its combined business and residential user count when assessing that overlap.
Sangoma competes with RingCentral for businesses subscribing to calling, collaboration and contact-center services. Its monthly, annual and multi-year contracts serve small businesses through large enterprises, overlapping RingCentral's customer range.
Crexendo competes with RingCentral's RingEX by selling businesses cloud phone and unified communications services, while also licensing platforms to service providers. Its separate cloud telecommunications and software-solutions revenue lines distinguish direct service sales from its platform business.
Twilio competes with parts of RingCentral's customer communications portfolio by selling businesses digital engagement software and tools that add voice and messaging to their applications. Watch customers' increased use and adoption of additional communications products, which Twilio identifies as sources of growth.
RingCentral uses Amazon's cloud infrastructure, while Amazon's AWS offerings also compete for businesses deploying cloud contact centers. AWS news is therefore relevant both to the infrastructure RingCentral uses and to competition facing RingCX.
RingCentral relies on Lumen to connect and complete calls, support emergency calling and let customers keep their phone numbers when switching providers. Lumen's network quality, security and service costs matter to RingCentral's phone subscriptions: provider problems can cause poor calls, outages and customer losses.
RINGCENTRAL, INC. earningsThis company
Subscriptions make up most of RingCentral's revenue, and this report will show whether existing customers are staying and buying more to drive that business forward.
Read annual recurring revenue (ARR, the current monthly recurring subscription revenue multiplied by 12) alongside net monthly subscription dollar retention. Retention tracks subscription changes among existing customers, excluding new customers. Rising ARR with steady retention suggests existing customers are staying or expanding, with new customers adding to growth. If ARR rises while retention weakens, new customers may be doing more of the work as existing customers leave or spend less. Subscriptions make up 96% of revenue, so these measures help show whether growth in RingCentral's core business has a firm base.
8x8, Inc. earningsEGHT
8x8, Inc.'s report can show demand for cloud phone, collaboration and contact-center services—the same business areas where it competes with RingCentral for customers.
Look for what 8x8 says about business demand for its cloud phone, collaboration and contact-center services. Steady or stronger demand would suggest companies are still willing to pay for these bundled services, supporting the market RingCentral sells into. Weaker demand would point to cooling spending by the same kinds of buyers, making it harder for RingCentral's offerings such as RingEX to win customers.
FIVE9, INC. earningsFIVN
Five9's report can show business demand for AI that automates contact-center interactions or assists live agents, a market where its offerings compete with RingCentral's RingCX.
Look for Five9's comments on adoption of AI Agents and Agent Assist, then compare that with the automated customer interactions and live-agent support RingCX provides. Rising adoption would show customers are spending on these tools, intensifying competition for RingCX while also indicating a growing market. Weak adoption would suggest buyers are still cautious about spending on contact-center AI.
