Zoom Named Mitel’s Exclusive UCaaS Partner After RingCentral Break, AI Companion Receives FedRAMP OK For Government Use
Zoom has been named Mitel‘s new exclusive UCaaS partner after the latter ended its exclusivity relationship with RingCentral.
Zoom and Mitel have announced a significant strategic partnership to deliver AI-powered UC for enterprises. As a cornerstone of the agreement, Zoom will be Mitel’s exclusive UCaaS offering within its overall UC portfolio. This follows the end of a similar Mitel exclusive UCaaS partnership with RingCentral last month.
The partnership involves delivering a hybrid cloud product utilising Zoom Workplace and Zoom AI Companion to complement Mitel’s leading communications platform for an advanced, integrated comms experience.
Eric Yuan, Founder and CEO of Zoom, commented:
Like Zoom, Mitel has a customer-first approach where providing a best-in-class, collaborative working environment is of the utmost importance. I look forward to watching this partnership progress and continuing to work closely with Mitel to meet the evolving needs of our users.”
In other Zoom news, its AI Companion solution has received FedRAMP authorisation, complementing Zoom for Government’s list of authorised solutions.
Zoom has announced that its AI Companion has received authorisation from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Joint Authorization Board (JAB) as a JAB Moderate system. Zoom outlines that this new approval complements the list of approved products under Zoom for Government, which it says illustrates the company’s dedication to serving the US government sector.
Amazon Introduces Five-Days-A-Week In-Office Mandate
Amazon has mandated that employees must work in the office five days a week, starting at the beginning of next year.
In what is potentially the final chapter of the tech giant’s 18-month-long return-to-office (RTO) saga, Amazon has extended its three-day in-office mandate to the whole working week.
In a letter to employees posted on the company’s website on Monday, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy suggested the experience of a three-day in-office mandate has “strengthened our conviction about the benefits” of working in the office.
"To address the second issue of being better set up to invent, collaborate, and be connected enough to each other and our culture to deliver the absolute best for customers and the business, we’ve decided that we’re going to return to being in the office the way we were before the onset of COVID," Jassy wrote. "When we look back over the last five years, we continue to believe that the advantages of being together in the office are significant.”
Amazon is the first major tech business to mandate workers return to the office for the entire work week.
