RingCentral reported its largest-ever UCaaS deal during its most recent earnings call.
During the call, RingCentral CEO Vlad Shmunis outlined that the vendor had sold 40,000 seats in an eight-figure deal to a Fortune 500 retailer whose sales exceed $20 billion.
Additionally, to cap off a positive quarter for RingCentral, total revenues grew by nine percent year-over-year in Q1 to $584 million, above the high end of the business's outlook.
"I'm excited to share that in Q1, we signed our largest UCaaS seat deal ever," said Shmunis.
With RingCentral, this customer will be able to address their main pain points, which include dropped call, long hold times, inadequate call reporting and lack of advanced voice features. In this megadeal win, RingCentral will be replacing their legacy solution, Skype for Business, demonstrating our ability to win against Teams Phone while operating within the Team's ecosystem."
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Among other compelling operational figures, over half of RingCentral's large $1 million TCV deals were with customers leveraging RingCentral solutions integrated with and alongside Microsoft Teams. This encompassed the company's "gold" verticals, which include healthcare, financial and professional services, retail, and the public sector.
Another major win that Shmunis cited was onboarding Sanitas, a Fortune 500 operator of medical centres in the US, as a customer to modernise its communications. Shmunis credited RingCentral's UCaaS solution being integrated with CCaaS as a critical factor behind the win: "With RingCentral, Sanitas will be able to provide their customers with the unified, seamless experience across interactions such as scheduling, billing and general inquiries."
As well as new wins, Shmunis reinforced that sustainable growth hinges on retention, affirming that RingCentral's renewed focus on customer care is improving gross retention and better NPS scores.
On the innovation side of things, Shmunis also mentioned the positive response to RingEX, an evolution of RingCentral MVP designed to enhance the employee experience, which one customer reportedly saved them five minutes post-call for an average 20-minute call via real-time notes.
Meanwhile, RingCentral's AI-powered contact centre, RingCX, was reported to have over 200 customers, double the number over Q3 FY23. One notable customer was Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council in the UK, which purchased over 200 RingCX seats and over 3,000 RingEX licenses in Q1 to serve 300,000 residents.
"Q1 was solid," Shmunis said. "We are executing on all our strategic priorities. Our core growth is stabilising, our new products are demonstrating traction, our SBC is improving, and our free cash flow is expanding, demonstrating the strength of our business and its inherent profitability. I'm very excited about our future."
