Softworx Ltd

RingCentral Phone System in the Cloud

RingCentral Office is a fully-integrated communication platform offering a complete business phone system alongside advanced UC features. It is a fully-featured, compelling replacement for hardware-based PBXs, also featuring innovations only possible via the cloud-first architecture, like integrations with leading SaaS providers like Google, Salesforce, and others to improve business productivity.

Features

  • Telephony – rich PBX functionality for in/outbound calling
  • Web-Collaboration – screen-share / remote-desktop / video-conferencing
  • Highly scalable audio and video conferencing
  • Many user endpoints – desk phones, mobile and desktop apps
  • Advanced team collaboration – chat, integrated file sharing, task management
  • Advanced telephony features – automated call recording, hot desking, fax
  • Simple-to-use admin and user portals for self-configuration
  • Integrations with market leading SaaS providers eg. Google for Work
  • Federated accounts for simple management
  • Fixed mobile convergence

Benefits

  • Carrier-grade uptime and reliability
  • Geo-redundant, fault tolerant architecture
  • Highly scaleable platform for any enterprise size or growth rate
  • Significant cost savings through consolidation of services
  • Improved productivity with innovative, market leading tools
  • Simple user experience across all devices
  • Seamless remote working and support for multi-site businesses

Pricing

£7.99 a unit

  • Free trial available

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

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Contact

Softworx Ltd Aidan Duffy
Telephone: 0141 471 5471
Email: info@softworx.co

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
Yes, but can also be used as a standalone service
What software services is the service an extension to
RingCentral is a standalone product. However with many out of the box integrations, RingCentral Office can be integrated with most business systems and applications companies use on a daily basis such as G Suite, O365 or SalesForce.
Cloud deployment model
Public cloud
Service constraints
RingCentral is a pure cloud solution and as such doesn't need any hardware.
System requirements
  • Internet access
  • Windows 7 or MAC OS 10.8 or later
  • 2 GHz processor
  • Minimum 1 GB of memory
  • 300 MB of hard drive space

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
Within 8 hours
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
No
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
24 hours, 7 days a week
Web chat support
No
Onsite support
Yes, at extra cost
Support levels
RingCentral packages include 24x7x365 support via email, live chat and phone.Our solution is cloud based and we offer comprehensive remote support. Should you require onsite support, our Professional Services team will work with you on the best solution.
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
Full remote and onsite training as well as a wide range of guides and other user documentation.
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
  • PDF
  • Other
Other documentation formats
  • Video
  • User forums
End-of-contract data extraction
When the contract ends, users will be able to extract their data. All customer data is destroyed within 30 days of account termination and all internal confidential material is shredded or put in locked shredding boxes when they are no longer needed or if the applicable defined retention period has expired.
End-of-contract process
At the end of the contract, data retained within the customer's PBX is available for download from the point of deployment, via FTP and web download subject to current regulations.

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Supported browsers
  • Internet Explorer 11
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Chrome
  • Safari
Application to install
Yes
Compatible operating systems
  • Android
  • IOS
  • MacOS
  • Windows
Designed for use on mobile devices
Yes
Differences between the mobile and desktop service
User experience is key for RingCentral. We spend a lot of time and effort
to bring an intuitive and consistent experience across all devices so users will not have t learn and re learn ho to use our solution. We provide the same look and feel, functionalities and navigations on all devices.
Service interface
Yes
User support accessibility
None or don’t know
Description of service interface
User experience is key for RingCentral. We spend a lot of time and effort
to bring an intuitive and consistent experience across all devices so users will not have t learn and re learn ho to use our solution. We provide the same look and feel, functionalities and navigations on all devices.
Accessibility standards
None or don’t know
Description of accessibility
N/a
Accessibility testing
N/a
API
Yes
What users can and can't do using the API
RingCentral provides open APIs for developers to build communication into the applications and systems of their choice. More information on https://developer.ringcentral.com/.
API documentation
Yes
API documentation formats
  • HTML
  • PDF
API sandbox or test environment
Yes
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
RingCentral, users can chose the way they communicate by customising call configurations and call flows as well as setting up the devices of their choice for example.

Scaling

Independence of resources
RingCentral's platform has been designed from the ground up with high availability and geo-redundancy in mind. As a cloud solution RingCentral is highly scaleable and provides service availability up to 99.999%.

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
RingCentral provides full call log and call recording details as well as call costs in the online management portal. We also provide live reporting at an additional cost, which provides full live reporting capabilities allowing for wallboards based on queue, group, team or individual reporting.
Reporting types
  • API access
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

Supplier type
Reseller providing extra support
Organisation whose services are being resold
RingCentral

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Other security clearance
Government security clearance
Up to Security Clearance (SC)

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
Yes
Data storage and processing locations
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
User control over data storage and processing locations
Yes
Datacentre security standards
Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
Penetration testing frequency
At least once a year
Penetration testing approach
In-house
Protecting data at rest
Encryption of all physical media
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Data sanitisation type
  • Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
Equipment disposal approach
Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
From the online management portal
Data export formats
CSV
Data import formats
CSV

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Data protection within supplier network
TLS (version 1.2 or above)

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
RingCentral's platform has been designed from the ground up with high availability and geo-redundancy in mind. RingCentral guarantees up to 99.999% service uptime. We will share on financial compensation adjustments associated with under performance upon request. RingCentral invests in a world-class Network Operations Center, which is monitored 24/7/365 by highly skilled engineers to support up to 99.999% availability.
Approach to resilience
RingCentral’s architecture has multiple levels of inter & intra redundancy built into it. It’s designed to run in an active/active mode and seamlessly switches to the available data centre in the event of any failure. Service failover is tested regularly during system maintenance windows. In case of a local internet failure, all calls can fail over to mobile devices.
Outage reporting
RingCentral’s network operations center (NOC) operates 24/7/365 to ensure optimal system configuration and service availability. Our engineers continuously monitor countless systems, metrics, and alarms. RingCentral uses 5 internal alarm levels to ensure reliable operations (presented here from lowest to highest importance): -Informational (take note, no direct action results) -Warning (watch and take action as needed) -Critical (immediately fix and/or escalate) -Service Outage (immediately fix and escalate) -Disaster (immediately fix and escalate through a live conference call regardless of day or time). RingCentral customers are immediately notified of issues and outages affecting their service. Customers are also notified when the issue is resolved, what the issue was, and how it was resolved.

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
Password protection
Access restriction testing frequency
At least once a year
Management access authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information
You control when users can access audit information
How long user audit data is stored for
Between 6 months and 12 months
Access to supplier activity audit information
You control when users can access audit information
How long supplier audit data is stored for
Between 6 months and 12 months
How long system logs are stored for
Between 6 months and 12 months

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
No
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
Yes
Cyber essentials plus
Yes
Other security certifications
Yes
Any other security certifications
  • HIPAA
  • TRUSTe Privacy seal
  • CNI Compliant
  • ISO 27001 (datacentres)
  • Safe Harbour

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security
Yes
Security governance certified
Yes
Security governance standards
Other
Other security governance standards
• HIPAA
• TRUSTe Privacy Seal
• Safe Harbour
• CNI Compliant
• ISO 27001 compliance (data centres)
Information security policies and processes
Security is a crucial component of the RingCentral system. The security of RingCentral’s cloud services encompasses multiple layers and many components, from policies and methodologies to service architecture. Security capabilities and settings reside in the application and infrastructure layers, within the service delivery and operations processes, and the company’s security policies and governance practices. RingCentral is compliant with both SSAE16 SOC-1 Type II and SOC-2 Type II in addition to being PCI compliant. RingCentral undergoes yearly security audits from third party organisations to ensure high levels of security for data at rest, and during transmission. Additional information of our security policy can be read at this link: http://netstorage.ringcentral.com/documents/security_policy.pdf

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Configuration and change management approach
RingCentral’s network and application perimeter is protected with firewalls and session border controllers. Administrative access requires authenticating through a production VPN gateway, then authenticating to local infrastructure systems. Technology layers include intrusion detection systems, system logs, and fraud analytics. Operational processes include system and service-level monitoring, system hardening, change management, and regular vulnerability scans.
Vulnerability management type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Vulnerability management approach
RingCentral uses Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) to monitor network activity for suspicious traffic and attacks.
Protective monitoring type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Protective monitoring approach
We have NOC monitoring incidents 24x7. The security director is notified of the incident immediately. The required teams follow the approved information security incident response guide.
Incident management type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Incident management approach
We have NOC monitoring incidents 24x7. The security director is notified of the incident immediately. The required teams follow the approved information security incident response guide.

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks
No

Social Value

Fighting climate change

Fighting climate change

Softworx have an Environmental Policy and work hard to do our part in reducing our carbon footprint.
Covid-19 recovery

Covid-19 recovery

Softworx comply and all promote to staff complete recovery of COVID 19 before returning to work.
Tackling economic inequality

Tackling economic inequality

Softworx are a living wage company and promoter
Equal opportunity

Equal opportunity

Softworx are an Equal Opportunity employer
Wellbeing

Wellbeing

Softworx promote both physical and mental wellbeing to staff and clients.

Pricing

Price
£7.99 a unit
Discount for educational organisations
No
Free trial available
Yes
Description of free trial
RingCentral provides a 14 day free trial which is a simplified version of RingCentral Office and will help you familiarise yourself with our solution, functionalities and look and feel.

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at info@softworx.co. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.