GoTo vs. RingCentral: Which UCaaS platform makes more sense for your business?

RingCentral versus GoTo logos. If you’re contemplating migrating from an on-premises PBX to a cloud phone system or switching from your current Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) solution to another platform, you might feel overwhelmed by the UCaaS marketplace.

Considering the number of options available and how quickly the landscape shifts, identifying the best option for your business can be stressful and time-consuming. That’s where our team of trusted technology advisors comes in. With over 20 years of IT and business communications experience, access to the latest market data, and partnerships with leading suppliers, we can quickly select the best solutions for your business out of dozens of possibilities.

Another valuable element in our advisory arsenal is a tool that rapidly generates detailed comparison matrices illustrating how various products stack up against each other. In this “versus” blog series, we’re sharing some of these matrices to shed light on how leading cloud phone systems compare.

In this blog entry, we delve into how GoTo compares with RingCentral as a UCaaS supplier. Before you review the matrix, here’s some background information to consider about each provider.

GoTo logoUCaaS supplier profile: GoTo

Founded in 2003 and formerly known as LogMeIn, Boston-based GoTo is a leading unified communications and remote IT support solution supplier. The supplier’s UCaaS platform, GoTo Connect, delivers scalable, secure and customizable cloud phone system functionality such as call routing, dial plans, and auto attendants. GoTo Connect combines calling, messaging and meetings and is ideal for small businesses because of its affordability and flexibility. Other notable selling points include speedy deployment, 99.999 percent uptime, highly responsive customer support, bandwidth friendliness, and enterprise-grade security and compliance.

The Stratosphere Networks team is certified in GoTo onboarding assistance. With our extensive GoTo solution knowledge and experience, we’ll ensure implementation goes smoothly. We offer white-glove project management and support services, and our GoTo specialists will make sure you have access to all the features needed to support your organizational objectives. On top of that, we can leverage a proven process to facilitate end user adoption.

RingCentral logoUCaaS supplier profile: RingCentral

Based in Belmont, CA, and founded in 1999, RingCentral provides an intuitive and easy-to-deploy UCaaS platform that end users can access via any internet-connected device. This cloud phone system offering is reliable and secure. It also integrates with over 300 business applications, including Microsoft Teams. RingCentral serves businesses of all sizes and across all industries, including but not limited to healthcare, retail, education, and high-tech.

As a RingCentral Certified Delivery Partner, Stratosphere Networks can ensure you have access to all the features needed to achieve your goals and maintain peak performance. We’ll help you get as much as possible out of your investment in RingCentral’s business communications solutions with our white-glove project management, technical design, implementation, integration, network configuration, and monitoring services. Our RingCentral experts will ensure implementation and end user adoption go as smoothly as possible.  

ProviderGoToRingCentral
# of Employeesconfidential4,000
HQBoston, MA; Dublin, IrelandBelmont, CA
Public / PrivatePrivatePublic: RNG
Seats in Service1.45M5M
Minimum Seat Count / MRCno minimumno minimum
Sweet Spot25-1,500 seats5-25,000 seats
Key AcquisitionsJive, MiradoreDimelo, Glip
Datacenter LocationsUnited States, Europe/ Middle East/ Africa, Latin America, United KingdomUnited States, Europe/ Middle East/ Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, United Kingdom, Canada
Datacenter LocationsEMEA: Frankfurt LATAM: Sao Paulo UK: London US: Chicago, Grand Rapids, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Portland, Salt Lake City, SeattleAPAC: Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo Canada: Toronto, Vancouver EMEA: Amsterdam, Paris, zurich LATAM: Rio de Janeiro UK: London US: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, New York, San Jose, Vienna (VA)
International Full PSTN Replacement12 Countries45+ Countries
Compatible HandsetsAlgo, Cisco, Grandstream, Panasonic, Poly, YealinkALE, Avaya, Cisco, Mitel, Poly, tekVizion, Unity Read more here.
Compatible HandsetsCisco, Poly, YealinkCisco, Poly, Yealink
Contact CenterProprietaryRing Central Contact Center (NICE inContact), RingCentral CX
PlatformProprietaryProprietary
ComplianceCCPA, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, SOC 2 Additional Compliances: TIPSCPNI, Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), GDPR, HIPAA, HITRUST, ISO 27001, PCI, SOC 2, SOX Additional Compliances: FINRA
ComplianceCCPA, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, SOC 2CPNI, Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), GDPR, HIPAA, HITRUST, ISO 27001, PCI, SOC 2, SOX
Key System EmulationYesNo
SIP Trunking AvailableYesNo
Line of Business App IntegrationsMicrosoft Office, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Slack, ZendesK, Zoho Additional Integrations: CurveDental, DealerSocket, Redtail, VinSolutions GoTo connect integrationsBullhorn, Google Workspace, HubSpot, JobDiva, Kustomer, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Office, NetSuite, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Slack, SugarCRM, Zendesk, Zoho Additional Integrations: 351 pre-built, including Asana, Clo, Confluence, GitHub, Jira, MailChimp, Marketo, Oracle Sales Cloud, Theta Lake, VMware, Zapier
Line of Business App IntegrationsMicrosoft Office, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Slack, ZendesK, ZohoBullhorn, Google Workspace, HubSpot, JobDiva, Kustomer, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Office, NetSuite, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Slack, SugarCRM, Zendesk, Zoho
Microsoft Teams IntegrationsMiddleware Direct Routing – Bundled PBX Embedded DialerMiddleware (Call2Teams, TeamMates) Direct Routing – Bundled PBX Direct Routing – Microsoft PBX Embedded Dialer
AI CapabilitiesAdditional Capabilities: Open Al Integration Campaign CreationLive Language Translation Note Taking & Summarization Real-Time Transcription Sentiment Analysis Additional Capabilities: Conversation Intelligence
SD-WAN Offeringsnonenone
Circuits Offeredyes; dedicated voice circuits, SIP trunking Not to be positioned as a SIP trunk “provider”; rather, this is a hybrid solulion for on-prem migration to UCaaSyes; dedicated voice circuits
Bring Your Own MPLSyesyes
Top Customer VerticalsAutomotive, Education, Healthcare, LegalAutomotive, Construction, Finance, Healthcare, Retail, SLED
On-Site Implementation / TrainingAdditional ChargeAdditional Charge
Implementation OverviewAvailable Upon RequestAvailable Upon Request
Dedicated Customer Support24/7 support included with annual subscriptionDedicated support included. Advanced dedicated 24/7 support offered for additional charge.
Collaboration Solutions AvailableGoToConnect (voice, chat, video), GoToMeeting (video only), GoToWebinar (online presentations), GoToTraining (virtual classrooms), GoToRoom (hardware room system for GoToMeeting videoRingCentral Meetings, RingCentral Messaging, Fax, SMS, RingCentral Rooms, RingCentral Room Connector, RingCentral Webinar
DifferentiatorsEasy to use, easy to manage, simple licensing, competitive pricing, inclusive national & international minutes, free offthe-shelf CRM integrations, free use of open API, highly-rated customer service and support. Only UCaaS provider to also offer ITSG (remote desktop MTCE bundled for IT)30+ Data Centers worldwide; 45+ carrier peering; 200+ ISP Peering 40+ Global Office Countries with expanded International Virtual Number coverage to 100+ countries; localization for 16 languages, and service to China & India (ICB) 100+ tSV Partners; largest developer community in the cloud space – 40,000+ Developers, 30+ GLIP Integrations, 250 + RESTful APts and Cloud Integrations 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for UCaaS, 300+ pre-built integrations, Open APt’s, Worldwide, 99.999% uptime SLA, TLS and SRTP Data Encryption, On demand and dynamic End-to-End Encryption for RingCentral video, HIPA6-, FINRA, HITRUST, and ISO 27017 and 27018
Case StudiesAvailable Upon RequestAvailable Upon Request
SD-WAN OfferingsFALSEFALSE
Bring Your Own MPLSTRUETRUE
Circuits OfferedTRUETRUE

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As a trusted partner of both GoTo and RingCentral, we can objectively assess both options for your business and identify the superior solution for your organization based on your pain points, requirements, and goals.

Start now by calling 877-599-3999 or emailing sales@stratospherenetworks.com. You can also complete our free UCaaS assessment to begin your search.

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