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Working Together to Find Our New Normal

This article was published on May 13, 2020
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Our hearts go out to all who have been affected by this global health crisis. And, we humbly thank those working to combat and contain this threat. 

This is an unsettling, challenging time for us all. At Vonage, we are doing everything we can to maintain the health and well-being of our employees, while also ensuring we run our business effectively and help our customers do the same. 

We’ve provided guidance to our customers to help them easily transition to virtual office set-ups to ensure business continuity. We’re working closely with customers to transition them to virtual contact centers by quickly replicating their call plans and configuring workflows to distribute calls to remote agents, wherever they may be. When ‘business as usual’ is disrupted, the ability to enable a completely virtual environment and maintain access to mission-critical business applications and connections from anywhere becomes more important than ever. 

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Vonage is releasing multiple free services that enable businesses in every industry to communicate, collaborate and connect with their customers from anywhere.

These offers include:

  • A new Business Continuity offer enabling seamless remote work for any business

  • Vonage Free Conferencing, a new standalone video collaboration product for use by anyone

  • SMS Connect, a new Vonage Instant Alert SMS service to distribute real-time updates on the COVID-19 pandemic from government agencies throughout the world. Vonage will open source SMS Connect so it can be shared easily and freely worldwide

Details on all of our new offers can be found in the press release we issued on March 18. 

We’re Here For You

If you are already a Vonage customer and need additional help to address the current crisis, please contact us. For channel partners looking for ways to provide these solutions to your customers, please contact your channel manager, and for our API Partners who need additional support, please contact [email protected].  

Vonage has a wealth of educational information on the topics of business continuity and remote working, telemedicine and virtual learning on our website that our customers may find useful. We are also scheduling webinars and sharing educational materials directly and via social media to help customers stay informed about the tools available to them to enable a virtual workplace during this challenging time.

We have our own business continuity processes in place to ensure we can continue to provide our customers with the products and services needed to keep their businesses running smoothly. This worldwide crisis comes at a time when I’ve never been more sure about our business and our future. Because of the flexibility of our platform, and the nature of our services, we are best equipped to keep our own business running smoothly while we do the same for our customers. 

We’re All in This Together 

For all of our customers, especially those on the front lines, combatting this crisis as it unfolds, we are here to provide the support you need to stay in touch, from near and far. We have the tools and the technology needed to help people stay safe and to continue serving their customers while we do the same.   

Stay safe and be well. And if I can help, please let me know

 

Alan Masarek
By Alan Masarek CEO

Chief Executive Officer, Director Alan Masarek joined Vonage (NYSE:VG) as the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors in November 2014. Since then, Mr. Masarek has ushered in an era of transformation for Vonage, driving the company’s rapid growth and evolution from a residential home phone provider into a global business cloud communications leader. Through a series of strategic acquisitions, coupled with fast, organic growth and internal technology development, Mr. Masarek has created a culture of agility, technology innovation and customer centricity. An innovator with deep experience in mobile, SMB and Enterprise sectors, Mr. Masarek came to Vonage from Google, Inc., where he was Director, Chrome & Apps from June 2012 until October 2014, following the acquisition of his prior company, Quickoffice, Inc. Mr. Masarek was the Co-founder of Quickoffice, Inc., one of the world’s most widely recognized mobile brands, and served as its Chief Executive Officer from July 2007 until June 2012. Under his leadership, Quickoffice became the world’s most widely embedded mobile productivity software, with a top-grossing iPad app and a top 10 grossing app in the Google Play Store, engaging more than 26 million registered users at the time of Google’s purchase. Mr. Masarek earned his M.B.A., with Distinction, from Harvard Business School and his B.B.A., Magna Cum Laude, from the University of Georgia.

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