PRESS RELEASE: Jive Communications and Cisco Systems announced a strategic partnership to deliver cloud voice solutions with Cisco’s new Multiplatform Phones (MPP).

“Many of our customers and partners have been looking forward to using these new handsets,” said Mike Sharp, Chief Product Officer at Jive Communications. “Cisco is a leader in the enterprise Unified Communications space and this is going to make a huge difference for many of our partners and customers.”

Jive is the largest privately held pure play Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) provider, with a mature platform, hundreds of thousands of users, and many of the largest hosted VoIP deployments in the world. The Jive service offering includes voice, contact center, mobile, and video products delivered directly from the Jive Cloud platform.

“Jive Communications is the first cloud provider in the United States to certify and go to market with Cisco’s Multiplatform Phones,” said John Lamarque, Director of Product Management – Unified Communications Technology Group at Cisco Systems. “We’re excited about the future of this partnership.”