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What Gartner's Magic Quadrant for UCaaS actually tells you about choosing a platform. TL;DR: The 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for UCaaS names Cisco, Microsoft, RingCentral and Zoom as Leaders, based on two measures, Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision, not price, sector fit or implementation quality. Gartner itself says its research should not be used to select only the highest-rated vendors. For an IT Director shortlisting a UC platform, a Leader placement is a reasonable starting point, best combined with Critical Capabilities research, Peer Insights and direct reference checks with comparable firms before deciding. Zoom announced on 3 August that it had been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service, its seventh consecutive year in that spot. That announcement is only part of the picture. Gartner's full 2026 report also places Cisco, Microsoft and RingCentral as Leaders, positions 8x8, Dialpad and GoTo as Visionaries, and drops two vendors from the ranking entirely compared with 2025. What Gartner's 2026 UCaaS Magic Quadrant actually says. The 2026 Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service, published in late July, names four Leaders: Cisco (its eighth consecutive year in that quadrant), Microsoft (also its eighth), RingCentral and Zoom (its seventh). Three vendors, 8x8, Dialpad and GoTo, sit as Visionaries. Vonage and Wildix remain Niche Players. No vendor qualifies as a Challenger this year. Two vendors rated Niche Players in 2025, Google and Sangoma, do not appear in the 2026 report at all. Dropping off the chart entirely is arguably more informative than moving between quadrants, since Gartner only assesses vendors it judges relevant enough to the market to include. These are Gartner's classifications, not endorsements of one platform over another. A Visionary or Niche Player placement does not mean a platform is wrong for a given firm, and Gartner is explicit about that limit in its own research, covered below. Marlin works directly with four of the nine vendors named in this year's report: Zoom and Microsoft, both named Leaders, and 8x8 and GoTo, both named Visionaries. That spread is deliberate. Marlin's role is to help a firm choose and implement the platform that fits its estate, not to sell a single vendor's positioning. Gartner also flagged AI as this year's main competitive differentiator, since most established platforms already cover calling, messaging and meetings as baseline features. Marlin looked at what that AI difference actually looks like in practice for three of these vendors in AI Voice Features in Teams, Zoom and 8x8, comparing what ships free against what sits behind a premium tier. What "Ability to Execute" and "Completeness of Vision" actually measure. Every vendor on the chart is scored against two axes. Ability to Execute covers what a vendor delivers today: product quality, sales execution, financial viability and customer experience. Completeness of Vision covers where a vendor is heading: market understanding, product strategy, innovation and how well its roadmap anticipates where buyers will need to go next. Microsoft's 2026 placement illustrates the point well. Gartner positioned Microsoft highest on Ability to Execute and furthest on Completeness of Vision of any vendor in the report, the two extremes of both axes at once. A Leader placement means scoring highly on both. A Visionary has proven the vision but not yet the execution at the same scale. A Niche Player has found a smaller market it serves well rather than competing for the whole one, which can be the right fit for a firm with narrow, specific needs even though it carries a less prestigious label. What a Leader placement doesn't tell you. Gartner is explicit about the limits of its own research. Every Magic Quadrant carries the same disclaimer: the company "does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings." That research represents analyst opinion, not a statement of fact about which vendor suits a particular firm. The quadrant says nothing about price, since Gartner does not publish vendor pricing as part of the methodology. It says nothing about fit for a regulated UK professional services firm specifically, since the research covers a global market rather than a sector or region. And it says nothing about implementation quality, which depends on the partner delivering the rollout as much as the platform itself. The methodology has structural limits too. It is published once a year, so a placement can already be months out of date by the time a firm reads it. And because Ability to Execute rewards scale, revenue and existing market share, the framework tends to favour large, established vendors over smaller ones that might suit a specific firm's needs better. How to use it properly during a shortlist. Gartner's own guidance is to use the Magic Quadrant alongside other research: Critical Capabilities reports, which score vendors against specific use cases rather than the market as a whole, and Peer Insights, which gathers reviews from verified customers. Used together, these give a fuller picture than a single quadrant position. For a regulated professional services firm, the most useful step is one no analyst report can do: speaking directly with two or three comparable firms already running the platform under consideration, ideally in the same sector, and asking about the parts a vendor's own marketing will not mention, migration friction, support response times and how the platform handles compliance and data residency requirements. Operational fit should decide a shortlist, not quadrant position. A platform that solves a firm's specific problems is the better choice over one with a stronger quadrant placement that does not. Are you reviewing your UC platform? A Leader placement is a reasonable starting point for a shortlist, not a reason to skip the rest of the process. The vendors on this year's chart, several of which Marlin already works with across UK professional services clients, sit in different quadrants for defensible reasons. If your firm is reviewing its UC platform this year, get in touch to talk through a shortlist built on operational fit and direct reference checks, not just where a vendor lands on Gartner's chart. About Marlin Communications. Marlin Communications is committed to providing expert guidance on Zero Trust solutions. Marlin Communications is an independent, single-source provider of business communications & collaboration solutions including voice, data, mobile, video, network security and contact centre technology for businesses of 50 - 5,000 staff. Marlin Communications Ltd operate throughout the UK - with global reach - and its own, on-premises, 1,000 ft^2 Technology Suite at its Bath office, where Marlin Communications Ltd host regular events and showcase technology solutions for its clients. Contact Marlin Communications Ltd for your free comms audit or product demo. Marlin Communications is ISO 27001 certified by BSI under certificate number IS795313. Get the latest tech news & reviews - straight to your inbox. Sign up to receive exclusive business communications, tech content, new tech launches, tips, articles and more.

Dialpad and Glean connect customer conversation insights with enterprise knowledge to drive smarter decision-making. August 26, 2026 Demoing at Glean:GO 2026, the new integration brings Dialpad's conversational intelligence into Glean, so customer conversations, voice and text, AI and human, become usable across the business SAN FRANCISCO-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Dialpad, the AI platform for customer experience, today announced a new integration with enterprise AI leader Glean, that connects the intelligence captured in customer conversations with the broader enterprise knowledge employees and AI systems rely on every day. The launch builds on the companies' expanding partnership, with Dialpad also joining the newly launched Glean Partner Network. Businesses have more customer data than ever, but much of the most valuable insight remains locked inside conversations, from sales calls and customer meetings to digital support interactions and service conversations. At the same time, workers are increasingly turning to AI to find information and identify customer trends, using those insights to make data-backed decisions. This creates a need for richer context that brings together what customers are saying with what the business already knows. The new Dialpad and Glean integration helps bridge that gap. Dialpad captures and analyzes customer conversations across the full customer journey, both voice and text and both AI and human, and turns them into customer journey intelligence. Glean makes that intelligence discoverable and actionable across its enterprise-grade knowledge base of documents, systems and workflows. Together, the companies help organizations bring together what they know about a customer, identify the right next step, and act on it through a person or through automation, across revenue, support and service. "Customer conversations remain one of the richest and most direct sources of intelligence a business has, but that value usually stays trapped in transcripts, one call at a time, and disconnected from where work happens," said Jared Dennison, AVP, AI Ecosystem & Marketplace, at Dialpad. "More and more of those conversations are handled by AI agents working alongside people, and both become part of the same customer record. This integration connects the dots across that full history, voice and text, AI and human, then surfaces the likely next step in context so the people and systems doing the work can act on it in the moment." Dialpad adds a conversational layer that captures the real-time voice of the customer. The integration connects what is said in calls, meetings and digital customer interactions with the broader enterprise context inside Glean, helping businesses move from fragmented information sets to a more complete understanding of each customer. The result is a more connected AI experience across the customer journey, helping sales teams prepare with greater context, enabling service teams to resolve issues more effectively, and giving business leaders a clearer view of what customers are saying and how those insights should inform the next action. Turning Conversations Into Action As a member of the Glean Partner Network, Dialpad is working with Glean to make customer intelligence more accessible and actionable across the enterprise. Dialpad provides conversational insights, while Glean connects that intelligence with the documents, systems and knowledge employees and AI need to understand the full business context and use it to make smarter decisions. The Dialpad and Glean integration can help organizations: * Prepare for customer conversations with greater context: Teams can combine prior conversation history from Dialpad with relevant usage, subscription, CRM and internal account knowledge from Glean, helping employees enter every customer interaction better informed. * Deliver in-call agent assist: While a sales rep or service agent is in a live customer interaction in Dialpad, Glean can surface relevant internal documents, playbooks, product information and account context based on the conversation, helping teams find the right information without disrupting the customer interaction. * Accelerate post-call follow-up: Following a customer call or meeting, teams can use conversation transcripts, summaries and playbook data to generate more complete recaps, customer insights and follow-up actions that are directly linked to CRM, ticketing and internal knowledge systems. * Improve supervisor and quality assurance workflows: Contact center leaders can combine conversation intelligence with grounded knowledge and policy context to support more consistent responses, coaching and quality reviews based on real customer interactions. * Strengthen pipeline and forecast visibility: Sales leaders can connect what customers are actually saying in calls and meetings with broader enterprise context to support more informed pipeline reviews, deal inspection and forecasting. * Bring knowledge into the flow of work: The integration opens opportunities to surface Glean-powered knowledge and account context within Dialpad-adjacent workflows, helping users search for information and trigger follow-on actions without leaving the environment where conversations happen. "The next generation of enterprise AI won't operate on isolated sources of information. It needs to understand the full context of the business, including what customers are saying in real time," said Zubin Irani, VP of Partnership, Glean. "Dialpad brings an incredibly important source of that context into Glean. Together, we can give employees and AI agents a much more complete understanding of the customer and the business around them, so they can reason better, make better decisions, and take the right action." "Dialpad and Glean's integration is an example of how companies can build systems of AI that transform work, giving visibility into massive datasets, helping people understand and do their best work, and creating a foundation for smart, trustworthy agentic automation that works alongside the people who use it," concluded Dennison. Availability The new Dialpad-Glean Integration is available now. Please reach out to [email protected] to learn more. Meet Dialpad at Glean:GO Dialpad is a sponsor of Glean:GO, Glean's user conference taking place August 26-27 at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Please stop by the Dialpad booth to see the integration in action. About Dialpad Dialpad is the AI platform for customer experience, providing real-time AI solutions since 2018. Dialpad's all-in-one solution understands your business and acts on your behalf, getting smarter with each interaction. Our customers are uniquely able to understand their customers, improve customer experience, increase operational efficiency, and build a lasting competitive advantage. Dialpad's agentic AI resolves issues, advances deals, and clears busywork, handling routine customer inquiries automatically while working seamlessly alongside human agents on complex issues. Market-leading brands including Randstad, Motorola Solutions, Netflix, the San Diego Padres, the Colorado Rockies Baseball Club, and Cal Athletics trust Dialpad. Dialpad is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, GV, ICONIQ Capital, and T-Mobile. Visit dialpad.com to learn more. Featured Research

UJET ranked #1 overall in Info-Tech's 2026 midmarket CCaaS Data Quadrant. Customer Experience AI company posted the highest composite satisfaction score in the category (8.6/10) and led nine of eleven vendor capability areas SAN FRANCISCO - July 23, 2026 - UJET, a Customer Experience AI platform, today announced that UJET CCaaS has been listed as the #1 ranked product in Info-Tech's 2026 Contact Center as a Service - Midmarket Data Quadrant Report powered by SoftwareReviews. UJET ranked first among the 11 eligible products assessed. Fourteen CCaaS products were evaluated overall, including Nextiva Contact Center, Gladly, RingCX, Aircall, Dialpad, Vonage, and Twilio Flex. UJET was placed in the Leader quadrant and earned a composite satisfaction score of 8.6/10, the highest score among all midmarket CCaaS vendors evaluated in the report. The rankings draw on 317 verified reviews from IT and business professionals. UJET's placement reflects 33 verified end-user reviews and includes: * A +96 Net Emotional Footprint, with 97% of user sentiment rated positive * A 96% likeliness to recommend score * 91% overall vendor capability satisfaction - first in the category * Recognition as Top Product in nine of eleven vendor capability areas, including Ease of Implementation (94%), Usability and Intuitiveness (93%), Vendor Support (92%), and Business Value Created (90%) The recognition follows UJET's recent launch of Agentic Experience Orchestration (AXO), a persistent AI layer that unifies CX data and enterprise systems, automates agent workflows, and consolidates the applications human agents typically juggle during a customer interaction. As AXO moves toward general availability in the second half of 2026, users rated UJET 92% on Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement - the report's measure of whether a vendor is delivering on continuous innovation. "This recognition comes directly from the people who are responsible for delivering great customer experiences on UJET's platform every day, validating our performance where the work is the hardest: implementation, support, and delivering measurable business value," said Vasili Triant, CEO at UJET. "That customer trust is the foundation for everything we do at UJET, from modernizing CX with our AI-first CCaaS platform, to accelerating transformations with our AI solutions, to our upcoming, next-gen AXO platform." "I am thrilled that UJET has received recognition in SoftwareReviews' midmarket CCaaS landscape. UJET combines a modern, digitally oriented contact center platform, which has attained strong customer satisfaction scores from users. In particular, customers highlight UJET for improving their productivity, supporting innovation, and maintaining a constructive vendor relationship. Midmarket organizations should still assess integration requirements, operating complexity, and commercial fit against their specific environment, but UJET deserves serious consideration alongside the likes of RingCX, Dialpad, and others," said Thomas Randall, Research Lead, Info-Tech Research Group. Info-Tech's SoftwareReviews reports evaluate and rank products based on feedback from technology and business leaders and end users. Evaluations and rankings are based on 100% user review data and are free of traditional non-data-driven components such as analyst opinion. The full report is available at www.ujet.cx. About UJET. UJET leads the way in AI-powered CX transformation, delivering a future-proof, cloud platform that redefines the customer experience with advanced agentic AI, multimodality, and a mobile-first approach. Ujet Inc. infuse agentic AI across every aspect of the customer journey - from build and deployment, to end-customer, agent, and supervisor experiences - to drive automation and efficiency. UJET's AI solutions empower agents, optimize customer journeys, and elevate customer interactions with actionable analytics. Built on a cloud-native architecture, UJET ensures unmatched security, scalability, and prioritized data analytics. Designed for effortless use, UJET partners with businesses to deliver exceptional interactions, smarter decision-making, and accelerated growth in the AI-driven world. About Info-Tech: SoftwareReviews. SoftwareReviews is a division of Info-Tech Research Group, a world-class IT research and advisory firm established in 1997. Backed by two decades of IT research and advisory experience, SoftwareReviews is a leading source of expertise and insight into the enterprise software landscape and client-vendor relationships. By collecting data from real IT and business professionals, the SoftwareReviews methodology produces the most detailed and authentic insights into the experience of evaluating and purchasing enterprise software. Visit softwarereviews.com. Media contact. Jake Scearbo