Zoom Video Communications is a company operating from San Jose, California that provides remote conferencing services using cloud computing. Zoom offers communications software that combines video conferencing, online meetings, and mobile collaboration.
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History
Zoom was founded in 2011 by key engineers from Cisco Systems and its collaborative business unit, WebEx. The founder, Eric S. Yuan, graduated from the Stanford University executive program and previously was vice president of engineering at Cisco for collaborative software development. David Berman, from WebEx and Ring Central, became president in November 2015. The service began in January 2013 and in May 2013, claiming one million participants. During its first year of release, Zoom built partnerships with B2B collaboration software providers. The partnership with Redbooth (then known as Teambox) plays a role in adding video components to Redbooth. Shortly after this partnership, Zoom created a program called "Working with Zoom", which formed partnerships with many hardware and software vendors such as Logitech, Vaddio, and InFocus. Towards the end of the year, Zoom successfully integrates its software into InterviewStream, a company that provides remote video interview capacity to employers. Interview flow extends their video interview capabilities using the Zoom video service.
On December 11, 2013, Centrify Corporation announced it will integrate Microsoft Active Directory compatibility, access control, and single sign-on (SSO) with the Zoom app. On March 17, 2014, Zoom added the ability for participants to join the meeting by calling the toll-free call phone network through its partnership with Voxbone. Released version 3.5 later this year added a mobile screen share to mobile devices running iOS.
As of June 2014, the number of Zoom participants has increased to 10 million. Beginning in February 2015, the number of participants using Zoom Video Communication's main product - Meeting of Reforms - reached 40 million people, with 65,000 subscription organizations. In addition, the company exceeds 1 billion total minutes of meetings across its service life.
On February 4, 2015, Zoom Video Communications received $ 30 million in Series C funding. Participants in this funding round include Emergence Capital, Horizons Ventures (Li Ka-shing), Qualcomm Ventures, Jerry Yang, and Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong. In the same year, on September 15, Zoom partnered with Salesforce to integrate video conferencing into the CRM platform, enabling sellers to start such conferences with their prospects without leaving the app. Shortly after this integration took place, on November 3, David Berman - former president of RingCentral - has been appointed president of Zoom Video Communications. Peter Gassner - founder and CEO of Veeva Systems - joined the board of directors of Zoom on the same day.
In February 2016, Zoom has opened a new office in Denver, Colorado. According to Eric S. Yuan - CEO of the company - the reason for this expansion is to capitalize on the "growing technological scene" of countries and central US locations. Later in the same year, the company added Bask Iyer - CIO VMware - as business advisor.
In January 2017, Zoom has officially entered the Unicorn club and attracted $ 100 million in Series D funding from Sequoia Capital with a one billion dollar valuation. The announcement was combined with the release of Zoom 4.0. According to CEO Eric S. Yuan, the company will finance investments and invest in parts that need to be developed, rather than planning projects with these funds, as Zoom has had positive cash flow in the last quarter.
On April 24, 2017, the video communications provider announced the launch of the first scalable telehealth product, which allowed physicians to visit their patients via video for consultation. The solution, called Zoom for Telehealth, integrates with other health care applications within the hospital infrastructure and provides a "virtual waiting room" for patients. It also allows signed business association agreements to maintain HIPAA compliance for users.
In May 2017, Zoom announced a partnership with Polycom through a new product called Zoom Connector for Polycom. Zoom Connector for Polycom integrated Zoom video encounter into Polycom conference system, enabling features like multiple screens and meeting devices, HD and wireless display sharing, and calendar integration with Outlook, Google Calendar, and iCal.
In August 2017, Marketwired published a press release confessing that Zoom has passed several milestones in the company's growth. Highlights include organizing more than 20 billion annual meetings (up from 6.9 billion last year), opening overseas offices in Sydney and the UK, increasing year-on-year revenue by 150% and customer base by 100%, partnering and optimizing integration with Polycom, Crestron, and Cisco, and introducing new features and enhancements to its platform including Zoom Rooms Scheduling Display and Zoom for Telehealth. In addition, Zoom ranked 18th on the Forbes Cloud 100 list and scored 4.8/5 on Gartner Peer Insights.
In September 2017, Zoom Zoom Zoomikan 2017, Zoom's first annual user conference. Zoom announced a range of new products and partnerships, including Zoom's Partnership with Meta to integrate Zoom with Augmented Reality, integration with Slack and Workplace by Facebook, and the first step toward artificial intelligence-to-text converter converters.
In October 2017, Zoom announced that Jonathan Chadwick had joined the Board of Directors of Zoom as chairman of the audit committee to oversee financial reporting and disclosure.
On November 8, 2017, Zoom announced that Kelly Steckelberg, former CEO of Zoosk and CFO of Cisco's WebEx Division, had joined Zoom as the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Headquarters
In addition to the corporate headquarters of Zoom in San Jose, California, it also has offices in Santa Barbara, CA, Denver, CO, Overland Park, KS, London, England, and Sydney, Australia.
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Products
Zoom aims for software parity and support across three PC platforms (Windows, Mac, and Linux). A corporate blogger distinguishes this with a (nameless) competitor who (he suggests) offers only reduced services on the Linux platform. Browser extensions are available as an alternative to installing programs, and for mobile user apps available for Android, iOS, and BlackBerry. Therefore, the seminar can welcome participants from all five IT platforms, joining audio by participants who make calls from regular phones.
Current Zoom products include:
- Reading Meetings - Collaborative cloud-based video and web-based products.
- H.323/SIP Connector - Allows users to connect their H.323/SIP room system to the cloud to communicate with desktop, tablet and mobile devices running Zoom software.
- Zoom Meeting Connector - A cloud infrastructure extension that allows to share video, sound, and content hosted on the customer's personal cloud onsite.
- Zoom RoomsÃ, - Low cost telepresence interface running on Apple products like Mac Mini and iPad. Starting March 2016, Zoom Rooms has included the ability to run on PC hardware, touch-screen compatibility, and support for three-screen setup.
- Webinar Video Zoom - A version of Video Conferencing Zoom that allows up to 100 people to participate actively in an audience-to-audience webinar with up to 10,000 passive participants.
- Zoom for Telehealth - A video conferencing product that specifically caters to healthcare providers for HIPAA compliance, provides physicians with virtual access to patients and their specialists, and integrates them with specialized health care applications.
Initially, Zoom featured the ability to hold conferences with up to 15 video participants. On January 25, 2013, the product was upgraded to allow up to 25 video participants for all meetings. Version 2.5 of the software further extends the offer that allows up to 100 participants of the video in one conference. The company has expanded its offerings to include meetings with up to 500 video participants. Zoom relies on client-side encryption using the 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard algorithm (AES 256) for presentation content. As of October 2015, the lower limit of 25 participants in video meetings has been increased to 100. Between 2015 and mid-2016, Zoom Video Communications announced native support for Skype for Business and integration with Slack.
Reception
Initially, early adopters such as Walt Mossberg worried that Zoom quality could suffer as more users joined the pool. In 2012, Zoom "only about 1,000 people use the service". According to Mossberg, "it's possible that if millions use it, speed and quality can suffer". In his review in The Wall Street Journal, he points out that "Zoom is an interesting alternative" for Skype or Google Hangouts. During this pre-release period, small business technology evangelist Ramon Ray has the opportunity to use Zoom. In SmallBizTechnology, Stephanie Faris includes Ray's experience with the software, saying that "Ramon is also impressed with how one of the remote people in [sic] video conferencing can share their screen". This special experiment meeting took place between him and Nick Chong, head of product marketing Zoom.
On April 2, 2013, two months after the launch of Zoom, Judy Schneider and Paul Doherty reviewed the Zoom in the Technical Construction Executive Trends section. Their choice of words to sum up their experience is "love on the first byte". "The first meeting went smoothly," the authors said. "Everyone arrives on time with little or no waiting time". The overall tone of the positive reviews with little mention of warnings in the software. This is also the first review to mention the REST API. At that time, there was no alternative dial-in number, which they pointed out in their article. On December 14, 2013, Zoom has implemented dial-in access in version 2.5 of its software release. In September 2013, when Zoom Video Conferencing was released for six months, Emily Read wrote a comprehensive review of the software, where she noted that "it is perfect if you want to record your meetings, or share your phone screen" but "while there is no limit time on a one-on-one call with a free account, a potentially disruptive issue is that group calls using free accounts are limited to a maximum of 40 minutes. " Also read is considered useful software for "clients, friends or family who do not have Skype or Google" as a result of the ability to join a meeting without registering an account.
On October 3, 2013, Geek Magazine publishes an alternative compilation for FaceTime for Android, where it includes the Zoom service, saying that "while Zoom is built for professional conferences, it's very easy to use it for personal activities." SheKnows, the women's entertainment website, says that "Zoom helps young businesses achieve the level of communication normally reserved for large and established companies."
Nitin Pradhan wrote an editorial for InformationWeek where he said that "after using it for a year, it has become my communication channel for important discussions, even before email and phone." On September 10, 2014, Paul Richards, account executive at Haverford Systems, wrote a commentary on ZoomPresence (now known as Zoom Rooms), noting that it has "a simple menu that can be tailored to [user] needs in a sleek app style." This "Mac Mini-only" product approach is also praised by Richards, implying that this is a way to ensure stability throughout the conference.
In early 2015, Let's Do Video published a case study involving the Area Education Service Area area 13 in central Texas and its Zoom usage. The organization spoke with Carol Teitelman, head of distance learning services on the transition from on-site hardware videos to cloud-based conferences. According to the organization, "When asked about the weaknesses in implementing this switch, Teitelman did not hesitate to say 'Nothing!'".
Privacy Policy
The Zoom service does not record visual or audio content from meetings unless a cloud recording is requested by the customer during a meeting. Zoom is not, but it stores various metadata about each meeting such as meeting title, duration, visualization, attendance time and written messages and shared files. The data collected is not commercially distributed without explicit permission but is shared "in Zoom and its affiliated companies and with third party service providers for data processing or storage purposes."
References
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