Removed from simply taking on your weekly video catch-ups, Zoom can be aiming to turn into a one-stop store for every little thing you want through the working day.

The video conferencing big has unveiled (opens in new tab) a bunch of recent choices, together with a standalone e mail service, a calendar app, and extra.

The transfer, introduced on the firm’s Zoomtopia occasion, seems to set Zoom at odds with the likes of Slack and Microsoft Groups in a battle for dominance of the office workplace software program market.

Zoom Mail and extra

Zoom’s goal with its new launches seems to be constructing a central hub the place customers cannot simply make calls and chat to colleagues, co-workers, family and friends, however now to supply way more.

The brand new Zoom Mail and Calendar companies might be constructed immediately into the corporate’s app, that means customers ought to have every little thing they want with out having to modify between completely different companies.

All Zoom Mail emails are end-to-end encrypted when despatched between customers, and the corporate says a variety of in style e mail and calendar companies might be obtainable to combine into Zoom Mail, however it should additionally supply its personal Zoom-hosted e mail and calendar choices for companies who might not have their very own devoted IT companies.

An upgraded Zoom One platform additionally seems to enhance collaboration throughout a variety of the corporate’s apps, together with the likes of Crew Chat, Cellphone, Whiteboard, Conferences, that means groups can ensure all of the conversations preserve flowing and tasks preserve advancing even when conferences are executed.

Elsewhere, the corporate additionally introduced Zoom Spots, a digital co-working house, once more hosted inside the app, because it seems to duplicate the spontaneous feeling of workplace interactions. There’s additionally Zoom Digital Agent, a brand new conversational AI and chatbot providing powered by pure language processing and machine studying for contact heart operations.

“As world organizations are adapting to how, when, and the place work occurs, it’s essential that human connection stays a prime precedence to drive enterprise methods ahead,” mentioned Zoom CEO Eric Yuan. 

“Our workforce has constructed and launched greater than 1,500 options and enhancements on the Zoom platform this yr, advancing the best way individuals join with one another, their group, and their clients—finally, opening the doorways huge for creativity and collaboration.”

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