RingCentral Launches Free Smart Video Meetings - Glip by RingCentral
December 15 2020 - 4:05PM
Business Wire
Free, unlimited, easy, and smart with
integrated video meetings and team messaging
RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG), today announced a new product in
its product portfolio -- RingCentral Glip™. RingCentral Glip Pro™
is a free, unlimited, easy-to-use solution that offers high quality
and high-availability video and audio conferencing, seamlessly
integrated with team messaging, file sharing, contact, task, and
calendar management - resulting in a Smart Video Meetings™
experience. It includes innovative pre-meeting, in-meeting, and
post-meeting capabilities - all for free. Glip® video meetings last
up to 24-hours for up to 100 people, and provide a completely
integrated team collaboration capability. RingCentral Glip also
offers peace of mind with RingCentral’s well-known carrier-grade
quality, security, reliability, and global footprint. Please visit
www.glip.com for more information and to sign up.
The world of work is evolving towards a hybrid workforce, with
people working in the office, at home, at a coffee shop, and
everywhere in between. RingCentral Glip supports teams with members
working from anywhere. It starts with HD quality video and audio
but goes further, enabling smarter meetings, and allowing
participants to create groups, share files, and to start a meeting
right from a messaging thread.
“We’re moving to the hybrid world of work where we transition
from transactional and disjointed video meetings to collaborative
experiences that address pre-, during- and post-meeting needs,”
said Anand Eswaran, president and chief operating officer at
RingCentral. “RingCentral Glip has been designed to make video
meetings smarter. It reduces wasted time and lets you focus on what
matters. We’re launching a free version of RingCentral Glip so
everyone can now experience smart video meetings with integrated
team messaging for improved productivity.”
Paul Rapier, vice president, Information Technology, Detroit
Pistons, said, “The power of messaging integrated with video
has taken our internal communications to a whole new level. With
RingCentral Glip Pro, we are able to have meaningful conversations
quickly and efficiently.”
RingCentral Glip is a smart video meetings service that comes
with hundreds of free features, including the following:
- Unlimited* Meeting Duration: The unlimited meeting
duration keeps teamwork going and enables users to meet for as long
as they need.
- Unlimited users per account: RingCentral Glip can be
used by teams and companies of any size - for free.
- Up to 100 participants per meeting: RingCentral Glip
enables organizations to host meetings with up to 100 participants
simply by sending a link, email, or text.
- One-click host and join: With RingCentral Glip, no
downloads are needed. It’s even easier to hop on meetings right
from within a browser, or the app. Users can start meetings with a
single click directly from their browser.
- App integrations: Leveraging RingCentral’s open
platform, RingCentral Glip is tightly integrated with popular
business productivity applications such as those from Google
(Workplace and Gmail), and Microsoft (Teams and Office 365).
- Switch devices: Users can switch live meetings between
any of their favorite devices and take their meetings
on-the-go.
- Integrated team messaging: With built-in messaging users
can get more done before, during, and after meetings. Using task
management users can nail down action items and keep teams
accountable.
- Team connect: With this innovative functionality users
are able to easily and quickly create a new team messaging group
for participants in any video meeting including people who haven’t
used Glip before, making it convenient and quick to connect and
collaborate with their contacts.
- Flip to Glip™: Easily convert email threads to team
messaging.
- Screen sharing: Users can share their screens and
annotate so everyone can follow along with their work and dive more
deeply into the details.
- Cloud recording: Users can save meeting recordings and
highlights to the cloud for up to seven days.
- HD audio and video: With HD audio and video, users can
feel like they’re in the same room with audio and video quality
that’s always clear and reliable.
- Virtual backgrounds (beta): Virtual backgrounds replace
a participant’s background with any image of choice. People can use
prebuilt backgrounds, which are offered as part of RingCentral
Video, customized backgrounds by uploading images of their choice
as their virtual background or blur their background, removing any
chance of distractions.
- Closed Captioning (beta): The new service automatically
converts spoken words into captions in real-time and populates them
in a new section above the menu bar. Participants can also enable
and disable this feature individually.
- Secure meetings: RingCentral Glip provides a number of
features to keep your meeting safe and secure including the ability
to manage your participants with meeting passwords and
authenticated join, and a virtual waiting room.
- Meeting host controls: As the host, users are always in
control. Hosts can mute or unmute members and end meetings for
everyone, as needed. In addition, hosts can also restrict
participants’ ability to screen share and chat or local meetings to
prevent random people from joining and disrupting the meeting.
- Waiting rooms: Any meeting can be locked with a password
and includes controls in terms of who has access and when to ensure
that meeting participants don’t get bombed.
- Join using any device: Users can join from anywhere and
stay connected from their desktop, smartphone, or tablet and also
participate via multiple devices concurrently.
- Dark mode: Dark mode enables users to focus on the
information that matters the most: the content that’s immediately
in front of them resulting in reduced eye strain. In addition, dark
mode consumes less battery on a mobile device and enables users to
differentiate their RingCentral experience from other apps on their
desktop.
- Third-party cameras: In addition to RingCentral’s
virtual backgrounds, users can now customize their meetings with
backgrounds, filters, and other special effects from third-party
integrations. These integrations include XSplit, mmhmm, Snap
Camera, ManyCam, OBS Studio, and others.
- Noise reduction: Lower distracting background noise so
users can focus on what matters.
- CCPA and HIPAA: RingCentral Glip is fully secure and
complies with applicable data protection laws, such as CCPA and
HIPAA.
Dave Michels, principal analyst, and founder, TalkingPointz,
said, “With Glip, RingCentral is making its messaging and video
available to more users. By making the telephony component
optional, Glip now addresses a wider variety of use cases in
business communications. Glip offers an efficient way to increase
collaboration and also boosts productivity by reducing the need to
switch apps. The freemium approach makes it even more
appealing.”
Upgrade options for RingCentral Glip
In addition to the free features offered by RingCentral Glip
Pro, there are a number of paid options offered in RingCentral Glip
Pro+™:
- RingCentral Glip Pro+ provides a range of additional video
meeting and admin management capabilities including the option to
host larger meetings for up to 200 participants, advanced
analytics, single sign-on, and much more. You can find out more
here: www.glip.com/plansandpricing.
- For customers looking to add cloud PBX capabilities to
RingCentral Glip they can upgrade to RingCentral Office® that
offers complete Message, Video, Phone (MVP) experience combining
video meetings, team messaging, and a cloud phone system for
seamless, integrated, enterprise-grade business
communications.
For more information on RingCentral Glip visit
http://www.glip.com. You can also read more on our blog here. In
addition, a video recording will be available at our Investor
Relations Website by the end of the day today.
*Maximum meeting duration is 24 consecutive hours.
About RingCentral
RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE: RNG) is a leading provider of cloud
Message Video Phone™ (MVP)™, customer engagement, and contact
center solutions for businesses worldwide. More flexible and
cost-effective than legacy on-premise PBX and video conferencing
systems that it replaces, RingCentral empowers modern mobile and
distributed workforces to communicate, collaborate, and connect via
any mode, any device, and any location. RingCentral’s open platform
integrates with leading third-party business applications and
enables customers to easily customize business workflows.
RingCentral is headquartered in Belmont, California, and has
offices around the world.
© 2020 RingCentral, Inc. All rights reserved. RingCentral,
Glip, RingCentral Glip, Smart Video Meetings, RingCentral Glip Pro,
RingCentral Glip Pro+, Flip to Glip and the RingCentral logo are
all trademarks of RingCentral, Inc.
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