RingCentral Launches Free Smart Video Meetings - Glip by RingCentral

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RingCentral (NYSE: RNG) has launched RingCentral Glip™, a free video conferencing solution that integrates messaging, file sharing, and task management. Designed for the hybrid workforce, Glip Pro allows unlimited meeting durations and supports up to 100 participants. Key features include HD audio and video, integrated team messaging, cloud recording, and secure meeting controls. The service is compliant with CCPA and HIPAA, enhancing user trust. Glip Pro+ offers paid upgrades for larger meetings and advanced management tools, promoting productivity and collaboration in remote work environments.

Positive

• Launch of RingCentral Glip Pro enhances product portfolio and offers a free solution for unlimited video conferencing.
• Includes innovative features such as integrated messaging, cloud recording, and secure meeting controls.
• The service supports hybrid work environments, appealing to a wider range of business communication needs.
• Compliant with CCPA and HIPAA, boosting trust among potential users.

Negative

• Highly competitive market with numerous free video conferencing tools may affect user adoption.
• The necessity for paid upgrades for advanced features may limit immediate revenue generation.

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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FAQ

What is RingCentral Glip and what features does it offer?

RingCentral Glip is a free video conferencing solution that includes features such as unlimited meeting durations, support for up to 100 participants, integrated team messaging, HD audio and video, and cloud recording.

How does RingCentral Glip support hybrid work environments?

RingCentral Glip facilitates team collaboration across various locations by offering HD video conferencing and integrated messaging, making it easier for teams to connect from anywhere.

What are the compliance features of RingCentral Glip?

RingCentral Glip complies with data protection laws such as CCPA and HIPAA, ensuring secure meetings and data privacy for users.

What are the upgrade options available for RingCentral Glip?

RingCentral Glip Pro+ offers additional features for larger meetings, such as support for up to 200 participants, advanced analytics, and enhanced administrative controls.