Zooms Product Keynote Features Zoom Rooms Appliance Program, Broad Zoom Phone Geographic Expansion, and New Zoom Meetings Functionalities

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 15, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (ZM) today announces at Zoomtopia 2019 major expansions to its video-first unified communications platform, deep integrations and partnerships to grow its ecosystem, and the laying of a foundation for empowered communications. Adding over 300 features since Zoomtopia 2018, the company has increased its already-robust pace of innovation over the previous year. All capabilities announced in this release will be available by the end of January 2020, with many available now.

We are proud that everything weve built at Zoom - from our core video architecture to our UI - is designed to make your meetings, as our customers say, Just work, said Oded Gal, Chief Product Officer for Zoom. But were not stopping there. At Zoom, we are about empowering people to do more with video communications. Deploy intelligent Zoom Rooms quickly on purpose-built appliances, use Zoom Phone in new geographies and new use cases, and streamline laborious tasks such as creating and sharing meeting notes. Its all designed to remove friction and replace it with empowering communications experiences, so you can do more.

UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS PLATFORM EXPANSION

Zooms unified communications platform provides video meetings, voice, webinars, and chat across desktops, phones, mobile devices, and conference room systems in a single client experience. Zoom is expanding the capabilities of this cloud video PBX platform with new and coming innovations:

Zoom Rooms AppliancesZoom Rooms disrupts the conference room market again with appliances developed by industry-leading hardware providers, alongside its existing fully open hardware ecosystem. Zoom Rooms Appliances are purpose-built Zoom Rooms hardware for simplified procurement, installation, and full-stack manageability. These appliances provide these immediate benefits for large scale room deployments while setting the stage for a new wave of room intelligence, analytics, and manageability. Building Zoom Rooms on a platform of strong co-development with select partners allows customers to scale video to more use cases and environments than ever possible. Kicking off this program are:

Innovation from Zoom is once again at the forefront at its annual Zoomtopia user conference, said Roopam Jain, Industry Director for Unified Communications and Collaboration, Frost & Sullivan. I am particularly impressed with Zoom Rooms. Zoom Rooms has always been a disruptive alternative to costly, walled-off legacy hardware room systems, and the new appliance program enables AV teams to video-enable every huddle and conference room while continuing to offer robust speed of innovation to users.

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ZOOM ECOSYSTEM DEVELOPMENT

Zoom has built a robust ecosystem of deep integrations and relationships with hardware, software, and channel partners to create the best experiences for its users. New and coming to this ecosystem:

Zoom Phone

Product Integrations & The Zoom App MarketplaceZoom brings together integrations built by Zoom, partner, and third-party developers, extending the platform with new functionalities. Marketplace apps are vetted by Zoom for security and user experience. Since it launched at Zoomtopia 2018, developers have published over 160 apps to the Marketplace. New and coming to Zooms portfolio of enterprise integrations and apps:

Channel SupportZoom is committed to assisting our channel partners in increasing their sales and revenues of our joint solutions. Toward this end, the company has launched three programs:

EMPOWERED COMMUNICATIONS

Frictionless communications empowers users with technology. Zoom has accomplished this from the beginning with an intuitive UI and feature set, and a reliable, scalable video architecture. Now, the company has added the use of technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, proximity and location-based services, face detection, and personalization to pull the friction from meetings and provide an empowering communications experience. New and coming to Empowered Communications:

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Zoom Meetings

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Zoomtopia 2019, featuring keynote speaker - joining virtually over Zoom - Sir Richard Branson, as well as live music acts Snoop Dogg and Lynyrd Skynyrd, is held October 15 and 16 in San Jose, CA. Those interested in joining the celebration remotely can stream all mainstage and breakout sessions on zoomtopia.us.

In conjunction with Zoomtopia, there will be an equity analyst meeting on October 15 from 11 am PT to approximately 2 pm PT. A Zoom Video Webinar of the event will be available at: https://investors.zoom.us/events/event-details/zoom-analyst-meeting-zoomtopia

About ZoomZoom Video Communications, Inc. (ZM) brings teams together to get more done in a frictionless video environment. Our easy, reliable, and innovative video-first unified communications platform provides video meetings, voice, webinars, and chat across desktops, phones, mobile devices, and conference room systems. Zoom helps enterprises create elevated experiences with leading business app integrations and developer tools to create customized workflows. Founded in 2011, Zoom is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices around the world. Visit zoom.com and follow @zoom_us.

Press ContactPriscilla BaroloManager, Communications for Zoompriscilla.barolo@zoom.us

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