Vonage - Best New Collaboration Solution

Company: Vonage, Holmdel, NJ
Company Description: Vonage, a global cloud communications leader, helps businesses accelerate digital transformation. Vonage's Communications Platform enables integration of APIs into existing products, workflows and systems. Vonage's fully programmable unified communications and contact center applications are built from the Vonage platform and empower companies to transform how they communicate and operate.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Awards Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Collaboration Solution – New

Nomination Title: Vonage Video Express

Vonage Video Express was announced on September 23, 2021

Vonage Video Express makes it easier and faster for developers to leverage the Vonage Video API for multiparty calls. Vonage Video Express truly democratizes video and makes every web developer a video developer. Instead of taking days, weeks, or even months to integrate video into an application, a developer is now able to integrate video within hours with just a few lines of code.

https://www.vonage.com/communications-apis/video/features/video-express/

https://www.vonage.com/communications-apis/video/?icmp=hibox_videoapi_novalue

Multiparty video calls involve multiple participants sharing their audio and video streams while simultaneously subscribing to participants’ streams. Vonage Video Express provides support for simplified and optimized Video API usage, including automatic management of rooms, participants, layout, quality and experience.

Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, video meetings often connected a single person or team to another person or team. When virtually every business around the world shifted overnight to remote delivery of services and work from home models, the volume of employees signing in individually, with their unique network connections and devices, presented challenges in scalability and flexibility for existing customer applications leveraging video. With Video Express, Vonage is making it simpler for businesses who want to build best-in-class video experiences for multiple participants, but don’t have the skill level or resources required in-house to implement customization or manage the quality without additional support and tools.

In order to meet customer demand post-pandemic, businesses will need to reinvent how they connect with customers and employees through large-scale video experiences. The Vonage team saw first-hand how developers face the same challenges over and over when trying to bring more people into the room without sacrificing quality, so they were inspired to make multiparty video less complicated for customers using the Vonage Video API. Every web developer should also be able to easily integrate video without knowing the configurations required for bit-rates, resolution, and bandwidth.

Vonage Video Express will help Vonage customers across all industries get to market quicker with slicker branded experiences, while controlling their video-related costs and without compromising on quality and scalability:

Telehealth - Healthcare platforms are now offering their practitioners a variety of multiparty telehealth options, including expert consultations connecting patients, medical experts, and the patient's family remotely to expedite decision making, and even group therapy sessions that remove technology barriers and create spaces for the open exchange of ideas.

Education - In the online education space, multiparty video is being deployed to improve tasks from classrooms to school-to-home communications to remote exam administration and hiring of talent.

Events and Entertainment - Companies innovating in the online events space have been one of the fastest growing sectors during COVID, building interactive stages and broadcasting to millions over video via social channels.

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