Zoom has renamed its chat product to Zoom Team Chat and added some features to the video calling app, including third-party integration. Zoom Team Chat will also have the ability to share in-meeting chats within Team Chat, along with services such as scheduling meetings from chat or channels. The new features will be released by the end of the month. Zoom took off as a video meeting app that quickly moved into broadcast webinars, connected conference rooms, and more.
Video-meeting app Zoom recently announced that to rename Its chat product for Zoom Team Chat. As mentioned earlier, Team Chat will come with features such as the ability to share in-meeting chats within Team Chat and the ability to schedule meetings from a chat or channel.
Zoom’s new features will be released by the end of the month.
“Team Chat brings together messaging, file sharing, third-party integration, video, voice and whiteboards in one place to simplify how you collaborate. When you want to extend a chat conversation over a phone or video call, or share an idea via whiteboard, you can do so with the touch of a button in Zoom Team Chat,” the company explained in its blog post.
Zoom took off during the coronavirus pandemic when people turned to video conferencing to communicate while stuck at home. As of now, the company competes with Cisco WebEx, Microsoft Teams, Slack and WeChat Work, among others.
