The remote video conference office market is becoming another battlefield for the giants.
In 2020, the advent of the new crown epidemic "Black Swan" has ushered in an exponential growth in the remote video conference market. The needs of hundreds of millions of users, such as the company's telecommuting and online teaching in the education industry, have transformed video conferencing software such as Tencent Meeting into a "net celebrity" product. Nowadays, video conferencing software cooperates with the collaborative office platform to become the standard of office software launched by major companies.
Tech Planet (WeChat ID: tech618) was officially informed by Alibaba Cloud that Alibaba Cloud Video Cloud has launched a new remote video conferencing product "Alibaba Cloud Conference", which is positioned to help companies work online remotely.
Main video conference function
Tech Planet (WeChat ID: tech618) experienced that Alibaba Cloud Meeting is slightly different from "Tencent Meeting". Its App client's calendar set function can make the client's overall visual effects and interface layout more abundant.
From the product side, the main function of "Alibaba Cloud Conference" is remote video conference, which is divided into three functions: "Home", "Meeting" and "My".
The functional area of the home page is the most concentrated and core. The upper part integrates three function access ports of "join meeting", "immediate meeting" and "reservation meeting". Users can initiate / enter / reserve meetings with one click. People online at the same time). When the user enters the meeting, they can chat in real time, interact with emoticons, open beauty, etc. in the meeting. The system can also intelligently switch to the speaker's video image based on the speaker's voice.
It is worth noting that the "Alibaba Cloud Conference" cannot be the same as the "Tencent Conference", and can be directly accessed through the WeChat or corporate WeChat account of its own product. "Alibaba Cloud Conference" does not yet support other Alibaba product account as a third-party login, you can only log in through your mobile phone number.
At the bottom of the home page, the APP will automatically sort all the meeting schedules that the user participates on the day according to the time, so that the user can quickly switch between the meeting rooms.
The meeting function area and the home page function are mutually compatible, and the system will automatically synchronize the meeting information to the system default calendar, similar to the personalized calendar, to avoid "crash" with other schedules.
Before joining the conference function, users need to enter the ID and password of the participant, and can also choose to mute the microphone, turn off the camera, and turn on the beauty function. After joining the conference, you can invite multiple people to participate in the video conference.
The user's personal center is designed very simply and contains only basic personal information.
Ali joins the battle in high profile
Before the launch of the Alibaba Cloud Conference APP , office collaboration software such as Ali ’s Nail, ByteDance ’s Flying Book, and Huawei ’s Welink all had a “video conference” function, but these products did not consider the “video conference” function as a brand. Main advantage.
Before the epidemic, the selling point of these software's external publicity was mainly to highlight "instant messaging, documents, cloud disks" and other online office collaboration methods. Only Tencent's Tencent conference is the main video conferencing function, which is truly a benchmark for Alibaba Cloud conferences.
From the perspective of the product market, the Tencent conference was born in the Tencent department, and behind it was the national social software resources of more than 500 million people such as WeChat and QQ. At the end of last year, the enterprise WeChat achieved interconnection with WeChat. The three billion flow platforms, Enterprise WeChat, WeChat, and QQ, are powerfully blessed. The Tencent Conference quickly established its own private domain traffic, linking enterprises and individual users.
The Alibaba Cloud Conference also has its own "unique job". After the epidemic, users will pay more attention to the high-quality experience of the product. The performance comparison between video conference systems focuses on audio and video capabilities. The quality and stability of audio and video is the lifeline of the product. When conducting large-scale video conferencing, good products can meet the standards of low latency, anti-packet loss, anti-jitter, clear sound, and low noise even if the network conditions are not good.
According to the product introduction of Alibaba Cloud Conference, the advantage of Alibaba Cloud Conference lies in the global 2800 + CDN and 300+ edge computing nodes covered by the whole country. It has the advantages of anti-packet loss and anti-network jitter.
Intensified competition and accelerated reshuffle, no matter which party enters the remote video conference, it will inevitably intensify the battle in this office market. A "Chinese version of the Zoom" war has already begun.