SpeaQin - A Made in India Video Conferencing Solution

Driven by the demand for remote and virtual work, 2020 has exposed us to the necessity of video conferencing be it at any corner of the world. An individual today, is not just dependent on the phone he/she uses but feels the importance to be productive and get acquainted to the new aged technology. Standing tall to the consumer’s demands and requirements, A Pune based B2B Technology and scalable demand generation company, VLMS - Verified Leads & Marketing Services Global successfully launches its homegrown video conferencing solution called 'SpeaQin' (Spea:king), on 5th August, 2020 a Made in India video conferencing solution.

SpeaQin allows seamless communication in scheduling a remote video conference between two parties. It highly focuses on the simplicity and security of the end users as no meeting data is stored on the servers. Through SpeaQin, an individual, groups and organizations can collaborate remotely with ease on multiple platforms. The solution consists of industry leading features like, seamless video meetings for up to 100 participants at a time, easy screen sharing, unmatched video-bandwidth ratio, connection from any device, among others. SpeaQin dashboard gives users control over their meetings where they can access meeting reports, invite participants, create events and set unique meeting preferences among other features.

SpeaQin offers a 3-level plan for its users like, Basic, Advanced and Custom. SpeaQin is currently offering a free 1-month trial for users which will incorporate features like

• Unlimited usage for multiple participants.
• Access to the SpeaQin Dashboard
• No meeting time limit
• Join by phone dial in
• HD video and voice Quality
• Supports low bandwidth usage
• Screen Share
• Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption with AES 256 bits encryption

Along with its unique features and facilities, SpeaQin is also a part of a bigger platform that encompasses a myriad range of consultancy services. This platform is rightly called as ‘XperTalk’ which connects individuals and institutions to service providers, both at consultants, freelance and organizational levels. This adds on to the advantage for innumerable experts to provide their services and help grow their business and reach. To add on, XperTalk also intends to connect to smaller regional communities and single work seeking professionals to provide their services.

Commenting on the launch Mr. Nikhil Devar, Co-Founder and COO says, “With video conferencing becoming the new normal, data security has become paramount and we need India based solutions to cater to this growing need. Video conferencing has moved beyond office workplaces to educational institutions, hospitals, tourism, shopping, etc, and to industries that may not have tapped into this medium of organised business before. The opportunities are immense and so is the responsibility of keeping everyone's data safe. We are here to offer a "Made in India" affordable solution that not only caters to the basic needs of providing video conferencing but also a customized dashboard that allows individuals and organizations to track past and future conferences, access reports, data etc. Our aim is to offer the best online conferencing facility which is also light on the pocket. It is time we moved away from big data collectors to support home-grown local solutions whose objective is to provide you the best service while also maintaining your privacy online.”

Mr. Amaan Kazi, Co-Founder and CMO says, “We always do a market viability and assessment before introducing a new product or service in the market. According to our analysis by our consulting firm Verified Market Research, the number of one on one meetings would reduce to less than half in the upcoming year due to the advent of newer video conferencing technology also considering the effects of the ongoing COVID- 19 pandemic. We believe, we are in the right time and right geography to scale our services. Hence, we are glad to introduce SpeaQin to our Indian and global audiences which will not only act as a platform for scheduling remote communications but also will focus on the safety and precautions of our end users. SpeaQin is our phase 1 roll out of our Online consulting Marketplace which leverages the power of automation to allow you to connect with Subject Matter experts.”

Mr. Pratiek Phand, Co-Founder and CSO says, “The need for video communication has increased tremendously be it at any corner of the world or at any organisational level. While various providers look to offer easy video conferencing solutions, user data security and privacy remain key concerns. With the launch of SpeaQin, we have introduced our consumers to various tools and facilities that drive simplicity and practicality of a video communication solution. We are constantly upgrading our services in order to drive up the productivity and usefulness of the platform whilst maintaining high levels of data privacy.”

SpeaQin envisions to become India's very own video conferencing unicorn.

Website Link: https://speaqin.com/pricing/

Made in India Video Conferencing App 'Lauk' Launched

Respite to the privacy concerns, Lauk comes with an ‘end-to-end encryption’ trully, a vocal for local call

Senior Journalist turned Entrepreneur Anuranjan Jha has launched 'Lauk', a video conferencing and web streaming platform and solution purely made in India for Indians. It's "to the India, by the India and for the India". It offers a general video conferencing platform as well as 'Lauk Classroom' for educators and 'Lauk Studio' for live streaming, webinars, and other services.

On the development, the Founder and promoter Mr. Anuranjan Jha said that the app is a result of clarion call by our Honourable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi for AatmaNirbhar Bharat adding to that vocal for local is an idea whose time has come.

Visit Lauk Website to Access the App: www.lauk.in

Features

Lauk platform has 3 different solutions that Jha's company, Park Media Private Limited is offering. The other two are 'Lauk classroom' a video conferencing platform for educators and 'Lauk Studio' for live streaming, webinars, and other services. In a much respite to the privacy concerns is some video conferencing apps, Jha claimed Lauk comes with an 'end-to-end encryption' essential feature.

Lauk offers optional password protection on each call, multi-device login support. The users, especially the ones working from Home, for enhanced collaboration with colleagues can share the screen with the other side(s).

"Lauk is being launched in phases, and will also provide API's for other Indian developers so they can develop their own Video Conferencing applications harnessing lauk's infrastructure and technology," said Varun Gupta who is Co-founder and master in ground breaking video streaming technologies.

Pricing

Jha said, Lauk's Subscription will range from Rs. 250 to Rs. 1500 per user per month with special discounted packages for schools, colleges and other educational institutions.

The new normal

Travel restrictions and other measures imposed due to Coronavirus have made web applications quite popular. With schools and colleges shut, business for video conferencing apps is bound to grow. Presently, the majority of the non-essential service sector manpower is working from home. Many business establishments are heavily reliant on these applications to coordinate their workforce and conduct meetings.

Pandemic Drives Zoom to Make Profit of $27 Mn Up from Just $198K A Year Ago

Zoom Video Communications is rapidly emerging as the latest internet gold mine as millions of people flock to its conferencing service to see colleagues, friends and family while tethered to their homes during the pandemic.

Tuesday's release of the once-obscure company's financial results for the February-April period provided a window into the astronomical growth that has turned it into a Wall Street star.

Zoom's revenue for its fiscal first-quarter more than doubled from the same time last year to $328 million, resulting a profit of $27 million — up from just $198,000 a year ago.

The numbers exceeded analysts' already heightened expectations, providing another lift to a rocketing stock that has more than tripled in price so far this year. After a big run-up leading up to Tuesday's highly anticipated announcement, Zoom's stock edged up another 3.5% in extended trading.

The surge has left Zoom with a market value of about $59 billion — greater than the combined market values of four largest U.S. airlines, which have seen their businesses hammered by the coronavirus outbreak that has dramatically curtailed travel.

"We were humbled by the accelerated adoption of the Zoom platform around the globe,” said CEO Eric Yuan, who co-founded the company nine years ago.

Zoom's boom has come despite privacy problems that enabled outsiders to make uninvited — and sometimes crude — appearances during other people's video conferences.

The concerns prompted some schools to stop using Zoom for online classes that have become widespread since February, although the company's efforts to introduce more security protection has brought some back to the service. More than 100,000 schools worldwide are now using Zoom for online classes, according to the company.

But the once-weak privacy controls also helped make Zoom extremely easy to use, one of the reasons it became such a popular way to hold online classes, business meetings and virtual cocktail hours after most of the U.S. began ordering people to stay at home in effort to reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

Zoom also offers a free version of its service, another factor in its popularity at a time when about 40 million people in the U.S. have lost their jobs since mid-March, raising the specter of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression ended in the 1930s.

The San Jose, California, company has always made most of its money from companies that subscribe to a more sophisticated version of its service that traditionally has been used for business meetings among employees working in offices far apart from each other.

But the pandemic-driven shutdown turned Zoom into a tool for employees who once worked alongside each other, but have been doing their jobs from home during the past few months.

Zoom ended April with 265,400 corporate customers with at least 10 employees, more than quadrupling from the same time last year. (AP)

Hyderabad Startup Soniks Consulting to unveil India’s 1st Web Video Conferencing and Screen Sharing Platform Next Week

Webkonf Meetings is India's answer to platforms such as Zoom, GoToMeeting, RingCentral Video, TeamViewer, Skype, Join.me, Google Hangouts, Adobe Connect, CiscoWebex, Amazon Chime, Event Centre, shared its CEO. 

“Webkonf Meetings”, is a futuristic product is developed as an outcome of Lockdown Research by the Startup located in Cyber Towers in Hyderabad.

Hyderabad based start-up, Soniks Consulting is all geared up to unveil "Webkonf Meetings", India’s first Web Video Conferencing and Screen sharing platform next week, disclosed Rama Narayana Reddy Malay, Chief Executive Officer of the Start-up in a press note issued in Hyderabad today. 

700 out of 750 crore population in the world is confined to homes. Though physically separated, thanks to technology, they are all connected. The Web Video Conference and Screen Share Apps made this possible. One can seamlessly connect for video, audio conferencing, Webinars, Chat, Office Meetings and Collaboration, across many devices such as mobiles, desktops, laptops and others.

Jumping in this area is Hyderabad based Soniks Consulting Pvt. Ltd. India’s first meeting platform, Webkonf Meetings will be available for use from next week. 

The platform is India's answer to platforms such as Zoom, GoToMeeting, RingCentral Video, TeamViewer, Skype, Join.me, Google Hangouts, Adobe Connect, CiscoWebex, Amazon Chime, Event Centre.  

The beta version of the product is very well received. Currently, it is under testing extensively and will be ready to be rolled out next week.

Sharing more details about the product, Rama Narayana Reddy Malay described “Webkonf Meetings”, as a futuristic product and is developed as an outcome of Lockdown Research by the Startup located in Cyber Towers in Hyderabad. Every crisis throws open an opportunity Ram says. What started as an effort to create a web platform during the lockdown resulted in the product, he shared.

Web conferencing software allows participants to conduct or attend meetings via the internet. This is also known as online meeting software. It enables remote meetings based on VoIP, video conferencing, instant messaging, file and screen sharing.

This platform provides one of the easiest methods to host a conference call, it has screen sharing capabilities. The meetings can be recorded. It has whiteboard capabilities, instant messaging, collaborative document editing are some of the salient features he explained. 

It offers web-based audio, video and screen sharing solution for meetings and conferences, adds Ram.

"Safety, Security and Privacy have been our primary concerns while building as a lot of concerns being raised about some existing products in the market place. We have addressed them with utmost priority, stated Ram. Our data centre is in India.  We don’t store voice, video, chat data on servers.," he added.

It takes a physical event virtual, which is the current scenario is the need of the hour product. As people across wide spectrum industries predict that COVID crisis might continue beyond the anticipated period. It can be used across the devices.

We have invested a substantial amount of sum in building a robust product over a period of 30 days. Soniks Consulting initiated to show the strength of Indian Startups globally says, Ram. WebKonf is the most promising products developed out of Hyderabad.   

The Corona Pandemic and sits subsequent lockdown, the web users increased by 300 per cent. Currently, not many Indian companies are into Audio, Video, Web Conferencing solutions or products. Among the top ten solution providers, none is from India. The web conferencing business has been growing on leaps and bounds in the last 3 to 4 weeks. 

Webkonf Meetings would like to capture the emerging market. It is a very simple web interface product and easy to operate. 

There is no need for installing any software on laptops or desktops. The users can simply access WebKonf URL from the browser and get into meetings or conferences. It is secured with a passcode and secure code. It is Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) enabled. SSL is a standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a server and a client—typically a web server (website) and a browser, or a mail server and a mail client.

Considering the present crisis it will be initially available for free use for the first three months. Which will also enable consumers use, experience.  

After the initial free trial, free and paid plans will be announced. While audio conferencing will remain free, video conferencing will be limited to paid plans. 

Also, free plans will have limitations of a number of people. The platform is designed to meet the demand of 100 to 1000 people and can be scaled up even further. Both Audio and Video output will be of HD quality and will be reliable. 

Each meeting will have a personal meeting ID as is the prevailing practice.

The way people meet and work have changed so drastically more so after COVID-19. The conventional, planned conference room meetings may become things of past. The whole world is getting accustomed, adapted and dependent on web conferencing APPs and screen sharing software for both internal meetings or external meetings. 

The web conferencing market has a wider user based from across industries including IT Industry, corporate houses, healthcare, manufacturing, BFSI. Now during the Lockdown, Education, Training and many new sectors are added to the bandwagon of its end users.  

The global web conferencing market size last year was 2.5 bn US $ and  is expected to be 5 bn US $ by the year 2025. Indian market share is expected to be 500million  to 750 million by 2025.