RingCentral Video

The advancement in technology has majorly impacted the way we conduct business. With the rise in on-demand communications and more people working remotely, video conferencing has become a significant tool for business in the 21st century. Whether it is engaging remote workers, interviewing candidates for jobs, or collaborating across departments and locations, the video conferencing tool is efficient, cost-effective, and scalable.

As opposed to in-person meetings that take up valuable hours of your day in addition to commuting time, teleconferencing can save money and time spent on business travel. Moreover, it connects teams separated geographically and improves communication and even productivity.

RingCentral Video is an integrated video conferencing solution built on the most secure business communications platform. From conducting HD voice and video conferences to its compatibility with any device, it lets you work from anywhere. With RingCentral Video, meeting remotely has just got easier. Let’s walk through its detailed review below and unleash its potential.

A Detailed Overview of RingCentral Video

RingCentral Video is integrated into RingCentral Office, allowing users to choose other modes of communication – message or phone- when desired.

As you log in to your RingCentral account, you will be greeted with an intuitive and easy-to-navigate dashboard. This dashboard lets you interact with features like Messages, Videos, Phones, and Contacts. We’ll explore them all here.

1. Message

It lets you communicate with your colleagues seamlessly. Right from letting you send messages to sharing files, images, and links, you can accomplish everything from a single window. Furthermore, you can make notes, create tasks, access events on your calendar, pin important messages, and even install integrations. All of these are tucked in on the right panel for quick access and context, as shown in the image below,

In addition to one-on-one conversation, it enables you to communicate with broader groups and external users outside the organization. Besides, you can mark conversations as a favorite, view colleagues’ profiles, and set notification preferences as and when you want. If we keep it simple, RingCentral offers all you manage on a separate messaging tool like Slack on its video conferencing platform.

• Links: Whenever you chat with your peers, you often share links or URLs. RingCentral keeps track of these shared links and lists them in this section. Thus, you can come over anytime and find the source effortlessly.
• Files: Similar to links, all the files shared across conversations are stored here. You can upload files from your system on this page by simply dragging and dropping.
• Tasks: It gives a complete view of your tasks this week and helps you prepare better for the next week. It also shows you the upcoming events and tasks.
• Events: You can connect your Google or Office 365 calendar with RingCentral and easily get an overview of your schedule. This can help you join video meetings instantly and schedule new ones at your convenience.
• Integrations: RingCentral provides hundreds of pre-built integrations and open APIs to integrate into other applications.
• Notes: RingCentral lets you create notes, save them, and share them instantly. Others can review it and put their comments too. All of your notes are collected here.
• Images: All the images you share during your conversation are accumulated at this place so that you can easily find the one you need.

2. Video Meetings

Connect your calendar with your RingCentral account, and start, schedule, and join meetings effortlessly.

• Start: When you click on ‘Start,’ you will get directed to RingCentral Meetings, and a window, as shown below, will appear,

You can explore each of its features and functionalities in our detailed RingCentral Meetings Review.

• Schedule: RingCentral lets you schedule a video meeting, set the preferred settings, and sync it with your calendar.
• Join: By entering the provided Meeting ID; you can join any RingCentral Meetings within a fraction of the time.

With RingCentral Video, you can ensure,

• HD Voice and Video: With industry-leading uptime of 99.99%, RingCentral ensures you have your meetings with carrier-grade voice and video.
• No downloads: Want to join or host meetings? You are all set with just one to click from your RingCentral App or the browser! No technical overheads, no downloads!
• Anywhere, any device: Switch your Live Meetings from laptop to mobile and vice versa with a single tap. Connect with your peers from any device and any place.
• Screen Sharing: Allow one or more participants to share their screens simultaneously, grab important visuals, chat internally, and record the meeting.
• Recordings: RingCentral allows you to view the recorded meetings for future use.

3. Phone

Starting with your Call History to your Voicemail, Fax, and Texts, RingCentral provides you with a consolidated view.

• Call History: You can view all the calls you made or received and the list of missed calls here. As you hover over a particular number, you can delete, block, call, and send a text from your call history. Moreover, you can navigate through the call recordings list.
• Voicemail: All of your voicemails are collected here. You can listen to them, send your response, place a call, delete, download, block, or mark it as unread. Moreover, your voicemails can be transcribed as well.
• Fax: Your received, sent, and failed faxes are enlisted here, along with their status for a better understanding. Depending on your needs, you can view, forward, download, and mark them as unread. Besides you can also block or delete them.
• Text: You can send text messages and attach files. Furthermore, you can have a conversation with yourself.

4. Contacts

RingCentral lets you view your contacts, company directory, and a specific group of teams you are a part of and also search them from the given search bar.

5. Analytics

This represents a detailed analysis of your messaging, video conferencing, and office phone system reports. You can delve deeper into this section in our RingCentral Office Review. 

Summing Up

As more and more businesses adopt video conferencing solutions as their go-to communication mode, you could stand to lose your competitive edge if you haven’t leveraged a consolidated approach to all your communications needs. With its impeccable enterprise-grade security, RingCentral video sees that every conversation remains private and secure. Moreover, its message, video, and phone, i.e., an all-in-one capability, is what helps get things done faster. So, make a move and get started with RingCentral Video!

You can explore more about RingCentral Video on its website.