![]() Verma thinks communications infrastructure will replace physical infrastructure. Silicon Valley companies used to be measured by their physical facilities, Verma notes: “Do I have this great building that looks like a spaceship, or this great cafeteria, or these beautiful campuses with bikes?” Today’s glass towers sit empty, but employees can still support each other globally and collaborate effectively, “as if they were sitting next to each other,” he says. While Ivov agrees that today’s developers could find themselves in great demand if they learn to integrate video communications into their apps, he stresses that “you don’t have to be a communications specialist to use these APIs.” “You can make your app more productive,” he says. Instead, by using something like the Jitsi API, you can use the video medium over which the meeting is happening, and thus get information such as who joined, how long they talked, and even the content through transcriptions and imagery. ![]() That is an opportunity, because a physical meeting is unparsable, right? You’re not getting anything out of it in an automated way.” Now, Ivov says, it’s time to go further: “You can get so much more if you can embed the actual meeting in the process of whatever problem your meeting is solving. Traditionally, applications for enterprise resource planning, document collaboration, human resources, healthcare, and education were intended to help with a workflow. “For a very long time, people have been designing enterprise applications that made the assumption that sooner or later you were going to meet physically,” he says. “I call it the new UX -the X now means communications as well.”Įmil Ivov, founder of Jitsi and now 8x8’s head of product for video and collaboration, thinks that the role of video in software has changed because of COVID-19. “What’s a human-centric, authentic app? It has people built into it,” says 8x8 Chief Marketing Officer Marge Breya. Now that’s gone.Įmil Ivov, head of product for video and collaboration, 8x8 ![]() Suddenly, that “last mile” of communication to employees or customers just got a little friendlier.įor a very long time, people have been designing enterprise applications that made the assumption that sooner or later you were going to meet physically. You can also run meetings on your own server or choose more full-featured options using 8x8’s paid platforms. ![]() That lets you open a secure video window hosted on and running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Perhaps the easiest way for software developers to get involved with Jitsi, beyond simply using it for free meetings, is to embed its easy-peasy JavaScript API into an application. Jitsi also has a strong developer community supporting the open-source project. ![]() Jitsi is a set of Java- and WebRTC-based applications for secure videoconferencing, including Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, plus tools for audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting. The most recent piece?, the videoconferencing star of the moment, which 8x8 integrates into its unified cloud communications platform, and offers to developers to embed into their own applications. Those systems range from voice and videoconferencing to chat and contact centers, and the move to Oracle Cloud has resulted in performance improvements of more than 20%. Verma is more relaxed since he “started writing a lot smaller check” for cloud operations, but he’s also sitting pretty on the impressive technology stack 8x8 has accumulated over the last decade. ![]()
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