• The Indian web conference market share is expected to be 500 million to 750 million by 2025: Rama Narayana Reddy Malay, CEO of Soniks Consulting
• Webkonf Meetings (Web Video Conferencing and Screen sharing 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, 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, India, April 25, 2020: Hyderabad based start-up, Soniks Consulting is all geared up to unveil “Webkonf Meetings”, 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.
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.
Rama Narayana Reddy Malay, CEO, Soniks Consulting said, “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. What started as an effort to create a web platform during the lockdown resulted in the product. 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.
He further added 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. 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 center is in India. We don’t store voice, video, chat data on servers.
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 the COVID crisis might continue beyond the anticipated period. It can be used across the devices, he added.
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 to 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 for 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.
