| The name of the base system (platform): | Amazon Web Services (AWS) |
| Developers: | Amazon |
| Date of the premiere of the system: | February 14, 2017 |
| Last Release Date: | 2019/04/18 |
| Technology: | IP telephony, Video conferencing, Office applications |
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2019: Integration with Polycom RealPresence Trio
On April 18, 2019 a goal the Plantronics company announced integration of two solutions Amazon Web Services (AWS) — Amazon Chime and Alexa for Business — with phone for Trio conference communication. The combination of these products will help users simply and to comfortably hold meetings thanks to voice commands for management of a meeting and activation of third-party devices. Read more here
2017: Announcement
On February 14, 2017 Amazon announced the service intended for communication of staff of the companies and carrying out video conferences. The competitor of Skype for Business received the name Amazon Chime.
In addition to calls by video conference and sendings messages, service allows to correspond in the general chat and to organize virtual meetings by analogy with the products GoToMeeting (Citrix companies belonged earlier) and Cisco WebEx. Amazon Chime it is possible to use free of charge for commission of video calls and transmission of messages between two people, but for the additional functions interesting first of all to the companies, it is necessary to pay.
Working costs in Amazon Chime begin with $2.5 a month for one user. This rate includes several enhanced capabilities in comparison with the free version among which — function of display of the removed worker became one of conferees on screens of computers and mobile devices of other users. The most expensive rate ($15 counting on the user) assumes carrying out video conferences with participation to 100 people, a video of actions, connection through standard telephone lines, use of personal links for virtual meetings, etc. Some paid Amazon Chime functions are available to free testing within 30 days.
Telling about advantages of Chime, the Amazon company pointed out the defects of the competing services, including bad sound quality and video, high cost, need of permanent switching between a set of tools.
The Amazon Chime service is placed in cloud infrastructure of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and macOS, iOS and Android is available to Windows platforms.
According to the vice president for the corporate AWS applications Gene Farrell, implementation of Chime will save to the companies up to 70% of expenses on unified communications. The organizations using the local VIDEOCONFERENCING equipment of production of Polycom, Crestron and some other vendors will be able to configure this equipment for work with Chime.[1]
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