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Announcing Zoom Docs: an AI-first, collaborative docs solution that enables you to transform meeting content into actionable documents, wikis, and projects.
Updated on August 05, 2024
Published on October 03, 2023
As Zoom’s Chief Product Officer, Smita is responsible for leading Zoom’s product management. She is an industry veteran with 20+ years of product management experience across Google and Microsoft. Her product experience spans leading the delivery of television over IP networks at Microsoft, leading and scaling Google Meet, and, more recently, managing real-time communications platforms and products at Microsoft Teams. Beyond video, Smita has led Google Voice (Phone), Google Calendar and Tasks, Google Adwords product suite for local advertisers, and Google Chromebooks device portfolio and ecosystems.
Smita grew up in India, where she received her B.Tech in Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur. She then received her master's from Princeton University in EECS and a Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara, where she focused on image and video compression.
Smita is a recipient of the IIT Kanpur Distinguished Alumni Award and founder of the IIT Kanpur Women Alumni Network WIN.
Say your team is working on a major project with a strict deadline. One coworker is in the office, one is at home, and another is on the road. You all need to provide updates on your deliverables and provide input by the end of the day — how do you make sure everyone can collaborate in one place without slowing down the flow of work? Better yet, how do you do that without wasting time jumping to a separate application or sifting through a sea of tabs to find what you need?
You need a singular, flexible place where you can all share ideas, bring in relevant meeting information with the help of AI Companion, and build together in real time, no matter where you are. That’s where Zoom Docs comes in.
With Zoom Docs, you can create AI-first, sharable docs for efficient, dynamic hybrid collaboration.
Read on for a look at what Zoom Docs can do for you and your team.
Zoom Docs allows you to create and collaborate seamlessly with AI Companion, improve business outcomes, and do even more — it provides flexible, customizable documents that are part of Zoom Workplace. Zoom Docs was built from the ground up with AI Companion at its core to create next-gen, AI-first, collaborative docs.
Zoom Docs can be used for documentation, wikis, project planning, and more. Its easy-to-use design adapts to your needs, incorporating information from meetings and allowing you to embed content from third-party apps like Google Drive, YouTube, Figma, and X to help you easily create, collaborate, manage projects, and stay organized.
Zoom Docs offers flexible docs with different content blocks for text, tables, images, and more, with AI Companion capabilities woven in. Populate docs with content from Zoom meetings to inform and jumpstart creation. With AI Companion summarizing, composing, and populating information for you, you can breeze past unnecessary tasks so you can focus on creating compelling plans and projects. You can even create tables to organize data, track projects across teams, and consolidate information into wikis and folders.
Our docs solution is easy to use and makes it even easier to involve others. You can collaborate better across teams with the ability to @mention, create thread comments, assign users to specific items, and more.
Zoom Docs is built differently than other docs solutions. Because it’s available natively in Zoom Workplace, Zoom Docs brings simplicity and speed to your work and can incorporate your Zoom content. You can share docs in Zoom Team Chat, embed a Zoom Whiteboard in a doc, immersively co-edit a doc right in Zoom Meetings, and access docs in the desktop, mobile, or web app — keeping your content, progress, and teamwork within the same collaboration hub. No more flipping between browser windows and apps to get what you need to make progress.
Not only that, Zoom Docs helps make your meetings more effective. After your meeting, AI Companion can populate a doc with your AI-generated meeting summary and next steps, providing you with a starting point to take action. You can also choose from different meeting templates, and AI Companion can use the meeting transcript to create docs in the format that works best for you.
With our AI-first docs solution seamlessly fitting into your existing work, you can stay on top of projects regardless of whether you’re in the office, remote, or on the go.
With Zoom Docs, you can get work done in one place to bring teams together, share ideas, and be more productive.
Want to get started with Zoom Docs? Zoom Docs with AI Companion is included with Zoom Workplace Pro, Pro Plus, Business, Business Plus, Education, and Enterprise accounts.
If you have a Zoom Workplace Basic account, you can create unlimited personal docs and up to 10 collaborative docs, but do not have access to AI Companion capabilities.
Upgrade your Zoom Workplace desktop or mobile app to version 6.1.6 or higher, or access Docs by going to docs.zoom.us or in the Zoom Web App at app.zoom.us/wc/docs. For more tips, check out our guide to getting started with Zoom Docs.
Editor’s note: This blog was originally published in October 2023 and was updated in August 2024 with the latest product information on Zoom Docs.
*Included with the paid services in Zoom user accounts. AI Companion may not be available for all regions or industry verticals.