Zoom might have ambitions to develop its enterprise past video calling. According to The Information, the corporate has spent a lot of the previous two years growing its personal electronic mail and calendar purchasers. Known internally as Zmail and Zcal, Zoom might announce the apps at its annual Zoomtopia convention in November. Zoom didn’t instantly reply to Engadget’s request for remark.

You’re most likely asking your self, does the world want one other productiveness suite? Looking at it from Zoom’s perspective, The Information suggests the corporate may even see the apps as important to its survival. At first look, Zoom is doing higher than most pandemic darlings, having not too long ago recorded $1.1 billion in quarterly revenue. But beneath these outcomes, the corporate has seen development sluggish and its inventory worth drop to pre-pandemic ranges.

It additionally finds itself in the identical state of affairs lots of corporations competing in opposition to Google and Microsoft have needed to deal with not too long ago. One vital weak point of Zoom is that many companies use the app along with Workspace and Office 365. Those are complete suites that may cowl nearly all of an organization’s productiveness wants. In a market the place companies are consistently trying to minimize prices, that’s not place to be in. At the identical time, it’s onerous to see how electronic mail and calendar purchasers assist Zoom beat again its rivals when Google and Microsoft have spent years sharpening Gmail and Outlook and people merchandise dominate the market.