In the JaaS admin page, we set the background image and added our logo so it was further customized to our brand. This branded URL is what is provided to participants in advance of a sales call. We set up a URL on our WordPress website where the meeting will be hosted. The beauty lies in the simplicity of implementation and the ability to brand the meeting
JaaS provides you with a complete meeting tool UI right out of the box.
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JaaS provides you with a complete meeting tool UI right out of the box. For example, the following screenshot shows a group video chat that we implemented directly in the WebRTC.ventures site with minimal code needed: With a JaaS account from 8×8 and minimal additional code, you can now integrate a standard video call experience directly into your site. They are probably not the right solution for that small business with limited programming budget and a simple use case. Enter JaaS with a new solution for those users! These options are good for those with larger budgets and more custom workflows. But you still need to do extensive coding against their APIs to build your video solution. You don’t need to host the media servers yourself. Going with a commercial CPaaS eliminates some of those costs.
This incurs further development costs as well as ongoing maintenance. This in itself is the more expensive part! Furthermore, you still have to build the UI around your video calls and integrate them into the rest of your application. More importantly, it requires a good amount of technical expertise. But, you still had to set up and manage your own infrastructure for the media servers. This requires some cost. Jitsi has traditionally been one of the top choices for building an open source based WebRTC application. Should you build your app based on open source media servers or a commercial Communication Platform as a Service (CPaaS)? I’ll refer to it as JaaS from here on out.Īrin and 8×8’s Shane Pearson share best practices for building WebRTC-based applications and demonstrate a JaaS integration in this March 23 webinar:ģ Best Practices for Embedding Video Meetings in a WordPress Website.īuilding a WebRTC application requires an important upfront technical choice. If you are a large company building a big application, then the costs are less of a problem and it’s well worth the effort. But if you are a small to medium sized business, the payoff can be more uncertain and the technical risk may become too high.Ĩ×8’s new offering of Jitsi as a Service changes all this. Adding live video customer support or sales widgets to a small e-commerce website are good examples of when this is the case. Another is having a branded meeting experience built directly into your website for online education or sales meetings. (More on this one below!) But fully custom WebRTC applications often require months of work and tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars – making a custom app more costly than simple use cases justify.
We think WebRTC is the best thing since sliced bread and we love building custom apps with it. We are often asked, “Can you add live video to my WordPress site?” Until now, our answer has been “Yes, but it’s more expensive and complicated than you imagine!” A common challenge for our team at WebRTC.ventures are those customers with a relatively simple video integration use case and a limited budget.
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