Of all the companies I track, Zoom Communications Inc. might be the most interesting, as it’s evolving in ways that run counter to its traditional peers. When speaking with industry colleagues, including investors, channel partners, customers and fellow industry analysts, Zoom is often grouped into the unified communications-as-a-service or the contact center-as-a-service bucket. Zoom was a pioneer in video meetings and has used its expertise in helping people connect to expand its portfolio in several directions.

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Zoom’s most recent quarter highlights its transition to a system-of-action company

I had been waiting for the 2026 edition of Zoom Communications Inc.‘s Perspectives, its recently held annual get-together for industry analysts, because I find Zoom to be the most interesting vendor in the communications business today. Though it has many competitors, its product roadmap has been markedly different.

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Zoom Perspectives: Why ‘agentic’ work is the new enterprise standard

The communications industry is filled with vendors that once dominated one aspect of the “stack” but have been focused on building a unified platform that includes voice, video, meetings, contact center and much more. But the most interesting vendor in the market is Zoom Communications Inc.

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Zoom at Enterprise Connect 2026: From meeting tool to agentic work orchestrator

Zoom Communications Inc. is a fascinating company in that it’s one of the few corporate technology brands that resonates with end users as well as information technology pros. I’m aware of many instances where the IT organization was considering an alternate communications product but the demand from the user community was so strong that Zoom was purchased. Zoom’s ease of use made it the product of choice during the stay-at-home period of the pandemic and user loyalty grew from there.

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Zoom zooms ahead to focus on end users

Zoom Communications Inc. has a variety of products, including meetings, contact center, front-line worker applications and others, but this week there’s a single theme that cut across the fully virtual Zoomtopia event: artificial intelligence. In fact, with that emphasis on how AI is expanding and enhancing Zoom’s conferencing and related services, they could have called the event ZoomtopAI.

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It’s an AI bonanza at Zoomtopia 2025