How HR Department at Goodwin Co. Uses Gruveo to Cut Costs and Improve Communication Efficiency
Gruveo Pro is the world’s easiest video conferencing solution for connecting with staff no matter where they are located or how tech-savvy they are. To see what Gruveo Pro can do for your business, sign up for a free 14-day trial and see yourself.
Gruveo's primary benefits are:
- Minimal hardware requirements
- Freedom from installing software and creating profiles
- Flexibility of use on all major web browsers
- Installed on-premises so you can keep all of the data in your own controlled and guarded environment.
In the following case study, you’ll learn how Jason Woods, HR Director at Goodwin Company, and his team use Gruveo as a cost-effective and easy-to-use tool for intra-company communication.
Embed API Beta Now Open for Applications
After a lot of behind-the-scenes work on the new JavaScript API for Gruveo embeds, we are thrilled to finally start accepting applications for the API beta program. Apply today to easily add video calling functionality to your web app with Gruveo!
Just in case you missed some of our recent announcements, the Embed API lets you easily add a Gruveo embed to your page and control it using JavaScript. With the API, you can make the embed perform functions like starting a video call, or get notified of embed events, e.g. call end. In a nutshell, the Gruveo Embed API is the easiest way to add modern, WebRTC-based video calling functionality to your project.
Click here to apply for the Embed API beta
We look forward to building great things together! Apply for the beta and take the Gruveo Embed API for a spin today.
What Can You Do with the Gruveo Embed API?
We have been receiving lots of emails following our recent announcement of the upcoming JavaScript API for Gruveo embeds. A picture is worth a thousand words, and so we decided to publish a few examples ahead of time.
Meet the new Embed API Examples page that is part of the upcoming Developers section of our website. This page showcases some examples of what you can do with the new API, including building custom video calling functionality on top of a Gruveo embed.
Check out the examples right now:
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Gruveo embeds have graduated from closed beta 5 months ago. Over this period, we have accumulated a great deal of feedback and seen the embeds used in a variety of use cases and verticals, from consulting to scientific research to telehealth. Today, we are acting on your feedback to make the embeds even better.
Today’s update focuses on eliminating user confusion and making the embeds work seamlessly in a variety of use cases. Case in point: If you embed Gruveo to have conversations with your clients using a predefined code, it doesn’t make sense for the embed to ask them to agree on a code with the other party, or to invite them to share a Gruveo link.
Another motivation for the update is the upcoming Gruveo Embed JavaScript API, which we are planning to announce in the coming weeks. The API will enable your page to “talk” to the embed and make it start a call on a given code, end call, get call duration, or customize the UI, among other things.
Without further adieu, here is the refreshed embed in action:
And here is what we have done...
- The start screen is much less obtrusive with plain background and a subtle “Powered by Gruveo” link instead of the logo on top. We have also removed the footer links and simplified the code prompt.
- The Gruveo link and the sharing buttons have been removed from the connection screen, leaving the user with just the code and the connection status.
- The new semi-transparent controlbar looks great and doesn’t waste the precious screen real estate on smaller embed sizes. It also contrasts better with the white background of the host page.
- Chat is hidden by default on all embed sizes and requires the user to click the controlbar button to be shown.
- Miscellaneous UI fixes make the embed look and work better in general.
You don’t need to do anything to take advantage of these changes as all embeds have been updated automatically. As usual, you can request your Gruveo embed code over here.
New Terms and Conditions for Gruveo
We are happy to announce the new Terms and Conditions for Gruveo that we have been hard at work finalizing over the past weeks. Effective immediately, you agree to be bound by the Terms and Conditions every time you use the Gruveo website, software and/or services, so please make sure to familiarize yourself with them.
The latest version of the Terms and Conditions can be found at the following link: https://about.gruveo.com/terms/