VNCchat und VNCvideo

VNCchat und VNCvideo combine the day-to-day conversation of an organization in one application: direct messages, group rooms and video meetings. Chat and video are not separate products with separate contact lists — they share one identity, one presence and one history, so a conversation can turn into a meeting and back without leaving the app.

Both parts run on your organization’s own infrastructure. Messages, shared files, meeting audio and video stay in your perimeter; they do not depend on a public cloud provider.

What it delivers

One application for chat and meetings. Start a call from any conversation, or write into a room from inside a meeting. The meeting is attached to the conversation, not to a separate product with its own login.
Sovereign operation. Message transport, media relay and storage are hosted by your organization. There is no third-party account to create and no public service in the path.
Presence that means something. You see who is online, who is in a meeting and who is reachable — the same presence signal across chat, calls and the rest of the suite.
History you can search. Rooms keep their messages, files and calls; search runs over the organization’s own index.

Main capabilities

Chat

Capability	What it gives you
Direct messages	Private 1:1 conversations with a colleague.
Group rooms	Conversations for a team, a project or a topic — including read-only announcement rooms.
Threads and replies	Answer inside a message so a busy room stays readable.
Files	Share documents and images; the room keeps them in its Files view.
Reactions and mentions	Acknowledge quickly and pull a colleague into the conversation.
Search	Find a message, a file or a decision across your conversations.
Notification center	One place for missed mentions and messages, on web and desktop.

Video

Capability	What it gives you
Meetings from a conversation	Start or join a video meeting in the context of the chat.
Group calls	Meet with a team or an external guest group.
Screen sharing	Present a document or an application.
Meeting chat and files	The meeting keeps its own conversation and shared files.
Scheduled meetings	Plan a meeting ahead and invite participants.

Together

Same sign-in as the rest of the suite — one session, no second login.
One person layer — the avatar, hover card and Action Wheel behave the same as in every other product.
AI assist — summaries and minutes, running under your organization’s AI policy (Local, Private or approved Public).
Desktop and mobile — as a browser app, an installed desktop app and on mobile, with notifications that deep-link back into the conversation.
Offline and reconnect — queued messages when the connection drops and a clean replay when it returns.

Typical use

A team keeps one room per project and starts a short video call in it when a decision needs discussion, without switching tools.
A manager sends direct messages for 1:1 coordination and uses the announcement room for messages everyone must read.
A project group shares the minutes of a meeting as a file in the same room, then searches for the decision months later.
An organization runs external-facing meetings without inviting participants into a public cloud account.

How it fits the suite

VNCchannels is the written record; VNCchat is the conversation. A topic can be discussed, a chat can point to the topic.
VNCcontacts supplies the address book and the person data shown in a conversation.
VNCmcb builds on VNCvideo to plan and run many meetings in parallel.
VNCiom federates chat between organizations.
VNCfluid places chat and meetings as portlets next to the other products.

Roles

Role	What they do
End user	Chat, share files, start and join meetings.
Team owner	Create and manage rooms, members and announcements.
Administrator	Provision the service, set retention and AI policy, manage guests.

Sovereignty

Messages, files and meetings stay on infrastructure your organization controls — on-premises or in a certified European data center. The transport, media and storage components are operated by you, on open standards.

VNCchannels — the written record next to the conversation
VNCmcb — many meetings in parallel
VNCiom — chat between organizations
VNCchat in the user guide