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    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)

    Score3.5 out of 10
    N/AThe BlueJeans Meetings platform supported video, audio and web conferencing with the collaboration tools, as a cloud service that connects desktops, mobile devices and room systems in one video meeting. It was acquired in 2020 by Verizon and discontinued in the sunsetting of the BlueJeans product line by Verizon, in 2023.

    $0

    per month

    Microsoft Teams

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft Teams combines video conferencing software with team collaboration tools. The communications platform allows MS Office users to conduct conference calls and share files via SharePoint, and join or initiate a group chat.

    $4.80

    per month per user

    Pricing
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Microsoft Teams
    Editions & Modules
    BlueJeans Basic
    $0
    per user
    Bluejeans Standard
    $9.99
    per host/per month
    Bluejeans Pro
    $13.99
    perhost/per month
    Bluejeans Enterprise
    $16.66
    per host/per month
    Microsoft Teams Essentials
    $4.80
    per month per user
    Microsoft Teams Enterprise
    $5.25
    per month (paid yearly) per user
    Microsoft Teams Enterprise
    $5.25
    per month per user
    Microsoft 365 Business Basic
    $7.20
    per month per user
    Microsoft 365 Business Standard
    $15
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Microsoft Teams
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Discounts are available for non profit organizations.
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    Community Pulse
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Microsoft Teams
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    BlueJeans Meetings is just as good as the other products I have used in the past, including Zoom and Microsoft Teams. I don't think users of those products would be disappointed with BlueJeans Meetings as the experience is very comparable. BlueJeans Meetings doesn't have any …
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    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    BlueJeans Meetings is the most deluxe, feature-heavy webinar and virtual meetings software program I have used. We began using it to connect for All-Hands Meetings for our country-wide company offices without needing to travel to be together, and we transitioned to using it …
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    Due to the pandemic, the video conferencing space became a highly saturated market, with almost every single option becoming more than passable. As such, each company had to focus on something in order to stand out. BlueJeans focused on its audio quality, one-to-many video …
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    Poor. In my opinion, they are the worst platform of the above 3. In my experience, BlueJeans Meetings does nothing special or even well.
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    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    Bluejeans meetings is the best and most secure video conferencing platform i have ever encountered. It does not demand any training to use since it has a very friendly and intuitive user interface that makes it super easy to learn and understand. Great customer support team, …
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    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    Bluejeans meetings has a very friendly and intuitive user interface that makes it super easy to use. Since we started using it, we have never experienced any challenges and i highly recommend it.
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    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    The quality (audio and video) and features it offers makes it stand in the top position.
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    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    Better sound and ease-of-use
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    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    BlueJeans Meetings has the best price and quality for us.
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    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    BlueJeans integration was always imo superior to MS Teams and Zoom.
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    Its reliable and more flexible to my needs
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    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    BlueJeans stacks up comparably to other services. It does lack in some areas compared to others, particularly Zoom, which is more widely used, but BlueJeans had been used for quite some time by the University and offered the feature set and accessibility that we were looking …
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    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    Superior to Zoom and MS Teams in terms of audio and video quality. Can improve when it comes to product awareness (since both Zoom and MS Teams are far ahead in terms of adoption).
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    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    We needed a tool that allowed our external users to effortlessly join and collaborate with our internal team. This is where this tool really shines compared to some of the others. BlueJeans fit the need and when it was time for collaboration we were thrilled to hear BlueJeans …
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    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    It has a better feature set but isn't as well integrated with respect to notifications as Teams is. Performance seems to be better than on other platforms. Cross-platform use is exceptional. The interface is clunky compared to other tools such as Teams, but there are distinct …
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    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    Zoom is too expansive for individuals. Skype is too old-school and does provide the most advanced features as other products do. Teams are not good at noise and echo suppression. Not many people are using Google hangouts. During the pandemic, I only use it once at a conference. …
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    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    While using different tools with the Microsoft team, the main difficulty faced by the team is that the tool is part of the office package and managed by the IT team, and it becomes very difficult while we need to connect with agencies or the external stakeholders and this is …
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    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    Bluejeans is on top mostly because of the audio & video qulaity which no one can beat.
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    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    We were provider will all 3 providers during my time at LinkedIn. We ended up phasing out Bluejeans recently and continued our contracts with Teams (being a Microsoft company) and Zoom due to the quality and consistency that the platform offered. While Zoom is still superior to …
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    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    Blue jeans is easier to set up meetings
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    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    BlueJeans has better troubleshooting of attendees over Zoom. BlueJeans scheduling interface is more intuitive than Zoom. Quality and call handling has seem a little better in the competitor products over BlueJeans especially when it comes to IP/H323 dialing and bridging.
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    We started using BlueJeans because the International Olympic Committee and our other partners started using BlueJeans when the pandemic started.
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    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    BlueJeans has the best meeting experience for team meetings -- good audio and video quality and good scheduling features.
    It is also well suited for trainings given the unique video upload feature and good handling of breakout rooms.
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    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft Teams
    For our particular use case, which is collaboration across teams sitting in different geographies in a fast-paced sales organization, Microsoft Teams is just the perfect platform to bring everyone together. Teams helps you keep the dialogue strictly professional which is good …
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    Chose Microsoft Teams
    Teams does not seem to be as useful to us as BlueJeans. This may be because we shifted to the latter after using Teams for some time. BlueJeans does appear to be easier to use overall. In fact, now that Zoom has appeared, it is even easier to use than BlueJeans, particularly …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    99 Answers
    90%
    Would buy again
    255 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    83 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    225 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    105 Answers
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    255 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    68 Answers
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    144 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    76 Answers
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    174 Answers
    Features
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Microsoft Teams
    Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
    Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) and Microsoft Teams
    Feature
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    7.2
    560 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Microsoft Teams
    -
    Ratings
    High quality audio7.6558 Ratings00 Ratings
    High quality video7.4536 Ratings00 Ratings
    Low bandwidth requirements6.7482 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile support7.0455 Ratings00 Ratings
    Screen Sharing
    Comparison of Screen Sharing features of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) and Microsoft Teams
    Feature
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    7.2
    529 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Microsoft Teams
    -
    Ratings
    Desktop sharing7.1529 Ratings00 Ratings
    Whiteboards7.4252 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) and Microsoft Teams
    Feature
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    7.5
    557 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Microsoft Teams
    -
    Ratings
    Calendar integration7.7502 Ratings00 Ratings
    Meeting initiation7.0508 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with social media7.2175 Ratings00 Ratings
    Record meetings / events7.4471 Ratings00 Ratings
    Slideshows7.9346 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) and Microsoft Teams
    Feature
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    7.5
    413 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Microsoft Teams
    -
    Ratings
    Live chat8.1395 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience polling7.2176 Ratings00 Ratings
    Q&A7.3225 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) and Microsoft Teams
    Feature
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    7.6
    412 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Microsoft Teams
    -
    Ratings
    User authentication8.0283 Ratings00 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions7.3385 Ratings00 Ratings
    Confidential attendee list7.4252 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) and Microsoft Teams
    Feature
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Microsoft Teams
    8.2
    241 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Task Management00 Ratings8.1179 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings8.196 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings8.3208 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.4126 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings8.2229 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings7.6212 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings8.4143 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) and Microsoft Teams
    Feature
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Teams
    8.0
    251 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Chat00 Ratings9.0250 Ratings
    Notifications00 Ratings8.5249 Ratings
    Discussions00 Ratings8.7235 Ratings
    Surveys00 Ratings8.2146 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings8.6157 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings6.547 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings5.743 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings9.1155 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) and Microsoft Teams
    Feature
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Microsoft Teams
    8.2
    236 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Versioning00 Ratings8.6168 Ratings
    Video files00 Ratings8.4202 Ratings
    Audio files00 Ratings8.8200 Ratings
    Document collaboration00 Ratings8.9216 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings8.6198 Ratings
    Advanced security features00 Ratings8.5158 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings5.353 Ratings
    Device sync00 Ratings8.6172 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Microsoft Teams
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (567 ratings)
    8.6
    (329 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.7
    (23 ratings)
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    Usability
    8.9
    (203 ratings)
    8.7
    (114 ratings)
    Availability
    9.6
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    5.5
    (8 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.3
    (17 ratings)
    8.0
    (114 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.0
    (16 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.1
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.3
    (7 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.5
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    4.3
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (7 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    5.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    5.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Microsoft Teams
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    • Collaboration with team members, clients and partners who spread out across the globe is made simple by Bluejeans meeting. As an Application developer it is easier for me to collaborate with people from various cultures and time zones so this is very important.
    • For code review , it plays an excellent role, it enables real time screen sharing and code discussion among my team, this facilitate quicker and more effective bug detection and correction.
    • Pair programming is a great use for it. It make possible for two programmers to collaborate on same code even when they are not physically near to each other.
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    It's amazing as a daily driver for team communication, and document search/store. Also, if you're doing a lot of LONG meetings and have trouble remembering details, the AI summarization is amazing and convenient. It just works. I'm not saying I always do this, of course, but if I need to 'skim' instead of really digging into every detail from a meeting, the AI-generated summary is generally good enough that I can get away with it.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Bluejeans' ability to record meetings would be beneficial for future references like If I ever needed to revisit a discussion or training sessions, I could access the recorded content, eliminating the need to take extensive notes during meeting.
    • Calendar program and messaging services are just a couple of the productivity and collaboration tools that Bluejeans frequently integrates with, scheduling of meeting and team members communication would become more efficient as a result.
    • Typically, bluejeans provides mobile app, making it usable on tables and smartphone, this enables me to take part in a meeting even if I am not near a computer system.
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    Microsoft
    • All in one communication for Teams.
    • High quality and reliable both audio and video meetings.
    • Well organized and clear instant chat.
    • Excellent security features.
    • Beautiful integration with 3rd party tools and systems.
    • Perfect compatibility with windows ,android and iOS.
    • Allow meetings recordings for later us or sharing with teams that missed the live.
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    Cons
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    • Video quality is different between their desktop app version and web browser version
    • I prefer using Bluejeans web browser version but it lack many features which are there in their Desktop App version, which is really disappointing.
    • Not a big issue but if they decrease their pricing, it will be great
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    Microsoft
    • The webinars feature has some missing functionally such as the ability for all users to use the Q&A feature (only those with a Microsoft Teams account can use it now), the ability to upload documents for attendees to easily access and download, and the ability for presenters and organizers to easily chat amongst themselves throughout the webinar.
    • The "Channels" organization hierarchy could be more clear. If you have several channels set up, it can get clunky and hard to find the specific channel you are looking for.
    • The MS Planner tool lacks functionality and organization. You cannot assign more than one person to a task and it's confusing when you try to share tasks with people - it would be nice if they were automatically added to someone's calendar.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    I have used many other competing platforms platforms; however, despite the fact that BlueJeans lacks certain features others offer, familiarity, ease of use, and several things BlueJeans does better than others mean that I will stick to BlueJeans. Further, whenever I have faced a problem, I have found BlueJeans support excellent overall; no lengthy wait to understand and resolve an issue. Good product, great support, BOTH TESTED OVER TIME; I do not have an incentive to move to another platform.
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Teams is included with our Office 365 subscription and we have no intention of migrating off of Office 365 and Microsoft products. Since Microsoft Teams is included for free with our Office 365 subscription, and since we enjoy all the features, benefits, and functionality, there is no question that our team will continue to use the product
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    I don't have much experience of joining a meeting from an attendee of someone else's. As for joining a meeting I've created, it's very easy. For recurring meetings, I find the meeting in my list, and if it's near the time to start, there will be a "Join" button, and I just push that. After that, it gives me the options for joining -- video, audio, phone, screen share only. It remembers my previous choices, so mostly I just can click by that. As for attendees joining, there do seem to be connection problems from time to time and people have to log off and come back on, but we had that trouble with GoToMeeting also. Being able to mute attendees is much better in BlueJeans. When we had GoToMeeting, I constantly had problems with people joining by phone incorrectly, such that they didn't even show up in the meeting list and thus I couldn't mute them when needed.
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    If you have the full Microsoft Office suite, it works really well because it's integrated well within its ecosystem, but if not, it can be annoying because it tries to open a shared file in the web versions of the file equivalents. The web version is also a bit slow, and the login is very difficult to handle if you have multiple Microsoft or Outlook accounts.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    I have to give this a 10 rating as we have never had issues with availability. Now "quality" is a different subject
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    Rare, but outages do happen
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    Performance
    Discontinued Products
    This has been a continual issue with our organization. We are a IP/H323 infrastructure so we integrate BlueJeans via the IP/H323 connections to the cloud. We still have inconsistent results with calls. Some work without issue and some calls are horribly choppy and at times freeze. If I have one complaint or reason to seek out a different competitor its this
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    Sometimes about once a week I get a message that says "Sorry, there seems to be something wrong". But it goes away in a few minutes.
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    Support Rating
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    In all these years, there has been ONE instance when a problem I pointed out (with screenshots, no less) was DENIED. That apart, though there have been a few instances where there has been a delay in resolution (more to do with offering new features), I have NEVER felt frustrated about help not being on hand when I needed it most.
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    The overall support provided by Microsoft for Microsoft Teams has been quite good but there is still some room for improvements. Microsoft needs to proactively work on fixing the open bugs in order to provide a seamless experience to the users. But over the service and experience provided by the Microsoft team have been quite satisfactory.
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    Online Training
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    It is straight forward and easy to understand
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    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    For me its a simple video conferencing call tool, and implementation is simply setup user account give quick tutorial during the newhire orientation faze and then the user is good to go. There is not much you need to do to get this operational. sure if you want more security there are a couple extra steps but overall simply
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    Microsoft
    I find everything I need for my day-to-day work.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Select Blujeans Meetings because it allows me to better convey my ideas and at the same time build trust through real-time videoconferences. As well as sharing documents and presentations via screen sharing, I love the option to record play and then share the recording to colleagues who couldn't attend is what's needed.
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft Teams offers a much more integrated experience between their chat and video call function compared to Google Chat and Slack. Both other tools are much better for internal communications are they have simpler UI without other features. Whereas Microsoft Teams can be used for more critical conversations, particularly between external companies, and has been very useful in sales conversations which is what we chose it for when speaking to companies that work exclusively through Microsoft.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Honestly, this tool is worth every penny. Yes, it's not free and you pay for the quality of services and the license. But the ROI and the benefits are all there. Also, the renewal, negotiation, and contract terms are all very well explained by our Microsoft account manager, and she's a charm.
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    Scalability
    Discontinued Products
    I believe BlueJeans is easy to scale, but we have a different business model that requires a more central scheduling need. Most vendors operate on an enterprise wide environment with a one to one licensing. We have a centralized group of video administrators and schedulers that do the majority of the scheduling for multiple departments. Because we are a centralized scheduling group we need shared access to on schedule not multiple users delegating access to one another. I.E. if I have 5 schedulers, under the current licensing they would each have individual accounts and delegating those accounts to one another. So when receiving a support call they have to search 5 individual schedules to make changes to meetings. This I think is a valid need even for smaller businesses that just have a few schedulers for the rest of the groups. It would be easier if it scaled within the individual accounts
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    It does not appear to have a limit to how many teams and employees we can have using it
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    Professional Services
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    Microsoft
    I used Skype for Business to take calls, hold conferences, and provide remote assistance to users. Microsoft Teams, on the other hand, is superior to Skype for Business in my opinion. My job entails a lot of screen sharing.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • All-Hands meetings were improved to feel less like a prerecorded video show and more like an actual conversation using BlueJeans.
    • Client meetings remained smooth in the transition to working-from-home with easy video calling and scheduling.
    • These were the main points that helped my department, as I am unfamiliar with how BlueJeans was implemented in external sales uses, but I imagine it was equally helpful for meetings when in-person was not available.
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    • Personally, I would say that by using Microsoft Teams, it upped my collaboration with my colleagues by around 50% or around more than half of what I usually did prior to using it.
    • I had 100% show rate and attendance on all of my meetings in the past 6 months.
    • If I may add, I also have been chattier & collaborative towards my colleagues in past 3 months particularly the month of December when we had huge traffic at work. I would estimate this behavior to have been increased by around 60% than what I usually incur during normal operating days.
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