BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) vs. Webex Webinars

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
The 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
Webex Webinars
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Webex Webinars is a scalable webinar platform that helps users to create engaging and impactful experiences for everyone, from small sessions to massive global audiences.N/A
Pricing
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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
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Webex Webinars
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
PROS:
  1. Has the best layout controls amongst all competing platforms
  2. All options to connect are easy
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Where BlueJeans scores over others:
  • Layout controls. The moderator can define the layout for all participants.
  • Scheduling. This could be a personal opinion, but scheduling on BlueJeans just works and FEELS better than most other platforms, though all other platforms can do the …
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
I chose BlueJeans for the integration with Polycom and Cisco Room systems. The audio quality and Dolby rooms have kept us with the service.
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)

BlueJeans is and continues to be at the top of my list as it is easily command-able and very user-friendly. I admit that I can be swayed to listen to pitches from other products, but I will state that "Well BlueJeans can..." often. The other products have their perks, but …

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We've used a number of different platforms over the years. BlueJeans is probably among the top, if not for anything more than the video sharing component.
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BlueJeans is one of many tools we use. However it is my go-to for web meetings because it can be used easily with people inside or outside of our organization.
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We still use Google Hangouts in addition to BlueJeans, we switched to BlueJeans because Google Hangouts didn't have built-in conference bridges and there were technical problems of some of our clients trying to connect to it. GoToMeeting requires software to be installed, which …
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Our principal interest was the video connections and although the other products had this capability, we felt Bluejeans approach was much more robust and complete.
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Not able to use all most of the other products, the cost was high as well some are banned here in the UAE so they require a VPN with an additional cost.
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
BlueJeans gave us more flexibility than WebEx Meetings. Ultimately, my supervisor made the decision to select BlueJeans.
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
When compared to Cisco Webex, BlueJeans offers a wide array of features and ways to connect that are far beyond the capabilities of Webex. It all comes down to compatibility with different types of operative systems and videoconferencing hardware. Also, Webex is a much more …
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Quality on video and audio. Also can see multiple people in the video windows when connected from multiple sites. These are the few that made me rave about BlueJeans
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
BlueJeans delivered everything we asked for and integrated well with our current video conferencing units.
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Skype for Business does not have a good integration with Room systems as BlueJeans does.

WebEx is no longer needed with BlueJeans Events. However, the cost of BlueJeans Events is much more expensive then WebEx. For regular meetings, we use BlueJeans over WebEx Meetings.
Webex Webinars
Chose Webex Webinars
WebEx seems to be the first platform and most widely used. Supported by a quality brand (Cisco) known for its video conference and teleconference technology, WebEx continues to be a consistent, reliable, platform that has outlasted the others.
Chose Webex Webinars
WebEx Event Center is much easier to use than Livemeeting. ON24 does not allow for 2-way audio with the audience. WebEx allows more productive training sessions because you can solicit feedback from your audience via a conference bridge. It allows for better attendee …
Top Pros
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Features
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Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Product A and Product B
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
8.4
561 Ratings
5% above category average
Webex Webinars
8.4
49 Ratings
5% above category average
High quality audio8.9559 Ratings8.649 Ratings
High quality video8.5537 Ratings00 Ratings
Low bandwidth requirements8.1483 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile support8.3456 Ratings8.244 Ratings
Screen Sharing
Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Product A and Product B
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
8.3
530 Ratings
4% above category average
Webex Webinars
-
Ratings
Desktop sharing8.5530 Ratings00 Ratings
Whiteboards8.1253 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Meetings / Events
Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Product A and Product B
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
8.2
558 Ratings
0% above category average
Webex Webinars
9.3
49 Ratings
13% above category average
Calendar integration8.2503 Ratings9.542 Ratings
Meeting initiation8.2509 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrates with social media8.0176 Ratings00 Ratings
Record meetings / events8.2472 Ratings9.348 Ratings
Slideshows8.5347 Ratings9.145 Ratings
Event registration00 Ratings9.345 Ratings
Online Events Collaboration
Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
8.4
414 Ratings
0% above category average
Webex Webinars
8.9
46 Ratings
7% above category average
Live chat8.7396 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience polling8.3177 Ratings9.145 Ratings
Q&A8.2226 Ratings8.643 Ratings
Online Events Security
Comparison of Online Events Security features of Product A and Product B
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
8.3
413 Ratings
0% below category average
Webex Webinars
8.9
45 Ratings
6% above category average
User authentication8.0283 Ratings00 Ratings
Participant roles & permissions8.4386 Ratings8.745 Ratings
Confidential attendee list8.5253 Ratings9.239 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
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Ratings
Webex Webinars
8.6
43 Ratings
14% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings8.239 Ratings
Data exportability00 Ratings9.040 Ratings
Online Events Marketing
Comparison of Online Events Marketing features of Product A and Product B
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
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Ratings
Webex Webinars
7.7
35 Ratings
2% below category average
Branding options00 Ratings7.333 Ratings
Integration to Marketing Automation00 Ratings8.130 Ratings
Best Alternatives
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Webex Webinars
Small Businesses
ClickMeeting
ClickMeeting
Score 9.5 out of 10
ClickMeeting
ClickMeeting
Score 9.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
ClickMeeting
ClickMeeting
Score 9.5 out of 10
ClickMeeting
ClickMeeting
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Google Meet
Google Meet
Score 8.3 out of 10
ON24
ON24
Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Webex Webinars
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(568 ratings)
8.5
(49 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
4.7
(23 ratings)
7.5
(4 ratings)
Usability
8.8
(203 ratings)
9.0
(26 ratings)
Availability
9.6
(8 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
5.5
(8 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
5.3
(17 ratings)
6.4
(26 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.0
(16 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
6.1
(6 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
5.5
(6 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
4.3
(7 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
5.1
(5 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
5.1
(5 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
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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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Cisco
With the help of Webex Webinars, creating interactive sessions has become very simple. One great thing about Webex Webinars is the option to engage the audience. We can create polls, create some NPS-related surveys, introduce live polling, create emoji reactions, etc. within the webinar platform, which helps us understand the pulse of the user.
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Pros
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  • 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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Cisco
  • Cisco Webex Events is very straightforward and easy to use. Setting up an event within the platform is quite simple - anyone can do it.
  • Webex Events is a great add-on feature to the Webex conferencing platform to allow a one-way broadcast of information, rather than worrying about attendees being able to interrupt the presentation.
  • Recording a session is fairly simple and accessing the recordings post-event is quite reliable. I believe you can also upload .mp4 files into the Webex Events platform to serve as a host.
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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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  • There always seems to be room for video quality improvement (not a necessity, but would be nice)
  • Mobile screensharing from iOS/Android (and other mobile) devices would be a great feature
  • The mobile app should be able to track meetings a user has been invited to, but does not do so (yet)
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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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Cisco
Webex Webinars continues to provide exceptional value as a community engagement and professional education platform. As long as there are a multitude of event offerings and the product continues to be supported with periodic software and security updates, I can anticipate using Webex Webinars for the foreseeable future. Overall a great product!
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Usability
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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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Cisco
My experience with this software is fantastic; it's so satisfying that it only took me a week to go through an internal training program to use this software, actually, I don't think this training program was necessary. Usability is one of the most fantastic features to guarantee the increase of members in remote events.
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Reliability and Availability
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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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Cisco
WebEx is available 24/7, as long as the user has a reliable internet connection and the WebEx servers are up (they are typically up when we need it).
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Performance
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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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Cisco
Fast, reliable, and consistent performance
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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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Cisco
I love the control that this product gives to those running the meetings. It allows you to assign presenter roles to people and everyone else that is an attendee can be totally controlled, like whether they can unmute, use video or just sit there and watch. It really gives control of the meeting to those who are running it. And we love that ability for those meetings that we are trying to make sure people are listening in on instead of trying to participate.
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Online Training
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It is straight forward and easy to understand
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Cisco
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
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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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Cisco
The implementation process was fairly simple and straightforward
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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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Cisco
We actually prefer MS teams as its now easier to chat; manage virtual backgrounds, better audio, and overall more features and tools. Given we actually use MS teams for daily meetings now, it led to us also using MS Events. As a result, we began to consolidate to only using MS teams for both daily meetings and MS events for larger meetings - in lieu of Webex Events
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Scalability
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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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Cisco
The scalability is really easy
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Return on Investment
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  • 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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Cisco
  • Allowed us to keep our product development moving forward during the pandemic.
  • Reduced our travel costs by hosting virtual events.
  • Allows us to host more events because of reduced cost over in-person events.
  • Helps us with faster time to market on features as we can quickly set up and host a focus group.
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