Item: BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Rating: 10
Author: Dave Coccia

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

BlueJeans is widely used on our campus. We've been using BlueJeans for a number of years. There is really no one department that uses it more than others. BlueJeans is a great tool that's not difficult to use and it works well for our users. I have participated in a number of conferences that worked well and that were easy to manage.

Pros and Cons

Multiple participants
Easy to share a screen
Easy to mange users within any conference.

Audio clarity
Not chew up so much bandwidth to allow for clearer calls
Notify specific users if their connection is causing a problem (currently, an admin would have to go into an admin page to get that info)

Return on Investment

I'm not in a position to comment on ROI
The face to face part of BlueJeans is excellent as we have several remote campuses within the US and one in Canada. It's great to see the folks on the other side
The meeting can be very productive as it's easy to share materials for discussion

Alternatives Considered

Skype and Zoom

We have used Skype, Zoom, Teams, Ovoo and others. All products of this type have their limitations. Basic users don't normally see the difference or if their own personal experience is good with one or another, they will use it. We do use BlueJeans a lot with hardware based codecs and it works pretty well that way too

Usability

I have no trouble with it and once folks have been authorized to use, we don't get a lot of complaints. Any given meeting could have an issue for any number of reasons. We investigate (if we're told there was a problem) We can usually figure out what's happening fairly quickly.

Likelihood to Recommend

BlueJeans is well suited for virtually every application that we use it for on our campus. We have it in small conference rooms, boardrooms and at everyone's desk. I have personally used it directly from my laptop when 'out and about' on campus. It's great to have the flexibility of varying hardware uses. I can sign in on a classroom PC, my own laptop or my smartphone.

Review by a user

Overall Satisfaction with BlueJeans