Item: BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Rating: 7
Author: Christina Frasson

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use BlueJeans to create meeting links for classes and events joining into our video conference rooms. We also make links for departments who need a virtual conference room.

Pros and Cons

Connecting your audio and video is clear and easy to do
Sharing content is easy to initiate and manage
The command center tools are amazing and give us so much insight into how our institution is using BlueJeans .

There is an issue we faced when our remote participants shared content and then were no longer able to see the other participants.
We only purchased a few licenses and the few of us end up scheduling links for a significant number of people. It's a lot of work on us.

Return on Investment

We were able to interview people face to face from all over the world for jobs at our university
It allowed us to share courses with other schools and bring in guest speakers from all over.
It is helpful for remote workers to still join in meetings and see their coworkers

Alternatives Considered

WebEx Meetings

We will actually be phasing out BlueJeans because we've deployed WebEx and use Cisco systems for video conferencing.

BlueJeans does a great job of making the user experience easy to connect and easy to navigate. This helps our clients feel confident and comfortable even if they are not very good with technology. Other solutions may be overly complicated and cause frustrations that distract from the task at hand, but with BlueJeans people are able to jump right into the meeting without worrying about taking an hour long training to figure out how to use it.

Likelihood to Recommend

Creating the links for meetings is quick and easy. It is also easy for us to bridge into our systems, and is great for people who are new to video conferencing. Unfortunately it puts more work on our team. We've since moved to WebEx because it integrates with more of our equipment and allows people to manage their meetings themselves.

BlueJeans - That feeling you get from your favorite pair of pants in a video conferencing tool

Overall Satisfaction with BlueJeans

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros and Cons

Return on Investment

Alternatives Considered

Usability

Likelihood to Recommend

BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) Feature Ratings