Item: BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Rating: 9
Author: Chris Merrill

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It's used by every department across 7 timezones to coordinate every aspect of company activity.

Pros and Cons

good calendar integration / can reserve meeting from google calendar appt
simple screen sharing / easy to use interface / good UX
variety of views / ability to switch between viewing documents & participants at different zoom levels

occasional problems with audio (may be network bandwidth issue)
intermittent bugs where clicking a link to launch meeting downloads new version of app & introduces unnecessary delays

Return on Investment

I have frequent (sometimes daily) meetings with engineers in Belarus & India from California, so it is crucial for technical conversations with engineering contractors.

Alternatives Considered

Google Hangouts & several others that are similar. BlueJeans is one of the best I've used.

Among the video conferencing / document sharing apps i've used, BlueJeans is one of the best. It provides all the functionality that's reasonably needed.

The only thing that could be improved is possibly allowing more than one participant to do a screenshare / app share, but there are ways of working around that (collaboratively editing a google doc in a single shared window, etc...).

Large engineering company use case for BlueJeans

Overall Satisfaction with BlueJeans

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros and Cons

Return on Investment

Alternatives Considered

Likelihood to Recommend

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