Item: BlueJeans Events (discontinued)
Rating: 8
Author: Oscar Velasquez

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a education institution where we needed to implement a tool to manage and broadcast webinars. We went on trial with some other options before we decided to use BlueJeans Events, we found the tool useful and very user friendly. This is a webinar tool so you have to option to manage large amount the users, launch polls, surveys and broadcast embedded videos within the webinar. This last option increase the quality of the video´s been broadcasting. Also has security features where you assign roles to specific users (presenters and moderators) you give permissions to use mic and share screen just people who need it.

Pros and Cons

Manage large amount of users
Playback embedded videos with high quality
Not need to download an app you can join and mange the webinar in a web browser.

Price
Support
Option to broadcast to other social platforms

Return on Investment

It was expensive at first, but then BlueJeans sales were able to offer a better deal.
Easy to use and implement, doesn´t requiered too much effort form support staff.
Easy to broadcast to other platforms using RTMP.

Performance

Reports need a little bit of effort to generate, the good thing is that if you have access to BlueJeans Admin console you can gather some analytics. I love the feature where you can upload videos to the platform before the events start, playing previously uploaded videos from the cloud it gives a better resolution and quality for the attendes.

Alternatives Considered

Zoom Webinars, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet

We selected BlueJeans because of COVID-19 we needed a tool to broadcast large events. I work in high education industry and we needed to broadcast graduation ceremony. It was easy and convienent to assign the roles, presenters and moderators, previously to the event by sending and email invite. This is more secure and you don´t have to worry to assign permission during the event, or let presentes to wait on the waiting room.

Key Insights

Do you think BlueJeans Events (discontinued) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with BlueJeans Events (discontinued)'s feature set?

Yes

Did BlueJeans Events (discontinued) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of BlueJeans Events (discontinued) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy BlueJeans Events (discontinued) again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Vimeo Enterprise (Vimeo Livestream), YouTube Live, Zoom Webinars

Likelihood to Recommend

BlueJeans, has features that make it easy to use for the attendes like joining from browser without the need to download or use an app. It has an option to name a moderator, presenter besides the host of the webinar. BlueJeans is well suited for large events, better that other webinar solutions. It has options to create polls to keep your audience engaged. Also offers options to attendes to register before the webinar and also stream the event on other social platforms using RTMP. You must be careful and this tool is designed for large events, so some feautures you will frecuently find on other videoconferencing tools might not be avaiable on BlueJeans Events. One option we love is that optimized the bandwith usage.

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Overall Satisfaction with BlueJeans Events