BlueJeans: Dressy Video Calling and Webinars with an Over-casual Name
January 07, 2022
BlueJeans: Dressy Video Calling and Webinars with an Over-casual Name
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with BlueJeans Meetings
BlueJeans is the virtual meeting tool of choice for our largest internal meetings -- across the whole organization -- as well as many client meetings for my department. I believe the executive team uses BlueJeans the most, and therefore it was implemented across the organization because of its many presentation tools and reliability for communication with video and audio as well. We began using it at least a year before the pandemic caused remote work to make it even more necessary; BlueJeans connected our organization across four time zones so that we could meet in real-time.
- Virtual presentations.
- Video calling.
- Breakout rooms.
- Allows you to blur your background for video calls.
- BlueJeans Meetings is not as popular in the non-business world, so your clients may have to install it before you can meet with them.
- Limited use of 25-person meeting display: it's simply not practical for smaller devices or computer screens.
- High-quality streaming options are limited by your clients' and employees' stream speeds.
- 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.
Do you think BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)'s feature set?
Yes
Did BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) again?
Yes
BlueJeans Meetings is the most deluxe, feature-heavy webinar and virtual meetings software program I have used. We began using it to connect for All-Hands Meetings for our country-wide company offices without needing to travel to be together, and we transitioned to using it more frequently once work from home became a necessity. Microsoft Teams later improved its options for video calling but in my opinion, remains a weak option that people mostly use because it integrates with the Microsoft software we've already bought into and not because it offers anything special. Teams seems to be a lackluster version of Slack that adds video calling, and it's sad that Microsoft ruined its stronghold on video calling that it once had under Skype in exchange for a program that feels like it's still in beta some days. Zoom works well for simple meetings and webinars but I prefer the features that BlueJeans offers for a more robust and connected community in video calls. I have not used Google Meet for large calls but it is sufficient for small meetings because it does not require downloading new software, which is a nice option for clients.