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    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AThe BlueJeans Meetings platform supported video, audio and web conferencing with the collaboration tools, as a cloud service that connects desktops, mobile devices and room systems in one video meeting. It was acquired in 2020 by Verizon and discontinued in the sunsetting of the BlueJeans product line by Verizon, in 2023.

    $0

    per month

    Google Meet

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Meet, formerly Hangouts Meet, replaces the former Google Hangouts as the company's G Suite integrated web conferencing tool, allowing users to join meetings directly from a Calendar event or email invite from a computer, phone, or conference room. G Suite's Enterprise edition also creates a dial-in phone number for each meeting, as an additional convenience.

    $6

    per month

    Pricing
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Google Meet
    Editions & Modules
    BlueJeans Basic
    $0
    per user
    Bluejeans Standard
    $9.99
    per host/per month
    Bluejeans Pro
    $13.99
    perhost/per month
    Bluejeans Enterprise
    $16.66
    per host/per month
    Google Workspace - Business Starter
    $6
    per month
    Google Workspace - Business Standard
    $12
    per month
    Google Workspace - Business Plus
    $18
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Google Meet
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Google Meet
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    Poor. In my opinion, they are the worst platform of the above 3. In my experience, BlueJeans Meetings does nothing special or even well.
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    It was easier for us to develop and deliver this software beside our business
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    BlueJeans Meetings has the best price and quality for us.
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    I've utilized and upheld many gathering items in my vocation (Zoom, gotomeeting, WebEx) and BlueJeans Meetings certainly has the least hindrance to getting a quick meeting started and is one of the easiest platforms to support.
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    BlueJeans is superior in every category compared to these other apps and the quality is unmatched however it does need better customer service support and more monthly deals on payment plans. Their customer service is good but it can get to be great in due time as well. Overall …
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    Bluejeans is on top mostly because of the audio & video qulaity which no one can beat.
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    I actually feel that BlueJeans is at the bottom of these two competitors. Blue jeans could be the best for a position that is internally facing, but with my often client-facing work, I do not leverage BlueJeans for as much value as it can add to an internal-facing employee.
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    Bluejeans performance is better, it’s more secure, and it integration is fully customizable.
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    Bluejeans started to become strong in this virtual meetings and conferencing categories when many systems were not as powerful and feature packed and this gives them a certain kind of a lead in bringing the best and latest features to the platform, which is why I think there …
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    BlueJeans has better troubleshooting of attendees over Zoom. BlueJeans scheduling interface is more intuitive than Zoom. Quality and call handling has seem a little better in the competitor products over BlueJeans especially when it comes to IP/H323 dialing and bridging.
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    I think BlueJeans stacks up well against all its competition in this virtual meeting marketplace. BlueJeans has all the key features my users want and if they do not have a feature, BlueJeans has always taken our feedback and made improvements on their product in the requested …
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    BlueJeans is a fair competition to these other platforms. However, for what it charges monthly the features could be a lot more reliable.
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    PROS:
    1. Has the best layout controls amongst all competing platforms
    2. All options to connect are easy
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    Where BlueJeans scores over others:
    • Layout controls. The moderator can define the layout for all participants.
    • Scheduling. This could be a personal opinion, but scheduling on BlueJeans just works and FEELS better than most other platforms, though all other platforms can do the …
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    I know BlueJeans through a customer (Inchcape) and I prefer the design, stability and security.
    For events I use WebinarJam, I've never used BlueJeans Events in order to compare.
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    BlueJeans came out on top as the best working solution and at an affordable price. We only lack one feature which is recording sharing with password.
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    Zoom and Webex work pretty well, and I would say those are my top three choices. BlueJeans seemed to be the best fit for us with the price point package they offered. The only downside is that I feel like the other two are more widely used at this time and therefore easier to …
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    BlueJeans was friendlier to use vs. Webex, but falls short in comparison to Zoom and Hangouts. Zoom has a much lower barrier to entry to use with non-tech saavy people. Hangouts Meet had a better and more seamless integration with the G suite apps egosystem (obviously).

    As an …
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    BlueJeans definitely feels like the corporate/enterprise horse in this race, which is actually more complex than what our business wants and needs. But we chose it because our enterprise clients use it, and attending meetings hosted by them was a pretty bad experience when we …
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    I would say Zoom is the best one and then BlueJeans. I would prefer to use Google Hangouts, but it lacks certain features that both BlueJeans and Zoom have.
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    BlueJeans is easier to connect, more stable, more user-friendly, has a better look and feel, and delivers a better experience overall. I genuinely believe this is the best solution in the market.
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    I haven't been involved in the tool evaluation, hence I can't comment on this. But as a user, I certainly found BlueJeans nice compared to my previous experience with WebEx.
    Incentivized
    Google
    Chose Google Meet
    At the time we stayed with Google Hangouts Meet as it was already integrated into our main email delivery.
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    Chose Google Meet
    The benefit for google hangouts meet is its seamless integration with Gmail and since most of the users have a Gmail account, it becomes a fast and reliable experience. Nevertheless, other tools have a better UI and feature list as compared to google hangouts meet. The UI for …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Meet
    As stated before we prefer Zoom. It has more features and our staff has simply grown used to Zoom and prefers this platform. Zoom continues to innovate almost every month. Our Zoom rep is very good and responsive. We tested Google Hangouts Meet after using Zoom and decided to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Meet
    All key features are working similar accept an option to record sessions. This is one of our top priority. At the moment we are using Cisco Webex besides Google hangout meets that we us for our online lectures. We might be open to use Google Meet if this option would be …
    Incentivized
    Chose Google Meet
    Google Meet is about the same level of convenience and I use it like Skype and BlueJeans for my needs and my subscription levels. Zoom and Microsoft Teams (which we subscribe to as well) have much better features for our educational use cases like classrooms.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    99 Answers
    96%
    Would buy again
    55 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    83 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    53 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    105 Answers
    82%
    Happy with the feature set
    47 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    68 Answers
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    34 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    76 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    48 Answers
    Features
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Google Meet
    Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
    Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) and Google Meet
    Feature
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    7.2
    561 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Google Meet
    8.6
    53 Ratings
    8% above category average
    High quality audio7.6559 Ratings8.653 Ratings
    High quality video7.4537 Ratings8.153 Ratings
    Low bandwidth requirements6.7483 Ratings8.943 Ratings
    Mobile support7.0456 Ratings8.948 Ratings
    Screen Sharing
    Comparison of Screen Sharing features of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) and Google Meet
    Feature
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    7.2
    530 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Google Meet
    7.9
    53 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Desktop sharing7.1530 Ratings7.553 Ratings
    Whiteboards7.4253 Ratings8.235 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) and Google Meet
    Feature
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    7.5
    558 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Google Meet
    7.5
    52 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Calendar integration7.7503 Ratings8.651 Ratings
    Meeting initiation7.0509 Ratings8.551 Ratings
    Integrates with social media7.2176 Ratings6.325 Ratings
    Record meetings / events7.4472 Ratings7.040 Ratings
    Slideshows7.9347 Ratings7.241 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) and Google Meet
    Feature
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    7.5
    414 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Google Meet
    7.5
    51 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Live chat8.1396 Ratings8.049 Ratings
    Audience polling7.2177 Ratings7.731 Ratings
    Q&A7.3226 Ratings6.934 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) and Google Meet
    Feature
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    7.6
    413 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Google Meet
    8.5
    44 Ratings
    5% above category average
    User authentication8.0283 Ratings8.241 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions7.3386 Ratings9.639 Ratings
    Confidential attendee list7.4253 Ratings7.630 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Google Meet
    Small Businesses
    ClickMeeting
    Score7.7 out of 10
    ClickMeeting
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    JioMeet
    Score10 out of 10
    JioMeet
    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Webex Meetings
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Webex Meetings
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Google Meet
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (568 ratings)
    8.6
    (55 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.7
    (23 ratings)
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    8.9
    (203 ratings)
    8.2
    (14 ratings)
    Availability
    9.6
    (8 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    5.5
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.3
    (17 ratings)
    9.8
    (18 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    6.0
    (16 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.1
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.5
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    4.3
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    5.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    5.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Google Meet
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    • Collaboration with team members, clients and partners who spread out across the globe is made simple by Bluejeans meeting. As an Application developer it is easier for me to collaborate with people from various cultures and time zones so this is very important.
    • For code review , it plays an excellent role, it enables real time screen sharing and code discussion among my team, this facilitate quicker and more effective bug detection and correction.
    • Pair programming is a great use for it. It make possible for two programmers to collaborate on same code even when they are not physically near to each other.
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    Google
    Google Meet was a perfect video conferencing solution for us during our training sessions. The only problems encountered were due to weak signals, which sometimes required us to turn off our video. All features worked very well in tying together a team across four different time zones. I was very impressed with the tool's performance
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Bluejeans' ability to record meetings would be beneficial for future references like If I ever needed to revisit a discussion or training sessions, I could access the recorded content, eliminating the need to take extensive notes during meeting.
    • Calendar program and messaging services are just a couple of the productivity and collaboration tools that Bluejeans frequently integrates with, scheduling of meeting and team members communication would become more efficient as a result.
    • Typically, bluejeans provides mobile app, making it usable on tables and smartphone, this enables me to take part in a meeting even if I am not near a computer system.
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    Google
    • First off, the quality of the call is pretty good, especially when all of us are working remotely.
    • We can easily schedule our meeting in Google Calendar.
    • Sending an invitation link is easy.
    • What makes Google Meet stand out from other video conferencing tools is that we can use it for an unlimited time, even if we use the free account.
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Video quality is different between their desktop app version and web browser version
    • I prefer using Bluejeans web browser version but it lack many features which are there in their Desktop App version, which is really disappointing.
    • Not a big issue but if they decrease their pricing, it will be great
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    Google
    • Meet as it comes doesn't have a great way to handle large meetings.
    • I don't like the way they hide the mute button. It's a disruptive view to mute/unmute.
    • Chat box is the only way to document collaborations within the meeting.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    I have used many other competing platforms platforms; however, despite the fact that BlueJeans lacks certain features others offer, familiarity, ease of use, and several things BlueJeans does better than others mean that I will stick to BlueJeans. Further, whenever I have faced a problem, I have found BlueJeans support excellent overall; no lengthy wait to understand and resolve an issue. Good product, great support, BOTH TESTED OVER TIME; I do not have an incentive to move to another platform.
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    Google
    This app is still having a lot of redundant features as compared to other industry apps such as Zoom and Webex which offers much more on the functionality side along with the option to have greater user access control to the admin/host of the meetings. A sense of interaction is always found to be missing in Google meet which can be easily adopted in the Zoom
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    I don't have much experience of joining a meeting from an attendee of someone else's. As for joining a meeting I've created, it's very easy. For recurring meetings, I find the meeting in my list, and if it's near the time to start, there will be a "Join" button, and I just push that. After that, it gives me the options for joining -- video, audio, phone, screen share only. It remembers my previous choices, so mostly I just can click by that. As for attendees joining, there do seem to be connection problems from time to time and people have to log off and come back on, but we had that trouble with GoToMeeting also. Being able to mute attendees is much better in BlueJeans. When we had GoToMeeting, I constantly had problems with people joining by phone incorrectly, such that they didn't even show up in the meeting list and thus I couldn't mute them when needed.
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    Google
    Google Meet is very easy and simple to use. I can schedule a meeting right on my calendar - it literally takes a few seconds. There is no additional app I have to open to schedule anything. Guests can click on the link easily to join any meetings. 10/10!
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    I have to give this a 10 rating as we have never had issues with availability. Now "quality" is a different subject
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    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Discontinued Products
    This has been a continual issue with our organization. We are a IP/H323 infrastructure so we integrate BlueJeans via the IP/H323 connections to the cloud. We still have inconsistent results with calls. Some work without issue and some calls are horribly choppy and at times freeze. If I have one complaint or reason to seek out a different competitor its this
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    In all these years, there has been ONE instance when a problem I pointed out (with screenshots, no less) was DENIED. That apart, though there have been a few instances where there has been a delay in resolution (more to do with offering new features), I have NEVER felt frustrated about help not being on hand when I needed it most.
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    Google
    Google does a great job of providing tech support for this product, as it does many others. Similarly, Google has FAQs that cover a large amount of issues faced by users. Problems have not persisted in our use of this product. Problems are resolved quickly and easily, with or without personal Google support.
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    Online Training
    Discontinued Products
    It is straight forward and easy to understand
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    For me its a simple video conferencing call tool, and implementation is simply setup user account give quick tutorial during the newhire orientation faze and then the user is good to go. There is not much you need to do to get this operational. sure if you want more security there are a couple extra steps but overall simply
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    Google
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Select Blujeans Meetings because it allows me to better convey my ideas and at the same time build trust through real-time videoconferences. As well as sharing documents and presentations via screen sharing, I love the option to record play and then share the recording to colleagues who couldn't attend is what's needed.
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    Google
    The main positive feature in Google Meet over Zoom to me is the fact that Google meet can be seamlessly deployed in the browser with its full functionality. Unlike Zoom for which you need to download an extra application to use. This consequently makes workflow smooth when transitioning between something like emails and taking part in a meeting.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    I wasn't involved in the unit pricing factor. So far I used Google meet in the office where I got access to all these Google applications including the Google Meet feature. So I wasn't involved much in this pricing factor of Google Meet and also regarding the contact terms of the product.
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    Scalability
    Discontinued Products
    I believe BlueJeans is easy to scale, but we have a different business model that requires a more central scheduling need. Most vendors operate on an enterprise wide environment with a one to one licensing. We have a centralized group of video administrators and schedulers that do the majority of the scheduling for multiple departments. Because we are a centralized scheduling group we need shared access to on schedule not multiple users delegating access to one another. I.E. if I have 5 schedulers, under the current licensing they would each have individual accounts and delegating those accounts to one another. So when receiving a support call they have to search 5 individual schedules to make changes to meetings. This I think is a valid need even for smaller businesses that just have a few schedulers for the rest of the groups. It would be easier if it scaled within the individual accounts
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    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Google
    This is very good in the professional services as I started using this first for the professional service only. While using this Google Meet itself gives a professional feel as the UI works in a professional way. The video background modification, multi-screen feature, and some other features help in professional service.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • 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.
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    Google
    • Negative: on each webinar someone from our team had to write manually the people that were participating and after that matching it with the registered people list. We wasted time. It could be easily resolved by adding the export list feature
    • Positive: Collaboration and internal meetings. Calendar integration helps us save time.
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