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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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.

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    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/ANorwegian company appear.in offers their flagship video conferencing platform to small teams, both in a free edition hosting up to 4 guests simultaneously in a session or a paid edition that supports up to 12 simultaneous meeting guests, among other features.

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    Pricing
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    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
    Free
    $0
    per user
    Pro
    $9.99
    per user
    Business
    $59.99 and up
    per user/room
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    We use Whereby for calls with fewer than five peoole, and BlueJeans for everything else.

    BlueJeans offers better pricing than GoTo and Cisco, and better privacy than Zoom.
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    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    * Unlimited number of users
    * Great Video Quality
    * Great Audio Quality
    Incentivized
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    99 Answers
    93%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    83 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    105 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    68 Answers
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    76 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    Features
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Whereby
    Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
    Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) and Whereby
    Feature
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    7.2
    561 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Whereby
    7.8
    14 Ratings
    2% below category average
    High quality audio7.6559 Ratings9.014 Ratings
    High quality video7.4537 Ratings9.014 Ratings
    Low bandwidth requirements6.7483 Ratings8.012 Ratings
    Mobile support7.0456 Ratings5.011 Ratings
    Screen Sharing
    Comparison of Screen Sharing features of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) and Whereby
    Feature
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    7.2
    530 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Whereby
    8.0
    13 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Desktop sharing7.1530 Ratings8.013 Ratings
    Whiteboards7.4253 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) and Whereby
    Feature
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    7.5
    558 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Whereby
    9.4
    13 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Calendar integration7.7503 Ratings9.94 Ratings
    Meeting initiation7.0509 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Integrates with social media7.2176 Ratings9.72 Ratings
    Record meetings / events7.4472 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Slideshows7.9347 Ratings9.35 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) and Whereby
    Feature
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    7.5
    414 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Whereby
    8.3
    9 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Live chat8.1396 Ratings9.09 Ratings
    Audience polling7.2177 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Q&A7.3226 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) and Whereby
    Feature
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    7.6
    413 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Whereby
    6.9
    11 Ratings
    16% below category average
    User authentication8.0283 Ratings8.86 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions7.3386 Ratings5.09 Ratings
    Confidential attendee list7.4253 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Whereby
    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
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (568 ratings)
    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.7
    (23 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.9
    (203 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    9.6
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    5.5
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.3
    (17 ratings)
    5.1
    (9 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.0
    (16 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.1
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.5
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    4.3
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    5.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    5.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
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    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.
    Incentivized
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    Whereby
    If you cannot use another more common solution on the market or are looking for an alternative to the known solutions, it is a great alternative. If you have other tools already, and just want to test [them], that's fine, but I think the better-known ones have a better chance of using, knowing, and the learning curve will be shorter.
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    Pros
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    • 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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    • Easy to use: The app is very, very easy to use. Literally just create a chat room (input a name) and access it to chat.
    • Call/video quality: I've experienced better call quality on appear.in than in almost all other chat and video conferencing services out there.
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    Cons
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    • 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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    • The paid version may have dial-in. But I have always used the free version. Dial-in is typically required for an "official" multi-purpose teleconference platform.
    • I did have some trouble with larger groups (5+) when it was Appear.in but almost always use it for small 1-on-1 or 3 person meetings.
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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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    We are using a larger tool suite that already includes video conferencing instead of our older approach of using different apps from different vendors. appear.in has a simple but great set of features but its pricing scheme is not as scalable as we really need in a 500+ employee company.
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    Usability
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    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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    Very easy to use, technical and non-technical colleagues have used it with no instructions needed. That says all about the app and services.
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    Reliability and Availability
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    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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    Performance
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    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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    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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    Never had to contact support, so we cannot give a rating for their overall support. When we noticed the audio was not always great quality, we simply educated our users to mute the mic and use the in-room conference phone which is connected via a dedicated VOIP link and had much better voice quality. The video performance varied by locations network speed and found it got much worse when the room size increased to over 4 connections.
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    Online Training
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    It is straight forward and easy to understand
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    Implementation Rating
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    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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    After a recommendation from a partner, as the system is very easy to use, we simply start.
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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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    Whereby
    I find Zoom more complicated to use and harder to use because a lot of people do not like having to download things to their computers or devices and Whereby is so easy to get connected with . I like that Zoom offers larger rooms, but at this point the cost is not worth the extra expense.
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    Scalability
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    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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    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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    • In general, any sort of online collaborations saves a lot on your budget. The meetings are rather more on time and can be efficient and short.
    • Easy to drop-by and have a small talk with clients/teammates within COVID era.
    • The URL makes you look fancy instead of a random hash.
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    ScreenShots

    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) Screenshots

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    Whereby Screenshots

    Screenshot of Easy video meetings in your browser. No downloads, no login.Screenshot of Up to 50 participants in Townhall rooms.Screenshot of Record, save, and share meetings.