Amazon Chime vs. BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Chime
Score 5.6 out of 10
N/A
Amazon Chime is a communications service from Amazon Web Services with a built-in VoIP solution. Amazon Chime can be used for online meetings, video conferencing, and business calling, and features pay-as-you-go pricing.
$0
per minute
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
The 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 user
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Business Calling - Inbound
$0.002216
per minute
Business Calling - Phone Numbers
$1
per number per month, US Only
Meetings - Pro
$3
*per user per day
Meetings - Basic
Free
Business Calling - Outbound
Country Dependent
per minute
Business Calling - Receive Text
Free
US Only
Business Calling - Send Text
Country Dependent
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
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon ChimeBlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details*up to $15.00 per user per month
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Amazon ChimeBlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Considered Both Products
Amazon Chime
Chose Amazon Chime
We like the Amazon Chime versus Teams - more features and easy to use. We are able to use instant messages - create rooms and do instant training with screen sharing immediately when needed. All of our users have picked it up quickly and really like it. We quit using teams …
Chose Amazon Chime
Amazon has a very good audio and video quality. Chime's video conferencing feature works as expected there is no lag in the audio. If the internet speed is about 50 mpbs + then it works as a charm! At times the desktop can get slow but the mobile application is pretty fast as …
Chose Amazon Chime
Our reason for the selection of Amazon Chime was a client recommendation. In a comparison of other competitor's products, Amazon Chime provides similar functionality and features. From a pricing perspective, you may opt for pay-per-use pricing which could be confusing for some …
Chose Amazon Chime
Users have a level of familarity with other market leading collaboration products.

However we selected this for the single dashboard for chat, calling, meeting and messaging specifically on phone app. There is a very simple interface with a minimum of clicks to launch the …
Chose Amazon Chime
It's slower and the user experience is much clunkier. It seems like it was developed by and for other developers, not the normal public.
Chose Amazon Chime
Better than skype for business in terms of loading the application onto your device. Skype had crashing issues always and those are comparatively low when using Amazon Chime. Amazon chime is fast and easy to work with while collaborating and setting up meetings. The audio and …
Chose Amazon Chime
I have not tested Amazon Chime, against other market alternatives, as it is being used to meet a specific demand, which is communication with certain companies, as it is the preferred means of communication. But, it is a good tool and does not lose anything to the other tools …
Chose Amazon Chime
All the mentioned above products are better if not rated much higher with the features they have compared to Amazon Chime. Amazon Chime does not support well with google calendar and other negative features I mentioned compared to other products. Amazon Chime lacks features …
Chose Amazon Chime
We chose Amazon Chime due to better pricing, ease of implementation, and great customer support from their team. Better product overall in terms of reliability.
Chose Amazon Chime
Amazon Chime stacks up cleaner and much more intuitive to Google Hangouts Chat. In comparison to Slack, Amazon Chime is much better because Slack is not conducive to having a face-to-face conversation, much less, screen sharing. Microsoft Teams was hard to use when some of our …
Chose Amazon Chime
Amazon's Chime is lightweight and has easy integrations with Slack. Cloud Trail has good call reports, doesn't take time to load compared to other products that I have tried. Its APIs exposed by Amazon are really helpful to customize. The shift from one user to another for …
Chose Amazon Chime
I believe the two products (Slack and Skype) are better suited for the situations where it is a smaller crowd. This is due to those systems being easier to chat within and collaborate in the smaller environment.
Chose Amazon Chime
Amazon Chime product stacks up pretty much equal to the other pieces of software that we have used in the past. What drives the use of the software over the others is purely preference. My team has adapted to using this software, and now it has become what they would rather …
Chose Amazon Chime
We used to use Go To Meeting/Go To Webinar for our web conferencing and AT&T Teleconferencing numbers, either separately or in conjunction with the Go To Meeting/Go To Webinar. I liked that Go To Webinar allowed people to pre-register, which gave us the opportunity to prepare. …
Chose Amazon Chime
Chime was a lot less expensive that WebEx. It was also easier to use and maintain.
Chose Amazon Chime
I would say Chime is step below Teams, but manages to get the job done. Chime is more straight forward and simplistic and meets all our basic needs for internal chat.
Chose Amazon Chime
They are all good products, but here is why we switched:

1. UberConf. This was the first conference software we used. It used to be great, it actually had a free version that worked perfectly. Then the service started to falter, mostly lag time between user and presenter. And …
Chose Amazon Chime
Amazon Chime WILL become an industry leader. Amazon is still behind WebEx and is gaining ground on Microsoft. The advantage Microsoft will have is the ability to embed in organizations through Office, and have that advantage over WebEx as well. We selected Amazon Chime as …
Chose Amazon Chime
I believe Amazon Chime is better, easier to use, and had better quality video/audio
Chose Amazon Chime
AWS Chime is very comparable to Zoom meeting. Monthly costs are usually cheaper but are variable and can fluctuate. Reporting on AWS Chime is great but needs some additional back-end set-up that could be cumbersome. Overall... ease, quality, look and set-up is very easy. …
Chose Amazon Chime
I have used GoToMeeting, which is a major competitor to Amazon Chime, and I can confidently say that GoToMeeting is literally ten times better. We rarely have any of the issues with GoToMeeting that we do with Amazon Chime. I highly recommend GoToMeeting over Amazon Chime …
Chose Amazon Chime
High quality of audio and video, and great meeting experiences.

Chose Amazon Chime
Amazon Chime is great for call and video quality. It's pretty comparable to Zoom both in cost and capabilities. It's definitely superior to UberConference and Join.Me, both of which are not particularly reliable. I have had call quality and the screen shares freeze up. …
Chose Amazon Chime
Chime and Biba are interchangeable to me, both accomplish the same task. We have transitioned to Chime as it was created by Amazon and we support Amazon, so it was an easy decision for us. I do enjoy Chime more as it just seems to work effortlessly. I would recommend it to all.
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Webex Calling
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.
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Compared to other alternatives, Bluejeans Meetings is the best and most secure video conferencing and screen sharing application. We have been using it for years now and it has never disappointed us even a single day.
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Bluejeans meetings is the best and most secure video conferencing platform i have ever encountered. It does not demand any training to use since it has a very friendly and intuitive user interface that makes it super easy to learn and understand. Great customer support team, …
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
First of all as the product origine was china , so it was little challenging for us to trust the app and after that due to reports of data breaches found is some organisation, we find it difficult to trust more so we started switching to Bluejeans due to its fantastic features …
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Bluejeans meetings has a very friendly and intuitive user interface that makes it super easy to use. Since we started using it, we have never experienced any challenges and i highly recommend it.
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
The quality (audio and video) and features it offers makes it stand in the top position.
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
As i travel alot i faced major connectivity issue with the Zoom and that's why i switch to the Bluejeans. When i joined the Bluejeans i was not sure if it will have connectivity issue or not, but now i can say that Bluejeans has very less connectivity issue in comparison to the …
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Better sound and ease-of-use
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
It was easier for us to develop and deliver this software beside our business
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
In one area where i can really see the difference between the BlueJeans Meetings and Zoom is their connectivity even over the slow internet connection.
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
BlueJeans Meetings is just as good as the other products I have used in the past, including Zoom and Microsoft Teams. I don't think users of those products would be disappointed with BlueJeans Meetings as the experience is very comparable. BlueJeans Meetings doesn't have any …
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
BlueJeans integration was always imo superior to MS Teams and Zoom.
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Bluejeans is low-weight, no-flab application with easy and quick deployment. Zoom and Webex, although much better in UI are not cost competitive and do not work well on low end computers which forma significant portion of our deployment platforms. Bluejeans meets all the …
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.
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
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 …
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
There audio and video quality is very poor, that's why we switched to BlueJeans and liked them very much.
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
BlueJeans stacks up comparably to other services. It does lack in some areas compared to others, particularly Zoom, which is more widely used, but BlueJeans had been used for quite some time by the University and offered the feature set and accessibility that we were looking …
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Superior to Zoom and MS Teams in terms of audio and video quality. Can improve when it comes to product awareness (since both Zoom and MS Teams are far ahead in terms of adoption).
Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Not only 3, there are many other I tried but as I disclosed earlier, i faced problems in terms of audio and video quality. I always concern about these 2 criteria because I will be regularly in contact with clients. The reason I selected BlueJeans especially for this criteria …
Features
Amazon ChimeBlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Chime
10.0
Ratings
23% above category average
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
7.2
Ratings
10% below category average
High quality audio10.00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
High quality video10.00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Low bandwidth requirements10.00 Ratings6.80 Ratings
Mobile support10.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Screen Sharing
Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Chime
9.2
Ratings
15% above category average
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
7.2
Ratings
10% below category average
Desktop sharing10.00 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Whiteboards8.30 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Online Meetings / Events
Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Chime
9.7
Ratings
16% above category average
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
7.5
Ratings
10% below category average
Calendar integration10.00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Meeting initiation10.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Integrates with social media8.30 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Record meetings / events10.00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Slideshows10.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Online Events Collaboration
Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Chime
10.0
Ratings
20% above category average
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
7.5
Ratings
9% below category average
Live chat10.00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Audience polling10.00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Q&A10.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Online Events Security
Comparison of Online Events Security features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Chime
10.0
Ratings
21% above category average
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
7.6
Ratings
7% below category average
User authentication10.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Participant roles & permissions10.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Confidential attendee list10.00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
VoIP system collaboration
Comparison of VoIP system collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Chime
10.0
Ratings
24% above category average
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
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Ratings
Video conferencing10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Audio conferencing10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Video screen sharing10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Instant messaging10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Amazon ChimeBlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Small Businesses
Whereby
Whereby
Score 9.9 out of 10
Whereby
Whereby
Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
JioMeet
JioMeet
Score 10.0 out of 10
JioMeet
JioMeet
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Webex Meetings
Webex Meetings
Score 8.4 out of 10
Webex Meetings
Webex Meetings
Score 8.4 out of 10
All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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7.0
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Likelihood to Renew
-
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4.7
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Usability
-
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8.9
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Availability
-
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9.6
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Performance
-
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5.5
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Support Rating
8.8
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5.3
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Online Training
-
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9.0
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Implementation Rating
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6.0
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Configurability
-
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6.1
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Ease of integration
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5.5
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Product Scalability
-
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4.3
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Vendor post-sale
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5.1
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Vendor pre-sale
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5.1
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Great tool which can be used for collaborating and sharing screens. It helps in integrating with calendar effortlessly and send invitations for the meeting. Sometimes it takes time to load the application on your device and is not compatible with all browsers. It has different options of muting and sharing screen during presenting.
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  • 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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Pros
  • Chat tools, video calls, on spot meeting invite[s] easy to create and use.
  • Ability to record any meeting and automatically downloads the meeting recording after ending the meeting.
  • UI is clean and easy to navigate around Amazon Chime.
  • Ability to invite outside guests easily using Amazon Chime without any issues.
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  • Smart meeting where it automatically captures and share the important highlight of the meeting.
  • Good connectivity, there are very few instances where i have faced connectivity problem.
  • Easy to navigate user interface
  • Can easily share my screen during a meeting, and can also record a meeting.
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Cons
  • I'd like to see more sentiment analysis around the conversation between the salesperson and the prospect. This would make great for coaching opportunities after the call to make our sales reps better.
  • In a few instances, members of our sales team had issues with sharing call recording links with their prospects. Our product team came to the conclusion it was coming from the Amazon Chime end.
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  • 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.
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Likelihood to Renew
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Been using it for a long time, so familiarity with the platform helps. I have already pointed out a few things that I like about BlueJeans which I do not find in other competing platforms. HOWEVER, I do use some other platforms on occasion when I need features BlueJeans does not offer. I will not give up BlueJeans for another platform just yet. That being said, BlueJeans needs to get back to innovating, as it once did, rather than increasingly lag behind in features that are becoming more and more important in today's (and tomorrow's post-pandemic) world.
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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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Reliability and Availability
No answers on this topic
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
No answers on this topic
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
They were very supportive in answering all of our questions when we had problems. Their in-person calls but their support site also had a full set of information that can answer a good portion of your questions before you have to pick up the phone. But when you, you will get good service.
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There has been some downside in terms of response but cant really fault heavily because it is expected when a large volume of users need help but there can only be so many people to assist. On the other hand the support team is very helpful in that they are willing and able to jump in your admin control panels and help host a meeting with you to troubleshoot issues or just make things go smoothly
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Online Training
No answers on this topic
It is straight forward and easy to understand
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Implementation Rating
No answers on this topic
Well, I hear from many of my clients and other contacts that they find Microsoft Teams/Zoom much easier to use, and that they do not like BlueJeans. I disagree. First, I do not like seeing blank windows of participants who have turned off their video (and many do, given they do not wish to be seen at home, or in casual attire); however, I do use Teams or Zoom or Webex at times. I did not find it difficult to implement BlueJeans in my organization, and those who have used Teams, Webex, or Zoom say the same about these platforms.
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Alternatives Considered
Our reason for the selection of Amazon Chime was a client recommendation. In a comparison of other competitor's products, Amazon Chime provides similar functionality and features. From a pricing perspective, you may opt for pay-per-use pricing which could be confusing for some users. There are also basic and Pro subscription plans depending upon what you need. We did a free trial for 30 days and then procured a few accounts for internal and external use.
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First of all as the product origine was china , so it was little challenging for us to trust the app and after that due to reports of data breaches found is some organisation, we find it difficult to trust more so we started switching to Bluejeans due to its fantastic features special it's audio and video conferencing features enabled with Dolby technology.
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Scalability
No answers on this topic
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
  • Amazon Chime has been an incredibly cost effective way to add video and conference line services (with screen sharing) to our day to day operations because we have an account for free for being Vonage customers.
  • A pro account only costs $15 a month, and you only need one pro account for a small office. If others in your organization need to join, all you need is a basic account to join. You need a pro account in order to launch and administer meetings.
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  • Blujeans Meetings is an online communication service that works perfectly offering excellent features and functions that adapt to our needs and is more than what we normally need, it is simple to use, easy to organize and join meetings in addition to its security and speed. I like it because it offers an excellent wireless connection regardless of our internet connection quality, it works from anywhere and any device allowing you to collaborate on the go, it is very easy to share screen and start a conversation using this tool.
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ScreenShots

BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) Screenshots

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