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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.

    $0

    per month

    Webex Meetings

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AWebex Meetings is a video conferencing solution powering hybrid work. It enables a seamless collaboration experience and better results with meetings that are designed to give everyone the ability to engage no matter their location, language, or communication style.

    $14.50

    per month per user

    Pricing
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Webex Meetings
    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
    Webex Meet
    $14.50
    per month per user
    Webex Suite: Meet + Call
    $25
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Webex Meetings
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    Additional Details—Discount available for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Webex Meetings
    Considered Both Products
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    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    BlueJeans Meetings has the best price and quality for us.
    Incentivized
    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 …
    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)
    [BlueJeans Meetings] stacks up well. The audio is excellent. My customers have never heard of it and they complain about getting accustomed to another UI. That is why I use Zoom for customer calls. Everyone now knows Zoom.
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    I like BlueJeans' user interface and low latency during video calls. I also like that I can choose certain windows to share instead of displaying everything I have open. One thing that I don't like about BlueJeans though, since the merger, is that I have tons of issues with …
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    I began really investigating the various platforms for video conferencing early in 2020 and found many had similar features. But, BlueJeans seemed to have some of the more specific features that we were looking for. Again, to my business, the ability to collaborate via a …
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    BlueJeans offers more security for sure! Also, it just looks better. I would even say BlueJeans is more user-friendly and has common-sense placement.
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    Better quality audio and good functionality
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    As mentioned earlier, as compared to Webex and Teams, BlueJeans does not have the option of toggling between presentation vs video screens whereby in Webex and Teams once presentations are shared the video screens of participants are compromised into small windows and showing …
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    BlueJeans is amazing because it's simple, it's reliable, it does the job it is intended for without extra bells and whistles.

    Staff has the confidence that they don't have to fiddle with overly complicated software to to make a presentation or share their point of view during a …
    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)
    BlueJeans had the option to view many speakers at the same time earlier than others, e.g. Microsoft Teams.
    BlueJeans is very easy to use for external users /newbies.
    BlueJeans does support integration of our existing Lifesize systems.
    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)
    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.
    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)
    I chose BlueJeans for the integration with Polycom and Cisco Room systems. The audio quality and Dolby rooms have kept us with the service.
    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 seemed to have better audio quality.
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    1. Zoom
    2. GoToMeeting
    3. Bluejeans
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    Webex used to have an awkward design in many ways, graphic and technical. It did not have the option to get audio on the phone many times. It was too bad. Webex recorded every conversation automatically. Therefore the saving drive was filled very fast. The saving space was …
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    Easier to schedule meetings in BlueJeans, and far easier to automatically record and share webinars, compared to Adobe. I don’t use Cisco Webex much since it is inferior to Adobe.
    Incentivized
    Chose BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    None of these had better collaboration options like whiteboarding or polling or a way to raise your hand to be recognized by a moderator. It would be great if BlueJeans could integrate with Cisco or other SIP/VOIP endpoints.

    Noise cancellation used to be bad on BlueJeans, there …
    Incentivized
    Cisco
    Chose Webex Meetings
    Webex is much easier to use though our company is migrating to Teams
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex Meetings
    Of the 4 video conferencing platforms I've utilized - Webex would be tied for 3rd on my list. I've come to find that both Zoom and Teams are more widely used in the B2B space, thus making it easier to connect seamlessly with clients. It's always a pain when a user needs to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex Meetings
    Mostly for high-level conference rooms which [need] face-to-face audio and Visual experience and reduce international travel cost for Business people in our organization. I work as [a] UC engineer so any time I and many other needs to take remote desktop of users to fix Jabber …
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex Meetings
    Webex has a great functional scope; albeit, some are difficult to use. Webex seems to work more reliably especially for international attendees to meetings and local access numbers are readily available. Seeing a person's body language can be helpful in many situations.
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex Meetings
    Webex is my preferred choice.
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex Meetings
    Group messaging, audio and video conferencing, and simple online meetings into one single platform. Most suitable for on-the-go collaboration and conducting professional online meetings.
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex Meetings
    Webex Meetings by far has the best security and a name that has been synonymous with networking and security.
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex Meetings
    Webex Meetings is above this competitor due to the wide range of functionalities, integrations with other tools, due to its novelties (transcripts, emojis, reactions, etc.) and also because it can be integrated with Cisco VoIP systems, present in this organization, which allows …
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex Meetings
    MS Teams somewhat similar (and more easily accessible than Webex, Webex requires you download from Google store and some users on Android unable to do so...problem bc we do not have control over users devices). Nonetheless a more robust overall solution than others.
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex Meetings
    We have a heavy investment in Cisco voice and were looking for an easy user experience. It made sense to integrate our existing Cisco investments to create a more unified user experience, specifically in the video conference rooms.
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex Meetings
    Webex has been around the longest and is the original product in this space. It seemed that Webex was very content being the only player in the market until recently when these other players started to get into the market space. Zoom and MS Teams has really ramped up the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex Meetings
    Cisco Webex Meetings blows Zoom and BlueJeans out of the water for quality and security. Zoom does have the upper edge on releasing new features that are shiny to the user base, but I would rather have the more tested product like Cisco Webex Meetings rather than the shiniest, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex Meetings
    Usually I would rank it below Zoom and BlueJeans in terms of quality and features.
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex Meetings
    They all have upsides and downsides, but Cisco Webex offers a stable and consistent look and feel through the whole product line. Additionally, the interoperability capabilities of Cisco Webex Meetings greatly exceed those of the competition. We will roll out MS Teams soon, and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex Meetings
    Cisco Webex provides hands down consistency, ease of use and flexibility to meet our and our customers' collaboration and screen sharing requirements. Video recordings and sharing of these capture recordings have been instrumental in our knowledge sharing program. Training …
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex Meetings
    The other products were more meant for large scale meetings. We have stuck with Cisco Webex Meetings, because we have a suite of other Cisco products, including Jabber and our phone system. This allows us to gain cost savings and provides for easier integrations between those …
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex Meetings
    Cisco is a leader in collaboration solutions which provides many facilities for interaction, integration and joint use of other platforms that are commonly used such as Outlook. This is in addition to being offered as an integral solution that covers on-premise, hybrid …
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex Meetings
    I think Webex is about the same in terms of functions, compared to the others listed at the top of this. If you think about it there are only so many things that a screen share meeting platform can do. That being said Webex is heavier and slower to load than some the web …
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex Meetings
    We have deployed Webex Meetings as a BlueJeans replacement. Besides offering us the option to license very user at our university, including students, faculty, and staff this gives us other perks when coupled with the SPK-EDU offering Cisco has. We never owned licensing nearly …
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex Meetings
    Skype for Business and WebEx are close but WebEx has better multi-platform support. WebEx has superior quality audio and video than Zoom or BlueJeans. Zoom and BlueJeans both have terrible clients and the install procedure is also hit or miss.
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex Meetings
    Skype for Business is used much more widely in the organization now because it is a lot cheaper for internal-only meetings. However, Skype does seem to have even more audio connection issues than WebEx. Our C-Suite also uses BlueJeans for their quarterly review webinars, and it …
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex Meetings
    Cisco has better graphics and requires a low bandwidth. Cisco Webex is easy to connect with users who do not have experience with the application, Cisco Webex is not restricted to a certain domain for sharing meetings, it can connect anywhere around the world, most of the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Webex Meetings
    As previously mentioned, Webex had no unique offering amongst its peers. Because there are options for licensing that don't involve VOIP, it was always limping along for us because of the time-waste looking for dial in information. There is no condition where VOIP should ever …
    Incentivized
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    TrustRadius Insights
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Webex Meetings
    Highlights

    TrustRadius
    Research Team Insight
    Published

    BlueJeans, from Verizon, and Cisco Webex Meetings are web and video conferencing solutions that offer boardroom and huddle capabilities. As a full video conferencing solution, BlueJeans recommends customers use Logitech devices, though it supports additional Poly devices as well. Cisco Webex provides its own series of huddle room devices, with some third-party support. 

    Both solutions are used at companies of all sizes but tend to be deployed at large enterprises. Cisco’s diverse product suite caters to the needs of enterprises so this is not surprising, and both vendors provide advanced security features. 

    Features

    There are several similar features BlueJeans and Cisco Webex Meetings offer users. However, each product has a few standout benefits.

    Cisco Webex Meetings is easy for meeting participants to use with good collaboration features such as screen sharing, whiteboarding, hand-raising, and private and group messaging, etc. On TrustRadius, enterprise Webex Meetings reviewers find sessions easy to join and engage with. Reviewers note the collaboration features make Webex Meetings a viable solution for groups with multiple active participants. 

    BlueJeans’ users tout its security features (encryption, meeting code, etc.) and its strong boardroom/ large conference room experience. BlueJeans can be easily deployed using any AV setup. Reviewers on TrustRadius highlight reliably high-quality video and audio, as well as a stable connection. Users also enjoy generous and accessible recording space, and the ability to generate shareable meeting highlights.

    Limitations

    While Webex Teams and BlueJeans are robust enterprise conferencing solutions, current customers point out some limits to consider.

    While Webex Meetings has a great user interface and experience, it can be more difficult for administrators to use. For example, administrative users highlight technical glitches and poor performance related to limited bandwidth as limitations of the platform. Webex Meetings users also struggle to integrate the platform with third-party applications non-Webex video conferencing equipment. 

    On the other hand, BlueJeans users on TrustRadius voice issues with the platform’s collaboration feature set. For example, it can be difficult to see all participants on the screen simultaneously.

    Pricing

    Webex Meetings is free for a single host for up to 50 minutes, with meetings of up to 100 participants. It includes features such as screen sharing, chat, meeting notes, hand raising, interactive whiteboard, and polling. Cisco offers four other meeting plans with multiple meeting hosts, up to 24 hour-long meetings, and cloud storage space for meeting recordings. Pricing ranges from $13.50 per host/month for 9 meeting hosts to $26.95 per host/month for up to 100 meeting hosts. An Enterprise plan with custom pricing is also available. 

    BlueJeans does not have a free plan but offers a free 7-day trial. The BlueJeans Standard plan starts at $9.99 per month (annual billing) and supports unlimited meetings for up to 50 participants. BlueJeans Enterprise supports unlimited recording and meetings of 100 participants. BlueJeans offers separate pricing for events, starting at $499 per webinar (up to a 2-hour webinar with 500 view-only attendees), with discussible pricing for large events.

    Features
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Webex Meetings
    Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
    Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) and Webex Meetings
    Feature
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    7.2
    561 Ratings
    Webex Meetings
    8.2
    790 Ratings
    High quality audio7.6559 Ratings8.5784 Ratings
    High quality video7.4537 Ratings8.5777 Ratings
    Low bandwidth requirements6.7483 Ratings7.8747 Ratings
    Mobile support7.0456 Ratings8.2712 Ratings
    Screen Sharing
    Comparison of Screen Sharing features of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) and Webex Meetings
    Feature
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    7.2
    530 Ratings
    Webex Meetings
    8.3
    779 Ratings
    Desktop sharing7.1530 Ratings8.5777 Ratings
    Whiteboards7.4253 Ratings8.1677 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) and Webex Meetings
    Feature
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    7.5
    558 Ratings
    Webex Meetings
    8.1
    788 Ratings
    Calendar integration7.7503 Ratings8.3746 Ratings
    Meeting initiation7.0509 Ratings8.4774 Ratings
    Integrates with social media7.2176 Ratings7.3320 Ratings
    Record meetings / events7.4472 Ratings8.5737 Ratings
    Slideshows7.9347 Ratings8.0668 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) and Webex Meetings
    Feature
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    7.5
    414 Ratings
    Webex Meetings
    8.4
    747 Ratings
    Live chat8.1396 Ratings8.6725 Ratings
    Audience polling7.2177 Ratings8.5646 Ratings
    Q&A7.3226 Ratings8.2651 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) and Webex Meetings
    Feature
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
    7.6
    413 Ratings
    Webex Meetings
    8.5
    739 Ratings
    User authentication8.0283 Ratings8.2691 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions7.3386 Ratings8.4721 Ratings
    Confidential attendee list7.4253 Ratings8.8431 Ratings
    User Ratings
    BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)Webex Meetings
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (568 ratings)
    8.4
    (802 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.7
    (23 ratings)
    5.8
    (48 ratings)
    Usability
    8.9
    (203 ratings)
    7.9
    (106 ratings)
    Availability
    9.6
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (447 ratings)
    Performance
    5.5
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (422 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.3
    (17 ratings)
    10.0
    (109 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    5.5
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.0
    (16 ratings)
    9.8
    (16 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.1
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (10 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.5
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    4.3
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (418 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (9 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    5.1
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    5.1
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (9 ratings)