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We performed a comparison between BlueJeans Rooms and Skype for Business based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The interface is user-friendly and screen sharing is easy to do."

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"The solution is scalable and is capable of working on every appliance on every operating system.""The solution’s video quality is fine.""File sharing and email invitations for a conference. I can have a meeting with people at the opposite end of the Earth, sharing documentation; it is quite easy.""I use the chat feature to communicate with my staff, which is very helpful.""What is most valuable about Skype for Business is that almost everyone knows about it and almost everyone has it. You will be able to reach a large number of people.""Using this solution has helped us to cut long distance calls, as well as video services from third parties.""The product helps me make international calls.""The most valuable features are the history tracking which allows us to see who participated and who didn't in the meetings as well as the integration with Outlook."

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Cons
"If multiple people are part of the meeting and they are in the same room, for example on their laptops, then it will create an echo and the other person may not be audible."

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"Lacks a zoom-in feature for whoever is presenting.""Sometimes the connection crashes, which is understandable if you are traveling. But, it would be nice if this could be stabilized somehow.""The solution should improve the chat and add more flexibility to make a call.""If one of the users has a poor internet connection, this failure will compromise the meeting, causing delays and distortions in the communications.""Skype for Business is good for the PCs with higher bandwidth, but an improvement is required for low bandwidth usage.""We have had trouble with scalability when trying to host large meetings.""I should be able to make a desktop phone call when I click a member of my Lync directory.""I feel bored with the look and feel of the tool, so it should be changed."

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  • "We have been able to save money by moving our conferencing solution to Skype for Business Conferencing."
  • "We negotiated a fair price with Microsoft. It is definitely worthwhile to negotiate with them for the best price for your solution."
  • "The pricing is really good. It is quite affordable because it came with our Office 365. It is on a per-user license, which is nice. I quite like that they have made it very granular with all of their licensing."
  • "It may be considered costly for certain markets, such as in India."
  • "It may be slightly costly, but the features are awesome."
  • "To realize value from the purchase of Skype Business, you need to take advantage of all the important functions of the program."
  • "The cost of Skype for Business is incorporated into our Office 365 licenses."
  • "We purchased an open license."
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    Top Answer:The solution’s video quality is fine.
    Top Answer:The solution has very limited features. The solution should improve the chat and add more flexibility to make a call.
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    Also Known As
    Skype for Business Plan 1, Skype for Business Plan 2, Lync Server
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    Overview

    Make any room a video conference room
    BlueJeans Rooms transforms any room into an easy-to-use video conference space requiring little to no end-user training and effortless IT management, while increasing workforce collaboration.

    One-touch meetings
    Easily reserve rooms for ad-hoc or scheduled meetings through our seamless Microsoft and Google calendar integrations. Start and control a BlueJeans meeting with one touch and share content from the room, your laptop or mobile device, without cables or dongles.

    Works with existing room systems
    With BlueJeans, you can provide a consistent and unified end-user experience regardless of the hardware used. BlueJeans interoperates with any H.323 or SIP room system so you can leverage your existing room systems from vendors like Dolby, Polycom, Cisco and LifeSize.
    DVR Multi Service
    Connects to other conferencing services
    Our MultiService capability connects you to any service that you need — BlueJeans, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Cisco Webex — using the hardware that you already have. Avoid vendor lock-in and get ultimate flexibility and choice with BlueJeans Rooms.

    Easy for IT to deploy, monitor and manage
    Easy installation and simple IT management minimizes setup costs and deployment time, and centralized management through BlueJeans Command Center improves efficiency with bulk provisioning, remote device monitoring, and diagnostics.

    Designed for Modern Business Collaboration

    Enhance productivity with BlueJeans Rooms

    Skype for Business offers features including presence, IM, voice and video calls, online meetings, conferencing, and telephony solutions that support enterprise-level collaboration requirements. Skype for Business Record meetings, share your screen, and annotate PowerPoint for real-time collaboration with up to 250 people and use whiteboard, polls, Q&A, and built-in IM during your business meetings to make them more productive. Skype for Business provides new client experience, Skype for Business Server provides several new features to improve manageability of on-premises servers and hybrid solutions. Skype for Business also supports the Lync client experience so that you can choose a phased upgrade approach to the new client experience for users. Skype for Business is also an integral part of Microsoft Office 365, providing PSTN Conferencing, Cloud PBX, PSTN Calling, and Skype Meeting Broadcast capabilities to Office 365 users.
    Sample Customers
    Pernod Ricard
    EmpireCLS Worldwide Chauffeured Services,LA Fitness, MedcoEnergi International, Tampa General Hospital, and HopewellHoldings Limited.
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    Computer Software Company27%
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Comms Service Provider12%
    University7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Educational Organization88%
    Computer Software Company2%
    Government2%
    Financial Services Firm2%
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise27%
    Large Enterprise45%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business4%
    Midsize Enterprise89%
    Large Enterprise7%
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    BlueJeans Rooms is ranked 28th in Virtual Meetings while Skype for Business is ranked 4th in Virtual Meetings with 60 reviews. BlueJeans Rooms is rated 8.0, while Skype for Business is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of BlueJeans Rooms writes "User-friendly, simple to set up, and the screen sharing is easy to do". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skype for Business writes "Reliable, useful for remote work, and great but isn't as robust as Microsoft Teams". BlueJeans Rooms is most compared with , whereas Skype for Business is most compared with Webex, Zoom, GoToMeeting, TeamViewer and Cisco Meeting Server.

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