Microsoft Teams vs BlueJeans Events: Which is a better fit?

Rick: My name is Rick. I'm the executive director of Marketing and Technology for Chapel Hill Academy. I give Microsoft Teams a rating of 5 out of 5. Before Microsoft Teams, we didn't really have any sort of management software. We would just do things manually over email using on-device storage and using the phone to call people. We didn't really have an instant chat way to communicate with people instantly, or unified file storage or project management option. We chose Microsoft Teams because of its compatibility with the whole Microsoft ecosystem. We had been using Microsoft tools and apps previously, the Office Suite, OneDrive, or SkyDrive even before that, Outlook, et cetera. So it just seemed nice to have a unified experience and not have too many different systems that ended up being siloed, but something that's a unifying platform. Overall, it was a good experience getting started with Microsoft Teams. I will say as we continue to onboard new staff from time to time, it is a little bit of a learning curve, but Microsoft does provide some phenomenal resources to help get people started through their Microsoft Learn program and also through online videos that guide people to getting familiar with how to use Microsoft Teams. I would recommend for anyone considering Microsoft Teams, first of all, it's great. Definitely do it. But I think the key is just when you get started and onboarding, is to make sure you equip yourself with the proper training and understanding and organization of the platform, and then also carry that on to your team or staff so that everyone has a pleasant experience as they continue to grow and learn how to leverage and maximize teams to be more efficient.

Speaker 1: Hi, I'm Jason I'm director of IT. I'm reviewing Bluejeans today. I give it a five star out of five. For more reviews like this, click below. Before using Bluejeans, I was a customer of Cisco WebEx. I was also a customer of Zoom. Once you use Bluejeans and you see the difference in quality, it's very difficult to go back. The reasons that it chose Bluejeans is when you hear the Adobe surround sound capability that's built in there, it just sort of blows you away. The quality is unsurpassed by any of the other products on the marketplace. Also, the resolution that you have through Bluejeans, you see everybody so crystal clear, compared to some of the other ones where you're sort of pixelated and it's not quite where it should be. Getting started with Bluejeans. It was a little bit of a learning curve because people are used to some other products over there. It's really going through sort of that training aspect. Getting the product up and running was pretty seamless. It integrates with a lot of the same equipment that we have now. We're able to really bring up the video in the conference rooms and in other areas quite easily. I'd say it was a really good experience getting onboarded. For others considering using Bluejeans, I would highly recommend you do a comparison between the different products, because once you really see how Bluejeans performs, as far as the video and the audio, there's really no going back from that. I think it's an excellent choice for whether you're a small or large business. It really helps elevate your collaboration to the next level.