TechValidate Research on BlueJeans by Verizon


BlueJeans Case Study

Sands Capital Managment

Introduction

This case study of Sands Capital Managment is based on a June 2018 survey of BlueJeans customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“BlueJeans is used to broadcast firm-wide meetings, hold and record second interviews and provides a more personal connection for portfolio managers and their distant and international contacts.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select BlueJeans:

  • Prompted to invest in BlueJeans after experiencing the following challenges:
    • An inability to easily connect their existing video conferencing investments across meetings
    • Too much IT support required for video meetings
    • Limited visibility into meeting status or reporting capabilities across VC platforms

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of BlueJeans that the surveyed company uses:

  • Uses the following App integrations with BlueJeans:
    • Microsoft Outlook
    • Skype for Business
    • Voicera
  • Invested into BlueJeans because of its:
    • Ease of use (requires little-to-no training)
    • Video quality
    • Audio quality
    • Integrations with collaboration, productivity, scheduling tools
    • Interoperability with video conferencing room systems
    • Management & analytics functionality
    • Consolidation of other meeting technologies
    • Consistent and unified experience across desktop, mobile, and rooms
    • Consistent and unified experience across Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android platforms
    • Ability to work in browsers with WebRTC and no app download required
    • Post-sale experience (onboarding, support, training)
  • Finds value in the following BlueJeans capabilities/features compared to other vendors they have used:
    • User experience
    • Audio quality
    • Ability to manage, monitor, and troubleshoot meetings, rooms and/or events

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with BlueJeans:

  • Agrees with the following statements:
    • BlueJeans helps them improve employee productivity with a simple user experience: strongly agree
    • using BlueJeans helps teams complete projects faster: strongly agree
    • BlueJeans saves them money by consolidating video, audio, and web conferencing costs into a single meetings platform: strongly agree
    • BlueJeans enables them to get more value out of their existing video conferencing systems: strongly agree
    • BlueJeans enables teams to do their best work: strongly agree
  • Agrees with the following statements:
    • using BlueJeans to interview candidates helps them attract a modern workforce: strongly agree
    • using BlueJeans enables IT/AV teams to support more meetings with the same or fewer resources: strongly agree
    • BlueJeans helps them build a stronger internal company culture: strongly agree
    • BlueJeans helps them grow revenues faster: strongly agree
    • BlueJeans enables teams to work productively how and where they want: strongly agree
  • Rates the annual dollar savings they’ve experienced since moving to BlueJeans:
    • video Conferencing Hardware, e.g. MCU or Telepresence systems: $25K – 99K
      conferencing hardware: $100K – 499K
    • Professional Services: $100K – 499K
  • Saved $500000 across all areas since using BlueJeans.
  • Achieved the following quantifiable benefits since using BlueJeans:
    • Annual savings due to enhanced productivity
    • Annual travel savings
    • Annual savings in offices/facilities investments
    • Increased revenue growth




About This Data

This data was sourced directly from verified users of BlueJeans by Verizon by TechValidate.

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